**Time:** 5:30pm-7:30pm
**Location:** EMC Insurance 700 Walnut Des Moines, IA 50309
**Parking:** Please park in the 750 Parking Ramp. (Please see map)

* Guest will press the intercom button to enter the ramp
* When prompted, the guest will provide their name and the event name. **AWS User Group Des Moines Meetup**
* When it is time to leave, the guest will need to press the intercom button and EMC Security will open the gate

**EMC will be Partnering with:** Beacon Hills
**Food/Drinks**: Pizza and Beverages will be provided

**Agenda:**

* **5:30-6:00** Socialize and Introductions
* **6:00-6:30** Billing/Finance – Lead: Jason Henson

* Cost Management & the strategy behind it
* Intelligence of buckets // weekly check points & lessons learned from it

* **6:30-7:00** CloudConnect – Lead(s): Joel Simpson, Katie Jones, and Adam Ellis

* CloudConnect is EMC’s cloud migration initiative
* Case study on CloudConnect and the approach that we took
* Talking about changing management skills and also foundational skills/work

* **7:00-7:30** CDK – Lead(s): Adam Ellis and Joe Eagle

* Talk about the CDK library & Terraform good alternative
* What we have done with CDK
* Talk about for loops & how looping through arrays can be powerful