Cloud Computing

AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026

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AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026 ran on May 6, 2026 at Amphithéâtre, Coeur des sciences, UQAM in Montréal, Canada. It is a Cloud Computing conference that expected about 340 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 7 speakers, 2 sponsors and 7 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Jun 16, 2026 · dates verified May 6, 2026

AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026 is the first edition of this community-led event, bringing together practitioners, builders, and partners from Eastern Canada for a full day of sessions on AWS, generative AI, security, architecture, and more. Organized by AWS User Groups across the region, it's a volunteer-driven, not-for-profit gathering focused on shar…

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7Speakers
2Sponsors
7Sessions
5Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at AWS, in alphabetical order.

Aaron Hunter
Principal Developer Advocate · Amazon Web Services
Cyril Bandolo
Senior AI Solutions Architect | AWS Machine Learning Hero | AWS Serverless, GenAI, and MLOps · SLS Guru
Darko Mesaros
Principal Developer Advocate · Amazon Web Services
Garima Bajpai
Building DevOps Community of Practice in Canada
Maria Encinar
Leading the AWS User Group program globally · Amazon Web Services
Michael Yang
CTO · Tech 42 Consulting
Rupal Bhatt
Scaling GenAI on AWS: Turning POCs into Production Systems · DoiT

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Amazon Web Services
Tech 42

Agenda

Selected from 7 sessions.

  • 09:15 · 45 min

    Keynote : I Thought AI Was a Fad. Here's What Changed.

    I've been breaking things with computers since the 1980s. My parents' computer, a corporate network, and most recently... my own assumptions about where AI is headed in this indust…

  • 10:10 · 45 min

    Engineering a Robust Text-to-SQL AI Agent

    Natural-language interfaces to databases promise self-serve analytics, but production Text-to-SQL agents fail loudly when schemas drift, questions are ambiguous, or SQL must be saf…

  • 11:05 · 45 min

    AI: Threat, Tool, or Transformation Partner?

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands at a pivotal point in global technological evolution, simultaneously perceived as a threat, a tool, and a transformation partner. As a threat, A…

  • 13:00 · 45 min

    Before You Rebuild Your RAG Stack: 7 Ways to Improve Answer Quality on AWS

    When RAG systems fail, the first instinct is often to blame the model. In practice, weak answers are usually caused by poor evidence flow: the wrong chunks are retrieved, the quest…

  • 13:55 · 45 min

    In defense of MCPs

    Everyone's saying MCPs are dead and you should just use bash. They're not wrong, about 80% of the time. But what about the other 20%? This talk makes the honest case for when MCPs…

  • 14:50 · 45 min

    Scaling GenAI on AWS: Turning POCs into Production Systems

    Building a multi-agent AI system is the easy part. Running it in production is where the real lessons begin. In this session, we share hard-won insights from building a six-agent A…

  • 15:45 · 45 min

    Pick your own journey in the AWS Community

    The AWS Community has a place for every builder. Whether you like creating content, organizing tech events, or just showing up to learn. Pick your level of commitment, choose what …

Quick answers

When is AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026?
AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026 ran on May 6, 2026 at Amphithéâtre, Coeur des sciences, UQAM in Montréal, Canada.
Where is AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026 held?
AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026 was held at Amphithéâtre, Coeur des sciences, UQAM in Montréal, Canada.
Who is speaking at AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 7 speakers, including Aaron Hunter (Principal Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services), Cyril Bandolo (Senior AI Solutions Architect | AWS Machine Learning Hero | AWS Serverless, GenAI, and MLOps, SLS Guru) and Darko Mesaros (Principal Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services).
Who sponsors AWS Community Day - East Canada 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 2 sponsors: Amazon Web Services and Tech 42.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 5 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

Five companies. one are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
1Sponsoringsponsor only
3Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

AWS

Speakers by seniority

14% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite114%
  • Manager / Lead229%
  • Engineer · IC114%
  • Other roles343%

Of 7 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AWSSponsor3
2Tech 42Sponsor-
3DoiT1
4SLS Guru1
5Tech 42 Consulting1
Sponsors by tier
unspecified2
100% of 2
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