GenAI UK #17 - Online

Hello and welcome to our next GenAI UK Online event.

This session brings together engineers, ML practitioners, data and platform teams, founders, product leaders and technologists who are designing, building and running generative AI systems in the real world.
Our online events are friendly, welcoming, and practitioner-led — creating a space for the community to learn, share experiences, and explore the challenges and opportunities of working with LLMs, agents, and applied GenAI.

This session will include technical talks, demos, Q&A, and open discussion with fellow members of the GenAI UK community.

We run:
• Online events for our UK & global audience
• In-person meetups in London

Please keep an eye on our Meetup page for future sessions.

We are delighted to host this online event on 2nd of March.

Speakers & Sessions:

Speaker: Meryem Arik, Co-Founder & CEO, Doubleword
Session Title: Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes
Description: As models improve, we are starting to build long-running, asynchronous agents such as deep research agents and browser agents that can execute multi-step workflows autonomously. These systems unlock new use cases, but they fail in ways that short-lived agents do not.
The longer an agent runs, the more early mistakes compound, and the more token usage grows through extended reasoning, retries, and tool calls. Patterns that work for request-response agents often break down, leading to unreliable behaviour and unpredictable costs.
This talk is aimed at use case developers, with secondary relevance for platform engineers. It covers the most common failure modes in async agents and practical design patterns for reducing error compounding and keeping token costs bounded in production.

Speaker: TBC
Session Title: TBC
Description: TBC

Agenda (GMT / UK):
18:00 — Welcome & introductions
18:05 — Speaker 1
18:35 — Q&A
18:45 — Speaker 2
19:15 — Q&A & open discussion
19:30 — Close

We are always keen to hear from:
• Speakers — demos, case studies, engineering deep dives and applied AI projects
• Sponsors — support for recording, accessibility or community initiatives
• Collaborators — meetups, research groups and ecosystem partners

If you’d like to speak, sponsor or collaborate on a future session, please get in touch with Ethan Sumner via LinkedIn or Meetup.

This community forms part of the Community Stack ecosystem and follows the Community Stack Code of Conduct, helping us maintain a respectful, inclusive and welcoming environment for all attendees.
We look forward to seeing you online.