Convince your boss

Hi [Manager's name],

Instead of a traditional commercial conference, I'd like to attend AWS Community Day Bengaluru 2026 on Saturday, 11 July 2026 in Bengaluru. Because it's a community-led technical summit rather than a marketing event, the agenda stays focused on production engineering, hands-on builder spaces, and immediate, practical ROI.

Attending will let me bring back concrete ways to optimise our cloud infrastructure, tighten our development lifecycle, and stress-test our current architecture against how other teams are solving the same problems.

Here's how the programming maps to our engineering priorities:

1) Hands-on, production-focused workshops (Friday, 10 July 2026)
- AI search and agentic workflows: practical integrations with tools like Elasticsearch, Jina, and modern agent frameworks for context-aware, production-grade search.
- AI in the development lifecycle (AI-DLC): how teams embed AI tooling directly into delivery to speed up code generation, automate testing, and ship safely.
- Gamified engineering (AWS Agentic Football Cup): a competitive, hands-on build that tests real-time architecture and service integration under pressure.

2) Interactive, unscripted technical zones
- Architecture Clinic: a live, whiteboard review where senior engineers critique real-world designs. I'll bring an anonymised map of our current challenges for neutral, expert feedback.
- Roundtable discussions: facilitated sessions on real engineering bottlenecks, operational trade-offs, and governance faced by other high-growth teams.
- The Builder's Mic: candid, lightning technical talks where developers share real production failures and creative architectural workarounds.

What I'll bring back:
- A short technical digest for the team, plus a 30-minute debrief.
- The feedback and optimisations suggested during the Architecture Clinic.
- Actionable workflows from the AI-in-delivery session we can pilot to speed up our development velocity.

Because this is a local, community-driven event, the cost is low and the value for our upcoming roadmap is high. You can see the full agenda and register here: https://konfhub.com/awsugblr-acd-2026

If you're open to it, I'll get the pass sorted before the workshops fill up.

Best,
[Your name]
[Your title]