Name: LA Happy Hour with AMD & Mission Cloud, a CDW Company
Start: 2026-06-10T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-10T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Katsuya LA LIVE

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LA Happy Hour with AMD & Mission Cloud, a CDW Company

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Event Overview

Enjoy drinks and great conversations with AMD & Mission Cloud, a CDW Company

Good conversation. Better people. Free drinks and food help too.
Come spend an evening with fellow AWS users and tech leaders across Los Angeles. We're bringing together the people building what's next on the AWS cloud and with AI, and you need to be a part of it!

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What You'll Learn

• How cloud attacks actually happen
Real threat scenarios and the detection that stops them. No theoretical frameworks.

• Architecture patterns that work in production
Security designs for AWS that include compliance controls for PCI, HIPAA, and SOC 2.

• 24/7 protection without building an entire SOC
How Mission Cloud Secure delivers continuous monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response at cloud speed.

Schedule

Date TBD

5:30pm

Food, Drinks, and Networking

Speakers

Learn from industry experts.

Josh Ray

Cloud Security Specialist, CrowdStrike

Josh Ray is a Cloud Security Specialist at CrowdStrike with over a decade of experience in the security space. Through his tenure, he has worked extensively with cloud migration and expansion projects covering AWS, Azure, and GCP. He has previously worked with a healthcare cloud specialized Managed Service Provider, as well as multiple industry leaders in the security space covering a large breadth of security projects in endpoint, cloud, email, and networking.

During his tenure at CrowdStrike, Josh has worked as a specialist, focusing his work on emerging technology companies in the AI, cryptocurrency, and Healthcare technology spaces among the over three hundred companies he worked with in 2025. With a finger on the pulse of the challenges companies are facing in the AI era, Josh helps navigate the complexities of cloud with a pragmatic and visionary approach.

Unika Cole

Mgr Cloud Operations, Mission Cloud

Unika Cole is a Cloud Operations Manager at Mission Cloud, A CDW Company, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner. With a deep focus on operational excellence and cloud governance, Unika oversees the delivery of managed services that empower organizations to scale securely and efficiently on AWS.

As a leader within Mission Cloud’s dedicated AWS practice, she plays a vital role in bridging the gap between high-performance cloud infrastructure and industry-leading security. Her expertise ensures that complex cloud environments remain resilient, optimized, and prepared to meet the rigorous demands of today’s cybersecurity landscape.

Sponsors

About Mission Cloud, a CDW Company

Mission Cloud, a CDW Company, is a leading AWS Premier Tier Partner and born-in-the-cloud managed services and consulting provider, offering end-to-end cloud services, agentic AI solutions, and software for AWS customers.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-powered, cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk — endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data.

CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, and elite threat hunting.

Event Health and Safety Information

See how we're planning to keep our in-person attendees safe.

See our full COVID-19 policy below:

Health Policy

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How do we access the event venue?

Enter NextFab via the gated parking lot for the complex off of American Street. NextFab's door is on the far left.

Will there be opportunities to network at the event?

The event will kick off with an informal happy hour, during which you will have the opportunity to network with colleagues.

What should I bring to the event?

Please don't forget your business cards!

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