Sponsored by Daemon

Agenda
06:00pm – Doors open
06:30pm – Welcome
06:35pm – Shradha Janib, “Traffic sign recognition using deep learning”
07:20pm – Break
07:35pm – David Hughes, Stelia, “Lessons learned from running ML workloads in production”
08:20pm – Lightning talks

• ​Freeman Madudili, “Deterministic boundaries around AI actions”

• ​Ozan Dagdeviren, “Why measuring AI skill is harder than it looks”

• ​08:50pm – Close, social at The Angel

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Hosted by Zoopla and sponsored by glassflow.ai

Agenda

06:00pm – Doors open

06:30pm – Welcome

06:35pm – Amy Kuner, Zoopla, "House-training an agent: evals and guardrails for prod"

07:05pm – Break

07:20pm – Armend Avdijaj, Founder and CEO, glassflow.ai, "The missing observability layer for self-improving agents"

08:00pm – Gabriele Monti, founder of IA per tutti, "AI for everyone, this is how I spent my summer"

Free, local workshops helping communities explore AI—from tokens and agents to building games for a real arcade cabinet.

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​Supported by lenses.io

Agenda
06:00pm - Doors open
06:30pm - Welcome
06:35pm - Alper Nebi Kanli, Optimizely, "How LLMs Represent Concepts Internally: A Tour of the Geometry"
07:05pm - Break
07:20pm - Tun Shwe, Lenses.io "Understanding Agent Harnesses"
08:00pm - Lightning Talks:

• "Which AI Model Will Win the World Cup?" Fred Smits

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Large language models look like they just predict the next word, so it is surprising how much structure they build inside. They actually represent concepts: you can find directions in their activations for things like gender, sentiment, or even truthfulness, and you can use those directions to steer what the model does. This talk starts there, with the evidence that concepts really are represented inside these models. Then it goes one level deeper: what does it actually mean for a concept to be "a direction"? The answer depends on geometry, on how you choose to measure, and that choice does more work than it looks. You will come away seeing the inside of an LLM a little more clearly, with a few surprises about something many of us use every day.

Agenda

06:00pm - Doors open

06:30pm - Welcome

06:35pm - Sohini Mallick, RudraX "Worm in the Room: The Day 19 Neurons Drove a Car"

07:00pm - Break

07:15pm - Nicolas Makaroff, Neuralk AI "From Gradient Boosting to Tabular Foundation Models: What Changed, What Didn't"

07:45pm - Lightning Talks:

• Emmanuel Okedele, Coefficient "Let's advance AI but let's also keep humanity safe while at it"

• TBA

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Sohini Mallick is Managing Director of RudraX Technologies (London) and CTO of its global arm — an applied-AI company building systems for high-stakes, resource-constrained environments across defence and preventive healthcare. An engineer-turned-founder, she shipped critical systems at Target before an Oxford MBA, then founded RudraX to put serious engineering behind other founders' ideas. Her current focus is adaptive AI — models that keep learning after deployment, built for the real-world settings where conventional approaches struggle. She was named in CIO Views' "10 Most Innovative Tech Leaders Making a Difference" (2025).

Agenda

06:00pm - Doors open, pizza, drinks, and networking

06:30pm - Welcome

06:35pm - Anshul Yadav: AI Engineer @ Li & Fung
The Agent Is Not the Product: The Harness Is

07:00pm - Break

07:15pm - Bilge Aksu: ML Engineering Manager @ Cleo

07:40pm - Lightning Talk 1: Abd Bastola: Senior Software Engineer @ AWTG
​Why Most AI Agents Never Reach Production

07:47pm - Lightning Talk 2: Sofía Sánchez-Zárate: Head of Technical Ecosystem @ CopilotKit
​AG-UI & The Generative UI Spectrum

​08:00pm — Community networking and closing remarks for AI Signals and LangCahin
8:10pm - 09:00pm — ​Wrap-up, drinks at Angel London

What to Expect

​The evening will feature technical and practical discussions around:

• ​Building reliable AI agents and intelligent workflows

• ​RAG pipelines for real-world applications

• ​Moving AI prototypes into production

• ​Storytelling, design, and user experience in AI products

• ​Lessons from AI builders, engineers, product leaders, and community speakers

​Whether you are experimenting with AI agents, deploying RAG systems, exploring LangChain, or simply curious about where AI development is heading, this meetup is designed to help you learn, connect, and contribute.

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​Who Should Attend

​This event is ideal for:

• ​Software engineers

• ​AI and ML practitioners

• ​Product managers

• ​Founders and startup teams

• ​Researchers and students

• ​Designers working with AI products

• ​Anyone interested in building practical AI applications

​You’ll gain insight into the tools, architectures, and workflows behind the next generation of intelligent applications, while connecting with the growing London AI and LangChain community.

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About LangChain Community London

​LangChain Community London brings together developers, AI engineers, researchers, and technology enthusiasts interested in building applications powered by large language models, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, and production AI systems.

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​A huge thank you to our speakers, sponsors, hosts, volunteers, and community members for making this event possible.
​Secure your place and join us for an evening of learning, collaboration, and AI community energy in London.

Agenda

06:00pm - Doors open

06:30pm - Welcome

06:35pm - Mariia Borysova, Senior Product Designer at Amazon, "Storytelling in AI"

07:00pm - Break

07:15pm - Celeste Horgan, Senior OSS Developer Advocate at Snowflake, "Apache Spark Pipelines: Adventures in Raccoon detection"

07:45pm - Lightning Talk: Sneha Kalaivanan, Senior Product Manager at Tesco, TBD

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Agenda

06:00pm - Doors open

06:30pm - Welcome

06:35pm - Anni Chen, Developer Evangelist at Twilio, "Building a Real-Time AI Voice Agent"

07:00pm - Break

07:15pm - Peter Houghton, Lead Engineer and Researcher at Investigating Software Limited, "Tokens for Fun & Quality and More"

​07:45pm - Lightning Talk: Anand Rawat, Co-Founder at AINAP Ltd, "Agents That Monitor the Pipeline: Autonomous DataOps for AI Systems"

09:00pm - Wrap up and social at The Bricklayers Arms

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Agenda

06:00pm - Doors open, food and drink served

06:30pm - Welcome

06:35pm - Ana Catarina de Alencar, Resident Philosopher at The AI Collective, "AI That Reads Emotions: What It Means for Data Privacy, Consent, Your Teams"

07:00pm - Break

07:15pm - Will Chan, Senior Product Manager at Risk Ledger, "How to Scale Yourself with an AI Digital Twin"

​07:45pm - Lightning Talks TBA

09:00pm - Wrap up and social at Well & Bucket

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Agenda

​06:00pm - Doors open, food and drink served

​06:30pm - Welcome

​06:35pm - Adebola Olomo, CMO at Avetium and Global Partnerships Lead at Women in AI, "AI & Storytelling"

​07:00pm - Break

​07:15pm - Etienne Bernard, Founder & CEO at NuMind, “Outclassing Frontier LLMs at Extracting Information"

​​07:45pm - Lightning Talk: Meryem Arik, Co-Founder & CEO of Doubleword, "Async Agents in Production: Failures & Fixes"

​09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

​07:05pm - Adam Hill, AI Engineer & Data Scientist, "Not Another LLM Talk...Practical Lessons from Building a Real-World Adverse Media Pipeline

​07:45pm - Break

​08:00pm - John Sandall, CEO/CTO, "How To Measure And Mitigate Unfair Bias in Machine Learning Models"

​08:40pm - Lightning Talk: Kaustubh Ramekar, "Seeing the Unseen : AI Systems that Act Before Disaster Strikes"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

​07:05pm - Ollie Glass, Independent AI Engineer "Measuring, Improving, and Explaining RAG Systems"
Yaswanth Narvaneni, Entrepreneur in Residence, Antler, “MCP Gateway: Adding resilience and scale to MCP stack”

​07:45pm - Break

​08:00pm - Brain John Aboze, Developer Evangelist, Safe Intelligence, "Formal verification of ML , a rigorous mathematical approach"

​08:40pm - Rhea Mendonca: When Your Data Lies: Lessons from Feeding AI with Incomplete Truths

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Bricklayers Arms

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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

​07:05pm - Sefik Serengil, Creator of DeepFace "DeepFace - a de facto standard for facial recognition"

​07:45pm - Break

​08:00pm - Frances Knight, Daemon, "NeuroscAIence: human & artificial neural networks"

​08:40pm - Oluebubechi Anyahara, "AI Bias in Everyday life: when algorithms decide for us"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - Panel exploring the subject of “Leading with Data”

• ​Reut Nissan Rosen, VP Product Data @ Lightricks

• ​John Carney, Director of Data Science @ PDFTA

• ​Nidhi Agrawal, Director @ UBS

• ​Wendy Mak, Senior Data Scientist @ The Stepstone Group

​07:45pm - Break

​08:00pm - Gopi Shankar, Direct Line Group “The Model Context Protocol”

​​08:40 - Reut Nissan Rosen, VP Product Data @ Lightricks “From SQL to Strategy: Redefining the Analyst with AI”

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Artillery Arms

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Unfortunately we are missing audio up until 3.30, apologies for any inconvenience caused.
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06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - Henry Musto, BBC " Using AI to Predict Dementia - An Overview of Research and Future Directions"

Henry Musto is a fifth year PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a professional data scientist, with over ten years experience, currently contracting with the BBC. For the past five years, Henry has been using AI modelling techniques in order to predict the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease, and track the prognosis of this debilitating condition. In this presentation, Henry will give an overview of the current state of the field of dementia prediction using AI, and present a summary of his own work and plans for future research.

07:45pm - Break

08:00pm - Damian Bemben, Ada Mode "Analysing UK's energy development fears - a graveyard of NIMBY destroyed projects."

Damien will talk about how "Not In My Back Yard" (NIMBYISM) is strangling UK infrastructure development, particularly renewable energy projects, and demonstrate his novel solution: the "Nimby Radar" - an AI-powered system that quantifies the true cost of local opposition to green infrastructure.

He'll dive into publicly available data sources to map organized resistance efforts, then showcase how Google's latest AI capabilities - including Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent-to-agent communication, advanced vectorization, and large-scale data analysis APIs - can automatically identify and analyze NIMBY campaigns at scale.

​08:40 - Rising Odegua, Kallikor "Building a smart calendar with Agentic AI"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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Join us for this special event in collaboration with Women in Data.

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - Rachel Lee Nabors "The Death of the Browser"

In ten years, Internet Browsers may be a nostalgic memory. As enterprises face mounting API costs and integration headaches, a new paradigm is emerging. The internet's evolution from an open highway into a maze of walled gardens and monetized APIs has created significant challenges for businesses—but it has also set the stage for accessing and organizing the world’s information.

This talk traces our journey from the invention of the browser to the arms race of scraping for data and access to it to the dawn of AI agents, showing how the challenges of today opened the door to tomorrow. See how technologies refined by the web scraping community are combining with large language models to create practical alternatives to costly API integrations.

From the rise of platform monopolies to the emergence of AI agents, this timeline-based exploration will help you understand where we've been, where we are, and where we're heading. Join us for a glimpse of how AI agents are enabling a return to the era of free information with ""the web as the API.

07:45pm - Break

08:00pm - James Faure, Clario "Beyond the Model: Where the Real Value in AI Lies Now"

The foundational model race is over. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic, and others have cemented their place, and while incremental gains will come, the biggest leap left is in reasoning over large context windows. So, where’s the real opportunity now?

In this talk, we’ll explore the next frontier: the application layer, or more commonly known as Agents. The winners in AI will be those who master the design of vertical agents—specialised, accurate, and cost-effective tools built on top of existing models. We’ll unpack how to build strong MOATs through system prompt engineering, what separates useful agents from noisy ones, and why the next generation of high-value AI products will be defined not by the models they use, but by how they use them. Whether you're building, investing, or leading, this session will show you where to focus for real impact.

08:40 - Jethro Reeve, Coeffecient “Zero to Coder: A vibe coder's story”
Jethro landed his first data science contract in late 2023 as a fresh grad, with a degree that has nothing to do with computer science. Two months ago, he got a full time job as a developer. 

He's here to share how it all panned out, share thoughts on the impact of AI on software development, and help you get started on the same journey. 

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

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​Agenda

​06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

​07:00pm - Welcome

​07:05pm - Chaitanya Pathak, Leads by Analyttica "The Evolution of Reasoning from System 1 to System 2 Thinking in Large Language Models (LLMs)"

​The shift from System 1 to System 2 thinking is essential in overcoming some of the inherent limitations of current LLMs, such as susceptibility to bias, overgeneralization, and errors in complex tasks that require nuanced understanding or multi-step reasoning. In this session, we will explore how LLMs are transitioning to more sophisticated forms of reasoning, including how they handle ambiguous queries, adapt to novel contexts, and generate more thoughtful, context-aware responses.

​07:45pm - Break

​08:00pm - Ben Gamble, Ververica "Scaling AI workloads with Flink."

Ben’s talk will run though why Flink is a great tool for handling AI powered services and especially Agentic systems. He will talk about data, events, and semantics.

​08:40 - Damien Jade Duff, Daemon "Beyond multi-agent systems: well-designed AI systems delivering value"

Multi-agent systems are currently trending and they do have their uses and an interesting future, but equally they are being thrown with little thought at problems for which modern AI approaches that have been carefully designed and well-tested. Here I give our experience of use cases where we have used good practice and wit to orchestrate LLMs for use cases around knowledge distillation, data extraction, and controllable customer-facing solutions.

​09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - Lu Wilson. TLDraw "Beyond chat: Bringing models to the canvas"

Whenever a new technology appears, our first instinct as developers is to offer "text" as the primary method of interaction. This has happened throughout computing history, with the computer terminal, with early smartphones, and now it's happening again with AI.
At tldraw, we’ve been working on moving AI interaction away from the chat-based interface, towards a richer canvas environment. It hasn't been easy! I'll show you all the challenges we've faced, and how we're currently overcoming them. Some of the solutions have been surprising.

07:45pm - Break

08:00pm - Wendy Mak. Senior Data scientist at the Stepstone Group "SetFit for efficient few-shot classification"

08:40 - Sean Tracey, Bacalhau "Generating alt-text with LVMs for Bluesky with Bacalhau"
alt-text makes the web more accessible for everyone, but not everybody takes the time to describe content they upload to social media platforms. So, we thought "Wouldn't it be great if we can use AI to automate that for people a touch?" And that's what we've done! Using Bacalhau.org and LLaVA (a Large Vision Model), we've built a Bluesky Bot which can generate alt-text for any image on Bluesky with just a single post!

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - Rachel Lee Nabors, Fractional Developer Experience Leader "AI/ML Cram Session"

What do acronyms like RAG and GPT really mean? What is the math behind the “magic” of deep learning? What is a “perceptron” and why is it called a “neural network?” This talk demystifies AI’s field of machine learning for AI-curious technical and non-technical audiences alike. The concepts, mental models, and history needed to grok are colorfully illustrated and explained. From the award-winning cartoonist turned engineer/keynote speaker who has taught millions of developers via react.dev and MDN.

07:45pm - Break

08:00pm - Rhea Mendonca, MSc in Data Science Greenwich University "Unlocking the Potential of Dark Data with Machine Learning"

This talk will focus on how machine learning can unlock the untapped potential of dark data—vast amounts of collected but unused information stored by organizations. I will explain how machine learning techniques can process and analyze this complex, unstructured data to uncover valuable insights that traditional methods often overlook. Through real-world examples from industries like healthcare, finance, and education, I will demonstrate how dark data can drive innovation, improve decision-making, and offer a competitive advantage.
Additionally, I will address the ethical considerations and challenges that come with harnessing dark data, including privacy concerns and data management. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to begin leveraging dark data within their own organizations, transforming it from a hidden resource into a powerful tool for growth and discovery.

08:40 - Jason Chao, Director, Hongkongers in Britain (HKB) "Understanding immigrants' challenges with help from LLM"
Jason will share HKB's journey of building a tool that summarises and translates UK Hongkongers' discussions of their challenges. The talk will touch on the role of GPT-4o in this tool and the approach to ensuring participants' anonymity. The tool's output will help UK policymakers/local authorities understand UK Hongkongers' settlement challenges in a timely manner.

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - A short talk from our hosts Daemon

07:10pm - Ivan Kavalerov, CTO at Quantly "Unexpected learnings from deploying LLM products in enterprise"

07:50pm - Break

08:00pm - Sapnil Bhatnagar - Manager at Insife "AI Augmented Agile Product Development"

This talk will explore emerging AI tools which can now be utilized in your product development lifecycle and we will explore AI augmentation within your SDLC process.

08:40 - Artur Chakhvadze, Machine Learning Engineer at Stealth "Data as API: a principled data management approach for ML projects"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - A short talk from our hosts Daemon

07:10pm - Thomas Wood, Director of Fast Data Science "Project Harmony: a free online tool using LLMs for research in psychology and social sciences"

Thomas Wood will present our work on Harmony, harmonydata.ac.uk, which is a free online tool that uses generative AI and LLMs to help researchers compare items in questionnaires such as GAD-7 (used to measure anxiety), even when they are written in different languages. Harmony is open source under MIT License and is written in Python, and uses HuggingFace Sentence Transformers to find similarities between questionnaires. Harmony will soon allow researchers to discover datasets using a vector search.

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Vikram Haridas, Lead Product Manager at Groupon "Implementing AI-Driven Product Innovations: Strategic Insights and Practical Applications"

Vikram Haridas, from Groupon, will reveal how AI can supercharge product roadmaps. Learn how to balance excitement with realism as you scale AI features and discover practical use cases. Get insights into Groupon's success with AI-powered deal optimization and automated merchant onboarding, and learn how to implement these strategies in your own business.

08:40 - Shubhangi Goyal, Data Analyst @ ICS.AI Ltd and Nidhi Agrawal Director @UBS, "Generative AI and its use cases"

Our session will explore the transformative potential of Generative AI, focusing on its use cases in matching algorithms and its applications in the financial industry. We'll dive into how AI models enhance person-matching processes by analyzing large datasets for customer service, and personalization. Additionally, we’ll examine how Generative AI is revolutionising the financial sector.

09:10pm - Wrap up, drinks at Angel London

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - A short talk from our sponsor Daemon

07:10pm - John Sandall, CEO & Principal Data Scientist at Coefficient "Fairness Tales: Investigating the use of AI tools in hiring and recruitment"

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Andreas Varotsis, Head of AI Capability at 10 Downing Street "Measuring Bias and Impact in GovAI"

09:00pm - Wrap up

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - A short talk from our hosts Daemon

07:10pm - James Jackson, Associate Director at S-RM, "Using LLMs to make complex assessments without knowledge loss"

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Tom Scott, Founder and CEO at Streambased, "Enhancing AI with real time data: unlocking contextual insights"

08:40 - Pearl Prakash, Comcast, "Building trip itinerary planner with RAG"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - An opening statement from Daemon

07:10pm - Konrad Bachusz, Lead Data Engineer at Credera, "State of AI in 2024"

Konrad Bachusz has a broad range of experience in finance and data, working in various industries including accounting, government, trading, healthcare, transportation, finance, and consulting. Currently, he is a Lead Data Engineer at a global boutique consultancy called Credera. His current role involves helping enterprise clients deliver data engineering, data platforms, and AI solutions. Konrad's interest in AI stems from his background in data analytics, data science, machine learning and data engineering. Outside of work he enjoys travelling, playing his guitars and programming.

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Lucy Thomas ML Engineer at the Natwest Group and Dr. Ariadna Blanca Romero Senior Data Scientist / AI-Machine Learning Engineer at the Natwest Group, "Enterprise Scale MLOps at NatWest"

Lucy and Ariadna will take us on NatWest Group's journey of building an MLOps platform that streamlines the entire machine learning lifecycle, and examples of using additional tools to support MLOps. This platform has boosted team productivity, reduced manual workflows for building, training, and deploying models, and enhanced security and compliance.

Lucy Thomas is a Senior AI/ML Engineer at NatWest Group, working in the Data Innovation team. Her focus at the moment is building ML solutions for conversational intelligence that are reliable and robust. Outside of work she enjoys going to the gym, swimming in the sea and reading.

Dr. Ariadna Blanca Romero is a Senior Data Scientist/AI-ML Engineer at NatWest with a background in computational material science. She is passionate about creating tools for automation that take advantage of the reproducibility of results from models and optimize the process to ensure prompt decision-making to deliver the best customer experience. Ariadna volunteers as a STEM virtual mentor for a non-profit organization helping the professional development of Latin-American students and young professionals, particularly for empowering women. She is passionate about practising yoga, cooking, and playing her electric guitar.

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - An opening statement from Daemon

07:10pm - Damien Jade Duff, Senior Machine Learning Consultant at Daemon, "Building an educational video chatbot"

07:50pm - Break

08:00 - Steve Morris, Innovation Coach and Design Thinking Practioner "Storytelling to inspire"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - An opening statement from WeWork about their exciting new offering for AI organisations

07:10pm - Ingrid Kolderup and Kari Mo, Software Engineers at Cisco, "How Deep Learning empowers video meetings"
In this talk, we will share insights into the use of ML techniques, such as object detection and classification, to improve video meetings on our Cisco devices. We'll discuss our wide range of ML models and their respective use cases. The session will include a focused examination of our head detection model, detailing the fundamental principles and demonstrating the specific functionalities it facilitates to refine the video meeting experience.

07:35 - Peter Kemp, Principal Consultant & Digital Transformation at FSP, "Launching Copilot for Microsoft 365"
Copilot for Microsoft 365 has the power to positively transform the modern workplace. Using LLMs and integrating your data and Microsoft 365 Apps, Copilot for M365 supports employees to be more productive, creative and collaborative. Pete will shared some of our experiences working with a number of organisations on launching Copilot for M365, including some of benefits and challenges it presents.

08:00pm - Break

8:20pm - Ian Osvald, Principal Data Scientist at Mor Consultin, "Llama.cpp for fun and (maybe) profit"
Running models locally on the CPU and possibly a GPU means we can experiment with the latest quantised models on real client data without anything leaving the machine. We can explore text question answering, image analysis and calling these tools via a Python API for rapid PoC experimentation. This quickly exposes the ways that LLMs go weird and maybe that helps us avoid some of the examples of early LLM deployments making embarrassing mistakes!

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Globe

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:05pm - An opening statement from WeWork about their exciting new offering for AI organisations

07:10pm - Ingrid Kolderup and Kari Mo, Software Engineers at Cisco, "How Deep Learning empowers video meetings"
In this talk, we will share insights into the use of ML techniques, such as object detection and classification, to improve video meetings on our Cisco devices. We'll discuss our wide range of ML models and their respective use cases. The session will include a focused examination of our head detection model, detailing the fundamental principles and demonstrating the specific functionalities it facilitates to refine the video meeting experience.

07:35 - Peter Kemp, Principal Consultant & Digital Transformation at FSP, "Launching Copilot for Microsoft 365"
Copilot for Microsoft 365 has the power to positively transform the modern workplace. Using LLMs and integrating your data and Microsoft 365 Apps, Copilot for M365 supports employees to be more productive, creative and collaborative. Pete will shared some of our experiences working with a number of organisations on launching Copilot for M365, including some of benefits and challenges it presents.

08:00pm - Break

8:20pm - Ian Osvald, Principal Data Scientist at Mor Consultin, "Llama.cpp for fun and (maybe) profit"
Running models locally on the CPU and possibly a GPU means we can experiment with the latest quantised models on real client data without anything leaving the machine. We can explore text question answering, image analysis and calling these tools via a Python API for rapid PoC experimentation. This quickly exposes the ways that LLMs go weird and maybe that helps us avoid some of the examples of early LLM deployments making embarrassing mistakes!

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Globe

Join us at the Huckletree Shoreditch Auditorium March 6th for a special event all about development with AI. Come along for an evening of talks, food, and conversation with ML and AI industry pros, generously sponsored by SambaNova.

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Kunle Olukotun, SambaNova, An exciting announcement

07:55pm - Break

8:10pm - Anton McGonnell, SambaNova, Demo

8:30pm - John Sandall, Coefficient, How to build an open-source LLM chat agent

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Singer Tavern

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Henry Musto, PhD candidate at Goldsmiths University of London, "Artificial Intelligence in Alzheimer's modelling - Challenges and missteps"

07:55pm - Break

8:10pm - Jackson Gabbard, Cord "Why are embedding vectors so absurdly useful?"

8:50pm - Ruby Stoddart, Datasparq "Scalable Optimisation of a Dynamic Pricing Model"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Sir Christopher Hatton

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Damien Jade Duff, Daemon & Jenny Vega, AWS "Integrating Huggingface TGI and the latest Sagemaker features for fast, cheap, and generic inference and chat"

07:55pm - Break

08:10pm - Ben Linden & Jordan Plamer, Datasparq "Dynamic Allocated Seat Pricing Using Reinforcement Learning"

8:40pm - Lawrence Knight, Head of Health Data Science Vitality "What you need to know if you want to think about AGI"

8:50pm - Daniel DeBurgo, Daemon "Blog automation with ChatGPT"

09:00pm - Wrap up, drinks at The Bear

Agenda

06:30pm - Doors open, food and drink served

07:00pm - Welcome

07:15pm - Ben Preston, Capgemini "The Bee's Code: How to use bee data to drive human behaviours"

07:55pm - Break

8:10pm - Carolina Camacho, Cisco "ChatGPT and YAML: a Router configuration use case"

09:00pm - Wrap up