December - Festive Lightning Talks and Re:Invent Rewound

Welcome to December's edition of AWS User Group Leeds!

To enable us to arrange the correct amount of food and drink, and ensure that everyone who wants to attend is able to, please only sign up if you are able to attend, and if after signing up you are no longer able to attend, please update your RSVP to 'no' to make your space available to others.

This meet up is kindly sponsored by Burendo, who will be providing the venue, food and drink.

Festive Lightning Talks 🎁
Join us for some festive five minute lightning talks. This year we're throwing the floor open for you to present 🫵.

We have five slots up for grabs. Please message us through MeetUp or Slack if you'd like to do a talk. The guard rails are off, so any and all topics are welcome.

Public speaking experience is not necessary - we have some tools and support available if this is your first talk, or you're a bit rusty. Pro presenters are also welcome.

Re:Invent Rewound 🔄
For the second half of the festive spectacular we will be spinning the Re:Invent Rewound wheel on our hand picked favourite topics and announcements from this year's Re:Invent.

Each selected topic will be open for discussion by our panel and audience members.

If an announcement has caught your eye, message us on the usual channels and we'll add it to the wheel.

Schedule (subject to timings)
17:45 - 18:00: Doors open - turn up, meet people, grab a drink.
18:00 - 18:30: Pizza arrives, more time for people to turn up - please arrive by 18:30 or you may not be able to get in!
18:30: Festive Lightning Talks 🎁
19:30-ish: break time - an opportunity to chat, grab a drink, etc
19:45-ish: Re:Invent Rewound 🔄
20:30 onwards: Continue the conversation over drinks at the Editor's Draft pub, which is round the corner on Wellington Street

Where
Burendo, 3rd Floor, 10 Wellington Place, Leeds LS1 4AP
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Food and Drink
We’ll be providing a range of drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, at the venue, from Burendo our sponsors for this event.

Food will be in the form of pizza - please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements prior to the day and we will endeavour to meet your needs.

Code of Conduct
Like a large number of other communities, we have an anti harassment policy and code of conduct, in order to support the inclusive nature of our events. Please view here. It is necessary for all attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at any AWS User Group Leeds event to agree with the code of conduct.

Helping with diversity and inclusivity
The organising team for AWS User Group Leeds are keen to promote diversity and inclusivity, in terms of speakers, how events are run, and the composition of the organising team. If you would like to contribute to this aim, particularly if you think you have experiences that you might not consider to be typical for the majority of the tech community, we would be really excited to talk with you at the event.