Agenda:



7:00 - 7:15 => Get some food, get a drink, find a seat.

7:15 - 7:25 => Quick 'About Us' from Nate and John

7:25 - 8:10 => "Enterprise Journey to Cloud" a talk from Amit Jha (see bio below)

8:10 - 8:30 => Q&A with Amit Jha

8:30 - 9:00 => General socialization

9:00 - ? => We don't have to go home, but we can't stay here. (At UPMC-E)

There is a bar, Social, on the first floor of the building right next to the entrance to UPMC-E's facilities. any interested parties are welcome to continue socializing as desired. (This isn't a part of the meetup)



About our speaker, Amit Jha:

Amit works as Global Solution Architect with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has 16+ years of Industry experience. In his current role, Amit focuses on architecting on AWS, optimizing AWS environments and helping Financial Services customers & partners with cloud adoption. Prior to his current role, he served numerous roles at Microsoft for 11+ years helping large enterprise (Several Industry Verticals) with Cloud/Software architecture and development consulting.



Amit has been frequent speaker on several AWS cloud computing topic (e.g. DevOps, Cloud Large Scale Migrations, Microservices Arch and Security in cloud).



Amit holds Masters in information technology degree from India. Amit is based out of New Jersey and lives with his wife Shruti and 2 daughters. Loves to play and watch cricket.



Thank you very much for being a part of this, and we look forward to meeting all of you!