Pre-summit meetup

Welcome to a Nordic AWS User Group Meetup

It's that time of the year, AWS Summit season. For the third year in a row we arrange a warmup meetup, with speakers from the community!

📌 Agenda
17:30: Doors open.
17:45: Food and drinks

18:10 - 18:20: The importance of community. Gunnar Grosch (AWS Serverless Hero)

18:25 - 18:50: Terraform vs Crossplane: Building a self-service platform for developers.
Lars Magelssen (AWS Developer @ Sopra Steria, AWS Community Builder)
18:50 - 19:05: Break

19:05 - 19:25: I built a self-deployable Google Photos alternative. Alvin Johansson, (Software Engineer @ Elva, AWS Community Builder)

19:30 - 20:00: Fireside Chat - Where are we coming from and where are we going? 20 years with AWS.
Martin Elwin (Technology Director, Europe North, AWS)
Johan Broman (EMEA ISV Head of Solutions Architecture AWS)
Anders Bjørnestad (AWS Community Hero, Principal consultant in Webstep)

20:10 - 20:40: Practical tips for Developing AWS Lambda functions with TypeScript
ARi Palo (Lead Technologist @ Alma Media, AWS Community Builder))

20:40 - 22:30: Mingle/music/party
DJ: Håkon Eriksen Drange

📅 Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
📍 Venue: Hobo Hotel, 5th floor, Brunkebergstorg 4
🎟️ RSVP
Please note: There is a limited number of seats, so please keep your RSVP up to date so that if you can't make it, someone else can attend.

A special thank you to our sponsor
This event is sponsored by Sopra Steria

Code of Conduct
AWS User Groups in Nordics are committed to providing a safe place for our members, regardless of gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, age, religion, or any other protected classification. Everyone attending our events is expected to follow this code of conduct. Harassment, in any form, will not be tolerated.