About us
PyData MCR is the Manchester chapter of the International PyData Community.
For Manchester based data people, to share and learn new things. All open data tooling welcome, we are not python focused.
PyData is dedicated to providing a harassment-free meeting experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of meeting participants in any form.
All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue, including talks.
Be kind to others.
Do not insult or put down other attendees. Behave professionally. Remember that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate for PyData.
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Upcoming events
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PyData MCR - February
GM Digital Security Hub (DiSH), 47 Lloyd St, Manchester M2 5LE, Manchester, GBPyDataMCR February Talks
THE TALKS
Orchestrating the complex stuff with Prefect - Kerry Parker (She/Her)
Kerry is a Data Engineer at Climate Policy Radar has over 7 years experience in both Data Science and Data Engineering roles across multiple industries. She is passionate about learning, sharing knowledge and giving back to the community.
Kerry will be speaking about Orchestrating the Complex Stuff with Prefect where she will introduce the concept of orchestration, why it matters for modern data workflows and how Prefect makes it flexible and easy to get started. Drawing on her experience of designing and building orchestration pipelines across a range of projects, Kerry will share practical insights, real-world examples, and tips to help you decide when and how to bring orchestration into your own projects.
Building Ai Agents - Tibor Bicskei (He/Him)
Tibor Bicskei is a Platform Development Manager at AZoNetwork in Manchester, building production AI systems including Azthena (an AI chatbot serving millions) and agentic automation tools using OpenAI’s Agents SDK.
He’s been in software development for 15+ years, starting with .NET and working as a full-stack developer across pretty much everything before focusing on Python and AI in production. He co-organizes Practically AI, a Manchester meetup bringing engineers together around AI workflows that actually ship.
Show Me the Evidence: LLMs on Trial - Tiffany Plant (She/Her)
Tiffany is an MLOps Engineer at Fuzzy Labs, excited about exploring AI and deploying machine learning systems with real-world impact! She comes from a background in data, with experience across the full pipeline.
LOCATION
We'll hosted by Fuzzy Labs The capacity is limited to 90.After the talks we'll all head somewhere local for some post-event socialising.
EVENT GUIDELINES
PyDataMCR is a strictly professional event, as such professional behaviour is expected.PyDataMCR is a chapter of PyData, an educational program of NumFOCUS and thus abides by the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct
https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html
Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with its contents.
ACCESSIBILITY
The venue is step free, and toilets are accessible.SPONSORS
Thank you to NUMFocus for sponsoring Meetup and further support.
Thank you to Autotrader, Krakenflex and Horsefly Analytics for their ongoing support and sponsorship of PyDataMCR.71 attendees
Past events
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