Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
AWS is coming to Iceland for a full day session in collaboration with Controlant, Reykjavik University and SoftwareOne.
We invite you to join us for this full day session with AWS experts to learn how to use AI as a structured collaborator across planning, building, and operating software — and apply it hands-on in a guided project.
Most teams use AI in one of two ways: as a glorified autocomplete, or as an unchecked code generator. AI-DLC offers a third approach — treating AI as a collaborator that helps plan, asks structured questions, and supports decision-making while keeping humans in control.
In Part1 of this workshop, you’ll learn the core concepts of AI-DLC: its three phases (inception, construction, operations), and how it reshapes familiar Agile practices with new rituals like “bolts” and “mob elaboration.”
In Part2, you’ll apply these ideas hands-on. You’ll use AI-DLC to design and build a small project, experiencing how AI can guide planning, implementation, and iteration in practice.
This workshop is designed for developers, architects, tech leads, product and engineering managers who want to rethink how their teams work with AI across the full delivery lifecycle. An introduction to AI-DLC, where participants learn to use AI as a structured collaborator across planning, building, and operating software — and apply it hands-on in a guided project.
Anthony Dupré is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, based in Geneva, where he works with global system integrators and enterprise organizations to turn ambitious ideas into production-ready, AI-driven systems. His focus is on making complex partnerships actually work—bridging strategy, technology, and execution at scale.
With a career spanning more than two decades, Anthony has held leadership roles including CTO, VP of Engineering, and Solutions Architect. He has built and scaled engineering teams, led multidisciplinary organizations, and helped deliver platforms used by some of the world’s most recognized brands. His experience ranges from early-stage startups to large global enterprises, including multiple journeys from growth to acquisition.
