4 June, 2025 | International Convention & Exhibition Centre

AWS Summit Sydney 2025 Builders Day

Explore. Build. Scale.

AWS technologies enable our customers to build anything they can imagine. And with AI, we can do it faster, more efficiently and with practical and valuable outcomes. From inspiring keynotes to hands on interactive sessions, live demos, and real-world applications, attendees will be empowered to build and transform the way their organisations do business today and gain the skills and knowledge to deliver tangible business results.

Rianne van Veldhuizen

VP, AWS Australia & New Zealand

Rianne van Veldhuizen is the Vice President for AWS in Australia and New Zealand. Rianne is passionate about helping our customers grow and innovate quickly, using cloud solutions to meet their business and digital ambitions. Prior to her current role, Rianne served as Managing Director for AWS in Australia and New Zealand, and previously led the Small and Medium Business (SMB) division across Asia Pacific and Japan. Before joining AWS, she held several senior leadership positions at IBM across both the Asia Pacific and European regions.

Rianne van Veldhuizen

Francessca Vasquez

VP Professional Services and GenAI Innovation Centre, AWS

Francessca Vasquez is the Vice President of Professional Services and Generative AI (GenAI) Innovation Centre for AWS. She leads AWS's global consulting and product services, overseeing the sales and delivery P&L and customer engagements across public sector, commercial, and partner businesses worldwide. Francessca drives the co-innovation and service delivery of emerging technologies, such as generative AI, quantum computing, and application modernisation, helping customers successfully build and deploy generative AI solutions. Her team connects AWS AI and Machine Learning experts with customers globally to envision, design, and launch cutting-edge generative AI products, services, and processes. As Executive Sponsor for both the AWS Global CIO Council and AWS Partner Collective, Francessca strengthens strategic partnerships and enhances customer outcomes through collaborative innovation. Under her leadership, AWS Professional Services helps organisations accelerate their digital transformation and unlock the full potential of cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies.

Francessca Vasquez

Session catalogue

To help you get the most out of your AWS Summit experience, we have curated our content to cover a range of topics and technical depth. Topics you can learn about include generative AI, architecture, cloud operations, data and analytics, DevOps and developer productivity, machine learning, migration, networking and global infrastructure, security, serverless, and more.

These sessions cover a range of topics at all levels*. Sessions are delivered by AWS experts and customers, and can include live demos. Some sessions will be presented in a live whiteboarding format.

Time: 11:45 AM–5:15 PM

*Level guide can be found at the bottom of this page.

Our sponsoring partners are an integral part of AWS Summit. Watch these sessions to learn how to optimise your cloud journey, and go further in the cloud by leveraging partners solutions.

Morning sessions: 11:00 AM–11:30 AM
Afternoon sessions: 1:45 PM–2:15 PM

AWS Game Day is a gamified learning event that challenges participants to use AWS solutions to solve real-world technical problems in a risk-free setting. As a new hire at Unicorn Rentals, the world’s largest mythical creature rental company, you will test your AWS knowledge in an interactive, team-based, risk-free environment! AWS Generative AI Unicorn Party Game Day offers participants a dynamic sandbox to harness Bedrock’s potential, by building applications using various foundation models. You will witness firsthand the transformative power of large language models. Join us to explore, experiment, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with HAQM Bedrock.

Session 1: 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Session 2: 1:40 PM–3:10 PM
Session 3: 3:40 PM–5:10 PM

Learn hands-on in the AWS Console. Unlock 120+ self-paced labs to develop and apply practical skills. Receive guided instructions for common cloud scenarios in a live AWS environment, and practice building without risk of unanticipated expenses. Available with the AI-powered, trainer-inspired AWS Learning Assistant to help you answer queries, explain code, and discuss product implications—all within your lab's context. You can learn at your own pace or interact live with an AWS expert for guidance by choosing topics from AI/ML, Database, Serverless, and many more. AWS Builder Labs is ideal for both newcomers and those looking to deepen their AWS technical skills.

Timing: 8:00 AM–6:00 PM

AWS HouseWarming Workshops are a free pre-day activity available for all Summit participants. Register for Summit today and you can also join workshops on Tuesday 3 June, 2025. Please refer to the FAQ page to learn more.

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Level guide

100 – Foundational

Designed to give an overview or introduction to AWS services. These sessions focus on features, functions, and benefits, with content that highlights basic use cases and showcases how a service or feature can be used in your applications and how it can be integrated with other services.

200 – Intermediate

Sessions assume a general knowledge of the topic and provide a technical deeper dive into a service or use case. This content typically includes architecture, integration, and configuration of common use cases. Sessions provides tips and tricks, best practices, or high-level troubleshooting guidance.

300 – Advanced

Sessions assume proficiency of the topic and typically cover in-depth architecture, development, deployment and migration examples. It drills into how a service can be used and dives deep into customer use cases. Sessions covers complex design, development, and deployment best practices that address the needs of experienced AWS users.
 

400 – Expert

Sessions for advanced or expert AWS customers. These sessions are geared toward super-skilled users who want to learn the deep inner workings of AWS services. Sessions demonstrates complex design, development, and deployment strategies to help the audience dive deep into the topic.