AWS Community Day Poland | Warsaw

AWS Community Day Poland 2025 - Warsaw

This was my first time attending AWS Community Day Poland - but the event itself was already in its 4th edition. And you could feel that maturity the moment the day began: the rhythm, the ease, the trust that comes from a community that has been building together for years.

There were no keynotes, no “main stage hierarchy,” no long formal introductions. Instead, the organizers walked on stage together in the large cinema hall, and simply talked with the audience. Not presenting. Not performing. Just opening a shared space.

It immediately made the event feel close, warm, and personal - even in a room built for hundreds.

The Space

The venue was a cinema - wide screen, deep seats, dim light - the kind of room that holds attention gently rather than demanding it. It created an atmosphere where sessions felt less like “talks” and more like conversations at scale.

The Talk: OTTO

I presented our talk on OTTO - the Slack-integrated AI assistant we built for AWS User Group Vienna, trained with InstructLab and deployed on Bedrock.

By this point in the tour, we had shared OTTO in Slovakia, Italy, Romania, and the Czech Republic. But in Poland, the conversation shifted in a meaningful way.

The questions were not about:

• Which embedding model we used
• Or how the retrieval was structured
• Or where the automation was triggered

They were about:

• Community longevity
• Volunteer energy
• How tools can connect people instead of replacing interaction

It wasn’t “How do we build this?” - it was “Why do we build this?”

Why This Event Felt Different

Without keynote anchors, the center of the event was not a person - it was the community itself.

Everyone contributed. Everyone listened. Everyone shaped the day.

It reminded me of the earliest days of AWS User Groups - when everything was built from the ground up, by people who simply cared enough to show up.

A Community That Feels Like a Circle, Not a Stage

AWS Community Day Poland left me with a quiet feeling of appreciation. Not because of production or scale - but because of connection.

I’m grateful I got to experience it.