My volunteering experience of AWS Community Day organized by AWS User Group Pune on February 8, 2020
What are AWS Community Days?
AWS Community Days are community-led educational events featuring technical discussions and demos led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world.
Why I went for AWS Community Day?
This was my first conference of the year in which I got a chance to attend as a volunteer, a big thanks to Jayesh(Organizer, AWS UG Pune). I always feel fascinated about these tech conferences/events, the reason being the energy, curiosity, and eagerness of people to interact with others. People participate, interact, and share their thoughts and knowledge on the technology they work on, isn’t it amazing?
“The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” -Keith Ferrazzi
Structure for the community day
AWS User Group Pune decided to schedule the community day for two days. On day one(7th Feb), there were three amazing workshops planned which were facilitated by domain experts, at MCCIA Trade Tower, Pune! Day two(8th Feb) was the conference day at Hyatt Regency, Pune.
Session wise breakdown Keynote by AWS
Matt Fitzgerald, Head of AWS Developer Advocacy APJC
Matt’s keynote was simply AWSome. He covered an insightful demoscene where 15-year-olds formed communities a decade ago to create game graphics and music breaking the hardware barrier!
Sponsor Talk by Twilio
Jayesh Ahire, Twilio Champion, leader - AWS UG Pune
Jayesh gave an interesting demo in 5 minutes on the Twilio platform. The demo was short but insightful. Here you can check his medium profile for amazing articles based on his research work!
Sponsor Talk by Cuelogic
Sunu Sasidharan, Head of Technology at Cuelogic Technologies
The topic of the session was ‘Unleashing the promise of cloud-native to manage complexity and reduce operational cost’.
Sponsor Talk by Checkpoint and ivalue
Ashish Tondon, Cloud Security Lead-India, Checkpoint
The topic of this session was ‘Securing your cloud with Confidence’
Before moving forward with the three separate tracks, we had a small coffee break in which all participants also went to visit various sponsor booths. After the coffee break, there was a separation of tracks in three different sections. So participants attended the different sessions according to their interests!
Highlights of the different tracks
1. Chaos Engineering Adrian Hornsby, Principal Evangelist(Architecture)- AWS
2. Smart Cities powered by Graphs
Aileen Gemma Smith, CEO at Vizalytics, AWS Community/Data Hero
3. How do we manage a distributed system cloud service with 20k clusters?
Aravind Putrevu, SR. Developer Advocate — Elastic
4. Design for Failure: High Availability and Disaster Recovery using AWS
Karan Desai, Solution Architect, AWS
There were a total of 36 stellar speakers at the community day. You can find the topics of their talks and agenda for the full day HERE.
Our Team!
Closing Events
After the most productive day till now in my life, Rohini Gaonkar - AWS Sr Solutions Architect at AISPL, presented the closing keynote for the day with lots of motivation to work better!
We had several lucky draws on sponsor booths as well as a prize distribution ceremony at the end!
I hope after reading this article you will surely attend the AWS Community Day next year, as ACD has various takeaways at the end of the day!
Here you can see the global presence of AWSUGPUNE:
Website: awsugpune.tech
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/aws-user-group-pune
Twitter: twitter.com/AwsPune
Thanks!!!