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AWS Meetup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
š¤ Let's talk about **Amazon Bedrock AgentCore**
š¤ Speaker:
[Serhii Shuliar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/serhii-shuliar-10221782/) ā Senior DevOps Engineer \| Co\-organizer\, [AWS User Group Ivano-Frankivsk](https://www.meetup.com/ivano-frankivsk-amazon-web-services-meetup-group/)
š
June 30, 2026
š” 18:30 ā 21:00 EEST (Kyiv)
š Ivano-Frankivsk. Exact location will be provided to attendees directly.
š Format: Hybrid
š£ļø Language: Ukrainian
Whether you're already experimenting with AI agents or just curious about the future of cloud-native AI, this session will provide practical insights and a great opportunity to connect with the local AWS community.
šļø Limited seats ā please register to attend the event.
Learn. Build. Connect.
See you at AWS User Group Ivano-Frankivsk!
#AWS #AmazonBedrock #AgentCore #AIAgents #GenerativeAI #AWSCommunity #AWSUserGroup #IvanoFrankivsk #CloudComputing #ArtificialIntelligence
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Vaesen - British Isles and Swedish Chapters Unite!
**This is a short closed campaign with a set group of players - no RSVPs for this one.**
The dark forests, deep lakes and sprawling mountain ranges of Europe are home to a multitude of supernatural beings. They are known as the little people, the invisibles, or simply the fair folk. When someone vanishes in the woods, when the milk curdles over night, when strange noises are heard in the loft or when an unexplained ailment strikes, it is said to be the work of such entities.
You and your companions in the Society were born different. You have the Sightāthe ability to see what ordinary people cannot. You know that fair folk have lived beside humanity for untold centuries, in an uneasy peace. Now, in the 19th century, as European industry springs to life, and as human society expands, the balance begins to shift. Old conflicts between supernatural beings and humanity will again come to a head.
It is your mission to travel across Europe, armed with nothing but your courage, conviction, and ability to see the supernatural. You will seek after the denizens of a twilit world, hoping to solve hidden mysteries and restore a peace that if broken may bring danger to everyone.
AWS Meetup: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
š¤ Let's talk about **Amazon Bedrock AgentCore**
š¤ Speaker:
[Serhii Shuliar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/serhii-shuliar-10221782/) ā Senior DevOps Engineer \| Co\-organizer\, [AWS User Group Ivano-Frankivsk](https://www.meetup.com/ivano-frankivsk-amazon-web-services-meetup-group/)
š
June 30, 2026
š” 18:30 ā 21:00 EEST (Kyiv)
š Ivano-Frankivsk. Exact location will be provided to attendees directly.
š Format: Hybrid
š£ļø Language: Ukrainian
Whether you're already experimenting with AI agents or just curious about the future of cloud-native AI, this session will provide practical insights and a great opportunity to connect with the local AWS community.
šļø Limited seats ā please register to attend the event.
Learn. Build. Connect.
See you at AWS User Group Ivano-Frankivsk!
#AWS #AmazonBedrock #AgentCore #AIAgents #GenerativeAI #AWSCommunity #AWSUserGroup #IvanoFrankivsk #CloudComputing #ArtificialIntelligence
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IxDA Chat n Pancakes
You can sleep in on the Sesquicentennial (observed), weāre shifting to the following Friday.
But join the local UX community for a chat and some biscuits to catch up. If you were in CA for Figma Config, tell us all the lines and you can tell me how I can animate an SVG without coding it by hand, and why Iād even want to.
Thanks to the team at Nationwide of supporting the group.
Manic Mondays with Salsamante Dance Academy
Start your week the right way with Manic Mondays. Giving you an enjoyable Bachata lesson with a push of cool moves.
The second hour has Beginner/Intermediate Salsa on 1. You must understand basic Salsa skills to participate.
730pm-830pm Bachata Cool Moves
830pm-930pm Salsa On 1 (Beginner/Intermediate)
15 for One Class
20 for Both
Free Parking & Plenty of Dance Space.
Viva Dance Columbus 2809 Festival Lane Dublin OH 43017
BeComing Circle Initiates
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Instructor - Crow, HPS
Class fee is $30 at the door or approved exchange
RSVP with Advance pay of $25 (discounted) by PayPal on the web or by contacting Enchanted Elements (614) 437-2642.
Reservations made directly to Enchanted Elements will be added to the class list manually not online.
Private Instruction ~ Closed to the Public ~ Initiated Members Only
Please come prepared for ritual.
Blessings ~ Crow
Odoo Accounting Academy - Columbus, OH
Odoo Academy is a series of **one-day**, **FREE training** sessions where participants can learn directly from our **seasoned experts**. Master a specific **Odoo application** or delve into **industry-specific** functionalities.
Join us in our **Columbus, OH** for hands on training in Odoo's Accounting app and take your business to the next level!
Training will be given in **ENGLISH**. Lunch is **included**.
Participants must bring their **OWN laptop** for the practical exercises.
For any inquiries, feel free to reach out to us at ellee@odoo.com.
[Register Here Now! ](https://www.odoo.com/r/8yd)**[\[](https://www.odoo.com/r/gO9)Limited Seats Available!]**
Pop-up Book Club 5: Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Letās meet and discuss John Updike's Rabbit, Run, the first in his series of four novels following the life, hopes, and disappointments of former local basketball star, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, as he fitfully confronts and evades adulthood.
"Tusk Love" by Thea Guanzon
Come join us to discuss our July pick "Tusk Love" by Thea Guanzon!
Book description:
A merchantās daughter who yearns for adventure gets more than she bargained for when she falls for a broodingly handsome stranger in this saucy romantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hurricane Wars.
āA true delight of a book! Spicy and heartfeltāthis one is a winner all around.āāKatee Robert, author of Neon Gods
As the daughter of an ambitious merchant, Guinevereās path has been predetermined: marry into a noble house of the Dwendalian Empire, raise her familyās station, and live quietly as a lordlingās obedient wife. But Guinevere longs for a life unbounded by expectations, for freedom and passion and adventure.
Those distant dreams become a sudden reality when her caravan is beset by bandits, leaving her guards slain and Guinevere stranded alone on the dangerous Amber Road. Her only chance of survival is to travel alongside Oskar, the aloof half-orc who saved her during the attack.
Unlike Guinevere, Oskarās path is not so set in stone. With his mother dead and his apprenticeship abandoned, all thatās left is a long, lonely walk to a land heās never seen to find family heās never met. The last thing he needs is a spoiled waif like Guinevere slowing him downāeven if the spark between them sizzles with promise.
Despite his cold exterior, Oskar is brave and thoughtful and unlike anyone Guinevere has ever met. And while Guinevere may be sheltered, she brings out a softness in him that he has never dared to feel before. As the flames of their passion grow, they realize that soon theyāll need to choose between their expected destinations or their blossoming romance.
Written by New York Times bestselling author Thea Guanzon at the behest of Critical Roleās Jester Lavorre, Tusk Love brings the most romantic story on Exandrian bookshelves to life.
Stop Guessing: How to Measure and Improve LLM Outputs
Most people use LLMs by feel: ask a question, read the answer, decide whether it āseems good,ā and move on.
That works for casual use. It does not work when you are building software, automating workflows, writing important documents, or relying on AI for anything that needs to be repeatable.
In this talk, weāll look at how to improve and evaluate the inputs and outputs of LLMs using practical measurement techniques. Weāll cover how prompt changes affect results, how to compare outputs, how to build simple evaluation sets, and how math-based methods like similarity scoring can help you move beyond guesswork.
This will be beginner-friendly, so even if you don't know anything about AI, you should get something out of it. However, this will be a little more technical than our intro talks. You do not need to be an AI researcher, but programmers and technically curious attendees will get a lot out of it.
Weāll cover:
* Why āit looks goodā is not enough
* How to improve prompts by changing the input, context, and constraints
* How to compare LLM outputs more systematically
* Basic evaluation techniques for accuracy, consistency, and usefulness
* How embeddings, cosine similarity, and scoring can help evaluate results
* Where automated evaluation works ā and where humans still need to stay in the loop
By the end, youāll have a practical mental model for treating LLMs less like magic and more like systems you can test, measure, and improve.
LOGISTICS AND PARKING:
The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks!
The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.









