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AWS Community Day Central Asia

A community-led conference where all content is owned and delivered by community speakers, leaders, and volunteers from the AWS community.

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15+

Speakers

2

Days

500+

Cloud Enthusiasts

What to Expect

  • Technical Deep Dives

    Serverless, AI/ML, containers, security, and modern cloud architectures.

  • Hands-On Workshops

    Build real solutions with AWS services in guided lab sessions.

  • Architecture Reviews

    Case studies, migration stories, and platform engineering insights.

  • AI/ML & Data

    SageMaker, Bedrock, and data engineering for ML builders.

  • Security & Reliability

    Best practices for securing workloads and observability patterns.

  • DevOps & Observability

    Monitoring, logging, tracing, CI/CD, and operational best practices on AWS.

  • Networking

    Connect with 500+ developers and cloud practitioners.

Supported by

Sponsors

  • AWS
  • IT Park
  • EPAM
  • MirrorShip

Media Partners

  • Startup Choyxona
  • AI Qadam
  • Softprom
  • The Tech
  • 21 School
  • Devs.kz
  • Startup Base

Interested in sponsoring? Reach out to us at hello@awsug.uz

The programme

September 25, 2026

Tashkent time (UTC+5)

Morning

  1. to

    Registration

  2. to

    Opening ceremony

    IT Park

  3. to
    Headliner

    Adapting to Change

    Jeff Barr

    Vice President & Chief Evangelist, AWS

    Jeff Barr
  4. to

    Community Talk

    Shakhzod Khodjaev

    AWS Community Leader

    Taras Tereschenko

    AWS Community Leader

  5. to

    Beyond DevOps Copilots: Building a Custom Root Cause Analysis Agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

    Viktor Vedmich

    Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    About this talk: Beyond DevOps Copilots: Building a Custom Root Cause Analysis Agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

    Build a custom root cause analysis agent with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. A live EKS incident demo shows specialist agents gathering logs, metrics, past incidents and runbooks through MCP tools, then producing an evidence-backed diagnosis and remediation plan. Learn how AgentCore supports the workflow in production.

    Viktor Vedmich
  6. Lightning talks11:00 — 11:30
    1. to
      Lightning talk

      Why dbt Exists: Cheap Cloud Storage, the Death of ETL, and the Analytics Engineer

      Abduvosid Malikov

      Analytics Engineer, BlueThrone

      About this talk: Why dbt Exists: Cheap Cloud Storage, the Death of ETL, and the Analytics Engineer

      Trace how cheap cloud storage shifted data pipelines from ETL to ELT, creating the need for dbt and analytics engineering. See how S3, Athena, Redshift and dbt fit together in an AWS data stack, then learn practical steps for building the skills and preparing for interviews in this field.

      Abduvosid Malikov
    2. to
      Lightning talk

      Build an AI call intelligence pipeline on AWS Bedrock

      Aleksey Melnik

      Head of IT, Imran inc

      About this talk: Build an AI call intelligence pipeline on AWS Bedrock

      See how a logistics company replaced a costly AI add-on with a call intelligence pipeline on Amazon Bedrock Data Automation. The session covers call summaries, transcripts and moderation flags, plus asynchronous enrichment, bounded retries and the practical costs of building versus buying.

      Aleksey Melnik
  7. to
    AWS Serverless Hero

    Building production-ready AI Agents with Spring AI, Embabel and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

    Vadym Kazulkin

    Head of Development, ip.labs

    About this talk: Building production-ready AI Agents with Spring AI, Embabel and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

    Build AI agents in Java with Spring AI and Embabel, connect them to tools through MCP, and deploy them on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. Explore goal-driven agent flows, OpenTelemetry-compatible observability, Gateway, short- and long-term memory, identity controls, and integrations between Spring AI and AgentCore.

    Vadym Kazulkin
  8. to

    Real-Time Analytics for the AI Agent Era: Building an Agent-Ready Data Platform with StarRocks on AWS

    Ryan Sun

    Product Solutions Architect, MirrorShip

    About this talk: Real-Time Analytics for the AI Agent Era: Building an Agent-Ready Data Platform with StarRocks on AWS

    Learn how to build a real-time analytics platform for production AI agents with StarRocks on AWS. Explore how fresh data, fast queries and high concurrency bring together live streams and historical lakehouse data to give agents reliable context for their responses and decisions.

    Ryan Sun
  9. to

    Group photo & lunch break

Afternoon

  1. to

    Resiliency meets data residency: How Bank CenterCredit hosts highly available workloads on AWS Outposts

    Maxim Geng

    Principal DevOps Engineer, Bank CenterCredit

    Aleksandr Bernadskiy

    Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

    About this talk: Resiliency meets data residency: How Bank CenterCredit hosts highly available workloads on AWS Outposts

    Explore how Bank CenterCredit built a hybrid platform on AWS Outposts across two geographically separated data centres. Learn how containerized banking applications and databases stay local, integrate with AWS Region services, and support high availability and Kazakhstan's data residency requirements.

  2. to
    AWS Community Hero

    Pure Terraform setup for Enterprise on AWS and how AI can help

    Denis Astahov

    Solutions Architect, OpsGuru

    About this talk: Pure Terraform setup for Enterprise on AWS and how AI can help

    Build enterprise infrastructure across AWS accounts and regions with native Terraform. Learn provider and assume-role patterns, variable organization and repository structures without wrappers or custom scripts, and explore how AI can help.

    Denis Astahov
  3. Lightning talks15:30 — 16:00
    1. to
      Lightning talk

      How I Fixed Two Dashboard Disasters for Under $10 a Month

      Aziza Isroilova

      Data Engineer, EPAM Systems

      About this talk: How I Fixed Two Dashboard Disasters for Under $10 a Month

      Fix two causes of slow, stale dashboards: manual refreshes and filters that repeatedly scan years of raw CSV. Walk through automated refreshes with EventBridge Scheduler and Lambda, then faster queries with Parquet and Athena partition projection, finishing with the actual monthly bill.

      Aziza Isroilova
    2. to
      Lightning talk

      Decoupling Serverless Systems: Building Resilient Architectures with AWS SNS and SQS

      Shamshod Isaev

      Senior Software Engineer, EPAM Systems

      About this talk: Decoupling Serverless Systems: Building Resilient Architectures with AWS SNS and SQS

      Decouple serverless applications and handle high-volume traffic with Amazon SNS and SQS. Learn pub/sub and fanout messaging patterns, along with dead-letter queues and FIFO ordering for more resilient systems.

      Shamshod Isaev
    3. to
      Lightning talk

      Lambda MicroVM vs AWS Fargate

      Arman Nurgaliyev

      CTO, Cloud Agnostic

      About this talk: Lambda MicroVM vs AWS Fargate

      Compare Lambda Functions, Lambda MicroVMs and AWS Fargate, and learn when to choose each. The talk breaks down how these compute options differ and where each fits in an AWS architecture.

      Arman Nurgaliyev
  4. to

    We Deleted the File That Ordered Our Infrastructure — and Applies Got 2x Faster

    Alex Plotnikov

    Staff Cloud Engineer, InDriver

    About this talk: We Deleted the File That Ordered Our Infrastructure — and Applies Got 2x Faster

    See how replacing a manual ordering file with a trusted dependency graph enabled parallel applies across roughly 14,000 Terragrunt modules. Learn how dependency audits, Open Policy Agent checks and layered GitHub Actions jobs made the change safe, cut average apply times in half, and handled concurrency and AWS API limits.

  5. to

    Kubernetes probes: you think you know them

    Alex Dovnar

    CTO, Naviteq LTD

    About this talk: Kubernetes probes: you think you know them

    Revisit Kubernetes probes through a live demonstration on an AWS cluster with a real database and real load. See how familiar YAML settings can cause a healthy service to fail, and learn what to look for beyond a copied configuration.

    Alex Dovnar
  6. to

    Trust, but Verify: Building Compliant AI on AWS in a Changing Regulatory Landscape

    Mikhail Ruchkin

    CEO, Innovative Digital Transformation

    Mikhail Ruchkin
  7. to

    Beyond Structured Data: Bringing Real-Time to Multimodal Analytics on the Open Lakehouse

    Mingyu Chen

    Vice President of Engineering, VeloDB

    About this talk: Beyond Structured Data: Bringing Real-Time to Multimodal Analytics on the Open Lakehouse

    Explore how Apache Doris brings real-time analytics to structured tables, JSON, documents and vectors across Apache Paimon, Apache Iceberg and AWS S3 Tables. See how SQL, full-text search and vector search can work together to support RAG and AI agents on the open lakehouse.

    Mingyu Chen
  8. to

    Raffle & closing ceremony

All times are local to Tashkent. Schedule subject to change.

Our Speakers

AWS Heroes

AWS User Group Speaker

The Location

Tashkent

September 25, 2026

Sessions in English, Uzbek

CAEx, Main Hall 1Milliy bogʻ street 1Orientir: Yangi Oʻzbekiston Park and CAU (former AKFA University)

We close out ICT Week Uzbekistan, 22-25 September 2026: four days of startups, AI and engineering in a capital where Silk Road heritage meets modern industry.

Attending

Free entry,
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AWS Community Day is part of ICT Week Uzbekistan, so there is no separate ticket for our day. Registering once as an ICT Week visitor is free, and that badge gets you in on 25 September.

Registration is hosted on ictweek.uz, so the form will not mention AWS Community Day by name. That is expected. The visitor badge is what you need.

Already registered for ICT Week? You are set. Nothing else to do, just come to CAEx, Main Hall 1 on the 25th.

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Also included

The same badge covers the whole of ICT Week, 22-25 September 2026: four days at CAEx, Main Hall 1. Come for Community Day, stay for the rest.

  • 01Startup & Venture Summit
  • 02Enterprise Uzbekistan Summit
  • 03AI & Ethics Conference
  • 04Digital Economy Forum
  • 05Startup World Cup
  • 06Fintech Forum

Plus the CAEx exhibition floor across all four days.

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