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Employers on the program
- 2026Akamai1 talk
- 2022–2025Amazon Web Services4 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
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | expo session | Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs as Akamai Technologies | Video |
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Build observable AI agents with Strands, AgentCore, and Datadog (sponsored by Datadog) as AWS Operational visibility is essential for running AI agents in production. It turns opaque LLM behavior into measurable, improvable workflows. | Video |
| Dec 1, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025 | AWS re:Invent | code talk | Building AI Agents with Kiro, MCP, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore as AWS Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides the foundation for building AI agents and code assistants that connect to your data, infrastructure, and services. Whether…Show lessModel Context Protocol (MCP) provides the foundation for building AI agents and code assistants that connect to your data, infrastructure, and services. Whether developing enterprise customer service AI or code that runs on AWS, MCP brings together intelligence and integration. | Video |
| Jun 3, 2025 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2025 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | workshop | Building Agents with Amazon Nova Act and MCP as AWS In this 2-hour workshop, participants will gain practical hands-on experience building sophisticated AI agents using Amazon's agent technologies. You'll learn…Show lessIn this 2-hour workshop, participants will gain practical hands-on experience building sophisticated AI agents using Amazon's agent technologies. You'll learn to build agents that can navigate the web like humans, perform complex multi-step tasks, and leverage specialized tools through natural language commands. | Video |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | A developer’s guide to cloud networkingToday, website accessibility depends on robust cloud networking. This session offers insights for developers to help them clearly understand the fundamentals of…Show lessToday, website accessibility depends on robust cloud networking. This session offers insights for developers to help them clearly understand the fundamentals of AWS networking to prevent the dreaded “this site can’t be reached” error messages. | Video |
| Nov 27, 2023 | AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS re:Invent | chalk talk | Git serious: Implementing network security and compliance with GitOps [REPEAT] As modern cloud-native applications evolve, traditional network testing and security compliance in infrastructure deployments often struggle to keep up. | |
| Nov 28, 2022 | AWS re:Invent 2022 | AWS re:Invent | breakout | Demystifying VPC IP addressing & creating a complete routing solution as AWS Understanding IP addressing and allocation management can be challenging and costly if not done right. In this session, learn about IP addresses, CIDR blocks,…Show lessUnderstanding IP addressing and allocation management can be challenging and costly if not done right. In this session, learn about IP addresses, CIDR blocks, and subnets and how they relate to VPCs. | SlidesVideo |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Chambers | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Mani Khanuja | 4 | — | 2025 |
| Ankit Chadha | 3 | 1 | 2025 |
| Emile Baizel | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Matt Gibiec | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Michael Grinich | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Michael Liendo | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Philip Kiely | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Tanmai Gopal | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Sempf | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Abbas Mooraj | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Abhishek Srivastav | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Adam Hill | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Aditya Pendyala | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Aditya Samant | 3 | — | 2025 |
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.