Ben Smith
Employers on the program
- 2026Stripe1 talk
- 2019–2021Amazon Web Services3 talks
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.
Appearances by year
- AWS re:Invent
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | lightning talk | Teaching 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, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Advanced serverless workflow patterns and best practicesAre 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 lessAre 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, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | Serverlesspresso: Building event-driven applications from the startIn this workshop, discover how to build a complete coffee-ordering serverless web application. Learn about event-driven architectures and how to use services…Show lessIn 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, 2021 | AWS re:Invent 2021 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | Serverless 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 lessWith 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, 2019 | AWS re:Invent 2019 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | [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 lessIn 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, 2019 | AWS re:Invent 2019 | AWS re:Invent | workshop | [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 lessWith 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
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Saidi | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Amit Kumar | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Andrew Crudge | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Andrew Krug | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Andy Reedy | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Arthur Petitpierre | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Brian Beach | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Christian Elsen | 4 | — | 2026 |
| David Piet | 4 | — | 2026 |
| David Yanacek | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Diego Dalmolin | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Dirk Fröhner | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Edward Naim | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Eric Johnson | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Gavin McCullagh | 4 | — | 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.