PyData MCR - February

PyDataMCR 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.