Name: AWS MeetUp #21
Start: 2025-11-25T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-11-25T20:00:00+02:00

**Join us for our next AWS User Group Lviv meetup!** 🚀
This time, we’ll dive into two topics: AWS Serverless Hero & Head of Development at ip.labs and Leveraging MCP (Model Context Protocol) to Build Next-Gen Secure AI Agents on AWS.

**Date:** Nov 25, 2025
**Time:** 18:00 - 20:00 (Kyiv time)
**Format:** online
**Language:** English
**Free participation [with registration](https://forms.gle/zzbMuQYq2ioHAeNX7)**

Get ready for two insightful talks by two expert speakers:
📍 **[Vadym Kazulkin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vadymkazulkin/overlay/about-this-profile/)** \- AWS Serverless Hero & Head of Development at ip\.labs
**Topic:** "Building production-ready AI Agents with Strands Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore"
Про що: This talk explores how to build and deploy AI agents in Python using Strands Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. We’ll cover integration with MCP-compatible tools, observability, secure connectivity, memory, and identity management.

Vadym Kazulkin is AWS Serverless Hero and Head of Development at ip.labs based in Bonn. Vadym has been involved with the Java ecosystem for over 25 years. His focus and interests currently include the design and implementation of highly scalable and available applications in AWS Cloud, with a special passion for Serverless, Generative AI, and optimization of Java applications (also using SpringBoot, Micronaut, and Quarkus frameworks) on AWS Lambda. Vadym is also the co-organizer of the Java User Group Bonn meetup, a frequent speaker at various meetups and conference,s and a regular author of articles in different published magazines and on his online blog.

📍 **[Illia Oleksiuk](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioleksiuk/overlay/about-this-profile/)** \- DevOps Engineer at Pow\.bio
Topic: "Leveraging MCP (Model Context Protocol) to Build Next-Gen Secure AI Agents on AWS"
Discover how the open standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables seamless, secure tool and data integration for AI agents built on Amazon Bedrock and other AWS services. We’ll walk through how MCP servers connect agents to external systems, enforce guardrails for data access and action, and streamline agent-centric workflows in the AWS ecosystem.

Illia Oleksiuk is a DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience designing and managing secure, scalable infrastructure. He has worked across blockchain, telecommunications, fintech, AI, and biotech industries, collaborating with both enterprise and startup organizations.
He currently works at Pow.bio, a biotech AI startup based in San Francisco Bay Area. At Pow.bio, Illia designed and implemented a hybrid cloud infrastructure that integrates AWS, physical servers, and IoT devices, enabling reliable data processing and efficient system scalability.
Illia is an active member of AI communities and a frequent
AI hackathon participant, with five hackathon wins to date.
He earned 1st place at the DeveloperWeek AI/ML 2024 Hackathon, hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a generative AI project utilizing AWS Bedrock.

📌 **How to join?**
After **[filling out the registration form](https://forms.gle/zzbMuQYq2ioHAeNX7)**, you will have the option to add the event to your calendar.
We will send you a reminder and the Zoom link on the day of the event.

See you there! 🙌

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