AWS New York | Official Meetup

Join us for a Amazon Q Meetup at the AWS NYC office in Bryant Park, on April 29, from 5:15 to 7:30 PM EST and see how generative AI tools can help make your life easier and help build. This event is part 2 of a series of 4, however the content for each of the events is designed to be standalone. You do not need to attend all 4 events and can attend any one event individually or in parts.

Talk: Amazon Q Developer: your AWS Expert in your IDE
This session will show you how you can use Amazon Q Developer to transform the way you build, optimize, and create applications and workloads on AWS. We’ll talk about prompt engineering best-practices, and how you can use Q to explain existing code and concepts, to refactor, optimize and fix code. We’ll show examples how we can use Q Chat and inline prompts using CodeWhisperer to generate business logic code in Python and infrastructure as Code in AWS CDK.

Speakers:

• Iris Kraja
  Iris is a Cloud Application Architect at AWS Professional Services based in New York City. She is passionate about helping customers design and build modern AWS cloud native solutions, with a keen interest in serverless technology, event-driven architectures and DevOps. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking and spending as much time as possible in nature.
• Jin Tan Ruan
  Jin is a AI/ML and Generative AI Prototyping Developer on the AWS Industries Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team, specializing in NLP and generative AI. He has a background in software development and holds nine AWS certifications. Jin supports AWS's largest industry customers across five different sectors: Automotive, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Energy, Manufacturing, and Media and Entertainment. He assists these customers in realizing their AI/ML and generative AI ambitions using the AWS platform. Jin earned a master's degree in Computer Science & Software Engineering from the University of Syracuse. Outside of work, he enjoys playing video games and delving into the exciting world of horror movies.

Important instructions

• Event starts at 5:30 pm EST, but please allow at least 15 minutes for security to process registration
• Please ensure that your meetup profile has your full name. Both first and last name are required and we will not be able to register attendees with just abbreviations or incomplete names.
• There are two entrances to the building, one on 38th st and one on 39th st. If you enter through 38th street, please follow the hallway to proceed to the reception in the front of the building where you can get registered
• There is an optional networking and Q&A event at the event of the meetup

Join us for a IVS Meetup at the Twitch NYC office on Park Avenue, on May 14, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM EST and see how you build a streaming platform like Twitch.

Talk: Build your own Twitch with Amazon Interactive Video Service
Have you ever wanted to build your own user-generated content social application like Twitch? Maybe you’re building a remote learning platform, or trainer-led fitness app? What about streaming live sports or real-money gaming? All of this is easy to do within the AWS cloud that you’re familiar with. In this session, we’ll learn how to get started with low-latency (2-5 seconds) HLS based live streams with an AWS service called Amazon IVS that integrates with CloudWatch, EventBridge, AWS Lambda, S3, and more! You can even add scalable and responsive chat alongside your live stream. We’ll also see how to add real-time streaming with less than 250 ms for guest host streams, PvP chat, and more! In this session, you’ll see how Amazon IVS lets you focus on your application’s user experience, not the massive network and infrastructure required to deliver global video at scale.

Speakers:

• Todd Sharp
  Todd is a Principal Developer Advocate for Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) at Twitch. Todd has been writing code since 2004 and is passionate about technology, code, and helping developers learn new things. He has a background in writing and a love for technology and theater and is married to his best friend. Todd and his wife live in the North Georgia mountains with their 2 kids, 10 chickens, 2 dogs, and a cat.

Important instructions

• Event starts at 5:45 pm EST, but please allow at least 15 minutes for security to process registration
• Please ensure that your meetup profile has your full name. Both first and last name are required and we will not be able to register attendees with just abbreviations or incomplete names.
• There is an optional networking and Q&A event at the event of the meetup
• Light Food and beverage will be provided during the networking event

Join us for a Amazon Q Meetup at the AWS NYC office in Bryant Park, on May 15, from 5:15 to 7:30 PM EST and see how generative AI tools can help make your life easier and help build. This event is part 3 of a series of 4, however the content for each of the events is designed to be standalone. You do not need to attend all 4 events and can attend any one event individually or in parts.

Talk: Accelerating application upgrades with Amazon Q Code Transformation
In the realm of software delivery, the ability to efficiently update languages and platforms is essential for speed to market and security. This meetup delves into Amazon Q Code Transformation, an innovative tool that helps with application maintenance, upgrades, and migrations. Developers, SRE teams, IT Architects and leaders will learn how to use the power of Generative AI to automate tasks such as language version upgrades, unit testing, and deployment readiness checks. Organizations will benefit from being able to reduce manual toil and accelerate code upgrade time to minutes. Join us for a presentation and demo on upgrading a Java application with Amazon Q Code Transformation, followed by a Q/A session.

Speakers:

• Shawn Chasse
  Shawn is a senior solutions architect at AWS in the Media, Entertainment, Games and Sports sector. Shawn has been developing infrastructure for enterprise deployments for many years now. He has a passion for Infrastructure as Code and developing Event Driven Architectures that scale to enterprise levels. In his free time, Shawn spends time with his wife and two children, and enjoys photography and woodworking.
• Kawsar Kamal
  Kawsar is a senior solutions architect at AWS in the ISV services sector. Kawsar has been in the infrastructure automation and security space for 15+ years. During his career, he has focused on cloud migration, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps transformation projects across various industries. In his free time, Kawsar enjoys running and hiking.

Important instructions

• Event starts at 5:30 pm EST, but please allow at least 15 minutes for security to process registration
• Please ensure that your meetup profile has your full name. Both first and last name are required and we will not be able to register attendees with just abbreviations or incomplete names.
• There are two entrances tot he building, one on 38th st and one on 39th st. If you enter through 38th street, please follow the hallway to proceed to the reception in the front of the building where you can get registered
• There is an optional networking and Q&A event at the event of the meetup

Join us for a Amazon Q Meetup at the AWS NYC office in Bryant Park, on May 29, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM EST and see how generative AI tools can help make your life easier and help build. This event is part 4 of a series of 4, however the content for each of the events is designed to be standalone. You do not need to attend all 4 events and can attend any one event individually or in parts.

Talk: Accelerating the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with Amazon Q Developer
Software development can be challenging to manage due to changing requirements, technology upgrades, and cross-functional collaboration. A software development lifecycle (SDLC) approach provides for a systematic management framework with specific deliverables at every stage of the software development process. As a result, stakeholders are a part of software development goals and requirements upfront, and are part of the plan to achieve those goals. Amazon Q Developer is your SDLC companion for building applications on AWS, with enhanced productivity and improved software quality and reliability. Amazon Q Developer helps in faster development cycles, reduces time-to-delivery of applications and receive real-time assistance in coding new features for your applications. In this workshop you will learn multiple strategies to accelerate your SDLC with Amazon Q Developer in the IDE, CodeCatalyst, and AWS Console.

Speakers:

• Perry Beaumont
  Perry is a Senior Product Manager with AWS, and previously served as the Chief Data Scientist for a global P&C firm. Perry has a doctorate in economics, he is an AWS Educate and CloudWhisperer Ambassador, and he occasionally lectures on Generative AI topics at the Data Science Institute of Columbia University and at Yale University. He is also the author of four books on data science applications in business.
• Udaya Jaladi
  Udaya is a Solutions Architect at AWS working with FinTech ISV customers. He has 16+ years of experience in designing and building applications for Sales, Services, Financial, HR, and Payroll organizations. Udaya works closely with customers, providing strategic guidance to build well-architected business applications on AWS. Additionally, he focuses on GenAI and Cloud Governance areas.

Important instructions

• Event starts at 5:45 pm EST, but please allow at least 15 minutes for security to process registration
• Please ensure that your meetup profile has your full name. Both first and last name are required and we will not be able to register attendees with just abbreviations or incomplete names.
• There are two entrances tot he building, one on 38th st and one on 39th st. If you enter through 38th street, please follow the hallway to proceed to the reception in the front of the building where you can get registered
• There is an optional networking and Q&A event at the event of the meetup