AWS AI In Practice #3
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AWS AI In Practice #3

11 February Online

About this event

TICKET ONLY EVENT - YOU MUST REGISTER YOUR INTEREST ON OUR WEBSITE!

We’re delighted to have Phillie Wright from Anthropic share her insights on building effective Agents. Up next, we’re excited to welcome back Paul Stack, Director of Product, System Initiative, who will share his thoughts on the next frontier of DevOps. After these two great talks, you’ll have time to connect with the community over drinks and pizzas.

We expect high demand, and the venue is limited to 130 people (90 seated, 40 standing). To keep things fair, tickets will be allocated by random draw.
You must register your interest on our website for a ticket! RSVPing on Meetup will not give you entry to the event!

Programme
18:00: Arrival, registration
18:15: TALKS START
20:00: Networking with food and a drink provided by the generosity of our sponsors

Talk 1
Building Effective Agents with Phillie Wright
As agentic AI moves from demos to production, teams face a new set of architectural decisions that will shape their systems for years to come. This session draws on Anthropic’s experience building Claude Code to explore the practical tradeoffs you’ll encounter when designing agentic systems at scale.
We’ll cover when MCP makes sense (and when it doesn’t), approaches to tool discovery and management as your agent’s capabilities grow, and the often-overlooked challenges of running agents in production. Along the way, I’ll share some of the unexpected ways we use Claude Code internally at Anthropic and workflows that might spark ideas for your own teams.
Whether you’re just starting to experiment with agents or already running them in production, you’ll hopefully leave with a mental model for the key decisions ahead and the tradeoffs each one entails.

Talk 2:
AI as Your New SRE: The Next Frontier of DevOps with Paul Stack
In the early days of DevOps, automation was the revolution. Today, AI is bringing the second wave – not just automating tasks, but reasoning, predicting, and autonomously managing complex systems like a tireless Site Reliability Engineer.
In this talk, we’ll explore how AI will reshape the DevOps lifecycle: from intelligent CI/CD pipelines and automated incident response to self‑healing infrastructure and generative configuration management.
You’ll see live demos of AI detecting, diagnosing, and fixing infrastructure issues in real time, and we’ll discuss the risks – over‑reliance on AI, governance challenges, and the need for explainability – plus the steps teams can take today to prepare for an AI‑augmented future.
Watch his previous talk on “Automating AWS Integration with Amazon Cloud Control API“.

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