Slides and material

AWS re:Invent

AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, twice. Two different formats, two different decks, both free here.

reinvent.awsevents.com

On the programme

OTTO at the Open Source Learning Corner

2025 · Las Vegas

A lightweight multi-agent system that automates recurring tasks in communities and teams, presented at the Open Source Learning Corner. Cloud-native, cost-efficient and scale-to-zero, with the emphasis on simplicity and real operational use.

Build Amazon Q apps to scale and drive community engagement

2024 · Las Vegas

How AI services including Amazon Q Business can scale community engagement, streamline event planning and handle an organiser's everyday tasks, with a live demo using Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda alongside Q Business.

Under the session

The services doing the work

Ordinary building blocks. Each one links to the page explaining that capability and how to run it elsewhere.

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock

Serves the assistant once it left the laptop.

Foundation models and LLMs
AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda

Runs the agents and the Slack glue, scale to zero.

Serverless compute
Amazon S3

Amazon S3

Holds the documents the assistant retrieves from.

Object storage
Amazon Q Business

Amazon Q Business

Answers against the company's own documents.

Foundation models and LLMs

Go deeper

The longer write-ups

Where the builds behind these sessions are explained properly.

From AI Demo to Enterprise Solutions

The longer write-up: the build, the services and what it costs to run.

Enterprise AI Consultant vs. AI Consultant

The longer write-up: the build, the services and what it costs to run.

How I Planned AWS re:Invent in Notion

The longer write-up: the build, the services and what it costs to run.

AI Use Cases

The longer write-up: the build, the services and what it costs to run.

Work with me

Bring one of these into your own room

Every session here can be given as a conference talk, a company workshop or an internal briefing. Most started as a real project rather than as a slide deck.

Talks and moderationWorkshopsBook 30 minutes

Sources

Where all of this comes from

Every claim on this page traces back to the deck, the recap or the event's own site.

  1. reinvent.awsevents.com, the event's own site
  2. Slides: OTTO at the Open Source Learning Corner, 2025
  3. Slides: Build Amazon Q apps to scale and drive community engagement, 2024
  4. Recap: Build Amazon Q apps to scale and drive community engagement, 2024
  5. From AI Demo to Enterprise Solutions
  6. Enterprise AI Consultant vs. AI Consultant
  7. How I Planned AWS re:Invent in Notion
  8. AI Use Cases

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