Building Real AI Agents on AWS - Hands-On Learning Lab

AI agents are moving fast from "interesting demo" to production infrastructure that delivers impact. The gap between the two is where most builders get stuck. Join the AWS MN User Group for a hands-on session on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the platform built to take agents from prototype to production without the infrastructure headache.

We'll walk through the core building blocks that make agents truly work at scale. We'll work through connecting agents to tools and data, giving them memory and context across sessions, deploying securely, and monitoring what they do once they're live. Then spend the bulk of the afternoon hands-on, building it yourself with support from people who've done it before.

Come hungry, come curious, and stay for happy hour for mindshare with peers.

LOGISTICS:
Date: Thursday, September 10th Time: 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: AWS Office, 7th floor, 323 N Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55401
Parking: Ramp C or street parking, short walk from the AWS office
Lunch: Tacos provided so come hungry!

AGENDA:
11:00 – 12:00 PM — Check-in & lunch
12:00 – 12:45 PM — Technical walkthrough: building and scaling agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

• The evolution from rule-based assistants to fully agentic systems
• Connecting agents to tools and data (Gateway)
• Giving agents memory and context across sessions (Memory)
• Deploying securely at scale (Runtime & Identity)
• Seeing what your agent is actually doing (Observability)

1:00 – 3:30 PM — Hands-on labs (bring a laptop — everything else is provided)
3:30 – 4:30 PM — Happy hour & networking

Please note this will be an in-person event.