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CTRL+ESC Malta

A two-day international IT conference in Qawra, Malta, where AWS, Microsoft and Google community programmes share one roof.

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On the programme

Two expert-track sessions

2025 · Qawra

From MacBook to Bedrock, on building OTTO with InstructLab and Amazon Bedrock. And Automating AWS Account Setup with Backstage, on the self-service provisioning system we built with a GitHub template.

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

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.

AWS User Group logos: templates and examples

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. Slides: Two expert-track sessions, 2025
  2. Recap: Two expert-track sessions, 2025
  3. From AI Demo to Enterprise Solutions
  4. Enterprise AI Consultant vs. AI Consultant
  5. AWS User Group logos: templates and examples

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