September Serverless Meetup - Special Event

September Serverless Meetup - Special Event

The September Serverless Meetup is a special event hosted at The Events Hub (NAB) at 395 Bourke Street at 6pm.

We have Eric (edjgeek) Johnson, the Principal Developer Advocate at AWS, join us to give a talk and meet the community. Eric is coming all the way from the USA, so we hope you can join us too.

Eric Johnson bio:
Hello! I am Eric Johnson. I am a developer at heart who has spent the past three decades learning and growing in the technology space, including 15 years as a solutions architect. My greatest satisfaction comes from sharing knowledge and empowering others, combining my technical experience with a light-hearted style to help make complex concepts more approachable. As an enthusiastic advocate for serverless technologies, I deliver keynote presentations and workshops at conferences worldwide, where I use humor to keep audiences engaged while exploring technical topics. My belief that learning works best when people are having fun helps bridge the gap between technical complexity and practical understanding.

Session info
Title: Building Intelligent Agents at Scale: A Serverless Architecture Approach

Synopsis: Ready to build AI agents that scale infinitely without managing servers? In this session, I'll build an agentic application using serverless architecture, demonstrating how Lambda functions serve as MCP servers while the broader serverless ecosystem handles multi-model reasoning, persistent memory, and RAG-powered responses. You'll see real-time decision-making as I explain my architectural choices—when to implement RAG vs direct model calls, how to structure MCP servers for different capabilities, and why certain patterns work better in serverless environments.
But here's the meta twist: I'll use cloud-native AI tools and specialized MCP connectors to literally build agents with agents, creating a development feedback loop that accelerates the construction process. Through Infrastructure-as-Code deployment, you'll witness how to prototype complete agentic architectures in minutes while maintaining production-ready serverless patterns.

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📅 Agenda 📅
5:30 PM - Doors Open!
6:00 PM - Welcome from the organizers / housekeeping
6:05 PM - Building Intelligent Agents at Scale: A Serverless Architecture Approach
7:00 PM - Pizza & Networking & QA

Please get in touch ASAP if you would like to talk at a future event, send us an email at melbourne(at)serverless.org.au for more info!

First time speakers are more than welcome and we can provide you assistance if you need with your presentation beforehand. Please reach out melbourne(at)serverless.org.au.

It can be a regular talk, lightning talk, demo, workshop, whatever is your thing our community will love it - as long as it is serverless related!

8:00 PM - Door Close, see you next time!