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AWS Community Day East Canada

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AWS Community Day — East Canada

This is the first AWS Community Day — East Canada: a full day with practitioners, builders, and partners—sessions on AWS, generative AI, security, architecture, and more. AWS User Groups from across Eastern Canada are coming together to run it, and the 2026 event is hosted in Montréal.

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are included with your registration. English programme.

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Why attend

In 2026, the first edition brings the Eastern Canada AWS community together in Montréal—meet builders from the region, see what teams are shipping on AWS, and go deeper on AI workloads, with room for architecture, security, data, and operations topics too.

This is a volunteer-led, community event supported by local AWS User Groups (not-for-profit style: organizers donate time; ticket revenue covers venue and event costs). If you were looking for “who runs this,” that is the same spirit as our Meetups—just a bigger day on the calendar.

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Day of sessions

Community-led, practitioner talks—not a vendor expo.

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Track

Single-track programme in the amphitheatre.

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Seats (theatre)

Amphithéâtre, Coeur des sciences, UQAM.

Register on Eventbrite Agenda

Agenda & speakers

Plan your day in one view—every talk, time, and speaker. For what each session covers and full speaker bios, visit the Program page.

Time Duration Session Speaker
08:00 60 min Registration & light breakfast —
09:00 15 min Welcome & logistics —
09:15 45 min Keynote Aaron Hunter
10:00 10 min Pause —
10:10 45 min Engineering a Robust Text-to-SQL AI Agent Michael Yang
10:55 10 min Pause —
11:05 45 min AI: Threat, Tool, or Transformation Partner? Garima Bajpai
11:50 70 min Lunch —
13:00 45 min Before You Rebuild Your RAG Stack: 7 Ways to Improve Answer Quality on AWS Cyril Bandolo
13:45 10 min Pause —
13:55 45 min In defense of MCPs Darko Mesaros
14:40 10 min Pause —
14:50 45 min Scaling GenAI on AWS: Turning POCs into Production Systems Rupal Bhatt
15:35 10 min Pause —
15:45 45 min Pick your own journey in the AWS Community Maria Encinar
16:30 20 min Closing remarks —

Full program with bios & abstracts

Sponsors

We're building this day with the community. Partner with us and reach AWS builders in Montreal.

Interested in sponsoring? Email us for the partnership deck. aws.montreal.ug@gmail.com

Venue

Montreal skyline — host city for the 2026 event.

Amphithéâtre — Coeur des sciences, UQAM

200 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H2X 3P2

Métro: Place-des-Arts (Green line)

Theatre capacity: approximately 340 seats.

Catering: Breakfast, lunch, and snacks provided for attendees.

Accessibility: the venue lists wheelchair access; confirm details with the venue when planning your visit.

Organizers

Local and regional volunteers from AWS User Groups across Eastern Canada.

Communities

AWS User Groups from across Eastern Canada and partner communities helping organize this event.