Level Up Your Skills: Fireside Chats With Women in Tech + Hands-On AWS Workshops

We are excited to bring together a week of learning from tech executives, university technical recruiters, and workshops to grow your skills and explore new technology.

Whether you want to hear from women leading across technology, build with Kiro Crew, and learn what technical recruiters look for, there’s a session for you.

Here’s what is happening: 

 

What does building a career in technology actually look like when there’s no single path to follow? 

Join women leaders from AWS for a series of conversations about their careers, the decisions that shaped them, the challenges they’ve worked through, and what they’ve learned along the way. 

Each conversation features speakers across different time zones, giving students around the world opportunities to join. 

You’ll hear about career journeys, navigating challenges, working across teams, growing as a leader, and lessons they would share with the next generation of builders. 

Sessions: 

The AWS Women in Tech: Executive Fireside Chat Series is open to all. Whether you’re interested in building technical skills, learning from AWS leaders, or exploring career opportunities, you’re welcome to join.

Ready to get hands-on and build with the technology yourself? 

Join us for an interactive AWS Level Up Kiro Crew workshop designed to help you learn by building. You do not need to know everything before joining. Come ready to follow along, ask questions, and try something new. 

When: October 29, 2026 at 9:30 AM Pacific 

Presenters: Lahari Chowtoori and Lucas Swanson 

 

You have probably heard plenty of advice about getting your first job in tech. 

But what do recruiters look for? 

In this session, AWS University Technical Recruiters will share what applicants should know as they prepare for technical opportunities, from presenting your experience to approaching the recruiting process with more confidence. 

It is also a chance to hear directly from the people who work with early-career candidates and ask some of the questions you may have about starting your career. 

When: October 28, 2026 at 9:30 AM Pacific 

Presenters: Claire Gao and Rumjhum Hemnani 

 

AI agents can be powerful, but they can also make mistakes from retrieving the wrong information to choosing the wrong tool or claiming something worked when it did not.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn five practical ways to make AI agents more reliable. Using a travel booking agent as the example, the session will walk through Graph-RAG, semantic tool selection, guardrails, runtime steering, and multi-agent validation.

Presenters: Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, Laura Salinas and Sandhya Subramani

 

Which Session Should You Join? 

You don’t have to choose just one. 

If you want to hear how experienced leaders built their careers, join the AWS Women in Tech: Executive Fireside Chat Series. 

If you want to learn by building, join AWS Level Up ft. Kiro Crew. 

And if you are preparing for internships or your first full-time role, join Learning from AWS University Technical Recruiters. 

Or join all events and make a week out of it. 

Make sure to register to be a part of it!  

Each session gives you a different way to learn - through career stories, hands-on building, or advice from the people working directly with early-career talent. 

Choose the session(s) that are most useful to you, register, save the dates, and join us online.