Speaking

AWS speaking and workshops across ANZ and SEA

Hands-on AWS Immersion Days, leadership roundtables, and meetups. Most sessions are technical: Bedrock, AgentCore, Amazon Q, AWS Container Services, landing zones. Some are leadership-level conversations about region launches and GenAI priorities. Want me on your stage or running an immersion day with your team? Book below.

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Engagements

4

Cities

3

Countries

2023–25

Span

Where I've spoken

APAC region

AWS NZ Region Leadership Roundtable — Roundtable, Wellington AWS Immersion Day for Beamtree — Immersion Day, Auckland AWS DevOps Immersion Workshop — Immersion Day, Kuala Lumpur AWS Solutions Architect roundtable — Roundtable, Auckland SaaS on AWS Meetup — Meetup, Sydney Wellington New Zealand Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Auckland New Zealand Sydney Australia
Immersion Day Roundtable Meetup · Click a pin to jump to the event.

●Immersion Days

2 events

Multi-day hands-on workshops embedded with a customer team adopting a new AWS capability. Beginner-to-Pro labs, real production code, no slides-only content.

2025 · Auckland, New Zealand

AWS Immersion Day for Beamtree

Harnessing Generative AI on AWS: mastering Amazon Q for data-driven healthcare. Beginner-to-Pro prompt engineering workshop and hands-on labs.

Main speaker Beamtree (clinical decision support, healthcare)
LinkedIn
2025 · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

AWS DevOps Immersion Workshop

AWS Container Services for building modern cloud applications, with a hands-on developer workshop for FSI customers.

Main speaker Financial Services Industry developers
LinkedIn (Crayon)

●Roundtables

2 events

Closed-door conversations with senior tech leaders, AWS Solutions Architects, and partner principals. Typically region launches, GenAI strategy, or architecture direction-setting.

2025 · Wellington, New Zealand

AWS NZ Region Leadership Roundtable

Industry leadership roundtable on the new AWS NZ Region, cloud priorities, digital transformation, and GenAI applications.

Main speaker Senior tech leaders, AWS NZ partner community
LinkedIn
2025 · Auckland, New Zealand

AWS Solutions Architect roundtable

AWS DevOps Agent and AgentSpace: intent vs state, MCP-based org knowledge surfaces.

Main speaker AWS Solutions Architects, ANZ region
Blog Part 1

●Meetups

1 event

Community-organised technical talks at AWS user groups and SaaS meetups. Usually a single deep-dive on one architecture pattern.

2023 · Sydney, Australia

SaaS on AWS Meetup

Optimised landing zone deployment for SaaS. Optimising and accelerating landing zone deployment and management for SaaS and ISVs scaling on AWS. Co-headlined with Sathyajith Bhat on container services.

Speaker Sydney SaaS and ISV community
LinkedIn (8 Nov 2023)

Want me at your event?

Immersion Day for your customer team. Roundtable contribution on AWS strategy. AWS user group talk. Conference session on Bedrock, AgentCore, or production GenAI. Reach me and let's see if it's a fit.

Book a 15-minute call

Topics I'll happily talk on

  • · Building production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  • · Strands SDK patterns and gotchas in real deployments
  • · Observability for LLM apps (ADOT, OTEL, session-end detection)
  • · AWS funding pathways for AI (MAP, MMP, AppMod, GenAIIC)
  • · Regulated-industry GenAI delivery (GxP, healthcare, iGaming)
  • · Azure-to-AWS migrations at MAP Band 3 scale
  • · Amazon Q for productivity and prompt engineering workshops
  • · CDK patterns that survive a real production deployment