Workshop : Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore 🚀

Join us for a hands-on technical session hosted by AWS Chicago Western Suburbs! Whether you are looking to build model-driven AI agents or deploy them to production, this session will take you step-by-step from "Hello World" agent to production-ready in 2 hours. 📍 Location & Venue * Venue: Amazon Office Chicago * Address: 227 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60606 * Food and Beverages are completely covered 💡 Deep Dive Session * Strands Agents SDK — Open-source, model-driven framework for building agents in a few lines of Python. * Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — Fully managed infrastructure for deploying agents at enterprise scale. * Live Demo — See agentic workflows running end-to-end. * Key Concepts — MCP protocol, memory persistence, identity & access control, and observability. 🛠️ Architecture & Core Components Covered * Amazon Bedrock * AgentCore Runtime * AgentCore Memory * AgentCore Gateway * AgentCore Identity * Strands SDK 📋 Prerequisites To get the most out of this session, attendees should be familiar with: * ✓ Python 3.10+ * ✓ Basic cloud concepts * ✓ Jupyter Notebooks * ✓ REST API concepts * ✓ Gen AI fundamentals * ✓ Laptop + Internet connection 💡 Note: AWS accounts, sandbox environments, and all lab materials are provided! No prior AWS account is needed.