Workshops
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Workshop 1: Agent Speedrun
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Title: Agent Speedrun: Idea → Code → Deploy → Observe, Fix → Ship
Abstract
One agent. Fully deployed to production before the workshop ends. We'll take you from a blank file to a running production agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Strands Agents, covering the full lifecycle: ideation, coding the agent loop, deploying to serverless infrastructure, wiring up observability, breaking it intentionally, fixing it with tracing data, and shipping the final version. Bring your laptop and leave with a deployed agent.
Workshop 2: Stop AI Agent Hallucinations
Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Title: Stop AI Agent Hallucinations With Code, Not Prompts
Abstract
Your AI agent books 15 guests despite a 10-person maximum. Another fabricates occupancy rates the database never had. A third picks the wrong tool from 29 and burns tokens.
This hands-on workshop walks through 5 techniques to stop these failures: Graph-RAG for grounded retrieval, semantic tool selection, multi-agent validation, neurosymbolic guardrails, and steering. You'll see live demos, then take the patterns to production.
Workshop Sponsor: Strands by AWS
Strands Agents is an open source SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents in just a few lines of code. Strands scales from simple to complex agent use cases, and from local development to deployment in production. Multiple teams at AWS already use Strands for their AI agents in production, including Amazon Q Developer, AWS Glue, and VPC Reachability Analyzer.
Compared with frameworks that require developers to define complex workflows for their agents, Strands simplifies agent development by embracing the capabilities of state-of-the-art models to plan, chain thoughts, call tools, and reflect. With Strands, developers can simply define a prompt and a list of tools in code to build an agent, then test it locally and deploy it to the cloud. Like the two strands of DNA, Strands connects two core pieces of the agent together: the model and the tools. Strands plans the agent’s next steps and executes tools using the advanced reasoning capabilities of models. For more complex agent use cases, developers can customize their agent’s behavior in Strands. For example, you can specify how tools are selected, customize how context is managed, choose where session state and memory are stored, and build multi-agent applications. Strands can run anywhere and can support any model with reasoning and tool use capabilities, including models in Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Ollama, Meta, and other providers through LiteLLM.
Strands Agents is an open community, and we’re excited that several companies are joining us with support and contributions including Accenture, Anthropic, Langfuse, mem0.ai, Meta, PwC, Ragas.io, and Tavily. For instance, Anthropic has already contributed support in Strands for using models through the Anthropic API, and Meta contributed support for Llama models through Llama API. Join us on GitHub to get started with Strands Agents!
All participants must register individually.
Secure your spot today!
Reserve your spot when you buy your ticket. If you have already bought a ticket, you can update your booking and add the workshop reservation to it.