Reimagining the developer experience

AWS Developer Day is designed to help developers and teams incorporate cutting-edge yet responsible generative AI across their development lifecycle to accelerate innovation.

Get a first look at exciting technical deep dives, product updates, and future industry trends. Explore real-world use cases and best practices needed to increase release velocity, enhance development workflows, and build fast, fullstack generative AI applications.

Why you should watch

• Accelerate a variety of development tasks — Learn how to leverage generative AI agents to go from idea to a merge request faster, quickly understand your codebase within minutes, increase test coverage to ship better code, automate your first round of code reviews, and more. 
  

• Transform applications in a fraction of the time — Learn how to manage tech debt at scale with AI-enabled tools that make it easier and faster to update existing applications such as Java upgrades and .NET application porting from windows to Linux.  
  

• Build fullstack generative AI apps — Learn how to accelerate fullstack application development using only TypeScript skills, streamlining the ability to quickly add generative AI capabilities to fullstack applications.

• Elevate generative AI developer skills —Learn the skills needed to thrive in this evolving landscape through resources, expert guidance, and a vibrant community that fosters continuous learning, regardless of skill level.

• Diagnose and troubleshoot operational errors — Learn how to manage and optimize AWS cloud resources, and diagnosing and troubleshooting errors.

Event agenda

Welcome Session
Software development is undergoing a seismic shift driven by generative AI, transforming how developers work and what they build. Join us as Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, shares his thoughts on what this means for developers today, the skills needed to thrive in this changing environment, and how he see it evolving in the future.

Fireside Chat with AWS and Redmonk
Join David Nalley, Director of Open Source Marketing at AWS, and Rachel Stephens, Analyst at Redmonk for a discussion on the evolution of the Developer Experience and future trends.

Developer Challenge 1
Join us for the first of three coding challenges aided by Amazon Q Developer, an AI-powered assistant for software development. Discover how Amazon Q Developer’s auto-generated code recommendations and chat explanations can help you develop code and understand complex algorithmic coding challenges more efficiently compared to manual coding alone. Learn about Amazon Q Developer capabilities and how it can help you improve productivity.

[Demo] Supercharge your productivity across the SDLC with generative AI
Do you spend hours writing unit tests, reviewing code or generating in-depth documentation? In this demo, we’ll show you how easy it is to accelerate multi-step SLDC tasks using generative AI, so you can confidently deploy new code to production.

AWS Community Spotlight
Learn how Christian Bonzelet uses Amazon Q Developer.

[Demo] Go from idea to AI-powered app in minutes
Learn how to quickly build fullstack generative AI apps using only Typescript. We’ll show you how to add generative-AI capabilities like conversational chat and search to your web apps and how to securely provide LLMs access to your app’s data.

AWS Community Spotlight
Hazel Saenz uses AWS Amplify to build fullstack apps, hear the story to learn more.

Developer Challenge 2
Join us for the second coding challenge of the day, aided by Amazon Q Developer. Learn about Amazon Q Developer capabilities and how it can help you streamline your development workflows.

AWS Community Spotlight
Learn how Matt Lewis uses Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities.

[Demo] Accelerate application modernization using generative AI Join this demo to learn how you can automate and offload tedious, manual tasks and port .NET Framework applications to cross-platform .NET faster and free up your time for innovation.

Generative AI is disrupting the SDLC, what does that mean for developers? - The AWS approach
 Join Srini Iragavarapu, Director, Generative AI Applications and Developer Experiences at AWS and Alex Williams, Founder at The New Stack as they discuss how generative AI is redefining software development, opening new frontiers for innovation, and democratizing access to coding for diverse creators shaping technology's future.

Learning new skills with generative AI
Join this session to learn the tips and tricks needed to succeed in this evolving developer landscape. We'll cover best practices around agents, prompt engineering, and more.

[Demo] Streamline operational troubleshooting with Amazon Q Developer
Learn how Amazon Q Developer leverages insights from your cloud environments to accelerate root cause diagnosis and resolve operational issues in a fraction of the time.

[Demo] Agents at work: plan > test > CR > deploy > repeat
Using Gitlab Ultimate? Join this session to see GitLab Duo with Amazon Q quick actions work for your workflows. From new developers to product managers to tenured engineers, learn how embedded agents in the GItLab platform help you complete your daily tasks with less manual overhead.

AWS Community Spotlight
Witness how Johannes Koch streamlines his DevOps processes.

Developer Challenge 3
Join us for our third and final coding challenge of the day, aided by Amazon Q Developer, an AI-powered assistant for software development. Learn about Amazon Q Developer capabilities and how it can help you improve productivity.

Bring It All Together: Best Practices and Key Takeaways
Get a recap of of the favorite stories, announcements, and moments from the day.