DevOps Society Manchester Meetup, CreateFuture

Our Second Manchester DevOps Society meetup event has arrived! We are delighted to be partnered with CreateFuture, who are kindly sponsoring our event.

The event is being held at Colony One Silk St, Ancoats, Manchester.

In this event, we will be hearing from two exciting speakers, featuring CreateFuture discussing about AI, using Langlow, and Benjamin Clark talking about data-driven terraform for developers and users respectively.

Format of the meetup event will be as follows:

6pm – 6:30pm - Networking on arrival coupled with pizza and drinks provided by CreateFuture.
6:30pm – 7pm – First speaker will take to the stage.
7pm – 7:10pm – Break for refreshments and networking
7:10pm – 7:40pm – Second speaker will take to the stage.
8pm onwards – Networking at event space and the Seven Bro7hers Beerhouse (5 mins walk from the venue)

We are delighted to welcome 2 speakers to our second Manchester event.

#1 – Ross Bamford – Principal Software Engineer @ CreateFuture

Ross Bamford is a Principal Software Engineer at CreateFuture with over twenty years in the software business. Having worked on multiple machine-learning projects in the past, Ross was an early adopter when the genAI revolution came, and has taken the lead on large, high-profile commercial genAI applications at CreateFuture, where he also helps lead the generative AI engineering community and evangelise the technology to anyone who’ll listen.

Title – AI For Everyone: Enabling non-engineers with Langflow

Ross will be giving run through of what Langflow is, how we as engineers can deploy and use it to bring our less-technical colleagues on the journey, real-world examples of things some of our folks have built, and he will touch on some war stories from a non-devops-expert deploying and operating the thing internally. He is hoping to work in some live demo / example usage too!

#2 – Benjamin Clark - DevOps Consultant

Ben begun work in the tech industry at 17, and over a decare later he has since founded and lead DevOps teams across multiple large organisations as both an employee and independent contractor. With a strong focus on elevating teams from just developing software to properly engineering software as a discipline, he believes strongly that the Software Development Lifecycle should apply across both Infrastructure and Application stacks.

Title - Data-driven Terraform for developers and users: Enabling self-service with a focus on readability and ease-of-use

Ben will be speaking about how Terraform with data structures and algorithms can drastically accelerate release cadence, enable developer self-service, and act as a foundational underpinning of best practice across an organisation!

P.S. Please provide full name and email address for access to the Colony event space.

Address: Colony One Silk St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 6LZ

Our sponsors - CreateFuture is a dynamic digital consultancy in the UK, formerly known as XDesign. They specialise in creating digital products that address complex challenges without relying on fixed frameworks or creating dependency. Their team includes experts in software engineering, cloud solutions, innovation, strategy, and design.

Please register now to book your spot!