AWS Startup Dev Day touches down in Auckland with OpenAI delivering the opening keynote on building and shipping at the frontier of AI.

This is an event for builders, technical startup founders, and CTOs, who want to go deep on building with AI, designing architecture, and the technology decisions that define a successful growing startup.

Join AWS experts, OpenAI, and our other technology partners for in-depth sessions and patterns you can apply immediately. Spaces are limited, and we'll be selecting attendees to bring together the strongest possible cohort. You'll be contacted if a ticket has been allocated to you.

Agenda (TBC items will be confirmed closer to the event)

9:30  |  Registration & coffee

10:00  |  Keynote: OpenAI brings us the latest on models, evals, agents, and harnesses

11:00  |  Building the Cage and the Leash: Agent Harnesses and Sandboxes

11:30  |  Good UX AX Is Invisible: Interface Craft for Humans Agents

12:00  |  Lunch

Track 1: Technical talks

12:45  |  Agentic AI path to production: Agent evaluation and Observability with AWS

13:15  |  Scaling Engineering Velocity: Patterns for AI Agents That Handle the Toil

13:45  |  Fire and Ice: Building a data platform to power solar operations with S3 Tables - Emily Melhuish (Lightyears Solar)

Track 2: OpenAI Workshop

12:45  |  Hands-on with Codex and OpenAI (bring your laptop!)

Afternoon Sessions

14:15  |  Afternoon tea

14:30  |  Two Minds, One Body: Physical AI

14:45  |  Ask AI: A Dashboard Agent, Built on Bedrock and AgentCore - Alice Gatland, Haruka Ogino (Tracksuit)

15:00  |  Herding Agents: Scaling AI Adoption and Impact at Halter - Antony Southworth (Halter)

16:00  |  Drinks & networking

Please:

• Arrive from 9:30am for registration and coffee.
• Bring a laptop for the hands-on workshops.
• Bring photo ID for entry.

Food and drinks provided!