AWS UG Mannheim Meetup #2 @ Altes Volksbad Mannheim

Hello AWS UG Mannheim! 👋
We're back! For our second meetup on July 14th, we are bringing the community together at a truly unique and historic location: the Foyer im Alten Volksbad Mannheim. 🏛️✨

🍣🍻 Plus, there will be free sushi and cold drinks to keep the conversations flowing!

📆 Agenda

• 17:45 – 18:30 | Doors Open: Sushi, Drinks & Pre-Event Networking
• 18:30 – 20:30 | Welcome & Tech Talks (including Q&A and breaks)
• 20:30 – 21:30 | Networking, Deep Dives & Discussions

🎙️ Our Speaker Line-up
And since the Football World Cup is in full swing, we are bringing the pitch straight into the cloud:

⚽ Talk 1: Agentic Football Cup: Autonomous AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (~25 min)
A playful look at how multi-agent architectures work in practice. Andreas introduces the concept behind the Agentic Football Cup workshop and shows how to deploy autonomous agents on AWS.

• Speaker: Andreas Rotaru – Solutions Architect at AWS
• Short Bio: Andreas supports SMB customers in Germany and helps organizations innovate using Conversational AI, Serverless, and Cloud architectures.

🚀 Talk 2: Master Your EC2 & EBS Performance (~25 min)
Classic infrastructure powers most apps, but why do systems get slow? Patrick breaks down hidden performance bottlenecks between EC2 and EBS and shows how to optimize workloads for speed and cost.

• Speaker: Patrick Zink – AWS Lead Architect at PCG Germany
• Short Bio: With 15+ years of IT experience, Patrick is an AWS Ambassador, Community Builder, and Golden Jacket holder focusing on Enterprise Architecture, Security, and FinOps.

🤖 Talk 3: Validation of Multi-AI-Agent Systems: From Demos to Reliable Workflows (~25 min)
Multi-agent AI systems are powerful, but how do we test them? Nilesh shares practical validation strategies (like LLM-as-judge and trace-based evaluation) to build production-ready enterprise AI.

• Speaker: Nilesh Parshotam Rijhwani – AI-ML Engineer at ZopaAI
• Short Bio: Nilesh specializes in end-to-end GenAI enterprise systems. He formerly built AI ecosystems at Mercedes-Benz and is an AI researcher at the German Cancer Research Centre.

💡 Important Info & RSVP
This event is open to all AWS enthusiasts, from beginners to cloud experts. Bring your questions, your curiosity, and your appetite for networking with the Rhine-Neckar cloud community!

📅 Date: July 14th
📍 Location: Altes Volksbad Mannheim, Mittelstraße 42, 68169 Mannheim

See you in Mannheim!