Hi!
I talk sometimes.
This repository will host most (if not all) of the talks (conferences, presentations, podcasts, etc) that I've given or was a guest of.
Many thanks to Julia Furst Morgado for the inspiration to create this repo.
| Date & Time | Conference/Meetup | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Dec '26 | AWS Global Community Gatherings | TBA |
| 17 Dec '26 | Tampa Bay AWS User Group | Combining S3 Vectors and S3 Annotations to Build an Intelligent Audit System |
| 1 Dec '26 | AWS AI/ML India User Group | Combining S3 Vectors and S3 Annotations to Build an Intelligent Audit System |
| 24 Nov '26 | AWS User Group Lviv | How to avoid agentic anti-patterns |
| # | Date | Conference/Meetup | Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 15 Oct '26 | AWS North Community Conference | Combining S3 Vectors and S3 Annotations to Build an Intelligent Audit System |
| 40 | 7 Oct '26 | AWS User Group Women in Tech Ontario | Combining S3 Vectors and S3 Annotations to Build an Intelligent Audit System |
| 39 | 15 Sep '26 | AWS Community Day DACH 2026 | Combining S3 Vectors and S3 Annotations to Build an Intelligent Audit System |
| 38 | 8 Sep '26 | AWS Community Day Poland 2026 | Combining S3 Vectors and S3 Annotations to Build an Intelligent Audit System |
| 37 | 25 Jul '26 | AWS User Group Women in AI Cambridge | Building an agent for Document Processing on AWS |
| 36 | 23 Jun '26 | AWS Women’s User Group Sweden | "You are an intelligent business analyst": how I learned to talk to business |
| 35 | 30 May '26 | AWS London ON User Group | Capturing the "Why": Building Context Graphs for Explainable AI Agents on AWS |
| 34 | 20 May '26 | AWS Summit Hamburg | Capturing the "Why": Building Context Graphs for Explainable AI Agents on AWS |
| 33 | 6 May '26 | AWS Summit Warsaw | Capturing the "Why": Building Context Graphs for Explainable AI Agents on AWS |
| 32 | 15 April '26 | PyCon DE & PyData | "You are an intelligent business analyst": how I learned to talk to business |
| 31 | 1 December '25 | re:Invent@Home | Building a Cost-Effective Research Assistant with Bedrock Agents and S3 Vectors |
| 30 | 15 November '25 | AWS London ON User Group | RAG Without Breaking the Bank: Create a Bedrock Agent with S3 Vector-Powered Knowledge Bases |
| 29 | 6 November '25 | Øredev 2025 | You don’t think about your Streamlit app optimization until you deploy it to AWS |
| 28 | 6 November '25 | Øredev 2025 | Empower your Bedrock agent with GraphRAG |
| 27 | 10 September '25 | AWS Community Day Baltic | RAG Without Breaking the Bank: Create a Bedrock Agent with S3 Vector-Powered Knowledge Bases |
| 26 | 9 September '25 | AWS pre:Invent Warmup | RAG Without Breaking the Bank: Create a Bedrock Agent with S3 Vector-Powered Knowledge Bases |
| 25 | 28 Jun '25 | “Serverless Saturdays” AWS UG Tirupati | How to build a Bedrock agent for document processing |
| 24 | 17 Jun '25 | AWS User Group Olsztyn | GenAI on AWS: Amazon Bedrock and Beyond |
| 23 | 26 May '25 | AWS Women's User Group Jeddah | Getting Started in the Cloud & Pathways to Cloud Careers |
| 22 | 6 May '25 | AWS Summit Poland | Empower your Bedrock agent with GraphRAG |
| 21 | 25 April '25 | PyCon DE & PyData | You don’t think about your Streamlit app optimization until you try to deploy it to the cloud |
| 20 | 25 April '25 | PyCon DE & PyData | Building a HybridRAG Document Question-Answering System |
| 19 | 24 April '25 | PyCon DE & PyData | Career Path Experience Stories - From Staying at Home Mom to Senior Data Scientist |
| 18 | 18 April '25 | AWS Community Day Turkey 2025 | How to build a Bedrock agent for document processing |
| 17 | 2 April '25 | AWS Community Day Italy 2025 | Empower your Bedrock agent with GraphRAG |
| 16 | 2 April '25 | AWS Community Day Italy 2025 | Women in Tech Workshop |
| 15 | 26 Mar '25 | AWS Community Day Slovakia 2025 | You don’t think about your Streamlit app optimization until you deploy it to AWS |
| 14 | 26 Mar '25 | AWS Instructor and Partner Summit (TIPS) 2025 | Building an Amazon Bedrock Agent for Document Processing |
| 13 | Feb '25 | Andrew Brown's Free GenAI Bootcamp | Kana Writing Practice with Darya Petrashka - Learning session |
| 12 | 30 Jan '25 | AWS User Group 3city | Workshop: Enhancing Accessibility Using Serverless |
| 11 | 5 Dec '24 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | Women in tech fireside chat - panelist |
| 10 | 3 Dec '24 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | Moms in tech fireside chat - moderator and panelist |
| 9 | 4 Oct '24 | AWS Community Day - Hungary 2024 | Building an AI Chat Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agent |
| 8 | 18 Sep '24 | AWS Cloud Day Warsaw 2024 | Building a Supply Chain Bedrock Agent |
| 7 | 24 Aug '24 | JAWS PANKRATION 2024 | Building an AI Chat Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agent |
| 6 | 7 May '24 | AWS Community Day Nordics 2024 | Building an AI Chat Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agent |
| 5 | 28 Mar '24 | AWS User Group 3city | Building an AI Chat Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agent |
| 4 | 29 Feb '24 | Conf42 Python 2024 | Unlock the Power of LLM: Build a HuggingFace Agent |
| 3 | 7 Sep '23 | PyCon Portugal 2023 | Amazon CodeWhisperer, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot: Choosing the Best Python AI Code Assistant |
| 2 | 2 Mar '23 | AWS User Group Dortmund | NLP on AWS: SageMaker and high-level services |
| 1 | 20 Oct '22 | Copenhagen AWS User Group | Meet the builders: Machine Learning, NLP and AI Healthcare |
| # | Date | Medium | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 16 Sep '26 | Motherboard | Mums in Tech ft. Darya Petrashka |
| 22 | 1 Aug '26 | Akwannya Hub | Invited Judge for Cloud Build With Peers - Cohort 1 |
| 21 | 24 Jun '26 | BeSa Cloud Academy podcast | I Am a Cloud Builder & This Is My Story Darya Petrashka AWS Community Builder (AI Engineering) |
| 20 | 31 Mar '26 | TechMagic Blog | Shadow AI: Security Risks and Practical Ways to Manage Them (+Expert Advice) |
| 19 | 31 Jan '26 | Fireside chat by Cyril Bandolo | Starting your cloud journey in 2026 |
| 18 | 8 Jan '26 | LinkedIn Live Event | AWS Community Builders: What Is It & How You Can Become One - EU edition |
| 17 | 5 Jan '26 | LinkedIn Live Event | AWS Community Builders: What Is It & How You Can Become One - NAMER edition |
| 16 | 24 Dec '25 | It’s All About Serverless | Cloud Journey with Darya Petrashka |
| 15 | 19 Nov '25 | Day Two DevOps | D2DO287: Leveling Up in Data Science |
| 14 | 21 Jul '25 | Kiro Youtube Channel | Having Kiro is Like Having a Friend to Whom You Can Delegate Parts of Work |
| 13 | 21 Jul '25 | Kiro Youtube Channel | I Haven't Seen An Advancement In Developer Process Like This Ever |
| 12 | 13 Jul '25 | Thriving Career Moms | From Verb Tenses to Vectors: When It All Clicked - with Darya Petrashka |
| 11 | 31 Mar '25 | Ready, Set, Cloud Newsletter | Issue #157: A HUGE week for AI |
| 10 | 3 Mar '25 | Cloud Career Mentor | From project manager to AI Cloud Data Scientist |
| 9 | 17 Jan '25 | AWS Developers Podcast | Meet Darya, from sitting-at-home mom to data scientist |
| 8 | 17 Jan '25 | LinkedIn Live Event hosted by Dr. Joanne Skiles | AWS Community Builders Program - What is it & How you can become one! |
| 7 | 10 Jan '25 | Linkedin Fireside chat by Cyril Bandolo | Becoming a Data Analyst in 2025 |
| 6 | 14 Nov '24 | AWS Blog for Industries | Optimize Your Supply Chain Processes with Generative AI on AWS |
| 5 | 4 Jun '24 | Logicast AWS News Podcast Season Three | Season 3 Episode 21 - IPv6, Small Large Language Models and Leadership Changes |
| 4 | 4 May '24 | AWS Builder Center | From sitting-at-home mom to Data Scientist |
| 3 | 27 Jan '23 | Dr. Joanne Skiles Youtube Channel | Finding Your Path In Tech - Live Talk Session with Darya Petrashka |
| 2 | 10 Jan '23 | Women Who Code | AWS Community Builders Program - What Is It & How You Can Become One |
| 1 | 30 Dec '22 | Julia F Morgado Youtube Channel | AWS Community Builders Program - What is it & How you can become one! |