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AWS User Group Damascus invites all cloud and tech enthusiasts to join our upcoming in-person meetup. **Topic: DevOps Principles in AWS** Speaker: **Ayham Hassan** [Ayham Hassan | LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayhamhsn/) Ayham is a DevOps Architect with over 8 years of experience specializing in designing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructures. Focuses on leading technical teams through robust DevSecOps and GitOps transformations, mastering cloud orchestration (Kubernetes, AWS), and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to automate and secure the entire software delivery lifecycle. Special thanks to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for supporting the AWS community in Damascus. ☁️ And thanks to the sponsor of this event, ***BeeOrder***. ***BeeOrder*** is a technology and marketing platform specialized in delivery services in Syria, providing integrated digital solutions for food delivery, stores, and supermarkets through a smart application that operates across several Syrian governorates (Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Latakia, and Tartus). Over the past years, *BeeOrder* has become the first and largest delivery platform in the Syrian market in terms of reach and the services it provides. The company continuously focuses on enhancing the user experience and delivering modern technological solutions that keep pace with the digital transformation in the services and delivery sector. [BeeORDER: Overview | LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/beeorder-syria/) **المتحدثون:** **أيهم حسان** أيهم هو مهندس معماريات DevOps يمتلك أكثر من 8 سنوات من الخبرة، متخصص في تصميم بنى تحتية سحابية آمنة، قابلة للتوسع، وعالية التوافر. يركز على قيادة الفرق التقنية من خلال تطبيق ممارسات DevSecOps و GitOps بشكل فعّال، مع خبرة متقدمة في إدارة وتشغيل البيئات السحابية مثل Kubernetes وAWS، واستخدام البنية التحتية ككود (Terraform) لأتمتة وتأمين دورة حياة تطوير وتسليم البرمجيات بالكامل. الموضوع: مبادئ DevOps في AWS وشكراً لراعي الايفنت شركة BeeOrder تُعد شركة \*BeeOrder\* منصة تقنية وتسويقية متخصصة بخدمات التوصيل في سوريا، حيث توفر حلولاً رقمية متكاملة لتوصيل الطعام ، المتاجر، والماركت عبر تطبيق ذكي يغطي عدة محافظات سورية (دمشق - حلب - حمص - اللاذقية - طرطوس ) . وخلال السنوات الماضية ، استطاعت \*BeeOrder\* أن تصبح أول وأكبر منصة توصيل في السوق السوري من حيث الانتشار والخدمات المقدمة. تركّز الشركة بشكل مستمر على تطوير تجربة المستخدم وتقديم حلول تقنية حديثة تواكب التطور الرقمي في قطاع الخدمات والتوصيل شكر خاص لشركة **Amazon Web Services (AWS)** على دعمها لمجتمع AWS في دمشق ☁️

Customer identity resolution becomes increasingly complex as organizations scale across multiple systems, regions, and data formats. Traditional rule-based approaches often fail to keep up with data variability, require constant manual tuning, and struggle with real-time processing needs. This session presents a practical approach to building a scalable identity resolution pipeline using AWS services and modern AI techniques. The architecture combines data ingestion through Amazon S3 and AWS Glue, transformation pipelines using Spark on EMR, and machine learning models deployed via SageMaker for entity matching and standardization. Graph-based relationship modeling is implemented using Amazon Neptune to improve resolution accuracy by incorporating household and shared attribute context. We will walk through how machine learning models can be used for name and address normalization, how intelligent blocking strategies improve matching efficiency, and how feedback loops can be introduced to continuously improve accuracy. The session also highlights how serverless components such as AWS Lambda can be used for orchestration and real-time processing. **SPEAKER BIO** Mosaic Syed is a Senior Data Engineering and Cloud Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions across global enterprise environments. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosaic-basha-syed-92300856 **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: [https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/](https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/) **THANK YOU** *VEEAM* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Veeam*, please visit their website: [https://www.veeam.com/](https://www.veeam.com/) **DIRECTIONS** 8800 Lyra Dr #450 · Columbus, OH go to 4th floor. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

Topic to be announced. **THANK YOU** *Franklin University* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Franklin University*, please visit their website: https://www.franklin.edu/ **DIRECTIONS** Franklin University Fisher Hall 300 E. Main St, Columbus, OH 43215 Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jxjBA2hUmS5qrvhq8 Parking is FREE! Please park in Lot C in front of Fisher Hall. See attached map. NOTE: Map the address only. When mapping with Google Maps it may use the Fisher Hall at OSU, which is NOT correct. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

We will show how to build custom agents with Microsoft Agent Framework. Attendees will learn how to build and custom host agents when Microsoft Foundry is not a viable option.

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**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** TBD **YouTube Link** TBD

**PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT NOTES:** 1. The dates listed for this series are about 95% reliable. We are finalizing our 2026 schedule, so minor adjustments are still underway. 2. Each class in this series has an attendance fee, on a first-come, first-served basis. 3. Each class, from BOTH a sign-up and fee perspective, is a separate entity. **Introduction:** **The breakdown of the six-class series is as follows:** **Class 1: TBD** **Class 2: TBD** **Class 3: TBD** **Class 4: TBD** **Class 5: TBD** **Class 6: TBD**

Practical AI for Power BI Developers A year ago, “agentic AI” was mostly hype for Power BI teams. Today, it deserves your undivided attention. For Power BI pros, there is now a real opportunity to reduce repetitive development work, accelerate delivery, and help developers do more, but only when strong DataOps practices are in place to make AI workflows effective. This session is a no-nonsense introduction to effective AI patterns for Power BI and Fabric development. Along the way, we will make sense of the growing pile of terminology, including skills, plugins, hooks, and MCP. You will see examples of how modern AI tooling can help with development tasks across Power BI and Fabric, along with the prerequisites, guardrails, and DataOps principles needed to use it responsibly. Whether you're burned out on AI hype or already using Copilot CLI daily, this session will show you the foundations that are finally making AI-assisted development genuinely useful.