Join us for a hands-on technical session hosted by AWS Chicago Western Suburbs! Whether you are looking to build model-driven AI agents or deploy them to production, this session will take you step-by-step from "Hello World" agent to production-ready in 2 hours.
📍 Location & Venue
- Venue: Amazon Office Chicago
- Address: 227 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60606
- Food and Beverages are completely covered
💡 Deep Dive Session
- Strands Agents SDK — Open-source, model-driven framework for building agents in a few lines of Python.
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — Fully managed infrastructure for deploying agents at enterprise scale.
- Live Demo — See agentic workflows running end-to-end.
- Key Concepts — MCP protocol, memory persistence, identity & access control, and observability.
🛠️ Architecture & Core Components Covered
- Amazon Bedrock
- AgentCore Runtime
- AgentCore Memory
- AgentCore Gateway
- AgentCore Identity
- Strands SDK
📋 Prerequisites
To get the most out of this session, attendees should be familiar with:
- ✓ Python 3.10+
- ✓ Basic cloud concepts
- ✓ Jupyter Notebooks
- ✓ REST API concepts
- ✓ Gen AI fundamentals
- ✓ Laptop + Internet connection
💡 Note: AWS accounts, sandbox environments, and all lab materials are provided! No prior AWS account is needed.
Hosted by: AWS Chicago Western Suburbs
Presented by:
Speaker 1 : Alak Eswaradass
Principal Solutions Architect @ AWS
Alak Eswaradass is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services in Chicago, IL, working at the leading edge of applied AI engineering. With deep experience architecting solutions for enterprises across diverse industries, she partners with technology leaders and C-suite executives to turn business priorities into technical strategy and production-grade architecture at enterprise scale. Alak is a passionate advocate of AI for accessibility, and is driven by a mission to make technology more inclusive, championing AI-powered assistive technologies that expand digital access for everyone. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her daughters and exploring the outdoors with her dogs.
Speaker 2 : Suresh Poopandi
Principal Solutions Architect @ AWS
Suresh Poopandi is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services based in the Chicago area, where he helps healthcare and life sciences enterprises build scalable AI/ML and high-performance computing solutions. His career across AWS Professional Services and Solutions Architecture gives him a unique blend of hands-on engineering and strategic advisory experience. He is the creator of GenASL, a generative AI project that translates speech into expressive American Sign Language avatars to advance accessibility for the Deaf community. Suresh is a passionate builder.
All materials & sandbox environments provided.
Mandatory for the Event : ID Proof and Laptop is MUST for all Participants !
