About The Event
AWS User Group Kochi (AWSUGKOCHI) is proudly presenting our flagship annual event AWS Community Day Kochi 2023. Unveiling success stories, use cases & much more from industry leaders and community heroes and builders.
Where
Holiday Inn Cochin, an IHG Hotel
NH Bypass, Vennala, Kochi, 682028
When
Saturday
16 December, 2023
AWS User Group Kochi
- AWS User Group Kochi (AWSUGKOCHI) is a Kochi based group united by community-led learnings and
diversified by
the wide variety of tools and technologies closely knit with Amazon Web Services, cloud computing
technology,
AWS design implementation and servicing, high scalability / performance computing, production use
cases of AWS,
blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI and much more.
- AWS Community Days are community-organized cloud education events,
featuring technical discussions and demos led by expert AWS users
and industry leaders from around the world.
- Community-based learning is the best way to enhance the concepts being taught
by connecting with enthusiasts in person, thereby sharing first-hand experiences
and familiar, accessible examples.
- All skills levels are welcome to help accomplish our motto of learning,
sharing and networking. Let's join hands to empower
this tech community to make it bigger and better!
What to expect
- Renew, revive & revitalize to exemplify your excitement about the work you do.
- Learn industry trends and intricacies about innovative implementations from AWS experts
- Harness the power of networking with 400+ AWS users, DevOps, developers & solutions architects.
- Network with fellow AWS veterans & techies during breaks.
- Novice to pioneer on relentless pursuit to learn can rejoice the AWS offerings & success stories
under one roof.
- Take helpful and valuable information back to business.
- Gain visibility to get more publicity for your esteemed organisation.
- Sporting chance for active participants to win AWS goodies.
Event Speakers
AWS Community Day Kochi 2023 - Speakers
![Ashwin Murali](assets/img/speakers/ashwin_murali.jpg)
Ashwin Murali
Senior Engineer - DevOps, TII
AWS Community Builder
![Prashanth HN](assets/img/speakers/prashanth_hn.jpg)
Prashanth HN
Chief Technology Officer, AntStack
AWS Serverless Hero
![Karthik Nair](assets/img/speakers/karthik_nair.jpg)
Karthik Nair
Principal Solutions Architect, LTIMindtree
AWS Community Builder
![Bhuvaneshwari R](assets/img/speakers/bhuvana_r.jpg)
Bhuvaneshwari R
Software Prod & Plat Engineering Manager, Accenture
AWS Community Builder
![Rahul Kumar](assets/img/speakers/rahul_kumar.png)
Rahul Kumar
Data Engineer, AntStack
AWS Community Builder
![Manivannan Palanichamy](assets/img/speakers/manivannan_p.jpg)
Manivannan Palanichamy
Vice President of Technology, Bank of America
![Ramdev C M](assets/img/speakers/ramdev_cm.jpg)
Ramdev C M
Software Engineer, Unacademy
![Sanooj Mananghat](assets/img/speakers/sanooj_mananghat.jpg)
Sanooj Mananghat
Data Operations, UnravelData
![Ajai K M](assets/img/speakers/ajai_km.jpg)
Ajai K M
Lead Engineer, Suyati Technologies
![Ganesh Sawhney](assets/img/speakers/ganesh_s.jpg)
Ganesh Sawhney
Team Leader - Solutions Architects, Amazon
![Akhil Mohan](assets/img/speakers/akhil_m.jpg)
Akhil Mohan
Software Engineer | containerd Maintainer
![Ashish Tiwari](assets/img/speakers/ashish_t.jpg)
Ashish Tiwari
Senior Developer Advocate, Elastic
![Ahamed Fasil](assets/img/speakers/a_fasil.jpg)
Ahamed Fasil
Principal Architect, Autodesk
![Mohan Thomas](assets/img/speakers/mohan_t.jpg)
Mohan Thomas
Director and CEO, HiFX
![Suraj Nath](assets/img/speakers/suraj_nath.jpg)
Suraj Nath
Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
![Adithya Sanker](assets/img/speakers/adithya_sanker.jpg)
Adithya Sanker
Senior Data Engineer, Mindcurv
![Aditya Menon](assets/img/speakers/aditya_menon.jpg)
Aditya Menon
Data Engineer, Mindcurv
![Giriraj Rajasekharan](assets/img/speakers/giriraj_rajasekharan.jpg)
Giriraj Rajasekharan
Cloud Architect, Mindcurv
![Kamal Krishnan](assets/img/speakers/kamal_krishnan.jpg)
Kamal Krishnan
Senior Technical Manager, Mindcurv
![Paramesh Kamarthi](assets/img/speakers/paramesh_kamarthi.jpg)
Paramesh Kamarthi
Solutions Architecture Lead, Affinidi
![Dr. Anil Kumar](assets/img/speakers/dr_anil_kumar.jpg)
Dr. Anil Kumar
VP Engineering, CloudControl
![Dr. Bijoy Jose](assets/img/speakers/dr_bijoy_jose.jpg)
Dr. Bijoy Jose
Prinicipal Consultant, Abilytics Inc.
![Ansil H](assets/img/speakers/ansil_h.jpg)
Ansil H
Lead SRE, Cisco
![Dominic Geevarghese](assets/img/speakers/dominic_geevarghese.jpg)
Dominic Geevarghese
Solution Architect, Suse
![Sreeram Venkitesh](assets/img/speakers/sreeram_venkitesh.jpg)
Sreeram Venkitesh
Software Engineer, BigBinary
![Nagesh A](assets/img/speakers/nagesh_a.jpg)
Nagesh A
Head of Delivery, CloudControl
![Vishnu S](assets/img/speakers/vishnu_s.jpg)
Vishnu S
Cloud Engineer 2, App Mastery
![Ashish Ranjan](assets/img/speakers/ashish_ranjan.jpg)
Ashish Ranjan
Lead Engineer - Container and Observability, Swiggy
Event Schedule
Registration
Registration and badge pickup
![Keynote 1](assets/img/speakers/mohan_t.jpg)
Keynote 1
Bridging Continents in the Cloud: A Seamless Migration from Ireland to Mumbai
Mohan Thomas - Director and CEO, HiFX![Keynote 3](assets/img/speakers/ganesh_s.jpg)
Keynote 2
Building Generative AI Applications on AWS
Ganesh Sawhney - Team Leader - Solutions Architects, Amazon![Keynote 2](assets/img/speakers/ashwin_murali.jpg)
Keynote 3
Engineering Velocity and using DevOps for Accelerated Success
Ashwin Murali - Senior Engineer - DevOps, TII![Platinum Sponsor Talk 1](assets/img/speakers/giriraj_rajasekharan.jpg)
![Platinum Sponsor Talk 1](assets/img/speakers/kamal_krishnan.jpg)
Platinum Sponsor - Mindcurv Group
Iteration to R°evolution - How we accelerate Cloud Native Development
Giriraj Rajasekharan Cloud Architect & Kamal Krishnan Senior Technical Manager![Platinum Sponsor Talk 1](assets/img/speakers/paramesh_kamarthi.jpg)
Platinum Sponsor - Affinidi
Passwordless Onboarding with Zero Party Data
Paramesh Kamarthi Solutions Architecture Lead![Keynote Speaker](assets/img/speakers/tea-break.png)
Morning Tea Break
Tea Break, Go grab a cup of tea and visit our sponsors booths
![Prashanth HN](assets/img/speakers/prashanth_hn.jpg)
Serverless for Startups: Turbocharging Innovation Through Seamless Iteration - Prashanth HN AWS Serverless Hero, Chief Technology Officer, AntStack
![Suraj Nath](assets/img/speakers/suraj_nath.jpg)
Building scalable OSS observability on AWS with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope - Suraj Nath Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
![Ramdev C M](assets/img/speakers/ramdev_cm.jpg)
Maximizing Efficiency and Savings: A Deep Dive into Amazon Redshift Architecture, Components, and Cost Optimization Strategies - Ramdev C M Software Engineer, Unacademy
![Keynote Speaker](assets/img/speakers/lunch-break.png)
Lunch Break
Lunch Break, have lunch, network with the cloudees, visit sponsors booths and lots more to do...
![Manivannan Palanichamy](assets/img/speakers/manivannan_p.jpg)
Gen AI on AWS: Predicting Next Wave Of Industrial Innovation Explosion - Manivannan Palanichamy Vice President of Technology, Bank of America
![Rahul Kumar](assets/img/speakers/rahul_kumar.png)
Efficient ETL on the Cloud : Embracing the Serverless Paradigm - Rahul Kumar AWS Community Builder, Data Engineer, AntStack
![Adithya Sanker](assets/img/speakers/adithya_sanker.jpg)
![Aditya Menon](assets/img/speakers/aditya_menon.jpg)
Modernizing Transactional processing using AI - Adithya Sanker Senior Data Engineer, Mindcurv & Aditya Menon Data Engineer, Mindcurv
![Ajai K M](assets/img/speakers/ajai_km.jpg)
Build Generative AI Applications with Amazon Bedrock - Ajai K M Lead Engineer, Suyati Technologies
![Keynote Speaker](assets/img/speakers/tea-break.png)
Evening Tea Break
Tea Break, Go grab a cup of tea and visit our sponsors booths
![Gold Sponsor Talk 1](assets/img/speakers/dr_anil_kumar.jpg)
Gold Sponsor - CloudControl
Embracing Modern Platform Engineering
Dr. Anil Kumar VP Engineering, CloudControl![Gold Sponsor Talk 2](assets/img/speakers/dr_bijoy_jose.jpg)
Gold Sponsor - Abilytics
Analytics and Automation for Cloud Observability
Dr. Bijoy Jose Prinicipal Consultant, Abilytics Inc.![Ashish Tiwari](assets/img/speakers/ashish_t.jpg)
RAG using Elasticsearch and LangChain with Amazon Bedrock - Ashish Tiwari Senior Developer Advocate, Elastic
![Bhuvaneshwari R](assets/img/speakers/bhuvana_r.jpg)
Advanced data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB - Bhuvaneshwari R Software Prod & Plat Engineering Manager, Accenture
![Akhil Mohan](assets/img/speakers/akhil_m.jpg)
Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development by AWS - Akhil Mohan Software Engineer | containerd Maintainer
![Keynote Speaker](assets/img/speakers/lunch-break.png)
Lunch Break
Lunch Break, have lunch, network with the cloudees, visit sponsors booths and lots more to do...
![Ahamed Fasil](assets/img/speakers/a_fasil.jpg)
Elevating Enterprise IT Operations: Harnessing AWS for Observability, Event Correlation, Auto-Diagnosis, and Auto-Remediation - Ahamed Fasil Principal Architect, Autodesk
![Karthik Nair](assets/img/speakers/karthik_nair.jpg)
Fortifying AWS EKS : Elevating Security to Enterprise Excellence - Karthik Nair AWS Community Builder, Principal Solutions Architect, LTIMindtree
![Sreeram Venkitesh](assets/img/speakers/sreeram_venkitesh.jpg)
How we built neetoDeploy, our PaaS deployment service using Kubernetes on Amazon EKS - Sreeram Venkitesh Software Engineer, BigBinary
![Sanooj Mananghat](assets/img/speakers/sanooj_mananghat.jpg)
FinOps: The human side of Cost - Sanooj Mananghat Data Operations, UnravelData
![Dominic Geevarghese](assets/img/speakers/dominic_geevarghese.jpg)
CNCG Kochi Workshop
From Kubernetes Zero to Hero: A Deep Dive with Rancher
Dominic Geevarghese Solution Architect, Suse![Keynote Speaker](assets/img/speakers/lunch-break.png)
Lunch Break
Lunch Break, have lunch, network with the cloudees, visit sponsors booths and lots more to do...
![Ashish Ranjan](assets/img/speakers/ashish_ranjan.jpg)
Architecting Success: Swiggy’s strategic integration of AWS Graviton3 - Ashish Ranjan Lead Engineer - Container and Observability, Swiggy
![Nagesh A](assets/img/speakers/nagesh_a.jpg)
The Art of Autoscaling: On Demand Scaling of Pods and Nodes in Amazon EKS - Nagesh A Head of Delivery, CloudControl
![Vishnu S](assets/img/speakers/vishnu_s.jpg)
Automate Containerization on AWS with CDK and CI/CD - Vishnu S Cloud Engineer 2, App Mastery
Event Venue
Event venue location
Holiday Inn Cochin, an IHG Hotel
33/1739 A, Junction NH Bypass
Chakkaraparambu, Vennala, Kochi
Kerala, 682028
Gallery
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Event Team
AWS Community Day Kochi 2023 - Team
![Sukanya](assets/img/volunteer/sukanya.jpg)
Sukanya M
QBurst
![Vignesh](assets/img/volunteer/vignesh.jpg)
Vignesh Naduvathuparambil
MeviTech
![Sanooj](assets/img/volunteer/sanooj.jpg)
Sanooj Mananghat
UnravelData
![Abhilash](assets/img/volunteer/abhilash.jpg)
Abhilash Nair
Support Sages
![Siddharth](assets/img/volunteer/siddharth.jpg)
Siddharth Shivkumar
Major League Hacking
![Iqbal](assets/img/volunteer/iqbal.jpg)
Muhammed Iqbal P B
Code Ace
![Sarika](assets/img/volunteer/sarika.jpg)
Sarika Jeevan
Fingent
![Divya](assets/img/volunteer/divya.jpg)
Divya Suseelan
Experion
![Swathi](assets/img/volunteer/swathi.jpg)
Swathi Shabu
Protoheim
![Aswin](assets/img/volunteer/aswin.jpg)
Aswin T Sunil
Whizlabs
![Osni](assets/img/volunteer/osni.jpg)
Osni Theresa V X
Litmus7
![Jisna](assets/img/volunteer/jisna.jpg)
Jisna C John
Innovature
![Sona](assets/img/volunteer/sona.png)
Sona Philip
GECT
![Ashitha](assets/img/volunteer/ashitha.jpg)
Ashitha Pallath
CUSAT
![Neha](assets/img/volunteer/neha.jpg)
Neha Bimal
RSET
![Danwand](assets/img/volunteer/danwand.jpg)
Danwand NS
Tacten
![Ameesha](assets/img/volunteer/ameesha.jpg)
Ameesha Arackal
ICET
![Sreejith](assets/img/volunteer/sreejith.jpg)
Sreejith Gopalakrishnan
FoundingMinds
F.A.Q
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What is AWSUGKOCHI??
AWS User Group Kochi (AWSUGKOCHI) is a Kochi based group united by community-led learnings and diversified by the wide variety of tools and technologies closely knit with Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing Technology, AWS Design Implementation and Servicing, High Scalability / Performance Computing, Production use cases of AWS, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI and much more.
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Who is conducting this event?
The AWS Community Day is supported by AWS but independent of them. This event is organized and managed by AWS User Group Kochi with help from AWS and other User Groups from India.
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How can I join AWSUGKOCHI?
AWSUGKOCHI membership is through Meetup group, Join us via http://meetup.com/awsugkochi/
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Can I present a topic in the Community Day?
Yes, you are welcome to come forward and present topics. Please contact us and we will allocate a slot for you.
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Is it free, how to register for the event?
This is not a free event like our meetups. We will be charging a minimum amount from the attendees to cover the hotel expenses.
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Can I cancel my registration?
Cancelation is not allowed, we will not be processing any refunds. However, you can transfer the ticket to someone else. Contact us if you would like to transfer your ticket to someone else in case if you are not able to attend the event.
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Do we have walk-in registration?
No, all attendees should register in advance. Tickets will be closed by the first week of October based on availability.
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Additional questions?
We are always happy to hear from you. You can reach us for sponsorship enquires, topic proposals, ticketing, feedback or any general question on AWS Community Day Kochi 2023, please drop an email to info@awsugkochi.in
Contact Us
Meetup Group and Contact information.