Build Your Own AI Agent with Strands Agents & Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Workshop #2 is here! After building AI chatbots at our first workshop, we're taking it one step further: this time you'll build your own AI agent from scratch. We're excited to welcome Fabricio Flores, Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services, who will join us on campus for this session! What you'll do: 🛠️ Build a customer service AI agent using Strands Agents, AWS's open-source agent SDK 🔒 Add tools, guardrails, and memory to control how your agent behaves 🚀 Deploy your agent to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Who it's for: Anyone curious about AI agents! No prior AI experience needed. Basic Python is helpful. What to bring: 💻 Your laptop 🆔 An AWS Builder ID (preferred but not required; free, takes 2 minutes to create) Free to attend. Seats are limited, so please also register through our Google Form to secure your spot: https://forms.gle/jykjLBr8aQ7tp8oX8 Hosted by the AWS Student Builder Group at NJIT.