Dear Community,

as we step into the year ahead, we’re full of excitement for what’s to come and can’t wait to welcome you to our first session of the year at our new home, NLND Berlin.

Check out the details below, and we look forward to having all of you with us!

18:30 - Warming up and networking chat 18:45 - Intro by AWS UG Berlin & NLND 19:00 - 19:45 - Dr. Andreas E. Wagner // Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for An AI-powered Future

As leaders create an AI-powered future, they need to integrate their cognitive intelligence with their emotional intelligence to build adaptable, resilient, and innovative organizations. These leaders have deep empathy for customers and foster a culture of creativity and psychological safety among their employees. They need to be data-driven but also authentically human. This session will help leaders understand the EPIC attributes needed to drive successful outcomes in the new human+AI era.

Andreas is an experienced Business Coach. He has held senior management functions in sales, services, business development, and marketing. Through his experience at AWS, Ericsson, Huawei, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Ingram, Andreas has gained a very good insight in several industries and diverse cultural leadership contexts.

19:45 - 20:05 - Network break with snacks & drinks

20:05 - 20:50 - Enrico Kern // Beyond AWS: The Case for OpenStack and Data Sovereignty

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the evolving cloud landscape in Europe, where growing data sovereignty requirements and regulatory compliance are reshaping enterprise cloud strategies beyond traditional AWS/Public-Cloud-only approaches. Drawing from real-world experience managing enterprise-scale AWS deployments, we'll explore how organizations are increasingly evaluating OpenStack (or other alternative solutions) not just as a complement to Public Clouds and Hyperscalers, but potentially as a strategic alternative that offers complete control over data location, processing, and governance while maintaining enterprise-grade scalability. Learn how the European push for digital sovereignty and emerging data residency laws, is creating new opportunities for hybrid architectures using hybrid approaches, and in some cases, complete migration paths to sovereign cloud solutions. This session addresses the broader industry shift toward data independence in Europe, with open dialogue about balancing innovation, compliance, and strategic autonomy in your cloud decisions.

Enrico has worked for more than 20 years as a System Engineer around ever evolving ecosystems, maintained a $500,000/month AWS infrastructure and 4 large On-Prem Datacenters with AWS DirectConnect as CIO for an AdTech company for multiple years. He implemented Public Cloud Infrastructure for Large Entities with 2000+ employees for AWS, Azure & GCP. He currently runs a company specialized in OpenStack, helping large companies and government entities to deploy, run and maintain OpenStack/SCS environments and implementing K8SaaS.

20:50 - 21:00 - Closing Announcements & Networking

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Very Important: There is no "waitlist" for our regular sessions. However, there are limited seats available. If you want to make sure you can attend:

Register yourself with your "full name" here at Meetup.com, Arrive on time - seats are first come, first serve.

As soon as there are seats available, you are welcome to join with your registration. In case there are no more seats available, we won't be able to let you join us this time.We thank you very much for your understanding!

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Additional Information

This event is wheelchair friendly. Help us spread the word, and invite your friends & colleagues! If you're attending with wheelchair and need assistance, please mail us: [email protected] for further details.

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