This is your chance to attend an event Led by AWS employees: [Fabricio Flores](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabricioflores31/) and [Cedrick Hoodye](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedrick-hoodye-085b719/), we are stripping away the buzzwords and showing you how to actually deploy intelligent applications. Plus, active user group members who attend will unlock an exclusive discount to [re:Invent 2026](https://aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent/), ensuring you are in Vegas for the biggest cloud announcements of the year. Why Attend This is more than another AI presentation. You are coming to build. By attending, you will gain: 1️⃣ Hands-on experience with AWS Strands Agents — an open-source SDK designed to help developers build AI agents using a model-driven approach. 2️⃣ Direct learning from AWS employees and builders who can connect the workshop concepts to what is happening across AWS today. 3️⃣ Practical agentic AI experience you can discuss in interviews, portfolio conversations, customer meetings, or technical discussions. 4️⃣ AWS builder credit opportunities so your learning does not have to stop when the workshop ends. 5️⃣ AWS swag for in-person attendees. 6️⃣ Connections with Houston builders, professionals, founders, students, product leaders, solutions engineers, and AWS community members. What Is AWS Strands Agents and Why Should You Care? Traditional AI applications often require developers to manually define extensive orchestration logic: “If this happens, do this.” “If that fails, go here.” “If the user asks something different, follow another path.” Strands Agents takes a different approach. Instead of attempting to program every possible decision in advance, Strands uses a model-driven architecture where the foundation model can reason about the task, determine which tools to use, respond to results, and adapt its next action. Attend In Person or Virtually 📍 In Person: Improving Houston 10111 Richmond Ave 100 Houston, TX 77042 💻 Virtual: Join via Zoom. The Zoom link will be provided after registration. 🎁 In-person attendees can receive AWS swag. 💰 AWS builder credit opportunities will be available to help attendees continue experimenting and building after the workshop.