AWS Startup Dev Day comes to Sydney with OpenAI delivering the opening keynote on building and shipping at the frontier of AI.

This is an event for builders, technical startup founders, and CTOs, who want to go deep on building with AI, designing architecture, and the technology decisions that define a successful growing startup.

Join AWS experts, OPTIMAZE, and other exciting startups in the Australian ecosystem.

Agenda

9:00  |  Registration & coffee 

9:30  |  Keynote: OpenAI

12:00 | Lunch

15:30 |  Locknote: Fireside chat with Supabase

Track 1: Technical Founders

10:30 | Building the Cage and the Leash: Agent Harnesses and Sandboxes

11:00 | Good UX AX Is Invisible: Interface Craft for Humans Agents

11:30 | Scaling Engineering Velocity: Patterns for AI Agents That Handle the Toil

12:45 | Unleash Conversational Analytics on AWS

13:15 | monō Foundry: Agentic, Memory-First Software Factory - Brad Drysdale (CTO), Mono ai

13:30 | How to get AI from dev experimentation to production - Dawshiek Yogathasar, OPTIMAZE

13:45 | Running a newsletter using AI without making it terrible - Plerion

14:00 | Building Production-Ready Voice Agents with AWS and Deepgram - Deepgram

14:30 | Building a Semantic Data layer - Neo4j

15:15 | The New Shape of Auth Traffic: What Millions of Logins Reveal About AI Agents - Kinde

Track 2: Builders

12:45 | OpenAI - Codex workshop

14:15 | Agentic AI path to production: Agent evaluation and Observability with AWS

14:45 | Bucket List: Everything New in Amazon S3

15:15 | Good fences make good tenants: multi-tenant agentic SaaS