Tēnā Koutou AWS Wellington Community,

Xero Wellington Offices are confirmed as our venue for this meetup.
Address is: 19/23 Taranaki Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand

Agenda:
5.15pm – Doors Open, Networking
5.30pm – Talk Track #1 – Arshad (Zack) Zackeriya – Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview)

6.00pm – Talk Track #2 – Seb Krueger – Coding with a Sidekick: How AI-powered Assistants are Revolutionizing Programming
6.30pm – Wrap Up, Networking, Fun, Drinks, Pizza

Overview:
Welcome back to the AWS User Group Wellington Meetup Series. For our second meetup, we are continuing with some very hot topics and high callibre speakers. This session is all about programming in the AWS cloud!

Special thanks to Xero for providing the venue for the event.

Meetup Talk Track:
Talk # 1 – Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview)
Speaker: Arshad (Zack) Zackeriya (LinkedIn)

Session Overview:
Amazon CodeCatalyst is a cloud-based collaboration space for software development teams. Amazon CodeCatalyst allows you to plan work, collaborate on code, and build, test, and deploy applications using continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools all in one place. In this session, Zack will discuss the features of Amazon CodeCatalyst and demonstrate how it works with a live demo.

About Zack (in his own words):
Arshad Zackeriya is a Senior Engineer at Xero. He is an AWS Community Builder, DevOps With Zack PodCaster, and Co-Host of “The Zacs’ Show Talking AWS,” and he enjoys enabling DevOps. Biggest AWSFanBoy 😀

Talk #2 – Coding with a Sidekick: How AI-powered Assistants are Revolutionizing Programming
Speaker: Seb Krueger (LinkedIn)

Session Overview:
AI-powered coding assistants are software programs that use AI to help developers write code more efficiently. In this talk you will learn about the state of the art code generators, their benefits and limitations. You will see demos of AWS CodeWhisperer, Github CoPilot, and others, using a variety of IDEs. As the field of AI continues to evolve, so too will the capabilities of these assistants, making them an increasingly valuable asset for developers of all skill levels. At the end of the session you will be equiped to hit the ground running with AI-powered coding assistants to level up your coding significantly, no matter if you are a beginner or 10x coding wizard.

About Seb (in his own words): Seb is the Head of Cloud Solution Technology in the CTO Office at Sourced Group, an Amdocs Company. Seb started coding when he was 10 years old and has been hooked ever since. The last 10 years of his career have been dedicated to architecting advanced enterprise solutions on AWS, most recently working as Principal Solution Architect at AWS. He was one of the original co-founders of the Wellington AWS User Group, and has been a leader in the AWS community across New Zealand since the very beginning. In recent years, his passion has been focused on building machine-learning solutions on AWS.

Sponsors:
We thank our sponsors for keeping our community alive and funded.
· Deloitte, Datacom and Consegna for providing actual $$$, significantly contributing to covering the monthly expenses of the AWS User Groups across Aotearoa (Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland).
· We thank Xero for covering the refreshments and venue costs for our meetups.
· AWS for ordering the pizza and drinks.

Without our sponsors we would not be able to run these community events. Ngā mihi maioha!

See you at the meetup! Mā te wa.