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Featured Technical Keynotes &
Industry Speakers

Learn directly from AWS Developer Advocates, AWS Community Leaders, and engineering pioneers at Crowne Plaza Edison.

Brooke Jamieson - Senior Developer Advocate at AWS
Featured Technical Speaker • Opening Keynote Speaker Talmadge Main Stage

What S3 and EC2 Can Teach Us About Building AI Agents

Brooke Jamieson • Senior Developer Advocate at AWS

Building an agent can feel like learning an entirely new stack before you can even begin. Twenty years ago, S3 and EC2 gave developers useful building blocks for storage and compute, letting them start closer to the application they wanted to create. AI agents expand what applications can do: work toward a goal, use tools, and choose the next step from what they find.

This keynote follows one agent from idea to working application. We’ll combine familiar AWS capabilities with Bedrock, Strands, AgentCore, Kiro, and Agent Toolkit for AWS, showing what each contributes and where your judgment as a developer matters. APIs, data, permissions, observability, and human handoffs all shape what the agent can do.

You can begin without becoming an ML specialist or understanding every agent service. You’ll leave with one project you can picture building and a clearer sense of the skills you already bring to it.

About Brooke Jamieson: Brooke Jamieson is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, focused on AI agents and the tools for building them. A former data scientist with a degree in pure mathematics, Brooke makes content that turns AI research into things developers can actually build.
Talmadge Main Stage • 3:00 PM Featured Community Conversation

WOMEN SHAPING THE FUTURE OF AI

Leadership • Innovation • Technology • Community

Join women technology leaders, AI practitioners, and emerging voices for an engaging conversation on the Talmadge Main Stage about how Artificial Intelligence is transforming engineering, enterprise strategy, careers, mentorship, and leadership in the modern cloud era. Moderated by Priya Vembu, featuring women technology leaders and AWS Community representatives.

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AWS Leaders & Community Pioneers

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Call for Speakers

Lineup Finalized

Thank you to everyone who submitted a talk! Speaker submissions closed on September 18, 2026, and our final speaker lineup is now confirmed above.

See the final agenda for session times.

Community Leaders & Special Thanks

AWS Community Day New Jersey 2026 runs on the support of community leaders who helped make this event possible — with guidance, resources, event budget support, and shared expertise.

QUESTIONS FOR OUR SPEAKERS OR ORGANIZERS?

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