This page contains most (if not all) of the talks (conferences, presentations, podcasts, etc) that I’ve given or was a guest of.
🎤 If you’d like to invite me to speak at your conference or event, please contact me on LinkedIn.
Past Talks
| Date | Conference/Meetup | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Dec ‘25 | re:Invent@Home | Building a Cost-Effective Research Assistant with Bedrock Agents and S3 Vectors |
| 15 Nov ‘25 | AWS London ON User Group | RAG Without Breaking the Bank: Create a Bedrock Agent with S3 Vector-Powered Knowledge Bases |
| 6 Nov ‘25 | Øredev 2025 | You don’t think about your Streamlit app optimization until you deploy it to AWS |
| 6 Nov ‘25 | Øredev 2025 | Empower your Bedrock agent with GraphRAG |
| 10 Sep ‘25 | AWS Community Day Baltic | RAG Without Breaking the Bank: Create a Bedrock Agent with S3 Vector-Powered Knowledge Bases |
| 9 Sep ‘25 | AWS pre:Invent Warmup | RAG Without Breaking the Bank: Create a Bedrock Agent with S3 Vector-Powered Knowledge Bases |
| 28 Jun ‘25 | “Serverless Saturdays” AWS UG Tirupati | How to build a Bedrock agent for document processing |
| 17 Jun ‘25 | AWS User Group Olsztyn | GenAI on AWS: Amazon Bedrock and Beyond |
| 26 May ‘25 | AWS Women’s User Group Jeddah | Getting Started in the Cloud & Pathways to Cloud Careers |
| 6 May ‘25 | AWS Summit Poland | Empower your Bedrock agent with GraphRAG |
| 25 Apr ‘25 | PyCon DE & PyData | You don’t think about your Streamlit app optimization until you try to deploy it to the cloud |
| 25 Apr ‘25 | PyCon DE & PyData | Building a HybridRAG Document Question-Answering System |
| 24 Apr ‘25 | PyCon DE & PyData | Career Path Experience Stories - From Staying at Home Mom to Senior Data Scientist |
| 18 Apr ‘25 | AWS Community Day Turkey 2025 | How to build a Bedrock agent for document processing |
| 2 Apr ‘25 | AWS Community Day Italy 2025 | Empower your Bedrock agent with GraphRAG |
| 2 Apr ‘25 | AWS Community Day Italy 2025 | Women in Tech Workshop |
| 26 Mar ‘25 | AWS Community Day Slovakia 2025 | You don’t think about your Streamlit app optimization until you deploy it to AWS |
| 26 Mar ‘25 | AWS Instructor and Partner Summit (TIPS) 2025 | Building an Amazon Bedrock Agent for Document Processing |
| Feb ‘25 | Andrew Brown’s Free GenAI Bootcamp | Kana Writing Practice with Darya Petrashka - Learning session |
| 30 Jan ‘25 | AWS User Group 3city | Workshop: Enhancing Accessibility Using Serverless |
| 5 Dec ‘24 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | Women in tech fireside chat - panelist |
| 3 Dec ‘24 | AWS re:Invent 2024 | Moms in tech fireside chat - moderator and panelist |
| 4 Oct ‘24 | AWS Community Day - Hungary 2024 | Building an AI Chat Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agent |
| 18 Sep ‘24 | AWS Cloud Day Warsaw 2024 | Building a Supply Chain Bedrock Agent |
| 24 Aug ‘24 | JAWS PANKRATION 2024 | Building an AI Chat Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agent |
| 7 May ‘24 | AWS Community Day Nordics 2024 | Building an AI Chat Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agent |
| 28 Mar ‘24 | AWS User Group 3city | Building an AI Chat Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agent |
| 29 Feb ‘24 | Conf42 Python 2024 | Unlock the Power of LLM: Build a HuggingFace Agent |
| 7 Sep ‘23 | PyCon Portugal 2023 | Amazon CodeWhisperer, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot: Choosing the Best Python AI Code Assistant |
| 2 Mar ‘23 | AWS User Group Dortmund | NLP on AWS: SageMaker and high-level services |
| 20 Oct ‘22 | Copenhagen AWS User Group | Meet the builders: Machine Learning, NLP and AI Healthcare |
Podcasts/Articles/etc. (Appearances & Hosting)
| Date | Medium | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Dec ‘25 | It’s All About Serverless | Cloud Journey with Darya Petrashka |
| 19 Nov ‘25 | Day Two DevOps | D2DO287: Leveling Up in Data Science |
| 21 Jul ‘25 | Kiro Youtube Channel | Having Kiro is Like Having a Friend to Whom You Can Delegate Parts of Work |
| 21 Jul ‘25 | Kiro Youtube Channel | I Haven’t Seen An Advancement In Developer Process Like This Ever |
| 13 Jul ‘25 | Thriving Career Moms | From Verb Tenses to Vectors: When It All Clicked - with Darya Petrashka |
| 31 Mar ‘25 | Ready, Set, Cloud Newsletter | Issue #157: A HUGE week for AI |
| 3 Mar ‘25 | Cloud Career Mentor | From project manager to AI Cloud Data Scientist |
| 17 Jan ‘25 | AWS Developers Podcast | Meet Darya, from sitting-at-home mom to data scientist |
| 17 Jan ‘25 | LinkedIn Live Event hosted by Dr. Joanne Skiles | AWS Community Builders Program - What is it & How you can become one! |
| 10 Jan ‘25 | Linkedin Fireside chat by Cyril Bandolo | Becoming a Data Analyst in 2025 |
| 14 Nov ‘24 | AWS Blog for Industries | Optimize Your Supply Chain Processes with Generative AI on AWS |
| 4 Jun ‘24 | Logicast AWS News Podcast Season Three | Season 3 Episode 21 - IPv6, Small Large Language Models and Leadership Changes |
| 4 May ‘24 | AWS Builder Center | From sitting-at-home mom to Data Scientist |
| 27 Jan ‘23 | Dr. Joanne Skiles Youtube Channel | Finding Your Path In Tech - Live Talk Session with Darya Petrashka |
| 10 Jan ‘23 | Women Who Code | AWS Community Builders Program - What Is It & How You Can Become One |
| 30 Dec ‘22 | Julia F Morgado Youtube Channel | AWS Community Builders Program - What is it & How you can become one! |