AWS User Group Kenya is hosting the highly anticipated AWS Community Day 2025. Join us for a day packed with knowledge sharing, networking, and cloud innovation.
Thank you everyone for making our last AWS Community Day a huge success.
VP & CTO at Amazon.com
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com, where he is responsible for driving the company's customer-centric technology vision.
As one of the forces behind Amazon's approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations.
Innovation at Scale: Building the Future with AWS
Senior Developer Advocate, AWS
A Senior Developer Advocate with over 20 years of experience in software development, cloud architecture, and developer engagement. Veliswa is passionate about driving innovation and empowering technology communities.
Notable Achievements: First Woman from Africa to be named AWS Hero 2020, Speaker at AWS re:Invent 2022/4, Highest Rated Breakout Session at AWS Summit London 2022.
Business Growth Lead, Silicon Overdrive
A relational, knowledgeable servant leader and ambassador of leveraging technology for both business and social impact. With over 15 years of demonstrated experience growing tech businesses across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Expertise: Regional Strategy, Digital Transformation, Cloud Technologies, and empowering young professionals through mentorship and technology adoption.
Software Engineer
OnlyDevs Community Co-Lead
APIs with Generative AI: Enhancing Error Feedback Using AI
Portfolio Data Scientist
M-KOPA
Scaling LLM Fine-tuning with Dask on AWS
Software Engineer
DevOps & Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Building Resilient Cloud-Native Systems with Go, Kubernetes, and AWS
AWS Solution Architect
Cloud Optimization
Advancing AWS Security with AI-Driven Approaches
DevOps Engineer
Konvergenz
Choosing Between ECS and EKS: A Practical Guide
Senior Tech Consultant
CNCF Ambassador
Private and Secure: Using AWS VPN to Fortify Your EKS Workloads
Cloud Support Engineer
AWS
2X AWS Certified, API Gateway & Lambda specialist
Cloud Support Engineer
AWS
Passionate IoT and cloud developer
Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud & Security Advocate
Helping organizations scale smart, stay secure, and innovate
DevOps Engineer
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
DevSecOps professional with cloud security background
Founder
Augmentin AI | Creator of Sheria AI
Full stack & AI engineer building GenAI tools and LLM agents
Senior Staff Engineer
NuShift Technologies | AWS Community Builder
Building scalable apps in PHP, Python, Angular & AWS
Security Architect
Enterprise Security Specialist
Securing enterprise architectures and applications
Cloud Engineer
Deloitte
Crafting scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions
DevSecOps Engineer
Cyber Threat Intelligence | Cloud Security
Cloud defender passionate about threat intel and security
Solution Architect
Datamellon
Driving AI, cloud, and data innovation across Africa
Cloud Solutions Architect
Former AWS Cloud Support Intern
AWS restart cohort 15, Azure & Cloud security trained
AI Engineer
NexaReality | STEM-focused GenAI
Building responsible AI systems tailored to local context
Senior Cloud Security Architect
22+ years securing AWS environments
Led efforts at Dell, Leidos, DHS, and NIH
DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Believes in learning by doing and the power of tech communities
Software Engineer
2x AWS Certified
Software engineer and cloud architect passionate about innovative solutions
Cloud Engineer
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Dedicated mentor and community leader empowering future tech talent
GDSC Event Organiser
University of Eastern Africa, Baraton
Lover of coding and solving problems by finding innovative solutions
Software Developer
Davis & Shirtliff Ltd.
Passionate about distributed and scalable systems
Software & ML Engineer
Davis & Shirtliff Ltd
Biomedical engineering, data science, and software development convergence
Engineer
Siemens and UoN
Experience with AWS, Siemens 3D software, Huawei cloud and IBM Cloud
Founder, Senior Product Manager
Healthengine | Amazon
AI-based PCOS detection system building women's health infrastructure
DevOps Engineer
Founder of Nairobi DevOps Community
DevOps Technical Trainer and Organizer for DevOpsDays Nairobi
AWS Authorized Instructor
Koenig Solutions
Mentoring professionals in AWS, cloud automation, and DevOps
Cloud Engineer - Storage
Data Integrity & Backup Specialist
Designing robust architectures that safeguard critical data assets
MBS, Principal Secretary, Kenya
Regional Lead (Public Sector), AWS
Academic Leader
AWS Chief Evangelist
P.S Ministry of ICT Uganda
Participants engaged in practical AWS implementation exercises, building real-world solutions with expert guidance.
Teams competed in training machine learning models to race autonomous cars, applying reinforcement learning in a fun, competitive environment.
Industry leaders debated cloud innovations and strategies, sharing insights on implementing AWS solutions in African contexts.
AWS User Group - Kenya is a Kenya-based group united by community-led learnings and diversified by the wide variety of tools and technologies closely knit with Amazon Web Services, cloud computing technology, AWS design implementation and servicing, high scalability / performance computing, production use cases of AWS, blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and much more.
AWS Community Days are community-organized cloud education events, featuring technical discussions and demos led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world
Community-based learning is the best way to enhance the concepts being taught by connecting with enthusiasts in person, thereby sharing first-hand experiences and familiar, accessible examples.
All skills levels are welcome to help accomplish our motto of learning, sharing and networking. Let's join hands to empower this tech community to make it bigger and better!
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Join hands-on workshops and technical demonstrations led by AWS experts and community leaders.
All workshops are hands-on. Please bring a laptop with internet connectivity.
Free AWS account recommended for hands-on exercises (we'll help you set up).
From beginners to experts - there's something for everyone.
Official Cloud Provider
IT Services and Software Development
Advancing Knowledge, Driving Change
Building Tech Communities
DevOps Excellence in Kenya
Coastal AWS Community
Connecting Tech Communities
Cloud Education & Training
AI/ML Community in Kenya
Meet the dedicated team behind AWS Community Day Kenya 2025. These passionate leaders work tirelessly to bring you an exceptional cloud computing experience.
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