What are AWS Community Days?
AWS Community Day events are community-led conferences where event logistics and content is planned, sourced, and delivered by community leaders.
They feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world.
Community Day events deliver a peer-to-peer learning experience, providing developers with a venue for them to acquire AWS knowledge in their preferred way: from one another. In many ways they are events put on "by the community, for the community."
- 20 September 2025
- Amazon Headquarters Cape Town
- 450+ Attendees
- International attendance
- Multiple Tracks
- Legendary Speakers
Why should I attend?
Peer-to-peer learing with local specialists
Build relationships with local technologists
Free to low cost registration among all cities
Gain insight on the latest topics and AWS services
Partner with Us for AWS Community Day!
We’re committed to providing our community with an incredible experience, and we’d love to have your company join us in making this happen. By partnering with us, you'll gain exposure to a vibrant and engaged audience of AWS enthusiasts, developers, and industry professionals.
With affordable sponsorship packages and the added benefit of AWS’s MDF program, which covers up to 50% of your sponsorship costs, this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss. Together, we can create a memorable event while showcasing your brand’s commitment to innovation and community support. Let’s work together to elevate the AWS experience!
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Speaker Line-up
Hennie Francis
Chief Executive Officer
AWS Community South Africa
James Hickman
Country Manager - South Africa
Amazon Web Services
Robert Koen
Managing Director - Sub-Saharan Africa
Amazon
Mark Birch
Founder
TribeROI
Allan Pead
CTO and Microsoft MVP
AD Soft Systems
Andrew Owens
Technical Lead: Peering and Interconnection
Teraco
Candice Grobler
Founder
Candid Collab
Carike Botha
Software Development Consultant
iSolve Business Solutions
Christo Goosen
CTO
UW Warehouse
Dale Nunns
Technical Lead
DealX
Douglas Day
Solutions Engineer
Snowflake Partner - datalab
Ferdinand Williams
Director of Sales
KnowBe4
Jacob O'Brien
Chief Executive Officer
Hakware
Jacqui Muller
Director
JPanda Solutions
Jano Barnard
Cloud Engineer
LuxCarta
Jared Naude
Head of Security
Synthesis
Jason Bissict
Team Lead
Thinkst Applied Research
Jonathan Leibbrandt
Solutions Architect
TrueMark
Jean-Pierre Pienaar
Head of Cloud Engineering
cloudandthings.io
Julian Wood
Principal Developer Advocate
Amazon Web Services
Kimlynn Temple
Founder & CEO
Tipped
Kobus Coetzee
Senior Cloud Engineer
Electrum Software
Lindelani Mbatha
Intermediate Platforms Engineer
Electrum Software
Lisa Van Staden
Software Engineer
Thinkst Applied Research
Liza Cullis
Platforms Engineer
Louise Schmidtgen
Software Engineer
Canonical
Lucie Fink
Chief Executive Officer
Thinkroom
Luis Guirigay
WW Head of Infrastructure Solutions
Amazon Web Services
Lunga Newman
Security Solutions Architect
Crayon
Mahmoud Younes
Senior Solutions Engineer
Couchbase
Mark Govender
Senior Systems Engineer
Veeam Software
Ntombizakhona Mabaso
Cloud Developer
Bamboo Charcoal
Patrick Cromwell
Chief Trouble Maker
Radio Cape Town
Peter Wilson
AI/ML Manager
Silicon Overdrive
Roberto Arico
Senior Solutions Architect
Elastic
Russell Young
Field Sales Engineer - Africa
Trend Micro
Ryan Blake
Head: Cloud Engineering
Capitec Bank
Sam Stodel
Project Manager
Grindstone
Yusuf Mayet
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Tickets
We offer free parking. Please indicate when you purchase a ticket that you require parking. AWS requires your vehicle details for security purposes.
AWS Community Day South Africa 2025
Amazon Headquaters: Cape Town
29 Gogosoa St, Observatory, Cape Town, 7935