AWS Meetup @ Rabobank Utrecht

Parking: Please use public transport if possible. If arriving by car, use a P+R or park at the Jaarbeurs parking.
Public Transit: 5 minute walk from Utrecht Central station

Event Schedule

17:00 — Doors open & walk-in
17:30 — Dinner
18:30 — Welcome
Atanas Aleksiev — Rabobank Engineering Services AWS team
18:35 - Disasters don’t announce themselves—and recovery is only as good as your last backup strategy
Rabobank Engineering Services AWS team
19:10 - From Innovation to Enterprise: Scaling a Compliant, Microservices-Driven AWS Platform
Rabobank ODP Next team
19:50 - Break ☕
20:00 - EDSN as the Digital Backbone of the Energy Market: Use Case, Technology Choices and Challenges
Energie Data Services Nederland
20:40 - Drinks & Networking 🍻
21:30 -Event ends

Summary of the talks

Talk 1: In this talk, we’ll walk through how Rabobank designs for failure using AWS Backup: from automated policies and immutable vaults to restore testing and ransomware protection. Because resilience isn’t just about having backups—it’s about knowing they work.

Talk 2: What happens after an innovation delivers a promising platform before it’s ready for enterprise scale, governance, and speed? That’s where our journey begins. You’ll hear how we evolved the architecture to support over 100 microservices powering digital lending on a compliant-by-design AWS environment. We’ll share the decisions we made along the way: what we kept and what we changed. Central to our approach is Infrastructure as Code to enable consistency, repeatability, and control on the platform. We’ll show how this foundation helped us automate operations, accelerate delivery, and meet strict compliance requirements. Join us to learn how to bridge the gap between innovation and enterprise readiness, turning a promising start into a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform.

Talk 3: EDSN acts as the digital backbone of the energy market, supporting essential data exchange processes across the energy market value chain. We explore this role, the underlying IT foundation, and the challenges and trade-offs that come with it.