Step into the Harness AI Survival Arena at AWS re:Invent 2025. Visit Booth 731 to take on Squid Game–inspired challenges, experience live AI delivery demos, score exclusive swag, and discover how one unified platform helps teams ship better software on AWS with less friction.
Enter the AI Survival Arena 🦑🟩
Dec 1 to 5 · Booth 731 · The Venetian · Las Vegas
(Harness is an AWS Partner)
AI dominates re:Invent 2025, and engineering leaders everywhere are asking the same question:
Which AI will actually help teams ship better software on AWS with less friction?
This year Harness invites you to step into a Squid Game inspired AI Survival Arena. Pick your role, take on challenges, earn rewards, and leave Las Vegas with real AI powered delivery strategies. Captain Canary will be on site in a special 456 uniform to welcome players into the game.
Add Booth 731 to your conference planner and find all event details here.
🔺 Choose Your Role
Select the role that defines your strategy inside the arena:
- The Builder seeking faster dev loops and fewer blockers
- The Platform Architect creating golden paths for teams
- The Cost Strategist eliminating AWS waste
- The Security Guardian protecting code, pipelines, and AI flows
Your journey begins at Booth 731.
🟥 Main Challenge: Beat the AI Tool Sprawl Game Master
In The State of AI in Software Engineering, teams report using 8 to 10 different AI tools across dev, test, security, and ops. Tool overload slows delivery, increases friction, and creates unnecessary complexity.
Your objective: Discover how one unified, AI powered delivery platform on AWS can simplify CI, CD, cost, and security at once.
Download The State of AI in Software Engineering before re:Invent.
🏟 Booth 731: The AI Survival Arena
Inside the arena, you can unlock:
- Live AI demos across CI, CD, cost, and security
- The Ask an Agent Challenge, where you present a delivery bottleneck and see how AI solves it
- A chance to Spin to Win on our slot machine
- One-to-one strategy conversations with product and engineering leaders
This is where the competition begins.
🎁 Bonus Loot: Swag Drops
Get ready for epic AI GAME swag, surprise giveaways, and booth-exclusive merch. We’re talking a mix of playful items, premium collectibles, and fan favorites designed to make your re:Invent run a lot more fun. Swing by to see what you can win.
🟩 Side Quests and Achievements
Complete as many as you can:
☐ Ask where AI can remove a step in your delivery flow
☐ Pick your role and request a Day 1 Experiment to try at home
☐ Bring your cloud bill and learn where AI optimization can have immediate impact
☐ Share your top engineering metric and see how AI can improve it
Bonus: Share your most challenging pipeline story and ask how AI can help resolve it.
🌃 Night Raid: After Hours with Harness
Dec 2 · 8:45 PM to 11:45 PM · Flight Club, The Venetian
Darts, drinks, and DevOps. This is where teams talk honestly about AI, velocity, AWS, risk, and reality.
Register for the After Hours event.
🥂 Leadership Missions
For directors, VPs, and execs looking for high signal conversations.
Executive Resiliency Roundtable
Dec 2 · 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM · Mastro’s Ocean Prime
VIP Networking Dinner
Dec 3 · 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM · STK Steakhouse [Invite only].
Enjoy a curated culinary experience and meaningful conversation with Harness executives and industry leaders in an evening designed to connect, celebrate, and look ahead.
This dinner is at capacity. To join the waitlist, email jessica.jackson@harness.io
The Future of AppSec Luncheon
Dec 3 · 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM · Sadelle’s Cafe
Connect with technology and security leaders to explore modern AppSec challenges and how top organizations are securing apps and APIs without slowing innovation. Gain actionable insights through open conversation in an intimate, curated executive setting.
Register for the AppSec Luncheon.
🎤 Hear from Harness at re:Invent
Engineering the Future of Hospitality: Marriott’s Global Digital Transformation
Thursday, December 4 | 1:00 PM | Room: MGM Grand 116
Join leaders from Marriott International and Harness for a deep dive into how Marriott modernized their global delivery ecosystem, built a resilient cloud-native foundation, and prepared their engineering org for an AI-enabled future.
Speakers include:
- Jyoti Bansal, CEO, Harness
- Nick Durkin, Field CTO, Harness
- Adnan Haq, VP, DevSecOps & Infrastructure, Marriott International
- Sean Corkum, Sr. Director, DevSecOps & Automation, Marriott International
Add this session to your agenda [DVT104-S].
🤝 Co-op Mode: Harness + AWS
Harness is an AWS Partner with a delivery platform purpose-built for AWS environments. Many teams also choose to run Harness through AWS Marketplace for a native buying experience.
🏁 Final Mission: Your Path to Victory
Before re:Invent
- Download the AI report
- Pick your character
- Bring one challenge you want solved
During re:Invent
- Visit Booth 731
- Hit at least one leadership event or the Marriott session
- Try the Spin to Win machine
After re:Invent
- Run one small experiment inspired by your week
- Meet with Harness for an AI delivery blueprint
See you in Las Vegas.
Come ready to play, learn, build, and win. Step into the arena with confidence because Harness will bring the AWS expertise, the AI innovation, and the platform your team needs to advance.
The games begin at Booth 731. Are you ready to make it to the final round?
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Dewan Ahmed is a Principal Developer Advocate at Harness, a company that aims to enable every software engineering team in the world to deliver code reliably, efficiently and quickly to their users. Before joining Harness, he worked at IBM, Red Hat, and Aiven as a developer, QA lead, consultant, and developer advocate. For the last fifteen years, Dewan has worked to solve DevOps and infrastructure problems for small startups, large enterprises, and governments. Starting his public speaking at a toastmaster in 2016, he has been speaking at tech conferences and meetups for the last ten years. His work is fueled by a passion for open-source and a deep respect for the tech community. Dewan writes about app/data infrastructure, developer advocacy, and his thoughts around a career in tech on his personal blog. Outside of work, he’s an advocate for underrepresented groups in tech and offers pro bono career coaching as his way of giving back.