Data Conference Databasea Query.Farm index
Speakers

Ben Smith

Employers on the program

  1. 2026Stripe1 talk
  2. 2019–2021Amazon Web Services3 talks
Events4
Conferences1
Talks6
Years active2019–2026

The year around now

Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAWS re:InventAWS re:Invent
Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • AWS re:Invent

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026AWS re:Inventlightning talkTeaching agents to pay with Stripe (sponsored by Stripe)
as Stripe

AI agents can already search, reason, and call tools. What changes when they can spend money, too?

Nov 27, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:InventbreakoutAdvanced serverless workflow patterns and best practices
Are you an experienced serverless developer building applications with AWS Step Functions workflows? Do you want a guide for unleashing the full power of Step…Show less

Are you an experienced serverless developer building applications with AWS Step Functions workflows? Do you want a guide for unleashing the full power of Step Functions for your production workloads?

Video
Nov 27, 2023AWS re:Invent 2023AWS re:InventworkshopServerlesspresso: Building event-driven applications from the start
In this workshop, discover how to build a complete coffee-ordering serverless web application. Learn about event-driven architectures and how to use services…Show less

In this workshop, discover how to build a complete coffee-ordering serverless web application. Learn about event-driven architectures and how to use services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, and more.

Nov 29, 2021AWS re:Invent 2021AWS re:InventworkshopServerless image processing workflows at scale [REPEAT]
as AWS Serverless
With AWS Lambda, you can write code to process images and files without provisioning servers. But at scale, how do you manage coordinating multiple parallel…Show less

With AWS Lambda, you can write code to process images and files without provisioning servers. But at scale, how do you manage coordinating multiple parallel processing steps, catch errors and retry failures, and keep your code modular and maintainable?

Slides
Dec 2, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:Inventworkshop[REPEAT 1] Build a serverless ride-sharing web application
as Amazon Web Services
In this workshop, you deploy a simple web application that lets users request unicorn rides from the Wild Rydes fleet. The application presents users with an…Show less

In this workshop, you deploy a simple web application that lets users request unicorn rides from the Wild Rydes fleet. The application presents users with an HTML-based user interface for indicating the location where they would like to be picked up and interfaces on the backend with a RESTful web service to submit the request and dispatch a nearby unicorn.

Slides
Dec 2, 2019AWS re:Invent 2019AWS re:Inventworkshop[REPEAT 1] Serverless image processing workflows at scale with AWS Step Functions
as Amazon Web Services
With AWS Lambda, you can write code to process images and files without provisioning servers. But at scale, how do you manage coordinating multiple parallel…Show less

With AWS Lambda, you can write code to process images and files without provisioning servers. But at scale, how do you manage coordinating multiple parallel processing steps, catch errors and retry failures, and keep your code modular and maintainable?

Slides

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Ali Saidi4—2026
Amit Kumar4—2026
Andrew Crudge4—2026
Andrew Krug4—2026
Andy Reedy4—2026
Arthur Petitpierre4—2026
Brian Beach4—2026
Christian Elsen4—2026
David Piet4—2026
David Yanacek4—2026
Diego Dalmolin4—2026
Dirk Fröhner4—2026
Edward Naim4—2026
Eric Johnson4—2026
Gavin McCullagh4—2026

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.