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Women in Tech Workshop at AWS Community Day Nordics
Suzana Melo running the ‘Empowering Women in Tech’ workshop at AWS Community Day Nordics, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2025


🇺🇸 English

Empowering Women in Tech
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An inspiring and hands-on session designed to empower women in the cloud industry!
We’ll dive into practical strategies for fostering diversity, creating inclusive spaces, and closing the gender gap in tech. Together, we’ll explore ways to break barriers, amplify voices, and drive meaningful change.
Expect insights on public speaking, content creation, organizing user groups, and building strong professional networks. Whether you’re just starting or a seasoned pro, this workshop is packed with actionable takeaways to help you grow, connect, and make an impact.
Let’s learn, share, and uplift each other because the cloud needs all of us!\

Level: Foundational (100)

The session can be adjusted to fit between 40 minutes and 2 hours.

Given at: AWS Community Day Italy 2025 (Milan, Italy, Apr 2025) · AWS Community Day Nordics 2025 (Göteborg, Sweden, Oct 2025)


Hands-On with AI Agents: build your own on AWS and create an AI mentor to keep learning
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A hands-on workshop where every participant leaves with their first working AI agent, built with their own hands.

AI agents don’t just answer questions. They look up data, make decisions, and carry out tasks. Based on the official AWS workshop Building AI Agents with Strands SDK: From Simple Loops to Multi-Agent Swarms, participants build a customer service agent with Strands Agents (an open source SDK) and Amazon Bedrock. Each module adds a new layer: tools to look up customers, orders, and refunds; a rate limiter plus refund and tone rules to enforce safety; procedures activated on demand; memory across sessions; and finally, deployment to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime.

Before the hands-on part, an introduction covers the concepts participants need to follow along: generative AI, agents, and where AWS fits in. Throughout the workshop, participants also learn why AI tools sometimes sound confident even when they’re wrong, and leave with practical habits for using them safely. In the final part, each person sets up a free, personalized AI mentor with Claude to keep studying AWS after the workshop.

What participants take away

  • A working AI agent, deployed on AWS
  • An understanding of how agents work under the hood (and where they can fail)
  • Practical habits for using AI efficiently and safely
  • An AI mentor, set up and ready to use
  • Suggestions for a learning path to keep studying AWS

Audience and prerequisites

Students and tech professionals who already code a little. No experience with AI or LLMs is required.

  • 18 or older (required by AWS and Claude)
  • Basic knowledge of Python
  • Understanding of JSON
  • General familiarity with AWS (no in-depth experience required)

Technical requirements

  • One computer with a browser and internet access per participant
  • A projector and a stable connection for the instructor
  • A network that allows access to AWS and Claude websites
  • The AWS environment is free, with no credit card or AWS account required. It can be provided through AWS Workshop Studio, with an access code for the event, or through a free sandbox via AWS Builder ID. Either way, it’s set up at the start of the workshop. With the sandbox option, participants should not request it beforehand, since the limit is one per week.
  • Participants need access to their email and phone to verify their accounts

Level: Intermediate (200)

The workshop can be adjusted to fit between 3 and 4 hours. The 4-hour version can include the optional modules on multi-agent delegation and automated evals.


🇧🇷 Portuguese

Mão na Massa com Agentes de IA: construa o seu na AWS e crie um mentor IA para seguir aprendendo
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Uma oficina prática em que cada participante sai com o seu primeiro agente de IA funcionando, construído com as próprias mãos.

Agentes de IA não só respondem perguntas. Eles consultam dados, tomam decisões e executam tarefas. Com base no workshop oficial da AWS Strands Agents Mão na Massa: Construa Seu Primeiro Agente, os participantes constroem um agente de atendimento ao cliente com o Strands Agents (SDK open source) e o Amazon Bedrock. A cada módulo, o agente ganha uma nova camada: ferramentas para consultar clientes, pedidos e reembolsos; um limitador de taxa e regras de reembolso e de tom para garantir segurança; procedimentos ativados sob demanda; memória entre sessões; e, por fim, o deploy no Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime.

Antes da prática, uma introdução cobre os conceitos necessários para acompanhar: IA generativa, agentes e o papel da AWS. Ao longo da oficina, os participantes também entendem por que ferramentas de IA às vezes soam confiantes mesmo quando estão erradas, e saem com hábitos práticos para usá-las com segurança. Na parte final, cada pessoa configura um mentor IA gratuito e personalizado, com o Claude, para continuar estudando AWS depois da oficina.

O que os participantes levam

  • Um agente de IA funcionando, publicado na AWS
  • Uma visão de como agentes funcionam por dentro (e de onde podem falhar)
  • Hábitos práticos para usar IA de forma eficiente e segura
  • Um mentor IA configurado e pronto para usar
  • Sugestões de uma trilha de aprendizado para seguir estudando AWS

Público e pré-requisitos

Estudantes e profissionais de tecnologia que já programam um pouco. Não é necessária experiência com IA ou LLMs.

  • 18 anos ou mais (exigência da e do Claude)
  • Noções básicas de Python
  • Compreensão de JSON
  • Familiaridade geral com a AWS (não é necessária experiência aprofundada)

Requisitos técnicos

  • Um computador com navegador e internet por participante
  • Projetor e conexão estável para a instrutora
  • Rede que permita acesso aos sites da AWS e do Claude
  • O ambiente AWS é gratuito, sem cartão de crédito nem conta AWS. Ele pode ser fornecido pelo AWS Workshop Studio, com código de acesso para o evento, ou por um sandbox gratuito via AWS Builder ID. Em ambos os casos, é configurado no início da oficina. Na opção do sandbox, os participantes não devem solicitá-lo antes, porque o limite é de um por semana.
  • Participantes precisam ter acesso ao e-mail e ao celular para verificar as contas

Nível: Intermediário (200)

A oficina pode ser ajustada entre 3 e 4 horas. A versão de 4 horas pode incluir os módulos opcionais de multiagentes e avaliações automatizadas.

Apresentado em: SEMINFO 2026 (IFAM, Manaus, Brasil, nov 2026)


Speaker Bio
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Suzana Melo is a full-stack engineer and AWS Community Builder who moved into tech in her 40s, after 20+ years in journalism and media leadership in Brazil. She founded The Mentor Gap, a free initiative that creates resources for people growing without a mentor, and for new mentors getting started. She has spoken at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS Community Days across Europe and APAC, and user groups across three continents, in English and Portuguese. Her articles on career change, cloud, and AWS have reached up to 14,000+ views. She is studying for a postgraduate specialization in AI and Machine Learning at PUC Minas and focuses on making cloud and AI accessible to career changers, women, and underrepresented groups.

Available for: conference talks, workshops, panels, fireside chats.
Languages: English, Portuguese.
Topics: Cloud and AWS for beginners, using AI safely for career growth, AI fundamentals, career change into tech, building inclusive communities.

Book via Sessionize or hello@suzanamelo.com


Suzana Melo
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Suzana Melo
Suzana Melo is a full-stack engineer and AWS Community Builder who moved into tech in her 40s, after 20+ years in journalism and media leadership in Brazil. She founded The Mentor Gap (thementorgap.org), a free initiative that creates resources for people growing without a mentor, and for new mentors getting started. She also founded the AWS Women’s User Group Sweden, co-organizes the AWS User Groups Skåne and Manaus and AWS Community Day Baltic, and mentors career changers and women in tech through Women Innovating in Cloud Africa (WIICA) and Escola da Nuvem. Her talks, workshops, and mentoring reach tech communities across Europe, West Asia, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, in English and Portuguese. Suzana spoke at AWS re:Invent 2024, is studying for a postgraduate specialization in AI and Machine Learning at PUC Minas, and writes about cloud, AWS, and AI for developers and career changers at suzanamelo.com.