JAWS FESTA 2026 in AKITA
Overview
The annual traveling conference that JAWS-UG, the AWS user group of Japan, holds once a year in a regional city outside Tokyo. The 2026 edition takes place at Akita Arts Theatre Milhas in Akita City, lining up regional cloud case studies and community-driven sessions. The 2025 Kanazawa edition drew roughly 300 registrants, with strongly local programming such as disaster-relief lessons from the Noto Peninsula earthquake. It functions as a hub connecting regional IT communities.
Foundation
- Founded
- 2010
- Founder
- JAWS-UG (AWS User Group – Japan)
JAWS-UG's regional festival counterpart to Tokyo's JAWS DAYS, rotating host cities each year. Local organizing committees lead the event with municipal backing and regional company participation, spotlighting themes unique to each region.
Transition
- 2010 AWSユーザーコミュニティJAWS-UG発足
- 2025 JAWS FESTA 2025 in 金沢を10月11日に開催（北陸初開催・286名登録）
- 2026 6月22日に一般参加申込を開始
- 2026 11月7日にJAWS FESTA 2026 in AKITAを開催予定
Voices
Strongly felt the warmth of the JAWS-UG community, welcoming even to first-timers (from yakumo_09's report, in Japanese)
Hearing cloud adoption stories directly from Hokuriku companies and municipalities gave a regional depth that Tokyo events lack (from uniformnext's report, in Japanese)
Sessions unique to the venue, such as disaster-relief lessons from the Noto Peninsula earthquake, stood out (from DevelopersIO's event report, in Japanese)
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