We’re excited to announce a milestone for our community — Women in Cloud is going online for the very first time! 🎉
Join us for an inspiring session of Lightning Talks, where women in tech share ideas, experiences, and insights in a fast-paced, supportive environment.
Agenda
6:00pm – Check-in, intro
6:15pm – Talks
7:15pm – Quiz & Prizes
7:30pm \- Networking
Speakers & Sessions
Stella Slad — Beyond OCR: Taming Semi-Structured Documents with GenAI
Jahnavi Gurrappadia — Building Responsible AI on AWS: 5 Security Guardrails Every Team Should Know
Dale Orders — Structuring IaC for Sanity and Scale
Tehani Navoda Wanniarachchi — Beyond Chatbots: What Evert Cloud Engineer Should Know About AI Agents
Gina Bocanegra — Unlock Your Data Warehouse: Turning BigQuery Tables into Actionable Telemetry
Sessions Details:
Session 1. Beyond OCR: Taming Semi-Structured Documents with GenAI
Summary:
In this talk, we explore how Generative AI elevates document processing beyond traditional, template-based OCR. Using Appian DocCenter as a case study, I will demonstrate how to extract data from varying document layouts using simple natural language prompts instead of complex coding. Traditional data extraction relies on rigid templates that break whenever a document's layout changes. GenAI solves this bottleneck by interpreting the actual context and meaning of the data. This shift allows teams to handle messy, unpredictable files more effectively, using human-in-the-loop workflows to ensure accuracy at scale.
Speaker:
Stella Slad is an Appian Consultant and Developer dedicated to building efficient, low-code business solutions. She is deeply passionate about exploring how Generative AI is transforming document intelligence and business process automation.
Session 2. Building Responsible AI on AWS: 5 Security Guardrails Every Team Should Know
Summary:
As Generative AI adoption accelerates, security and governance must be part of the design from day one. This session highlights f