AWS Summit Amsterdam 2025

Jan 31, 2026 Tags: AWS, Cloud Computing, Serverless,

Innovating at Cloud speed in the Benelux

On April 16th of 2025, cloud professionals from across the Benelux gathered at RAI Amsterdam for AWS Summit Amsterdam 2025, a vibrant event packed with sessions and networking. As a first-time attendee, I’ll share highlights from the Keynote, Workshops, and the overall atmosphere.

Table of Contents

• Keynote
• Best Practices for Serverless Developers
• Building a Personal AI Assistant
• Overall atmosphere and conclusion

Keynote

Speakers: Danielle Gorlick, Andy Warfield

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Hello World!👋

Oct 13, 2024 Tags: introduction, personal development, blogging,

I always wanted to start my own (tech) blog. But I’ve neither found time nor courage to start blogging. Although I have written some blog posts in the past on my former employer’s tech blog. But anyway, I finally did it!

I will briefly introduce myself and I will go over the tools and tech stack I’ve used to create this blog.

An introduction

Hi! My name is Johan Silkens. A Software/Cloud engineer from Belgium. I’ve started experimenting with technology at a young age. From assembling and disassembling computers to even giving a lecture to a class in primary school about its internal components like where the CPU, the hard drive, RAM, and so on was located and what their primary function was.

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