Hello! Slightly different than the usual tonight. We have some inspiring students and our hosts **CGI** with an interesting presentation on resilience. And then Dan (thats me!) with some pre:Invent announcements. Along with the usual pizza and refreshments. **AWS City** ***Student team at Northumbria University*** **From a 5 Hour Hackathon to a Gamified Way to Learn AWS** As part of AWS North (the best AWS conference in the UK!) a student hackathon was held at Northumbria University. Salman, Muhammed, and Arthur had a great idea and executed superbly on the day. Hear more about what they built and how they did it. **Alex Peebles** ***Senior Platform Engineer @CGI -*** Specializing in AWS, Kafka and Event Driven Systems **Disaster Day Planning on Kafka Made Easy** Using AWS Bedrock and Fault Injection Service to help plan and execute disaster recovery exercises for platform teams. This talk will specifically be focused on Kafka running in AWS but with potential wider application across a range of AWS services. **Dan Pudwell** **Principal Solution Architect @ Leighton** **pre:Invent Announcements** A round up of some notable pre:invent announcements ahead of re:Invent starting the following week. **Date**: Tuesday November 24th **Time**: 18:00-20:00 **Venue**: Bank House, 12th floor, Newcastle, NE1 6QF Many thanks to our sponsor **CGI** for hosting us on the night. Hope to see you all there!

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