Chicago Amazon Quick User Group
ABOUT THE EVENT
Please join us at the Amazon offices in Chicago for the next in-person meetup of the Chicago Amazon Quick User Group, Tues, August 4, 1-4 PM CT.
Amazon Quick brings AI-powered business intelligence, research, and automation capabilities into a single experience. As Amazon Quick enthusiasts, we'll learn agentic AI together, get hands-on with Quick, and share use cases.
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Note: When filling out the registration form, please include your first and last name. This streamlines the check-in process.
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Event Agenda
Welcome — Alida D'costa, Sr. Business Intelligence Architect, Wavicle Data Solutions
What's New with Amazon Quick — John Rouse, Global Senior Business Development Manager, Amazon Q , AWS
Reimagining the NBA Combine with Quick - Brett Hafstad, Cloud Engineer, West Loop Strategy
BREAK
Hands-on Quick Workshop : Quick Desktop — Tarush Gupta, Technical Account Manager, AWS; Jackson Dowden, Worldwide GenA Solution Architect, Amazon Quick
Open Forum — Alida D'costa, Sr. Business Intelligence Architect, Wavicle Data Solutions
Learning Resources via the Quick Community — Kristin Mandia, Sr. Online Community Manager, AWS
Next Steps — Hrishikesh Puzhankara, Sr. Data Engineering Architect, Wavicle Data Solutions
Join our LinkedIn Group to stay up to date!
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WHAT TO BRING
**QR code** (will be emailed to you via no-reply@sigateway.com)
Government-issued ID
Laptop for the Hands-on workshop
Please arrive 15-20 minutes early, with your QR code, for the check-in process.
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ARRIVAL & BUILDING ACCESS
Driving / Parking:
Enter the garage, which is under the building, from 227 West Monroe Street. Pull a parking ticket at the entrance, which you can validate (available only to first-come first-served, while validations last) at the Amazon reception desk.
For more economical parking options (once validations are no longer available), reserve through the SpotHero app for:
-227 W Monroe St. - The Franklin Garage
-10 S Wells St. - Poetry Garage
Once parked, take the elevator to the 1st floor to check in at the building reception desk. Follow the "Building Access" instructions above.
After the event, from the 227 West Monroe parking garage, drive to the exit gate and scan the original parking ticket followed by the chaser sticker validation (opposite side of the ticket) to exit. Validation only available first-come first-served while supplies last.
Buses:
· 37 - Stop at Wells & Monroe (174 ft walk)
· 22 - Stop at Clark & Adams (0.3 mi walk)
· 156 - Stop at LaSalle & Madison (0.2 mi walk)
· 20 - Stop at Washington & Franklin (0.2 mi walk)
· 56 - Stop at Washington & Franklin (0.2 mi walk)
· 126 - Stop at Jackson & Franklin (0.2 mi walk)
· J14 - Stop at Madison & LaSalle (0.2 mi walk)
· 130 - Stop at Adams & Wells (0.1 mi walk)
Trains:
· Blue Line - Stop at Monroe (0.3 mi walk)
· Red Line - Stop at Monroe (0.4 mi)
· Loop - Stop at Washington/Wells (0.2 mi walk)
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Building Access
Guests enter via W Monroe Street. Visit building reception desk (closest to Monroe Street) on 1st floor with the QR code emailed to you from no-reply@sigateway.com. Then, take the escalators (DO NOT take the elevators) to the 2nd floor and scan the QR code at the turnstiles. Take the elevator to the Amazon reception on the 14th floor and head past the reception to rooms 14.102-14.103 (follow the hallway behind and to the right of the reception desk). Check in at the room
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Questions? / Lost
Contact Amazon Reception at (312) 256-0600 or Amazon local contact at (847) 652-2357. You can also email awsgirib@amazon.com if you have any questions.
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LOCATION
Amazon ORD10 Building, Rooms 14.102-14.103 (14th floor)
227 West Monroe Street
Suite 1400
Chicago, IL 60606
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