# My learnings and experience, volunteering at AWS Community Day Pune 2024 Annual Edition

So, this was my third time volunteering at ACD Pune 2024 and 4th as attending ACD Pune.

The 3rd of August, 2024 marked a remarkable day at Hyatt Regency, Pune - the hosting of AWS Community Day Pune 2024 conference. I had an opportunity to be a volunteer at the AWS Community Day Pune 2024 Annual Edition. It was a rewarding responsibility, and I'm grateful for the opportunity. I am profoundly grateful to [**Dheeraj Choudhary**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheeraj-choudhary/) Sir and [**Vishal Alhat ☁️**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalalhat/) Sir for placing their trust in me. This success was a testament to the incredible teamwork of the [**AWS User Group Pune**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aws-user-group-pune/). The dedication of the team ensured a seamless and inclusive experience for all attendees.

AWS Community Day Pune 2024 Annual Edition Team - [**Dheeraj Choudhary**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheeraj-choudhary/) [**Vishal Alhat ☁️**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalalhat/) [**Sankalp Sandeep Paranjpe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sankalp-s-paranjpe/) [**Tanish Seth**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanishseth0510/) [**Reshma Jagtap**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshma-jagtap-1baa90239/) [**Swapna Aware**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/swapna-aware/) [**Nandini Pajgade**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nandini-pajgade-4a3351230/) [**Tejaswini Gade**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejaswini-gade/) [**Dev H Patel**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/devhpatel12/) [**Aditi Dhepe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditi-dhepe/) [**Sanika Zende**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanika-zende-485452226/) [**Himanshu Sangshetti**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/himanshu-sangshetti/) [**Aryan Thite**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryanthite/) [**Atharva Nevase**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/atharvanevase/) [**Divyanshu Mishra**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/divyanshu-mishra-265668150/) [**Vriksha Shetty**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vriksha-shetty-864513b4/)

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Volunteering at AWS Community Day Pune 2024 was an extraordinary experience where I learned about leadership skills, ownership, team collaboration that truly highlighted the power of the AWS community. I learned the importance of clear communication, decision-making under pressure, and the ability to inspire and motivate others.

The experience also highlighted the strength and unity of the AWS community. The lessons learned in leadership, ownership team collaboration, patience will for sure influence my future, and I am grateful for the opportunity. No experience is without its challenges and mistakes, and I made a few mistakes along the way. These errors and mistakes were valuable learning opportunities for me.

Talking about the event, I reached the venue, one day prior to the event. Here is a picture we took at night, [**Dheeraj Choudhary**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheeraj-choudhary?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAMX-58BQACZ42KVqQyz7kBwaDk2paQbHwI) [**Vishal Alhat ☁️**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalalhat?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAAOCgBkBdleTuY7Y0A79INkF8ZRRjsF1yJQ) [**Tanish Seth**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanishseth0510?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAD5xQHIBAgNuh7_2uxuUcN51v1IrvMDKMYo) [**Sandip Das**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandip-das-developer/) [**Dev H Patel**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/devhpatel12/) [**Reshma Jagtap**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshma-jagtap-1baa90239/). Thank you [**Mahesh Jadhav**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahesh-jadhavn/) for helping us.

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In the morning when we were ready, we took another photo in AWS User Group Pune Zipper hoodie.

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The event started with great enthusiam. It was great to see people discussing AWS related use-cases, the environment was buzzing the power for AWS Community.

Welcome note by [**Ridhima Kapoor**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kapoor-ridhima/) a Mam, was truly inspiring. She talked about various community programs, including AWS User Groups, AWS Cloud Clubs, AWS Community Builder and AWS Heroes Program.

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Keynote session by [**Mike Chambers**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikegchambers/), Your Attention Please Introducing AI Engineer” was main highlight of the session. He talked about The rise of AI Engineer, Gen AI, Machine Learning, Hallucinations, Amazon Bedrock!!!!!!

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Thanks to AWSome sponsor speakers for sharing their knowledge to the community -[**Zameer Fouzan**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zmrfzn/) , [**Grajesh Chandra**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/grajesh-chandra-43a93222/), [**Ashish Tiwari.**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishtiwari93/)

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[**Dheeraj Choudhary**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheeraj-choudhary/) Sir's and [**Vishal Alhat ☁️**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalalhat/) Sir's talk was really AWSome. They shared how they bring ideas to execution using Partyrock. Amazon Partyrock is an easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.

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Tech Panel Discussion on Database Modernisation where speakers and moderator discussed about AWS DMS, SCT, Database Migration use case and shared their experiences. [**Ramandeep Chandna**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramandeepchandna/) [**Mayur Bhagia**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayurbhagia/) [**Bhanu Jamwal**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhanujamwal/) [**Vishal Alhat ☁️**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalalhat/)

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[**Avinash Dalvi**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avinash-dalvi-315b021a/) and [**Mandar Gokhale**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandar-gokhale-31125733/) shared their uses case From 24 Hours to 4: How Serverless Transformed Data Ingestion Pipeline.

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Women in Tech Panel Discussion - [**Rajani Sajjan**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajani-sajjan/) [**Dimple Vaghela**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimple-vaghela-ba45447b/) [**Smita Singh**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smitapsingh/) moderated by [**Omshree Butani**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omshree-butani/)

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A very very informative session was conducted by [**Sandip Das**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandip-das-developer/) Sir, on Streamlined AWS EKS Deployments using GitOps With ArgoCD.

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It was also great to see my team members from [**Intangles**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/intangles-lab-pvt-ltd/) - Savyasachi Dhurve @IMRAN PATHAN Raja Sardar Rohit Chavan Atul Munde to be at the event.

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It was AWSome to meet [**Abhishek Bhatt**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhatt-abhi?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAACHDi3IB0kz8A5-avZdVgtPms4HH3tyGTSQ), our Ex-AWS Cloud Captain, Delhi, to be at AWS Community Day Pune 2024.

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A huges thanks to our AWSome sponsors - [**New Relic**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-relic-inc-/) [**Affinidi**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/affinidi/) [**Elastic**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/elastic-co/) [**Snowflake**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/snowflake-computing/) [**eGain Corporation**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/egain-corporation/) [**TiDB, powered by PingCAP**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pingcap/) [**Rezoomex**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rezoomex/) [**SUDO Consultants**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sudoconsultants/)

Thank you to all the respected speakers - [**Mike Chambers**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikegchambers/) [**Ridhima Kapoor**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kapoor-ridhima/) [**Dheeraj Choudhary**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dheeraj-choudhary/) [**Vishal Alhat ☁️**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalalhat/) [**Sandip Das**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandip-das-developer/) [**Zameer Fouzan**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zmrfzn/) [**Rajani Sajjan**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajani-sajjan/) [**Avinash Dalvi**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avinash-dalvi-315b021a/) [**Ashish Tiwari**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishtiwari93/) [**Grajesh Chandra**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/grajesh-chandra-43a93222/) [**Omshree Butani**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omshree-butani/) [**Dimple Vaghela**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimple-vaghela-ba45447b/) [**Ramandeep Chandna**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramandeepchandna/) [**Smita Singh**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smitapsingh/) [**Mayur Bhagia**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayurbhagia/) [**Mandar Gokhale**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandar-gokhale-31125733/) [**Snehal Datar**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/snehal-datar-349136109/) [**Shailja Bagdi**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shailja-bagdi-7351298a/) [**Savinder Puri**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/savinderpuri/) [**Dr. Abhilasha Rakesh Vyas**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilasharvyas/) [**Adit N Modi**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adit-n-modi/) [**Satyajit Samantray**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyajit-samantray-b30a7075/) [**Nagababu Medicharla**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nagababu-medicharla-b2a91a117/) [**Saurabh Anil Agrawal**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabhanilagrawal/)

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See you all soon!

Thank you,

[**Sankalp Sandeep Paranjpe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sankalp-s-paranjpe/)