16 December 2023, Holiday Inn Cochin

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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

Ashwin Murali

Senior Engineer - DevOps, TII
AWS Community Builder

Prashanth HN

Prashanth HN

Chief Technology Officer, AntStack
AWS Serverless Hero

Karthik Nair

Karthik Nair

Principal Solutions Architect, LTIMindtree
AWS Community Builder

Bhuvaneshwari R

Bhuvaneshwari R

Software Prod & Plat Engineering Manager, Accenture
AWS Community Builder

Rahul Kumar

Rahul Kumar

Data Engineer, AntStack
AWS Community Builder

Manivannan Palanichamy

Manivannan Palanichamy

Vice President of Technology, Bank of America

Ramdev C M

Ramdev C M

Software Engineer, Unacademy

Sanooj Mananghat

Sanooj Mananghat

Data Operations, UnravelData

Ajai K M

Ajai K M

Lead Engineer, Suyati Technologies

Ganesh Sawhney

Ganesh Sawhney

Team Leader - Solutions Architects, Amazon

Akhil Mohan

Akhil Mohan

Software Engineer | containerd Maintainer

Ashish Tiwari

Ashish Tiwari

Senior Developer Advocate, Elastic

Ahamed Fasil

Ahamed Fasil

Principal Architect, Autodesk

Mohan Thomas

Mohan Thomas

Director and CEO, HiFX

Suraj Nath

Suraj Nath

Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Adithya Sanker

Adithya Sanker

Senior Data Engineer, Mindcurv

Aditya Menon

Aditya Menon

Data Engineer, Mindcurv

Giriraj Rajasekharan

Giriraj Rajasekharan

Cloud Architect, Mindcurv

Kamal Krishnan

Kamal Krishnan

Senior Technical Manager, Mindcurv

Paramesh Kamarthi

Paramesh Kamarthi

Solutions Architecture Lead, Affinidi

Dr. Anil Kumar

Dr. Anil Kumar

VP Engineering, CloudControl

Dr. Bijoy Jose

Dr. Bijoy Jose

Prinicipal Consultant, Abilytics Inc.

Ansil H

Ansil H

Lead SRE, Cisco

Dominic Geevarghese

Dominic Geevarghese

Solution Architect, Suse

Sreeram Venkitesh

Sreeram Venkitesh

Software Engineer, BigBinary

Nagesh A

Nagesh A

Head of Delivery, CloudControl

Vishnu S

Vishnu S

Cloud Engineer 2, App Mastery

Ashish Ranjan

Ashish Ranjan

Lead Engineer - Container and Observability, Swiggy

Event Schedule

Registration

Registration and badge pickup

Welcome Note

Welcome Note

Dijeesh Padinharethil - Organizer, AWS User Group Kochi
Keynote 1

Keynote 1

Bridging Continents in the Cloud: A Seamless Migration from Ireland to Mumbai

Mohan Thomas - Director and CEO, HiFX
Keynote 3

Keynote 2

Building Generative AI Applications on AWS

Ganesh Sawhney - Team Leader - Solutions Architects, Amazon
Keynote 2

Keynote 3

Engineering Velocity and using DevOps for Accelerated Success

Ashwin Murali - Senior Engineer - DevOps, TII
Platinum Sponsor Talk 1
Platinum Sponsor Talk 1

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

Platinum Sponsor - Affinidi

Passwordless Onboarding with Zero Party Data

Paramesh Kamarthi Solutions Architecture Lead
Keynote Speaker

Morning Tea Break

Tea Break, Go grab a cup of tea and visit our sponsors booths

Prashanth HN

Serverless for Startups: Turbocharging Innovation Through Seamless Iteration - Prashanth HN AWS Serverless Hero, Chief Technology Officer, AntStack

Suraj Nath

Building scalable OSS observability on AWS with Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope - Suraj Nath Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Ramdev C M

Maximizing Efficiency and Savings: A Deep Dive into Amazon Redshift Architecture, Components, and Cost Optimization Strategies - Ramdev C M Software Engineer, Unacademy

Keynote Speaker

Lunch Break

Lunch Break, have lunch, network with the cloudees, visit sponsors booths and lots more to do...

Manivannan Palanichamy

Gen AI on AWS: Predicting Next Wave Of Industrial Innovation Explosion - Manivannan Palanichamy Vice President of Technology, Bank of America

Rahul Kumar

Efficient ETL on the Cloud : Embracing the Serverless Paradigm - Rahul Kumar AWS Community Builder, Data Engineer, AntStack

Adithya Sanker
Aditya Menon

Modernizing Transactional processing using AI - Adithya Sanker Senior Data Engineer, Mindcurv & Aditya Menon Data Engineer, Mindcurv

Ajai K M

Build Generative AI Applications with Amazon Bedrock - Ajai K M Lead Engineer, Suyati Technologies

Keynote Speaker

Evening Tea Break

Tea Break, Go grab a cup of tea and visit our sponsors booths

Gold Sponsor Talk 1

Gold Sponsor - CloudControl

Embracing Modern Platform Engineering

Dr. Anil Kumar VP Engineering, CloudControl
Gold Sponsor Talk 2

Gold Sponsor - Abilytics

Analytics and Automation for Cloud Observability

Dr. Bijoy Jose Prinicipal Consultant, Abilytics Inc.
Closing Notes

Closing Notes

Praveesh V - Co-Organizer, AWS User Group Kochi
Ashish Tiwari

RAG using Elasticsearch and LangChain with Amazon Bedrock - Ashish Tiwari Senior Developer Advocate, Elastic

Bhuvaneshwari R

Advanced data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB - Bhuvaneshwari R Software Prod & Plat Engineering Manager, Accenture

Akhil Mohan

Finch: An Open Source Client for Container Development by AWS - Akhil Mohan Software Engineer | containerd Maintainer

Keynote Speaker

Lunch Break

Lunch Break, have lunch, network with the cloudees, visit sponsors booths and lots more to do...

Ahamed Fasil

Elevating Enterprise IT Operations: Harnessing AWS for Observability, Event Correlation, Auto-Diagnosis, and Auto-Remediation - Ahamed Fasil Principal Architect, Autodesk

Karthik Nair

Fortifying AWS EKS : Elevating Security to Enterprise Excellence - Karthik Nair AWS Community Builder, Principal Solutions Architect, LTIMindtree

Sreeram Venkitesh

How we built neetoDeploy, our PaaS deployment service using Kubernetes on Amazon EKS - Sreeram Venkitesh Software Engineer, BigBinary

Sanooj Mananghat

FinOps: The human side of Cost - Sanooj Mananghat Data Operations, UnravelData

Ansil H

CNCG Kochi Workshop

Introduction to the CNCF world with Kubernetes

Ansil H Lead SRE, Cisco
Dominic Geevarghese

CNCG Kochi Workshop

From Kubernetes Zero to Hero: A Deep Dive with Rancher

Dominic Geevarghese Solution Architect, Suse
Keynote Speaker

Lunch Break

Lunch Break, have lunch, network with the cloudees, visit sponsors booths and lots more to do...

Ashish Ranjan

Architecting Success: Swiggy’s strategic integration of AWS Graviton3 - Ashish Ranjan Lead Engineer - Container and Observability, Swiggy

Nagesh A

The Art of Autoscaling: On Demand Scaling of Pods and Nodes in Amazon EKS - Nagesh A Head of Delivery, CloudControl

Vishnu S

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

Sponsors

AWS Community Day Kochi 2023 - Sponsors

Platinum sponsors

Gold sponsors

Silver sponsors
Community Partners

Event Team

AWS Community Day Kochi 2023 - Team

Praveesh
Praveesh V

Envestnet

Vishnu
Vishnu KS

Xmigrate

Sukanya
Sukanya M

QBurst

Sanooj
Sanooj Mananghat

UnravelData

Abhilash
Abhilash Nair

Support Sages

Siddharth
Siddharth Shivkumar

Major League Hacking

Sarika
Sarika Jeevan

Fingent

Divya
Divya Suseelan

Experion

Swathi
Swathi Shabu

Protoheim

Aswin
Aswin T Sunil

Whizlabs

Jisna
Jisna C John

Innovature

Ananda Raj
Ananda Raj

Redux

Shibin Christin
Shibin Christin

Travancore Analytics

Sayana Santhosh
Sayana Santhosh

PiServe

Sneha C
Sneha C

GECT

F.A.Q

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • AWSUGKOCHI membership is through Meetup group, Join us via http://meetup.com/awsugkochi/

  • Yes, you are welcome to come forward and present topics. Please contact us and we will allocate a slot for you.

  • This is not a free event like our meetups. We will be charging a minimum amount from the attendees to cover the hotel expenses.

  • 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.

  • No, all attendees should register in advance. Tickets will be closed by the first week of October based on availability.

  • 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.