Agenda

AWS Community Day Adria 2026 — one day, seven rooms. Subject to change.

Talk Keynote Workshop Lightning talks Break Meeting room
Plečnik 1–3Main stageL1
Plečnik 4Architecture & PlatformL1
Plečnik 5AI & AgentsL1
FabianiSecurity, Networking & DataL0
Šubic 1Business, Leadership & CommunityL0
RavnikarWorkshopsL0
Šubic 2Workshops & Lightning talksL0
08:00–09:00
Registration, breakfast & welcome coffee
09:00–09:50
Opening keynoteDarko Mesaroš, AWS50 min
10:00–10:30
Chasing Zero Downtime: A Love Letter to FailureZlatan Dzinic Your Availability Zone Isn’t Highly Available – And Your Region Might Not Be EitherLuka Kladarić Building an E-Commerce AI Agent with AWS ServerlessMarko (ServerlessLife) AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC): From AI-Assisted to AI-Native Software DeliveryIgor Obradovic Cloud Adoption to AI-Driven Growth: Turning Infrastructure into Business ValueCeko Todorovski AWS Immersion Day for StudentsAWS Escape Room: AI Practitioner exam prep10:00–12:00 AWS JamMatej Macek10:00–12:00
10:45–11:15
The Terraform Trust Gap: Engineering the Space Between Prompts and ProductionAnton Babenko From a Lambda-Lith to an Event-Driven Architecture – Lessons LearnedLeo Hanisch Trusting the Unpredictable: Observability, Evaluation and Explainability for Agentic AI on AWSItana Bulatović Securing AI AgentsVictor Jansson From the Ground to the CloudMiloš Živković
11:30–12:00
Scaling Architecture Reviews Across BMW Group’s Orbit PlatformTomislav Lozancic, Hrvoje Lukavski The Journey to Intelligent Conversational AgentsKonstantinos Siaterlis, Aleksandar Simovic Cloud Intelligence Agency: Special Agents Interrogating Your AWS CloudMichal Salanci One Firewall to Rule Them All: Hub & Spoke on AWSAndrija Vojnovic Agentic AI Enterprise Scaling with AWSEster Viznerova
12:00–13:15
Lunch
13:15–13:45
Software Industry 2030Marin Mamić Stop Running Kubernetes the Hard WayMarko Bevc It Worked in the Notebook: Now What?Ivan Nikolov, Vid Stropnik Building a Real-Time Loyalty Engine on AWS: Kafka CDC, Lambda & Aurora in ProductionMirko Stojanovic The Cloud Cost of Saying “Let’s Add AI”Milica Sebić Break It, Fix It: Hands-On Autonomous Incident Response with AWS DevOps AgentViktor Vedmich13:15–15:15 Plan for Disaster Recovery (DR)Ensar Numic, Saša Marić13:15–15:15
14:00–14:30
Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Spring AI, Embabel and Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreVadym Kazulkin Surviving DynamoDB at Scale: A Crypto Exchange War StoryDean Gostiša How Generative AI Accelerates Product Innovation on AWSNikola Mićić Securing the AI Lifecycle on AWS: From Risk to Runtime with Prisma AIRSAlberto Cappadonia Automating the Chaos of Live Community Events with AWS and RemotionJerome Vanhoutte, Linda Mohamed
14:45–15:15
Event-Driven Architecture, the Hard PartsYan Cui Scaling Enterprise AWS Architecture from a Single RepositoryBranimir Kobeščak Token-Efficient Formats for AI AgentsVesko Vujovic Not All AWS Storage Is Equal – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAPTomislav Alpeza Vibecoding Between Meetings: Using an AI-Native SDLC as Engineering LeverageDavide De Paolis
15:15–15:45
Coffee breakCoffee with Span at the Cozy Cornerfoyer in front of Plečnik 5
15:45–16:15
AI Made Us Fast, Engineering Makes It LastThanasis Daglis Power of ARM in AWSTomislav Rašeta Your AI Writes Code Faster – But Can Your Team Maintain It?Maish Saidel-Keesing Amazon Aurora DSQL – Distributed Magic or Yet Another Cloud DatabaseGoran Opacic From Questions to Outcomes: Automating Daily Business Tasks with Amazon QuickDražen Gracin Lightning talks10–15 min each15:45–17:15
Meeting roomAvailable for private meetings15:45–17:15
16:30–17:00
The Divided States of Cloud ComputingJonathan Bugeja When AWS Strikes BackJernej Porenta 8,000 Photos, Zero Manual Work: How AWS Serverless Makes Photography MagicDmytro Hlotenko End-to-End GenAI Observability: Infrastructure, Agents, and ApplicationsMladen Trampic From Zero to AWS Academy: Building Production-Grade Cloud LabsMarin Kepec
17:15–18:05
Closing keynoteBojan Sovilj, Cloudwalker50 min

Format notes

  • Talks are 30 min with 15 min switch time; no switch window between Talk 3 and lunch.

Lightning talks

Šubic 2 · 15:45–17:15 · 10–15 min per talk · after the coffee break

Lightning talks block 15:45–17:15

  1. Vibe Coding & Rogue Agents: Securing the New Endpoint Supply ChainŽan Črnivec
  2. Data Residency Spanning AWS and Local Cloud ProvidersJanže Avsec
  3. From Diesel to Data: Logistics Prediction and Text-to-SQL Pipelines with AWS AIIgor Ignjačić
  4. Common AWS MistakesPrimož Vampelj
  5. Quick Wins: Amazon Quick in Real AWS ProjectsIsmail Ičanović
  6. Breaking Authentication from GitHub to AWSTimotej Petrovčič
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