GCP London User Group

A huge thank you to Arrows for hosting and sponsoring this event, and for supporting the growth of the cloud, platform engineering, data, and AI community in London.

Speakers and sessions:
Get a High Return-on-Investment from AI Business Transformation
Nora Balla, Founder and AI Business Transformation Lead, Add Velocity
Nora Balla is the founder of Add Velocity, an AI-native business transformation and implementation consultancy.
Nora has gained extensive experience across investment products, business transformation, finance operations, and regulated asset and wealth management environments. Previously a freelancer, she now operates in a collaborative delivery model, helping organisations scale AI and automation solutions in complex business settings.
Her experience includes finance transformation at Harley-Davidson, reporting process improvements in commercial real estate funds, and supporting the Aladdin implementation at Royal London Asset Management.
In this session, Nora will explore how organisations can achieve a stronger return on investment from AI business transformation. The talk will cover the opportunities and high-value use cases, the real risks organisations need to manage, the skills required for the agentic era, how to define and measure success, and practical tips for improving efficiency when working with AI systems.

Agents in the Fastlane
Ryan Cormack, Principal Engineer, Motorway
Luke Marrai, Engineering Manager, Motorway
Motorway has used traditional AI and machine learning for years to enhance and improve its systems. But how can those years of learning be applied to build the next generation of agentic systems for users?
In this session, Ryan Cormack and Luke Marrai from Motorway will explore how they are enhancing the functionality of Motorway’s platform to provide more accurate search results for dealers looking to acquire stock through the online marketplace.
The talk will cover how Motorway is using AWS AgentCore to run its agentic systems, and how evals are being used to ensure the system performs as expected.
Ryan Cormack is a Principal Engineer at Motorway, the UK’s leading used car marketplace, where he leads technical strategy and drives AI-powered transformation across the engineering organisation. With over 14 years of experience building and scaling systems on AWS, Ryan specialises in turning architectural best practices into practical engineering outcomes, from cloud modernisation programmes to the adoption of agentic workflows and AI-native developer tooling.
Luke Marrai is an Engineering Manager at Motorway, supporting engineering delivery and helping teams build effective, scalable technology for one of the UK’s leading automotive technology platforms.
Agenda:

18:00 — Arrival, refreshments and networking
18:30 — Welcome and introduction
18:35 — Get a High Return-on-Investment from AI Business Transformation — Nora Balla
19:00 — Break and networking
19:20 — Agents in the Fastlane — Ryan Cormack and Luke Marrai
20:00 — Networking
20:45 — Close

Join us on June 11th:
We are also hosting the Cloud Native & Open Source AI Conference on June 11th in London, bringing together a fantastic line-up of speakers across AI, cloud-native, open-source, platform engineering, leadership, and modern infrastructure.
You can view the full speaker line-up and event details here

About the communities:

This event is jointly hosted across Cloud Platform Engineering London, Cloud Platform Engineering Leaders, Data & AI Leaders, AWS AI UG, Azure AI UG, and GCP London.

Together, these communities form part of the Community Stack ecosystem, bringing together technical practitioners, leaders, partners, and organisations across cloud, platform engineering, data, AI, and open technology.
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