In April the 2nd edition of AWS Community Day Romania took place in Timisoara. After a successful first edition in 2024, the event continued to grow and bring together developers, architects and IT professionals from across Romania and beyond.
Together with Raul Geana, we delivered the opening keynote – reThink tomorrow: Understand & Adapt. We started with an IT sector reality check, looking at the current state of the industry in Romania and globally, then moved into AI’s transformative impact and how it is changing the way we work. We covered Amazon Q Developer and its specialized agents that automate tasks across the software development lifecycle, discussed building resilience through skills evolution – with critical shortages remaining in cloud architecture, security, data engineering and ML operations – and wrapped up with a call to action on the power of community.
The agenda was packed with sessions throughout the day. Laszlo Bodor delivered a session on Amazon Aurora DSQL, while Toni de la Fuente and Eduard Agavriloae presented on attacking and defending AWS environments – a topic that drew a lot of interest from the audience. The day wrapped up with a closing keynote from Andra Somesan and Maria Encinar who focused on the community and its importance in growing the AWS ecosystem in Romania.
It was great to see the Romanian AWS community come together once again. Looking forward to the next edition!
My slides covering the keynote can be found here.