Cloud & DevOps Events in Europe

[Event in English 🇬🇧]
Join us on yet another AWS User Group Meeting, sponsored by DataArt. Pizza and drinks are included and the event is free!

If you wish to speak at our event(s), just use this form!

🟢 Where and when?
Plac Grunwaldzki 23 floor 6 (Data Art office), Wrocław, 6 PM CEST 🔴 the location is different than usual 🔴 After 6:00 p.m. the main entrance may be closed. We invite you again from the courtyard, i.e. at the main entrance to Starbucks.

Agenda
➡️ 18:00 - Intro by AWS User Group Wroclaw organizers
🧑‍💻 18:15 - How not to shoot yourself in the foot: lessons from building AI products - Tomasz Dudek
🍻 19:00 - Networking & Pizza
🧑‍💻 19:45 - Al Native Development: Strategies and Impact at Kuehne+Nagel and AWS - Igor Kovach
🍻 20:45 - Networking

➡️ How not to shoot yourself in the foot: lessons from building AI products
It has been over 3 years since AI blew up in popularity. During my time as a Solutions Architect and later as Head of an AI department, I have seen hundreds of projects - both successes and failures. In this talk, I will share a few near-failed Amazon Bedrock projects and the lessons we learned the hard way. After this talk, you will be able to avoid making the same mistakes and deliver real value from day one!

🎤 Tomasz Dudek - Head of Data & AI, Chaos Gears

➡️ Al Native Development: Strategies and Impact at Kuehne+Nagel and AWS

Kuehne + Nagel and AWS have evolved beyond Al-assisted development to embrace Al Native practices, integrating Al as a partner throughout the software development lifecycle. Learn how their teams leverage AWS foundational tools including Amazon Q Developer, Kiro, and Amazon Bedrock. Discover effective Prompt Driven Development methodologies and grassroots adoption strategies from early champions. See how Amazon enables teams to provide Al with right context through strategic use of MCP, RAG and custom models trained on Amazon technical knowledge. Understand the culture transformation required across multi-thousand person organizations, where every role must evolve.

🎤 Igor Kovach - Head of Cloud Competence Centre at Kuehne+Nagel

I specialize in cloud strategy, AI integration, and making complex IT simple. Based in Wrocław, I love turning big ideas into scalable solutions—whether in the cloud, on a bike trail, or over coffee.

Sponsor
DataArt (https://www.dataart.com/)

We’re happy to announce our next AWS User Groups Cologne & Bonn meetup!

The talks this time:

• Jan Daniel Sulaiman will share insights into the future of AI-native development with AWS Kiro
• Bent Krause will show us how AWS DevOps agent helps to make IT on-call less troublesome

📅 Date: 23.06.2026
⏱️ Time: 18.00 Uhr
📍 Location: Design Offices Köln Gereon, Christophstraße 15-17, 50670 Köln

🕕 Agenda
18.00 – Doors open
Check-in, arrive, grab a drink, and connect with fellow AWS enthusiasts.
18:15 – Housekeeping
Intro and administrative details by Cologne Intelligence
18.30 – Talk 1 – Bent Krause
🗣️ How to make IT on-call less troublesome: faster answers, better sleep, fewer escalations - Level 300
What if on-call alerts came with a diagnosis instead of just a symptom? The AWS DevOps Agent investigates incidents automatically, analyzes logs, checks metrics, and traces dependencies across AWS services. By the time your pager dragged you out of bed, the agent had already identified the root cause and prepared remediation steps. In this session we will understand the capabilities of the service and take a look at an interactive demo.
Bent Krause is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He has a background in DevOps and Platform Engineering and works with large manufacturing customers in Germany. His core interests are focused on Smart Manufacturing, Cloud Security, and Agentic AI.
19:00 - short break
19:15 – Talk 2 – Jan Daniel Sulaiman
🗣️ From Prompting to Programming: Kiro and the Future of AI-Native Software Development
Agentic AI is moving from prototypes to production, but most teams struggle with consistency, reliability, and governance. AWS Kiro introduces a new model: spec-driven development for autonomous agents, shifting the focus from prompt hacking to structured, testable, and reusable specs.
In this session, we’ll explore what Kiro is, why it matters, and how it changes the way we design and ship AI-powered systems. Based on hands-on experience from the closed beta, we’ll walk through how Kiro turns specs into executable agents, integrates with AWS services, and helps teams build robust workflows without heavy infrastructure.
We’ll also recap key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025, with a focus on agentic development, automation, and developer tooling. Attendees will leave with practical insights on how to get started with Kiro, where it fits in their stack, and why this marks a shift in how software is built.
19:45 – Networking, finger food & drinks
Wrap up the evening with great conversations, food, and drinks with the local AWS community.

Best regards,
Matthias, Çağdaş, Andreas, Johannes

Hi all,

We’re happy to announce our next AWS User Groups Bonn meetup, this time together with our friends of the AWS User Group Cologne!

The talks this time:

• Jan Daniel Sulaiman will share insights into the future of AI-native development with AWS Kiro
• Bent Krause will show us how AWS DevOps agent helps to make IT on-call less troublesome

📅 Date: 23.06.2026
⏱️ Time: 18.00 Uhr
📍 Location: Design Offices Köln Gereon, Christophstraße 15-17, 50670 Köln

🕕 Agenda
18.00 – Doors open
Check-in, arrive, grab a drink, and connect with fellow AWS enthusiasts.
18:15 – Housekeeping
Intro and administrative details by Cologne Intelligence
18.30 – Talk 1 – Bent Krause
🗣️ How to make IT on-call less troublesome: faster answers, better sleep, fewer escalations - Level 300
What if on-call alerts came with a diagnosis instead of just a symptom? The AWS DevOps Agent investigates incidents automatically, analyzes logs, checks metrics, and traces dependencies across AWS services. By the time your pager dragged you out of bed, the agent had already identified the root cause and prepared remediation steps. In this session we will understand the capabilities of the service and take a look at an interactive demo.
Bent Krause is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. He has a background in DevOps and Platform Engineering and works with large manufacturing customers in Germany. His core interests are focused on Smart Manufacturing, Cloud Security, and Agentic AI.
19:00 - short break
19:15 – Talk 2 – Jan Daniel Sulaiman
🗣️ From Prompting to Programming: Kiro and the Future of AI-Native Software Development
Agentic AI is moving from prototypes to production, but most teams struggle with consistency, reliability, and governance. AWS Kiro introduces a new model: spec-driven development for autonomous agents, shifting the focus from prompt hacking to structured, testable, and reusable specs.
In this session, we’ll explore what Kiro is, why it matters, and how it changes the way we design and ship AI-powered systems. Based on hands-on experience from the closed beta, we’ll walk through how Kiro turns specs into executable agents, integrates with AWS services, and helps teams build robust workflows without heavy infrastructure.
We’ll also recap key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2025, with a focus on agentic development, automation, and developer tooling. Attendees will leave with practical insights on how to get started with Kiro, where it fits in their stack, and why this marks a shift in how software is built.
19:45 – Networking, finger food & drinks
Wrap up the evening with great conversations, food, and drinks with the local AWS community.

Best regards,
Matthias, Çağdaş, Andreas, Johannes

June NAUG event, please note slightly adjusted timings to allow for an earlier finish - England are playing Ghana, should allow enough time to get back home or to the pub to watch it.

Meetup location what3words:///daisy.coffee.awards

Session 1
Joe Hodkinson - Going Local in Azure

Session 2
Precious Ajuru - Private link for Multi Tenant Applications

Session details
Many organizations need to provide secure access to services across multiple customers, tenants, or business units while avoiding exposure to the public internet.

The challenge becomes even greater when overlapping IP address spaces prevent traditional networking approaches such as VNet peering.

In this session, we'll explore how Azure Private Link Service can be used to securely expose applications to multiple consumers while maintaining network isolation and simplifying connectivity. We'll walk through the architecture, discuss common design patterns, examine how Private Link helps address overlapping network scenarios, and review practical considerations for implementing the solution in Azure.

A bit about Precious

Precious Ajuru is an Azure Cloud Engineer and Microsoft MVP in Azure with a passion for cloud architecture, infrastructure, and AI. He holds multiple Microsoft certifications and regularly shares technical content through articles, community events, and user groups.

Precious enjoys helping organizations design secure, scalable Azure solutions and is an active contributor to the Azure community through speaking engagements and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Agenda:
17:30 - 18:15 - Welcome & networking
18:15 - 19:00 - Joe Hodkinson - Going Local in Azure
19:00 - 19:15 - Food, drinks and general chatter
19:15 - 20:00 - Precious Ajuru - Private link for Multi Tenant Applications

Location Details
what3words:///daisy.coffee.awards
Address:18 Lower Byrom St, Manchester M3 4AP.

Morson Edge are based in a renovated space called the Bonded Warehouse which sits on the same site as the Old-Granada studio tour.

The entrance to the bonded warehouse can be reached from Lower Byrom street just next to the Museum of Science and Industry, the building entrance is on the right hand side across from the crystal maze. Google and apple maps may attempt to direct you to the rear of the building, if in doubt use the what3words location and look for the Crystal Maze too.

what3words:///daisy.coffee.awards

Burendo will host Yorkshire DevOps for our June 2026 event in the Leeds office.

You can find our code of conduct over at yorkshiredevops.dev

Speakers:

Speaker: Katja Obring - Founder, Kato Coaching
Talk: AI didn’t break testing. It just made bad decisions faster
Description: As AI becomes embedded in software delivery pipelines, testing is often one of the first areas where teams experiment. The results are mixed: impressive demos, fragile outcomes, and growing uncertainty about what can be trusted.This talk reframes AI in testing as a quality and decision problem rather than a tooling problem. It explores what AI is genuinely good at, where it struggles, and how teams can reason about risk before integrating it into their testing workflows. Attendees will be introduced to a practical framework for deciding how and where to use AI as an accelerator, while keeping accountability, intent, and quality firmly in human hands.

Speaker: TBC

Sponsors:
Thank you to Burendo for hosting the meetup and Ada Meher & Digital Endeavours for being our long-term sponsors.

Timings (approx):
17:45 - Arrivals and Networking
18:25 - Welcome and introductions
18:30 -Talk 1
19:00 - Break
19:10 - Talk 2
19:45 - Close

Hello!
We have an amazing night planned and many thanks to hedgehog lab for supporting us on the night.

Fafa Modey
Platform Engineer @ hedgehog lab
Your New Engineering Teammate: Working with AI Agents
AI agents are quickly becoming part of the software engineering process, so let’s explore them through a familiar lens: as a new member of the engineering team. Using real experiences and lessons learned from building and deploying software with AI agents, this session focuses on three practical areas: What does onboarding an AI agent to projects look like? How do you get them to execute meaningful work? How do you know whether the output is good enough to trust? This is a conversation about operating models, team habits, and the realities of adopting AI into modern engineering workflows.

James Kelly
AWS Lead @ Capgemini

Date: Tuesday June 23rd
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: hedgehog lab, Haylofts, 5 St. Thomas Street, Newcastle, NE1 4LE

Many thanks to our sponsor hedgehog lab for hosting us on the night.
Hope to see you all there!

Sponsor and second speaker TBC but we're on for a June meetup!

• 6pm - pizza, drinks, networking
• 6:30pm - Rory McCune - What LLMs Do, and Don't, Know About Securing Kubernetes
• 7pm - break
• 7:15pm - TBC

What LLMs Do, and Don't, Know About Securing Kubernetes - Rory McCune, DataDog

LLMs are fast becoming a fact of life in many organizations and one of the things we can use them for is.... Kubernetes! So that leads us to a question, if LLMs can do Kubernetes related tasks, can they do them securely and what in general do the know and not know about Kubernetes security? This talk will show the results of our research into how LLMs handle Kubernetes security tasks, how techniques like improved prompting can change the outcomes, and the places where they fall down.

Vi invitiamo all’incontro settimanale del gruppo MvtinaPwn dedicato a tutti gli appassionati di cyber security e Capture The Flag (CTF).

Questo evento sarà un’occasione unica per:
• Conoscere gli altri membri della community;
• Metterti alla prova con sfide pratiche su una piattaforma esclusiva concessa da Hack the Box;
• Condividere conoscenze, idee e strategie per affrontare i problemi di sicurezza più complessi.

Non importa se sei un veterano della cyber security o un principiante curioso: troverai un ambiente accogliente, stimolante e pieno di opportunità per crescere.

📍 Dove: Make it Modena, Strada Barchetta 77
🕒 Quando: ogni martedì dalle ore 21:00 (potete arrivare anche più tardi)
💻 Porta il tuo laptop! Le attività richiederanno un portatile.

Vieni a scoprire cosa significa davvero essere parte della nostra community.
Ti aspettiamo!

mcTER DATA CENTER è l’evento imperdibile per scoprire le Tecnologie e le Soluzioni per l’Efficienza Energetica e la gestione dei Data Center

mcTER è da anni un format riconosciuto per la qualità del pubblico professionale e l’orientamento al business, capace di favorire l’incontro diretto tra fornitori di soluzioni tecnologiche, progettisti, gestori di infrastrutture e decision maker, offrendo contenuti mirati e opportunità di networking ad alto valore aggiunto.

A mcTER si danno appuntamento i maggiori player, gli esperti e le principali associazioni del settore, per presentare le novità, le migliori tecnologie e applicazioni nel campo dell’efficienza energetica.

mcTER Data Center vi aspetta a Milano all’NH Milano Congress Centre il 24 giugno 2026 e anticipa l’appuntamento dell’anno: mcTER EXPO - Efficienza Energetica e Rinnovabili in programma 7-8 ottobre 2026 al Pad.4 di Veronafiere, che vuole essere un riferimento per la transizione energetica, coinvolgendo i settori delle energie rinnovabili e dell’efficienza energetica nell’industria, nel terziario e nel residenziale nZEB (Near Zero emission).

mcTER è un evento B2B riservato a professionisti del settore.

L'evento è gratuito previa registazione sul sito:

www.mcter.com/mcter_data_center/preregistrazione_r.asp

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Get ready to dive into the world of Data Center tech with awesome experts, trade associations and industry leaders . This in-person event is perfect to learn about the latest trends and innovations in energy efficiency technologies for data centres.

Don’t miss out on the chance to network, learn, and explore everything mcTER DATA CENTER has to offer!

Finally its happening....
Microsoft Security User Group is joining forces with Azure User Group to host Microsoft Build Oslo!

PLEASE NOTE - EVENT SIGNUP REGISTRATION IS HERE:

Microsoft Build //localhost:oslo | Microsoft Reactor

UPDATED Program:

• 15:30 - Registration, coffee & mingling
• 16:00 - Welcome, Key takeaways and announcements from Microsoft Build 2026 with David Pazdera
• 16:30 - Entra ID Agent Samples - Idea to Production-Ready Agent in Seconds on AI-native Runtime with Jan Vidar Elven
• 17:30 - Vibecoding with Squad with Anders Kristiansen & Haflidi Fridthjofsson
• 18:30 - Hands-on lab session: 'From zero to deployed on Azure with AI agents' with Craig Forshaw

Bring your laptop for the lab session.

Food and beverages will be provided during the event and possibly some swag!

As part of the Business Infrastructure Chapter, we have developed a prototype of a modern Image Service that brings image management and delivery in Intershop to a new technical foundation.

The solution replaces traditional file-system-based storage with cloud storage, enables dynamic image transformations, and provides the foundation for a scalable, cloud-native media platform.

In this meetup, we will present the motivation, architecture, and current implementation status, and demonstrate the prototype in a live demo.

· Why a new Image Service?
· Cloud-native storage with Azure Blob Storage
· Dynamic image transformations and on-the-fly resizing
· CDN integration and global content delivery
· Handling large-scale image uploads
· Scalable, event-driven microservice architecture
· Modern media management UI
· Live demo of the current prototype
· Open questions and potential next steps

· Developers
· Architects
· Product Management
· Anyone interested in the future media and infrastructure strategy of Intershop

Beyond presenting the current state of the project, we would like to discuss which requirements are most relevant for customers and products, and explore possible paths towards a production-ready solution.

This meetup takes place in Jena at Intershop’s headquarters. If you cannot attend in person, you can join remotely our Teams meeting.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to unexpected sick leaves within our speaker and organizing team, we have to postpone this MeetUp to June 25th. Everything else stays the same.

@everyone: Please review and update your RSVP status accordingly.

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We'd like to invite you to our fourth installation for the Cloud Native Vienna MeetUps in 2026!

Again we'll have two deep-dive talks and time to network and chat with friends in the Viennese cloud native community.

A big thank you to WKO Inhouse GmbH for hosting us and providing food and drinks!

Agenda:

• 17:30: Doors Open & Networking
• 17:55: Welcome from the Organizers
• 18:00: Talk 1: Rober Klonner (WKO Inhouse GmbH)
  GitOps Visibility: Precise Argo CD diffs on every Pull Request
• 18:45: Break & Refreshments
• 19:00: Talk 2: Thomas Hanser (Untis GmbH)
  The Untis Platform Engineering Journey: GitOps Multi-Tenancy with Flux, GitLab, and Friends
• 19:45: Open Networking

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Talks:

Rober Klonner (WKO Inhouse Gmbh)
GitOps Visibility: Precise Argo CD diffs on every Pull Request

Today's GitOps deployments are generated through layers of templating - Helm charts, Kustomize or ApplicationSets. Modifying these abstractions and trying to mentally render the output is error-prone.

This talk introduces a method that uses Argo CD itself to render accurate diffs of Helm charts and Kustomize overlays between branches and posts the result directly on your pull request.

We'll walk through a production setup using the Argo CD Operator, Argo CD Diff Preview, and GitLab CI, optimized for performance, minimal maintenance, and security. Through real-world use cases, we'll show what issues this approach catches before they hit your cluster.

Thomas Hanser (Untis GmbH)
The Untis Platform Engineering Journey: GitOps Multi-Tenancy with Flux, GitLab, and Friends

Operating in the European education sector means juggling compliance, student privacy and massive traffic spikes when school starts. Historically at Untis, keeping this running in production was the burden of a single operations team. This session details our transition to an automated, multi-tenant GitOps platform managing a fleet of internal and external Kubernetes clusters. We share our approach of building a platform that gives product teams actual autonomy without compromising on security or control:

• Structured Multi-Tenancy: Mapping GitLab groups to namespaced tenant projects using Flux’s multi-tenant model.
• Secure Access Control: Leveraging the GitLab Agent for Kubernetes to enable scoped, declarative self-service cluster access.
• Flexible Delivery Models: Supporting multiple decentralized deployment strategies by balancing governance and freedom for both internal teams and external guest environments.

Prepare for an honest demonstration of challenges like managing secret lifecycles across a growing fleet, moving from script-driven tenant onboarding to true automated self-service, and wrestling with the classic "chicken-and-egg" problems of bootstrapping Flux and handling GitOps release management.

[GDN] 23. Meetup Microsoft Azure User Group Poland w Gdańsku

Zapraszamy na 23. spotkanie trójmiejskiej społeczności Azure! Tym razem skupiamy się na (nie)Bezpieczeństwie Azure Cloud & AI. Spotykamy się w gościnnych progach Dynatrace DevOne Hub, aby wymienić się wiedzą i doświadczeniami.

ℹ️ KLUCZOWE INFORMACJE

• Data: 25 czerwca 2026
• Godzina: 18:00
• Lokalizacja: Dynatrace DevOne Hub, al. Grunwaldzka 411, Gdańsk
• Rejestracja: Prosimy o podanie pełnego imienia i nazwiska przy zapisach (wymóg ochrony budynku).

🎤 AGENDA

• 18:00 – 18:10 Przywitanie – Paweł Siwek
• 18:10 – 19:00 Klik w "głupi" link! Analiza powłamaniowa Defender/Entra/Office – Paweł Liebich
• 19:00 – 19:15 Networking
• 19:15 – 20:00 Copilot Your AI Security - when guide rails are not enough – Kamil Bączyk
• 20:05 – 20:35 Automating Compliance and Configuration with PowerShell DSC and Azure Guest Configuration – Michał Machniak
• 20:35 – 21:00 🍕 Pizza, napoje & networking

📝 O SESJACH
1. Klik w "głupi" link! Analiza powłamaniowa Defender/Entra/Office Prelegent: Paweł Liebich (Security Architect, Bluesoft, Protopia, Budimex, Simply.IN) Abstrakt: TBC

2. Copilot Your AI Security - when guide rails are not enough Prelegent: Kamil Bączyk (Lead Principal Enterprise Security Architect, Azure Security and Office 365 MVP, MCT #BeLikeBaczyk) Abstrakt: TBC

3. Automating Compliance and Configuration with PowerShell DSC and Azure Guest Configuration Prelegent: Michał Machniak (Cloud Principal Engineer Lead, MCT, Euvic IT)
Abstrakt: TBC
Bio:
Od ponad 20 lat pasjonuję się technologiami informatycznymi, to moje hobby i zawód.
Na co dzień pracuję jako Architekt/DevOps i DevOps, budując i wdrażając projekty w oparciu o rozwiązania Microsoft. W swojej codziennej pracy korzystam z Windows Server, SQL Server, PowerShell, Azure, Office 365, Sharepoint, Teams, Azure DevOps, Git… i wielu innych narzędzi, które pozwalają mi sprawnie realizować zadania i osiągać cele!
Jestem zwolennikiem automatyzacji… aby pracować mądrzej.

👋 Do zobaczenia na miejscu!

Es geht weiter immer heiter <3

Vorab. Wir haben in LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/22149005/
eine Gruppe erstellt. Meetup scheint es "einfachen" User:innen immer schwerer zu machen. Wer dort ist gerne joinen <3

Die Vorträge:

Cluster-API und ganz ohne AI

Die Cluster-API ist ansich nicht neu. Die Idee ist Kubernetes gleich zu Managen, wie gewöhnliche Applikationen in Kubernetes gemanagt werden. Also viel Spaß mit deklarativem Kubernetes und die Fallstricke.

Erkan isn Frankfurter Bub und mag keine Menschen

Entfesselt KI-Agenten in eurer Infrastruktur

Was wäre nötig, um willkürlichen, nicht vertrauenswürdigen Code in euren Prod-Umgebungen auszuführen? Auch wenn das nach einem tollkühnen Unterfangen klingt, wird dies mit der zunehmenden Verbreitung von KI-Agenten zu einer Realität, die wir als Infrastruktur-Menschen unterstützen müssen.

Ich möchte euch auf DataDogs Reise mitnehmen und zeigen, wie wir eine Sandboxing-Plattform auf Kubernetes aufgebaut haben, die heute mehrere KI-Produkte in production betreibt. Von Micro-VMs über Laufzeit konfigurierbare Netzwerkregeln und credential injection proxies bis hin zu einer neuen Art, über Applikationen nachdenken zu müssen, ist alles dabei.

Daniel Henkel wohnt im lieblichen Herborn und ist seit vier Jahren Software Entwickler in DataDogs Compute Team. Nachdem er jahrelang an der Automatisierung des Node-Lebenszyklus gearbeitet hat, entwickelt er nun eine Plattform für Sandbox-
Umgebungen.

Docker / Kubernetes conference Online

We are pleased to bring you two talks this time. This event will be held in the offices of our sponsor Plum, Stadiou 3a, Athina 105 62.

1st talk: "Working with Kubeflow: A cloud-native machine learning platform for Kubernetes" by Manos Vlassis

Abstract: Kubeflow is the foundation of tools for AI platforms on Kubernetes. The platform itself is composable, modular, portable, and scalable, backed by an ecosystem of Kubernetes-native projects for each stage of the AI lifecycle. This talk explores the architecture of Kubeflow, the advantages it offers to engineers and scientists, and a use case of how it can be used to speed up processes.
Presenter: Manos is a Software Engineer at Canonical, working at the Machine Learning Operators (MLOps) team. He is working on a distribution of Kubeflow to facilitate machine learning workflows on Kubernetes-based systems.

2nd talk: "ingress-nginx is archived: How we migrated to kgateway (and Didn’t Break Prod)" by Konstantinos Stavropoulos

Abstract: With ingress-nginx being archived in March 2026, Plum's SRE team used it as an opportunity to migrate to kgateway - a CNCF-backed Gateway API implementation chosen after benchmarking several alternatives. The 12-week migration relied on running both controllers in parallel, building custom Loki-based observability before cutover, and using staging to catch breaking differences like stricter path matching and a shorter default timeout. The result was zero production incidents and zero customer-facing downtime across all migrated services.
Presenter: Konstantinos Stavropoulos is the SRE Lead at Plum, where he leads the team responsible for the reliability and evolution of the company's infrastructure. With a background spanning fintech, cybersecurity, and logistics across Greece and the Netherlands, he specialises in Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud-native infrastructure, and security - with a proven track record of leading complex migrations from legacy stacks to modern, cloud-native architectures. Beyond hands-on engineering, Konstantinos is a community builder who delivers internal workshops and mentors teams through technical and leadership growth.

Parking: Please use public transport if possible. If arriving by car, use a P+R or park at the Jaarbeurs parking (paid).
Public Transit: 5 minute walk from Utrecht Central station

Event Schedule

17:00 — Doors open & walk-in
17:30 — Dinner
18:30 — Welcome
Atanas Aleksiev — Rabobank Engineering Services AWS team
18:35 - Disasters don’t announce themselves—and recovery is only as good as your last backup strategy
Rabobank Engineering Services AWS team
19:10 - From Innovation to Enterprise: Scaling a Compliant, Microservices-Driven AWS Platform
Rabobank ODP Next team
19:50 - Break ☕
20:00 - EDSN as the Digital Backbone of the Energy Market: Use Case, Technology Choices and Challenges
Energie Data Services Nederland
20:40 - Drinks & Networking 🍻
21:30 -Event ends

Summary of the talks

Talk 1: In this talk, we’ll walk through how Rabobank designs for failure using AWS Backup: from automated policies and immutable vaults to restore testing and ransomware protection. Because resilience isn’t just about having backups—it’s about knowing they work.

Talk 2: What happens after an innovation delivers a promising platform before it’s ready for enterprise scale, governance, and speed? That’s where our journey begins. You’ll hear how we evolved the architecture to support over 100 microservices powering digital lending on a compliant-by-design AWS environment. We’ll share the decisions we made along the way: what we kept and what we changed. Central to our approach is Infrastructure as Code to enable consistency, repeatability, and control on the platform. We’ll show how this foundation helped us automate operations, accelerate delivery, and meet strict compliance requirements. Join us to learn how to bridge the gap between innovation and enterprise readiness, turning a promising start into a scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform.

Talk 3: EDSN acts as the digital backbone of the energy market, supporting essential data exchange processes across the energy market value chain. We explore this role, the underlying IT foundation, and the challenges and trade-offs that come with it.

Join us for our first Kyverno-dedicated meetup before the summer break 🌴

We want to thank Schwarz Digits Spain for kindly hosting us for this evening of learning and networking!

🧭 What is Kyverno?

Kyverno is a CNCF-graduated, Kubernetes-native policy engine. Unlike other tools that require learning a new programming language, Kyverno allows you to manage cluster governance, security, and compliance using familiar Kubernetes manifests. With zero coding required, you can easily:

• Validate: Block non-compliant resources before they hit your cluster.
• Mutate: Automatically inject sidecars, labels, or configurations on the fly.
• Generate: Automatically create new resources (such as NetworkPolicies or ConfigMaps) when a new namespace is provisioned.

📅 Agenda

• 18:30-18:45. Doors Open.
• 18:45-19:45. Talks (see below).
• 19:45-20:30. Mingling and food.

📍Location:
c/ Bergara 13, Barcelona | https://maps.app.goo.gl/zd6h3BGzHNxgAgjT6

🎙️ Talks

1️⃣ Full Observability for Kyverno with Observability-as-Code, Imma Valls - Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs (Talk in English 🇬🇧)
Adopting Kyverno solves the challenge of Policy-as-Code. However, a new question emerges for platform engineers: what happens when a slow policy rule adds latency? A slow admission webhook can degrade performance across the k8s cluster.
Tracing the webhook’s lifecycle is the fastest way to pinpoint any bottlenecking rule.
The next step in your GitOps journey is to make your monitoring as declarative as your policies. In the live demo, you’ll learn how to monitor Kyverno’s operational cycle using Prometheus, Tempo, and Grafana.

2️⃣ Kyvernos más allá de la validación: automatización con mutación y generación de recursos, Javier Dompablo - Expert Platform Engineer and Product Security en Schwarz Digits (Talk in Spanish 🇪🇸)
En esta sesión exploraremos dos de las capacidades más potentes de Kyverno: la mutación y la generación de recursos. Veremos cómo automatizar las configuraciones, aplicar de forma transparente los estándares de la plataforma a los equipos de desarrollo y reducir la carga operativa mediante la creación y la modificación automáticas de recursos en Kubernetes. A través de ejemplos prácticos, descubriremos cómo implementar políticas que mejoran la consistencia, la seguridad y la gobernanza de los clústeres sin necesidad de modificar las aplicaciones.

See you there 👋

Letterkenny AWS User Group Meetup #9
Speaker 1 : John Burke
Topic : AI - Powered troubleshooting & Alerting in AWS Using Demo

Speaker 2: Martin Boyle
Topic : Your First Look at AFT: Learn by Example

Speaker 3: Srinivasulu Paranduru
Topics : AWS New Services & Future virtual sessions update

Bicep comes packed with powerful features that make infrastructure as code easier and more flexible. One of the most exciting capabilities is the ability to extend Bicep with custom extensions. This means you’re no longer limited to Azure resources—you can, for example, use Bicep to deploy repositories in GitHub or Azure DevOps, or even trigger a simple HTTP call.

Although this functionality is still in preview, it already opens up a world of possibilities. Now is the perfect time to explore what’s available, experiment with different options, and see how you can bring your own solutions into your Bicep workflows.

Dear Platform Engineering Community,

Summer is here… and so is our next Platform Engineering MeetUp in Amsterdam. This being our 10th edition I am extra excited that we will be hosting this milestone event on Hannekes Boot ⛴️🎉😀

This time, we will be diving into the world of FinTech. With a strong focus on security, resilience, and modern platform engineering challenges, we are aiming to learn how to keep the fire where it belongs 😉 Together with three fantastic speakers, we’ll explore everything from Kubernetes security and hidden software supply chain risks to building secure platforms for, and against AI (see agenda below ⏬).

And since no summer MeetUp would be complete without it… YES, there will be a BBQ, drinks, and plenty of time to continue the conversations after the talks 😉🍔🍻

A huge THANK YOU to our hosts Chainguard and Tarmac.io for making this evening possible 🫶

As always, all you need to do is bring you++, some good vibes, interesting talking points, and come ready to connect with fellow engineers in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Can't wait to see you all again!! 🙂
Michi

LOCATION
Hannekes Boot
Dijksgracht 4
1019 BS Amsterdam
what3words Address: ///evening.league.builder

AGENDA
17.30 - 18.00 Doors Open, Welcome Snacks & Drinks

18.00 Welcome by our hosts

18.10 - 18.30 "What I’ll Tell My Kids About K8s Security"
Lars Lefebvre, Application Security Engineer @ ING
What I’ll Tell My Kids About K8s Security is a creative and story-driven talk that makes Kubernetes security approachable — even for those who aren’t deep in the weeds of K8s. Framed through metaphors and everyday analogies (like thermostats as a control plane or opening windows in cold winter as malicious action), the talk explores complex security challenges in a fun and memorable way. In the second half, I’ll share the story behind an open source tool we built at ING to help teams uncover and understand real-world security issues in their clusters.

18.35 - 18.55 "Dark Matter Vulnerabilities™ : The Next Infrastructure Frontier"
Cassie Crossley, CEO & Co-Founder @ VulNow

• Uncovering the Invisible Risk: A deep dive into "Dark Matter Vulnerabilities" (TM): the critical, silent security patches and PreCVEs occurring in open-source dependencies that traditional automated scanners completely miss.
• Securing the Golden Path: How modern platform engineering pipelines inadvertently distribute unmapped supply chain risks, and practical strategies to embed true codebase integrity into infrastructure at scale.
• Balancing Compliance and Velocity: A strategic look at navigating the EU Cyber Resilience Act's (CRA) upcoming technical demands without forcing engineering teams to sacrifice development speed for operational security.

19.00 - 19.20 "Towards a Secure Platform for, and against AI"
Django Beek, Enterprise Sales Engineer @ Chainguard
Mythos is real, not a marketing stunt. Critical infrastructure, including fintech, must prepare to be secure in the AI era. Meanwhile, to stay ahead of the competition, development velocity with AI is a must. These competing, inevitable forces need to be tamed. We’ll, among others, touch upon these questions:

• How is the platform the hub of the wheel between agentic developer velocity and maintaining a secure posture against AI adversaries?
• How do you control and mitigate the risk introduced by your software supply chain?
• What is the future of open source and the traditional maintainer model?

The software industry is changing fast, perhaps too fast. We don’t have a glass bowl, but certainly a growing sense of the solution directions. Join us for this preview of the future SDLC in the AI era.

19:30 - 22.00 Get-together with BBQ & Drinks

Hi folks!

Welcome to our July Cloud Native London meetup! Join us to hear from our three great speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube or LinkedIn!

6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 Hossein Kakavand, Luther Systems (Talk TBC)
7:15 Steve Fenton, Octopus (Talk TBC)
7:45 Break
8:00 Srivalsan Mannoor, Amazon (Talk TBC)
8:30 Wrap up

See you there!

Cheryl (@oicheryl)

Check out https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring.

Die Registrierung zum Event ist nur über die offizielle Community Seite möglich. / Registration is only possible using the official community page.

Ein Abend voller Wissensaustausch, gutem Essen und Community-Spirit!

Wir freuen uns riesig, euch zum nächsten Cloud Native Münster Meetup einzuladen! Egal ob ihr erfahrene Cloud-Native-Expertinnen und -Experten seid oder gerade erst eure Reise in die Welt von Kubernetes & Co. beginnt, dies ist eure Gelegenheit, euch mit Gleichgesinnten aus der lokalen Community und darüber hinaus zu vernetzen.

Diese Ausgabe wartet mit zwei spannenden Vorträgen zu Agentic Applications und Plattform-Architektur im großen Maßstab auf. Zwei Themen, die die Zukunft der Cloud-Native-Innovation maßgeblich mitgestalten: Wie baut, beobachtet und betreibt man agentische Anwendungen auf Kubernetes? Und wie entwickeln sich Plattform-Architekturen weiter, wenn Organisationen Dutzende oder Hunderte von Clustern verwalten müssen?

📋 Agenda

• 18:00 Einlass, Ankommen & Networking
• 18:30 Vortrag: From Cloud Native to Agentic Applications (inkl. Q&A)
• 19:10 Kurze Pause
• 19:20 Vortrag: From Clusters to Control Planes (inkl. Q&A)
• 20:00 Networking & gemütlicher Ausklang

🎤 Vorträge
From Cloud Native to Agentic Applications
Verteilte Cloud-Native-Anwendungen sind von Natur aus komplex zu beobachten, da sie sowohl synchrone als auch asynchrone Kommunikationsmuster beinhalten. Diese Anwendungen fehlertolerant und zuverlässig zu machen, war in den letzten 10 Jahren der Schwerpunkt der Cloud-Native-Community.
Heute, mit modernen Workloads und agentischen Anwendungen, werden neue Protokolle wie MCP, A2A und Skills eingeführt und neue Architekturmuster entstehen.
In diesem Vortrag schauen wir uns an, was es braucht, um agentische Anwendungen auf Kubernetes zu bauen, zu beobachten und zu betreiben.

Speaker: Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino

From Clusters to Control Planes
Mit zunehmender Kubernetes-Adoption gehen Organisationen davon über, nicht mehr nur wenige Cluster zu verwalten, sondern Dutzende oder sogar Hunderte. In diesem Maßstab hören Cluster auf, eine praktische Abstraktion zu sein, und werden zu einem operativen Engpass, insbesondere bei Isolationsanforderungen und GPU-/KI-gesteuerten Workloads.
In diesem Vortrag untersuchen wir, warum traditionelle Multi-Tenancy-Modelle an ihre Grenzen stoßen und wie sich Plattform-Architekturen in Richtung Control-Plane-zentrierter Designs entwickeln. Wir diskutieren reale Kompromisse bei Isolation, Kosten und operativer Komplexität und wann welcher Ansatz in der Praxis sinnvoll ist.

Speaker: Manuel Zapf

📍 Gut zu wissen
Verpflegung: Wir kümmern uns um euch! Essen und Getränke stehen für alle Teilnehmenden bereit.

Sprache: Die Vorträge werden auf Englisch gehalten.

Anmeldung: Bitte meldet euch verbindlich an, damit wir das Catering entsprechend planen können.

🌐 Über Cloud Native Münster
Cloud Native Münster ist ein lokales Community-Meetup, das Entwickler*innen, Platform Engineers, DevOps-Enthusiast*innen und alle Cloud-Native-Neugierigen aus dem Münsterland und darüber hinaus zusammenbringt. Wir sind Teil des lebendigen, globalen Cloud-Native-Ökosystems und brennen dafür, Wissen zu teilen, Zusammenarbeit zu fördern und gemeinsam als Community zu wachsen.

Wir freuen uns auf euch! 🎉

An Evening of Knowledge Sharing, Great Food, and Community Spirit!
We're thrilled to invite you to the next Cloud Native Münster Meetup! Whether you're a seasoned cloud native expert or just starting your journey into the world of Kubernetes & co., this is your chance to connect with like-minded people from the local community and beyond.
This edition features two exciting talks on Agentic Applications and Platform Architecture at Scale. Two topics shaping the future of cloud native innovation: What does it take to build, observe, and run agentic applications on Kubernetes? And how do platform architectures evolve when organizations need to manage dozens or hundreds of clusters?
📋 Agenda

• 18:00 Doors Open, Arrival & Networking
• 18:30 Talk: From Cloud Native to Agentic Applications (incl. Q&A)
• 19:10 Short Break
• 19:20 Talk: From Clusters to Control Planes (incl. Q&A)
• 20:00 Networking & Casual Get-Together

🎤 Talks
From Cloud Native to Agentic Applications
Distributed cloud native applications are inherently complex to observe, as they tend to include both synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns. Making these applications resilient to failure and reliable has been the focus of the cloud native community for the last 10 years.
Today, with modern workloads and agentic applications, new protocols such as MCP, A2A, and Skills are being introduced, and new architectural patterns are emerging.
In this presentation, we will look at what it takes to build, observe, and run agentic applications on top of Kubernetes.

Speaker: Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino

From Clusters to Control Planes
As Kubernetes adoption grows, organizations move from managing a few clusters to dozens or even hundreds. At this scale, clusters stop being a convenient abstraction and become an operational bottleneck, especially with isolation requirements and GPU/AI-driven workloads.
In this talk, we explore why traditional multi-tenancy models start to break down and how platform architectures evolve toward control-plane-centric designs. We discuss real-world trade-offs in isolation, cost, and operational complexity, and when each approach makes sense in practice.

Speaker: Manuel Zapf

📍 Good to Know
Food & Drinks: We've got you covered! Food and drinks will be provided for all attendees.

Language: The talks will be held in English.

Registration: Please make sure to register so we can plan the catering accordingly.

🌐 About Cloud Native Münster
Cloud Native Münster is a local community meetup that brings together developers, platform engineers, DevOps enthusiasts, and all cloud native curious minds from the Münsterland region and beyond. We are part of the vibrant, global cloud native ecosystem and are passionate about sharing knowledge, fostering collaboration, and growing together as a community.

We look forward to seeing you! 🎉

Join us for the Berlin DevOps Summer Meetup: our last edition before the summer break! We're excited to be hosted by Parloa for an evening of interesting talks, discussions, and networking.

There will be food and drinks provided, and plenty of time to connect with fellow DevOps enthusiasts.

📌 Please register at least 24 hours before the event. We need to share the attendee list with the Parloa office in advance, and spots are limited.

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Agenda
18:30 Open Doors, Networking with Food and Drinks
19:00 Welcome words by Parloa and BLN DevOps team
19:25 Running K8s with AI: Automating the SRE Lifecycle with Grafana MCP and GitLab
19:50 The Pipeline Was Green — AI Agents and CI Trust
20:15 Short Break
20:30 Managing Uninvited Guests: Securing Open Source Dependencies
20:55 Networking
21:30 Closing

➡️ Interested in hosting an event? Fill out our Call for Hosts and let's set up a meeting.

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Christoph Ebeling
Running K8s with AI: Automating the SRE Lifecycle with Grafana MCP and GitLab
What does it look like to run 30+ microservices, 8 databases, and a Kafka cluster almost entirely through AI agents? This talk walks through a practical demo of automating the full SRE lifecycle: from incident investigation to deployment validation, using Grafana MCP and the GitLab Agent Platform, and where humans still need to stay in the loop.

Serhii Vasylenko
The Pipeline Was Green — AI Agents and CI Trust
We’ve spent years building CI/CD pipelines that tell us when code is "technically correct," but are they capable of telling an autonomous AI agent if a change is safe to apply? This talk explores a real-world incident where an AI-powered automation -- pairing Renovate with Claude Code -- successfully executed a "green" pipeline that broke a critical QA cluster for three days, how the team reacted, and how we evolved our vision toward the future of human-agentic collaboration with code.

Frithjof Hoffmann
Managing Uninvited Guests: Securing Open Source Dependencies
Open source software is the ultimate neighborhood party, but what happens when an uninvited guest slips through the door? This talk digs into the messy reality of dependency hell and its role in software supply chain security: from typosquatting attacks to maintainer account takeovers, and the abandoned projects with known CVEs quietly living in your codebase rent-free.

Hello, fellow DevOps enthusiasts 🤓

On July 2nd, we'll meet again for a couple of insightful talks, hosted by InnoIT Consulting

📍Location: C/ Diputació, 280, Bajos 2ª · Barcelona | https://maps.app.goo.gl/CnaqHvZnv32T8Un47

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📅 Agenda

• 18:30 - 18:40 Welcome from the hosts
• 18:45 - 19:15 I apologise for the confusion! Anyway, here's the same plausible but wrong software again - Matīss Treinis
• 19:15 - 19:45 DevOps Horror Stories Vol. 1 - Vicent Soria
• 20:15 - 21:00 Networking & Snacks

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🎤 Talks & Speakers

• Title: I apologise for the confusion! Anyway, here's the same plausible but wrong software again
• Speaker: Matīss Treinis - Creator and Author, SpecDD
• Duration: 30-45 mins
• Abstract: Introduction to SpecDD, a Specification-driven development framework that enables humans and AI agents to build better software.
• About: I have spent most of my life building things. Close to twenty years of production platforms, infrastructure, distributed systems, developer tooling, and the organisational structures around them.
  My background is in software engineering and architecture, but most of my work has lived where product requirements, developer tooling, infrastructure, delivery process, and team structure all meet.
  I build the systems around the software as much as the software itself.
  I have run full technology functions end-to-end: development, architecture, DevOps, delivery, hiring, vendor strategy, and operational
  structure. A lot of my career has been spent taking environments that are unstable, fragmented, or afraid to ship, and turning them into organisations that can move quickly without collapsing under their own weight.
  I still work hands-on every day.
  I write code, work in infrastructure, and stay close to the actual problems instead of managing them from a distance.

• Title: DevOps Horror Stories Vol. 1
• Speaker: Vicent Soria - Fractional Infrastructure Engineer @ techabreath.com
• Duration: 30-45 mins
• About: I work with management and technical teams to connect strategy with execution.
  My goal is to transform technology from an obstacle into a business driver.
  I act as a fractional CTO, DevOps engineer, or technology consultant, depending on each client's needs at any given time.
  I provide a practical and strategic perspective, helping to make impactful technology decisions: those that accelerate projects, improve processes, and align technology with business objectives.

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🔑 Important Access Note
Our host requires the attendees to provide their ID to grant us access to their offices. Do not forget to fill in the "NIF - NIE - Passport" field when registering!

This is a rescheduled event.
Join us on Thursday, July 2nd, at Abertay CyberQuarter for an evening of networking and knowledge sharing.

Agenda:
18:00 – Arrival, networking & pizza
18:30 – Bridging PoC to production with AgentCore - Amir Omicevic, AWS
19:30 - Drinks and networking
20:00 - End

We’re delighted to welcome Amir Omicevic, who will be sharing his AWS London Summit session with us. His talk, “Bridging PoC to Production with AgentCore: An Introduction to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore,” provides a clear and practical overview of how AgentCore enables the development of intelligent, agent-based applications.

AI agents have levelled up. They’re no longer just chatbots — they reason, plan, and act. From autonomous DevOps engineers fixing infrastructure issues to research assistants compiling reports to full-stack applications spun up from a single prompt, agent-based systems are rapidly evolving.

The result? An explosion of agent prototypes across startups and enterprises alike. But here’s the challenge: most never make it beyond the demo stage.

In this session, Amir will explore how to bridge that gap — moving from “impressive PoC” to production-ready systems. Drawing on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, he’ll walk through the tools, patterns, and services that help turn experimental agents into reliable, real-world applications.

You can expect:
1️⃣ Key challenges in taking agents to production
2️⃣ An introduction to AgentCore
3️⃣ A deep dive into its core components
4️⃣ Practical guidance, technical enablement, and resources

Along the way, Amir will also showcase a selection of AgentCore demo applications, offering valuable insight into real-world use cases and implementation approaches.

Przed Wami kolejne w tym roku spotkanie poznańskiej AWS User Group.
Spotkanie odbędzie się w środę 8 lipca o godzinie 17:30.

Sprawdź agendę i zobacz, dlaczego nie możesz go przegapić!

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17:00-17:30 – Rejestracja i networking

18:00 – 18:10 – Adam Zuzo, Jarosław Zieliński - Powitanie +
18:10 - 18:50 – "Tam i z powrotem: wyprawa od potęgi PySparka do taniej Atheny w procesowaniu BigData NRT" - Jacek Bera
18:50 - 19:30 –

19:30 - 21:00 – Panel dyskusyjny, czyli networking przy pizzy

21:00 - Zakończenie (oficjalne)

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Jacek Bera - Inżynier danych z ponad ośmioletnim doświadczeniem w branży. Absolwent Politechniki Poznańskiej. Pracował zarówno w firmach produktowych, jak i zleceniowych. Preferuje rozwiązania chmurowe, zwłaszcza AWS. W pracy pełni wiele ról: od Data Ops zajmującego się utrzymaniem i architekturą, przez analityków danych wspierających zespoły biznesowe i produktowe, po inżyniera danych tworzącego procesy w językach Python, pySpark i SQL.

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Tam i z powrotem: wyprawa od potęgi PySparka do taniej Atheny w procesowaniu BigData NRT - Jacek Bera

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Gdzie: ul. Królowej Jadwigi 43, Poznań, Grupa OLX

Gdzie mogę zaparkować?

Najwygodniej skorzystać z parkingu podziemnego lub naziemnego w budynku Business Link Maraton.

Jak wejść do biura?

Kontakt w razie pytań
+48 730 970 384 -> Adam

Tuesday 14th July 2026;
Aviva, Wellington Row, York, YO90 1WR;
City centre, a short walk from York railway station.

Join us for our next face-to-face meetup: learn and chat about all-things AWS, and meet other cloud practitioners in the area.

Talks being confirmed.

18:00: Doors open - turn up, meet people, grab a drink
18:00 - 18:30: Pizza arrives, chat with more people
18:30 - 18:40: Intro/welcome
18:40 - 19:10: Talk 1
19:10 - 19:30: Break
19:30 - 20:00: Talk 2
20:00 onwards: post-meetup drinks in The Judge's Lodging, at 9 Lendal (YO1 8AQ)

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Food and drink

Food will be in the form of pizza - please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements prior to the day and we will endeavour to meet your needs. We’ll also be providing a range of drinks.

Code of conduct

Like a large number of other communities, we have an anti harassment policy and code of conduct (https://www.meetup.com/York-Amazon-Web-Services-User-Group/pages/32649582/Code_of_Conduct/), in order to support the inclusive nature of our events. It is necessary for all attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any AWS Leeds to agree with the code of conduct.

Helping with diversity and inclusivity

The organising team for AWS York are keen to promote diversity and inclusivity, in terms of speakers, how events are run, and the composition of the organising team. If you would like to contribute to this aim, particularly if you think you have experiences that you might not consider to be typical for the majority of the tech community, we would be really excited to talk with you at the event.