AWS Summit London 2026 — Pre-Summit
I’ve been to plenty of vendor events and briefings over the years but never an AWS Summit, so heading to London on Wednesday for the first time I genuinely don’t know what to expect. I’m planning to get there when doors open at 8am partly to beat the keynote crowds and partly because I’ve already had to make some hard choices about how the day runs. Picking the Sessions I had four sessions I wanted to attend: the keynote on agentic AI, a workshop on rapid prototyping with Kiro, a zero trust for AI security session, and a fast-track VMware migration workshop. Some run 2–3 hours, the zero trust session clashes directly with Kiro, and doing all of them would mean spending the entire day in rooms with no time to actually see any of it, so I’ve cut two. I’m skipping the keynote, which at my first AWS Summit feels like it should be a bigger deal than it is, and dropping the AI security session because it runs at the same time as Kiro and that’s not a close call. The keynote will be streamed and I’ll catch it later. The VMware workshop and Kiro are what I’m actually there for. ...