Jimmy Dahlqvist 🇸🇪

Principal Cloud Architect @Sambla Group
AWS Serverless Hero
AWS Ambassador
AWS Certification Lead SME
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Bio

Jimmy is a developer and architect with a great passion for the cloud in general and AWS in particular.

He has been working in tech since 2003 and transitioned into cloud and AWS in 2015. Since then, he has been a true AWS evangelist, which led to him being recognized as an AWS Serverless Hero. His greatest passion lies in serverless technologies, and he loves sharing his knowledge with others. He finds it truly rewarding to see people grow. In his spare time, he spends every moment coding, testing new ideas, and blogging at https://jimmydqv.com. He also founded https://serverless-handbook.com as the home base for all his serverless adventures.

When he’s not writing about serverless, you’ll find Jimmy talking about his other passions: IoT and BBQ.

Sessions

AGENTIC_AI
From cocktails to code building an AI bartender with Amazon Bedrock
Room: Roca-III | Time: 14:00

Food and drinks are two of my major hobbies, and I love mixing cocktails at home. But when I host friends, I always end up as the menu. People keep asking what I have and what I can make.

In this talk I will show how I built an AI bartender on AWS that lets guests interact with a drink menu using natural language. Instead of listing options or explaining what’s available, guests can ask for things like “something fruity” or “a gin drink”, and the AI Bartender respond with suggestions powered by Amazon Bedrock.

We will go deep into how I built the AI agent with Amazon Bedrock using Strands Agents, and AgentCore providing conversation memory, identity, and a gateway for tool access. I’ll show how streaming responses, with Amazon API Gateway, are implemented for a great chat experience. MCP tools play a important role providing the agent with data, like ingredients, and menu stored in Aurora DSQL. Finally how serverless and event-driven patterns are used to decouple AI processing from APIs.

This is a technical, demo-heavy session with code walkthroughs and architecture deep-dives. We will explore agentic AI with tool calling workflows, conversation memory, and event-driven AI integration. You’ll walk away with insights on how to build intelligent, context-aware AI assistants that work with real data on AWS.

Jimmy Dahlqvist 🇸🇪
Principal Cloud Architect @Sambla Group
AWS Serverless Hero
AWS Ambassador
AWS Certification Lead SME