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AWS Community Day Bengaluru 2026

A full day of AWS, built by the community

Deep-dives, real-world stories, and the hallway-track conversations you'll remember for years. AWS User Group Bengaluru is back for the most awaited edition yet.

Who we are

Community-led learnings on AWS, by AWS users

AWS User Group Bengaluru is a volunteer-driven group of developers, architects, and AWS evangelists. We meet to share best practices, discuss upcoming features, and trade real-world stories from production.

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.

What to expect

  • Renew, revive, and revitalize your excitement for the work you do.
  • Learn industry trends and intricacies of innovative implementations from AWS experts.
  • Network with AWS users, DevOps engineers, developers, and solutions architects.
  • Bring helpful and valuable information back to your business.
  • Get visibility for yourself and your organisation.
  • Win AWS goodies for active participation.
Keynote

The headline talk

The session that sets the tone for the day. Don't miss it.

Mani Chandrasekaran

Mani Chandrasekaran

Enterprise Technologist, AWS

LinkedIn

From Buckets to Brains: 20 Years of AWS Workloads and the Agentic Decade Ahead

Twenty years ago, an Amazon S3 bucket and an EC2 instance turned capital expenditure into an API call and quietly rewired how software gets built. This keynote isn't a birthday party — it's a working engineer's map of how the brains moved into the cloud: from static websites and image buckets to microservices, serverless event meshes, ML pipelines, and now autonomous, multi-agent systems.

The lineup

Speakers worth blocking your calendar for

Practitioners and architects sharing what they've actually shipped.

Agenda

Three tracks. One unforgettable day.

The full schedule is live. Tap any session to read the abstract, meet the speaker, and add it to your calendar.

08:30 – 09:30

Registration & Networking

09:30 – 10:00 Plenary
10:00 – 10:20 Plenary
10:20 – 10:40 Plenary
10:40 – 11:10

Coffee & Tea Break

11:10 – 11:40 Parallel · 3 tracks
Track 1 - AI/ML
Track 2 - Serverless & Data
Track 3 - Cloud & Security
11:40 – 12:10 Parallel · 3 tracks
Track 1 - AI/ML
Track 2 - Serverless & Data
Track 3 - Cloud & Security
12:10 – 12:40 Parallel · 3 tracks
Track 1 - AI/ML
Track 2 - Serverless & Data
Track 3 - Cloud & Security
12:40 – 13:10 Parallel · 3 tracks
Track 1 - AI/ML
Track 2 - Serverless & Data
Track 3 - Cloud & Security
13:10 – 14:10

Lunch

14:10 – 14:40 Parallel · 3 tracks
Track 1 - AI/ML
Track 2 - Serverless & Data
Track 3 - Cloud & Security
14:40 – 15:10 Parallel · 3 tracks
Track 1 - AI/ML
Track 2 - Serverless & Data
Track 3 - Cloud & Security
15:10 – 15:40 Parallel · 3 tracks
Track 1 - AI/ML
Track 2 - Serverless & Data
Track 3 - Cloud & Security
15:40 – 16:10 Parallel · 3 tracks
Track 1 - AI/ML
Track 2 - Serverless & Data
Track 3 - Cloud & Security
16:10 – 16:40

Coffee & Tea Break

16:40 – 16:55

Quiz

16:55 – 17:25 Plenary
17:25 – 17:35

Vote of Thanks & Closing Note

Workshops

Roll up your sleeves the day before

Hands-on, builder-led and held on Friday 10 July 2026, the day before the conference. Tap a card for the full details and prerequisites. More workshops land here as the lineup locks in.

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Agentic AI

AWS Agentic Football Cup

In this hands-on workshop you'll build AI agents that compete against each other in simulated football matches. It's a gamified, practical way to learn agentic AI. Under the hood, you'll build production-grade agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands Agents SDK. You'll coordinate a team of agents that read the live match state and decide their next move in about a second — real, hands-on practice with agent reasoning, tool use, and low-latency decision-making on AWS. You'll design, build, and tune your own agents, then send them onto the pitch to play other attendees' agents and walk away with practical, hands-on experience of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Bedrock.

Sudhanshu Saurav & Vijay Chakraborty

2 facilitators

AI Search

Building AI Search and Agentic Workflows with Elasticsearch, Jina, and A2A

This hands-on workshop demonstrates how to build AI-powered search and agentic workflows using Elasticsearch, Jina.ai, ES|QL, and A2A. Participants will configure inference endpoints, test embedding and reranking models, upload files for vector search, explore semantic text fields, and build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows. The session also covers multilingual semantic search with Jina.ai and ES|QL, followed by building and interacting with Elastic AI Agents. Participants will inspect an A2A agent card and communicate with the agent using A2A, learning how to connect search, context retrieval, and agentic AI experiences.

Someshwaran Mohan Kumar

Developer Advocate @ Elastic

AI-DLC

Architecting the AI-DLC for the organization

Everything we traditionally practiced in the SDLC is no longer enough. AI coding assistants deliver remarkable individual velocity, but scaling that speed to a team — and to an entire organization — is an enterprise transformation. This workshop presents a comprehensive blueprint for an AI-Driven Software Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC): a framework designed to harness AI speed without compromising security, quality, or maintainability. We go beyond tools to the processes and people too — defining the layers of context (workload, team, organization, individual) and how to govern them, preventing context rot and context poisoning, and contributing back to a collective knowledge base at scale. We question whether agile and two-week sprints still fit an AI-native world, and reshape workflows as the pressure shifts from writing code to reviewing it — and further left, to discovery and ideation. We also confront the hard edges: deep architectural vulnerabilities and technical debt, catastrophic failure modes, and the new security exposure introduced by ready-to-use skills, MCPs, and plugins. Finally, we establish how leadership can measure what actually matters — distinguishing flow metrics from tension metrics, avoiding gameable vanity metrics like lines of code or PR counts, and measuring true ROI as model and tooling costs keep rising.

Shilpa Prabhu Nagavara & Newton Singh

2 facilitators

Game Day

AWS GameDay

AWS GameDay is a hands-on, gamified, team-based learning experience where you troubleshoot and build in a live AWS environment. This edition features two quests: Uniflix Backend with New Relic Quest Uniflix, an ambitious streaming platform, has migrated their backend to a microservices architecture, but the cracks are showing. You have joined as new hires tasked with using New Relic to diagnose issues, identify root causes, and implement fixes across the Uniflix backend. You will work hands-on with New Relic features such as APM & Services, AI Monitoring, Distributed Tracing, Alerts, Dashboards, and more to restore order. HashiCorp Terraform Quest Participants learn Infrastructure as Code (IaC) fundamentals using HashiCorp Terraform to deploy and manage a web application on AWS. You will configure remote state management, troubleshoot deployment issues, provision cloud resources, set up monitoring, and apply Terraform best practices.

Ruchi Pareek & Ritesh Sinha & Vinodkumar Mandalapu

3 facilitators

Where it happens

Two venues, two days

Workshops the day before at the Amazon Bengaluru office, then the main conference at NIMHANS Convention Centre.

Workshops Friday, 10 July 2026

Amazon Development Centre, Taurus 1

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Limited seats — exact check-in details emailed to workshop ticket holders

Conference Saturday, 11 July 2026

NIMHANS Convention Centre

Hosur Road, Lakkasandra, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029

Off Hosur Road, opposite Forum Mall · Metro: Lakkasandra (Pink line, opening soon)

Beyond the talks

Make your ACD bigger

Hands-on experiences before and during the conference. Pick the ones that match your day, add them to your schedule, and we'll see you there.

Why you should attend

One day. Then you build differently.

This is a community-led technical summit, not a marketing event. The agenda stays on production engineering, live builder spaces, and takeaways you can ship on Monday.

  • 29

    Sessions

    Production talks spanning AI & ML, generative and agentic AI, serverless, data, security, and DevOps.

  • 4

    Hands-on workshops

    Day-before deep dives — agentic AI, AI-driven delivery (AI-DLC), and AI-powered search.

  • 4

    Experiences

    Live builder spaces — the Architecture Clinic, the Builder's Mic, and the photo booth.

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Tickets

Reserve your seat

One ticket. Three tracks. A full day of sessions, networking, and AWS goodies.

Conference Pass

Full-day access

Keynotes, three concurrent tracks, lunch, and networking breaks.

  • All keynotes and breakouts
  • Lunch and refreshments
  • Conference swag pack
Date 11 July 2026

Secure checkout via KonfHub. UPI, cards, and netbanking supported.

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Refund Policy

  • • 100% refund on Early Bird and Super Early Bird tickets until 11 June 2026.
  • • 50% refund on Regular tickets until 11 June 2026.
  • • No refunds on any tickets after 11 June 2026.
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