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Data at the Economist&LawHive ! DET FEBRUARY
Join **Orchestra**, **Tracer** and **Lightdash** for an in-person evening with London’s data engineering community.
This event is built for **data engineers, analytics engineers, and platform teams** who enjoy going deep on real technical topics — from modern data stack architecture to reliability, observability, orchestration, and the practical lessons learned from running pipelines in production.
Expect a relaxed atmosphere, good people, and plenty of time for conversation (with free 🍕 & 🍻).
IMPORTANT: MEETUP IS TRYING TO BLEED US ALL DRY SO PLEASE [SIGNUP ON LUMA](https://luma.com/ml500u2m) AND SUBSCRIBE TO THE CALENDAR THERE. IF YOU DONT SIGN UP WE CANT GUARANTEE YOUR SPOT!
[https://luma.com/ml500u2m](https://luma.com/ml500u2m)
**Agenda**
**6:00 – 6:30pm:** Arrivals, drinks, networking
**6:30 – 7:30pm:** Technical talks + Q&A
**7:30pm onwards:** Networking
**Technical Speakers**
* Data @ The Economist - **[Luca de Michele](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luca-de-michele-232432148)**
* Data @ Lawhive - **[Pablo Fernandez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablofergui/) (Head of Data)**
* **TBA**
**Who should attend**
* Data Engineers & Analytics Engineers
* Platform Infrastructure Data Ops teams
* Anyone building, scaling, or maintaining production data pipelines
Unreal Engine Workshop: FREE Game Design Meetup | GameCamp
***Enter the live meeting room here: [https://discord.gg/5wgxtr4c2u](https://discord.gg/5wgxtr4c2u)***
***Download the engine here: [https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download](https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download)***
Welcome to the **Unreal Engine Workshop!** In each session we'll tackle essential game design discussions, then transition into hands-on project creation. Participants will build and expand their skills continuously as we explore every aspect of game development. From basic blueprints and interactive mechanics, to advanced rigging, animation, environment design, and lighting, we'll work our way up to creating small complete games. We encourage experimentation and peer teaching, so whether you're a beginner or experienced developer looking to deepen your expertise, our sessions provide a supportive environment to learn, create, and innovate together in Unreal Engine 5.
DSOLG and London DevOps Collaboration February Event
## Details
Welcome to the DevSecOps London Gathering February Event on Wednesday 19 Feb in collaboration with London DevOps! We bring you two amazing talks, as well as the usual conversations, pizza and beer!
📍 **Hosted at Autogen AI, Pentonville Road, London**
📅 **Wednesday, 19 February**
🕕 **6:00–8:00 PM**
## Talk 1
**Abstract:**
Concrete CMS, a popular open-source content management system, contains a critical flaw in its file upload functionality that can be exploited in two distinct ways. This talk demonstrates how a single upload can lead to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), allowing access to internal cloud resources, and a double race condition that enables Remote Code Execution (RCE) via a malicious backdoor. We’ll walk through the exploitation process, show how existing protections can be bypassed, and highlight practical steps to secure file upload mechanisms in real-world applications.
## Talk 2
**Abstract**
Treat authentication as a production-critical system with its own failure modes and operational risks. In this talk, I break down real-world auth incidents involving JWKS rotation errors, refresh token storms, clock drift, and session store outages. I show how to define SLIs and SLOs that measure user impact and how to build monitoring and alerting that expose real reliability problems. I demonstrate practical guardrails such as token caching, exponential backoff with jitter, circuit breakers, and feature-flagged degraded modes. Finally, I walk through an incident runbook that helps teams diagnose, mitigate, and recover from authentication failures safely and quickly.
London DevOps #98 and DevSecOps London Gathering Collab
We're hosting our first meetup of 2026 in collaboration with our friends from **DevSecOps London Gathering**. We'll be generously hosted at the AutogenAI offices near King's Cross, and we'll feature two talks that should be of interest to both audiences.
**6:00pm - Arrival**
**6:45pm - Introductions**
**7:00pm - The Talks**
**Concrete Evidence: Two Races, One RCE** - [Adrian Tiron](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tironadrian/)
Concrete CMS, a popular open-source content management system, contains a critical flaw in its file upload functionality that can be exploited in two distinct ways. This talk demonstrates how a single upload can lead to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), allowing access to internal cloud resources, and a double race condition that enables Remote Code Execution (RCE) via a malicious backdoor. We’ll walk through the exploitation process, show how existing protections can be bypassed, and highlight practical steps to secure file upload mechanisms in real-world applications.
Adrian is the Co-Founder and Principal Pentester/Red Teamer at Fortbridge, bringing over 20 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity. Adrian is known for delivering highly technical, practical content drawn from real-world assessments, and is passionate about pushing the boundaries of modern application security.
**Keeping login from taking down your product with an SRE approach to auth –** [Viola Lykova](https://www.linkedin.com/in/violaly/)
Treat authentication as a production-critical system with its own failure modes and operational risks. In this talk, I break down real-world auth incidents involving JWKS rotation errors, refresh token storms, clock drift, and session store outages. I show how to define SLIs and SLOs that measure user impact and how to build monitoring and alerting that expose real reliability problems. I demonstrate practical guardrails such as token caching, exponential backoff with jitter, circuit breakers, and feature-flagged degraded modes. Finally, I walk through an incident runbook that helps teams diagnose, mitigate, and recover from authentication failures safely and quickly.
Viola is a Senior Software Engineer in fintech with an SRE mindset, focused on authentication as a production system. I care about reliability, incident patterns, and the kind of testing that still holds up when traffic spikes, dependencies misbehave, or keys rotate at the worst possible time. Viola speaks on practical auth topics across security and reliability.
**Participate in a future Meetup**
If you'd like to speak at a future meetup, or if you are able to host or sponsor the event, please fill in this [form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FYGHEWTeBb5vVztGGg2YoUJmKR03o9mZaFIghf6vjzo/viewform?edit_requested=true) and we'll get back to you.
Let's meet up and speak English £5!
This Meet Up is a chance to practice speaking English while meeting new people and making new friends from all over the world.
The classes are fun, friendly and informal and we cover a variety of topics.
I correct you and give you help with grammar and vocabulary as we go, so you can improve as you speak.
I look forward to welcoming you and having a good conversation with you in English soon!
TO FIND US: The class is in the CAFÉ on the FIRST FLOOR of the library. In the UK, the first floor is one floor ABOVE the ground floor.
From the main entrance, go up the stairs or escalators straight ahead of you. Walk round to your left and you'll see the café. I'll have a sign with 'Meetup' and your names.
React Advanced London Meetup: The Lost Art of Debugging & more!
👋 General Info
Hi friends,
We’re excited to kick off our next React meetup on **February 18**! Join us for an evening of practical insights, great conversations, and community vibes — from real-world React talks to networking with fellow engineers.
**🗣 Call for Proposals**
Have an idea or story to share? Submit your talk proposal through our[ ](https://forms.gle/8gZfT3Qkfd71CxyK6)[CFP form](https://forms.gle/rCiQ8Y4jajiC8AHMA) and take the stage at one of our upcoming meetups!
**🤝 Organized by**
This event made possible thanks to the support from[ React Summit](https://reactsummit.com/) and[ JSNation](https://jsnation.com/) organizers –[ GitNation](https://portal.gitnation.org/).
**🤝 Hosted by**
Huge friends to our friends [Figma](https://www.figma.com/)
Figma is a browser-based design and prototyping tool enabling real-collaboration. Built for developers, Figma's Dev Mode gives you the power to easily inspect designs and translate them into code—without changing the design file.
Headquartered in San Francisco, in 2020 Figma opened its EMEA HQ in London. We’re a team of makers who celebrate our differences and share a passion for our community. Our London based engineering team is growing quickly and working on some of Figma's top company priorities.
🤝 **Want to support our community?**
We’re looking for venue partners and sponsors for future meetups. Let’s discuss collaboration — [contact us](https://forms.gle/zWYxsanfbhV64dEr5)!
**🕑 Event Schedule**
* 18:00 - Doors open - snacks, beer, socialization
* 18:50 - Opening notes
* 19:00 - **The Lost Art of Debugging: Why Your Browser is Smarter than AI - [Abdullah Ola Mudathir](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cruxcodes/)**
* 19:25 - **Why Your Marketing Scripts and Cookie Banners Are Ruining Your Lighthouse Scores - [Christopher Burns](https://www.linkedin.com/in/burnedchris/)**
* **19:50 - Networking, Open Mic Lightning Talks**
* Mingle until 21:00 pm
🗣️ **Talks**
➡️ **The Lost Art of Debugging: Why Your Browser is Smarter than AI - [Abdullah Ola Mudathir](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cruxcodes/)**
*The easiest thing to do is often what causes hours of debugging down the line. With LLMs becoming increasingly normalized in the industry, an overreliance on them can allow bugs to slip through the cracks.*
*In this talk, I'll demonstrate a practical debugging workflow: Debug first. Prompt second. I'll show how browser DevTools reveal what's actually happening faster than any AI can guess.*
*You'll learn:*
* *Essential DevTools features that improve your bug-fixing prowess*
* *When to reach for your browser and when AI can actually help*
* *The almost forgotten art of breakpoints and strategic console messages*
*AI in your codebase represents growth, but understanding your runtime state represents mastery. This talk is about balancing both and knowing which tool to reach for first.*
➡️ **Why Your Marketing Scripts and Cookie Banners Are Ruining Your Lighthouse Scores - [Christopher Burns](https://www.linkedin.com/in/burnedchris/)**
*Most marketing scripts and cookie banners run on the critical path. They block the main thread, delay first paint, and inject third-party code before the page is interactive.*
*Consent managers often make this worse by synchronously loading vendors, mutating the DOM repeatedly, and re-hydrating UI after page load. The result is slower LCP, higher TBT, and unstable CLS.*
*The fix is not fewer scripts, it is better orchestration. Treat consent as infrastructure, load vendors after intent, and keep compliance off the critical path.*
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**👍 Code of Conduct**
By registering for this event you agree to comply with our [CoC](https://gitnation.com/coc)
**📩 Contact**
events@gitnation.org
https://twitter.com/ReactAdvanced
http://youtube.com/ReactConferences
https://bsky.app/profile/reactadvanced.gitnation.org
Umbraco London February - Demo night
We are delighted to announce an evening of demos and a roundtable discussion on what you want to see from the meetups. There is also still time to feedback with the link below
[Umbraco London Meetup Questionnaire](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfISk1q_ZEoN82_vhiBeWwuVG3fUUB4uqkK-PqWtArajUErJw/viewform)
We are welcome from 18:30, we shall look to get started around 18:45. We'll finish by 21:00 when we take the conversations to a local pub.
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**Experiments in V17**
*by Matt Bliss - Technical Director*
Matt will guide us through some of his experimentation in V17 and his learnings.
**AI: Am I Too old for this \*\*\*\* (stuff)**
*by Andy Hawken*
Andy asks the big questions and he's going to talk about his experiences with Claude AI in January and a bit of February too.
**Meetup feedback rountable**
*by Richard Thompson and the meetup team*
Richard will run us through the results of the feedback survey on the meetup and we'll have a discussion on what people want to see from the meetups.
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This is Embrace will be kindly providing some refreshments. Space is a bit limited so if you realise you can't make it please be sure to change your RSVP to No in case there are people on the waiting list.
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If you would like to contribute to our meetups please in touch by email ([hello@umblondon.co.uk](hello@umblondon.co.uk)) - we are always looking for people to give talks, or London-based Umbraco agencies to host us for the evening.
Please read the [Code of Conduct](https://bit.ly/UmbLondonCodeOfConduct) for all our events.
Civil Engineering Events This Week
Discover what is happening in the next few days
Sevillanas Course for Beginners (Level 1)
ES: ¿Te gustaría aprender Sevillanas desde cero en un ambiente amable, divertido y lleno de arte?
Este curso está diseñado para quienes desean iniciarse en este baile tradicional español, trabajando técnica, compás y coordinación mientras disfrutan de una experiencia cultural preciosa.
Durante seis semanas aprenderás **las cuatro Sevillanas completas**, paso a paso, con explicaciones claras y un enfoque muy práctico. No necesitas experiencia previa: solo ganas de moverte y pasarlo bien.
📅 **Fechas:** del 19 de febrero al 26 de marzo
🕒 **Horario:** Jueves, de 18:00 a 19:00
📍 **Lugar:** Danceworks London (Mayfair)
💷 **Precio:** £108
🔗 **Reservas:** a través de Danceworks
https://www.danceworks.com/courses/
Plazas limitadas para garantizar una atención cercana y personalizada.
¡Anímate a aprender Sevillanas y a disfrutar de un curso lleno de energía, cultura y mucho arte!
EN: Would you like to learn Sevillanas from scratch in a friendly, fun and inspiring environment?
This course is perfect for adults who want to begin their journey into this beautiful traditional Spanish dance, while developing coordination, musicality and confidence.
Over six weeks, you will learn **all four Sevillanas**, step by step, with clear explanations and a very practical approach. No previous dance experience is required — just enthusiasm and the desire to enjoy the process.
📅 **Dates:** 19 February - 26 March
🕒 **Time:** Thursdays, 18:00–19:00
📍 **Venue:** Danceworks London (Mayfair)
💷 **Price:** £108
🔗 **Bookings:** via Danceworks
https://www.danceworks.com/courses/
Places are limited to ensure personal attention and a supportive learning atmosphere.
Join us and discover the joy, energy and cultural richness of Sevillanas!
Automate All the Things?
🏎️ **If you’re not automating yet… you probably are.**
Be honest: how much of your job are you already secretly automating, and how much of it is just automation in disguise?
In this session, **[Ellis Pratt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellispratt/)**, director of **[Cherryleaf](https://www.cherryleaf.com/)**, will take a clear, no-hype look at automation in technical communication. He’ll rewind to where things stood just over a year ago, then discuss what’s changed since.
We’ll explore how automation shows up across the technical writing lifecycle, and common pitfalls that come with it.
Finally, we’ll look ahead. What does increasing automation really mean for our careers as technical writers and documentarians?
Join us for an honest, practical conversation about what to automate, what not to, and how to stay relevant as the tools keep changing.
**📣 This event is aimed at technical writers and those working in closely related roles. The discussion will focus on automation and AI specifically in the context of technical documentation and technical content workflows.**
**When:** Thursday 19 February, from 6.30pm
**Where:** The Yellow Room @ Remark! 18 Leather Lane, EC1N 7SU
**What:**
18.30 - 19.00 Arrival
19.00 - 19.45 Presentation
19.45 - 20.00 Short break
20.00 - 20.45 Presentation
20.45 - 21.30 Networking
*All times are approximate.*
**Photos:**
Note that the organizers will take some photos for the WTD group.
Welcome to the *INAUGURAL* 2026 AWS London Well-Architected User Group Meetup!
Hi Architects,
Welcome to our the inaugural AWS London Well-Architected User Group Meetup!!! 🥳🥳🥳
The AWS London Well-Architected Meetup is the latest chapter in the most popular AWS Meetup group globally.
At each meetup we covered off various pillars of AWS best-practice in detail including insights from industry leaders that specialise in the Well-Architected Framework.
And a drones giveaway.
We'll be announcing more speakers during the coming months but our speakers this month include:
* **Are you Well-Architected? Will Lawrie - Business Development Manager @ AWS**
* **Well-Architected as a Business Tool: Translating Pillars into Business Outcomes - James Harding, Technical CSM @ Green Custard**
* **Understanding and Remediating Opportunities** **-** **Aoife Egan, Cloud Optimisation Solutions Architect II @ AWS**
This month's menu will include:
* Pizzas
* Beer
* Wine: Big and red 🤤
So come join us at 5:30 for a 6pm start, followed by beer, wine, pizza and friendly networking after our talks :-)
\*\*\*NB: No entry to the building after 6pm. Photo ID required.\*\*\*
FULL - Social Bouldering Night | London 20s and 30s
**We don’t do boring Wednesdays and so this week, we’re hugely excited to be hosting our latest sports & fitness social to spice up your midweek.**
Yep that’s right - for this latest social, we’re excited to be heading back to Rise Climbing, near Canning Town for our **latest Social Bouldering Night,** exclusively for 20s and 30s.
If you’ve never been bouldering before, it’s perhaps the most social form of free climbing and one of the fastest growing sports in the world.
Unlike other forms of rock climbing, bouldering is free from ropes and harnesses and instead offers soft, safety mats and low walls to encourage climbers to explore their physical limits in a safe environment.
But it’s not just a great work out for your body, the venue offers a range of wall challenges of varying design and difficulty that will test your problem solving skills, as well as your creativity, technique and balance.
And it is the challenge element that makes bouldering one of the social sports around at present, as it is great spark for conversation in your shared attempts to take on the range of climbing routes on together.
Best of all, we’ve been able to organise this **bouldering session, along with shoe hire and a free induction, all** **for just 10.85pp!**
And after the bouldering, they'll be an option to head to a nearby pub so you can get a drink, share experience and get to know your fellow climbers a little better.
It should be a really enjoyable night and we'd love to see lots of you there but sadly, these places are very limited and so we will be offered on a first come, first serve basis.
And so if you are keen to join, please do RSVP as soon as you can!
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**WHERE/WHEN WE WILL MEET**
Venue - Rise Climbing, Unit 6, Caxton Works, Hoy St, London E16 1ZA
Location: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/A4WeBXwKstoiamGb6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/A4WeBXwKstoiamGb6)
Closest Tube stations: Canning Town (10 min walk), Royal Victoria (10 min walk)
Meet Time - 7:30pm (N.B. Please arrive no later than 7:45pm, so we can start on time)
Finish time: 10:00pm
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**JOIN THE COMMUNITY**
Set up in November 2021, the project was set up to help 20s and 30s in London meet, connect and hopefully build life-long friendships.
To help make this happen, we also host all kinds of events from free social walks, games evenings, day trips, social events, activity nights to picnics.
To learn more about our community or to follow us on social media, please follow one of the links below.
**Website - [https://friendship-project.co.uk](https://friendship-project.co.uk/)**
**Instagram - [https://www.instagram.com/great.friendship](https://www.instagram.com/great.friendship)**
February 2026 Meetup
Elixir London Meetup; February 2026 edition. All are welcome.
**Session 1: Bryan Hunt - Faria Data Platform: Building a data platform in Elixir**
How to build an ETL pipeline using Amazon Athena, and Elixir: techniques, tools, UX, lessons learned.
**Session 2: Christoph Beck** **\- Structured Generation and Logits Processing with Elixir**
Ever tried to get a poem from an LLM doesn't contain the letter \`e\`? Large Language Models are kind of amazing and surprisingly unreliable at the same time. Using Elixir's Bumblebee and open source LLMs, you can get much better control over the generation. We introduce you to logits processing, and how it can be used to achieve what ChatGPT can not accomplish.
*The event is kindly sponsored by* [Verna](https://verna.earth).
**Time**
Doors open at 18, start at 18.30.
**Venue**
Geovation
F4, Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Rd., London EC1V 7EN
**Refreshments**
Food and drinks will be provisioned on the day.
**IMPORTANT**:
**If you wish to take photos and post online during the event, please notify organisers first, so that attendees can opt-out from being in photos.**
Meetup #13 - AI Coding The Right Way
NOTE: This meetup is more technical than our normal subjects! Everyone is welcome to join but the content will be designed for developers and engineering leaders.
Shaping our future with AI. Creating opportunity through AI fluency, connection and community.
No jargon. No hype. No confusing terminology.
**Join us for our next in-person meetup in London on Thursday February 19th.**
Our theme for this meetup is **AI Coding the right way.** We'll be joined by Daniel Jones (AI Consultant, re:cinq) who has taught over 100 developers how to get the most of AI tools. Then we welcome a panel of engineering leaders to discuss the lessons they have learned on getting the best from their teams with new tools!
**Where and When?**
* Thursday, February 19th
* Doors open at 18:00
* Talks start at 19:00
* Tessl HQ, 210 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9JY, UK
**Talk: Agentic Coding For 100 Developers** (Daniel Jones)
How has a $3b Stockholm SaaS company transitioned 100 developers to AI-native development over a few weeks? Deejay shares how he helped Odevo with exactly this, but the answer might be more than you expect - it involves just as much discovery and psychology and it does training. Learn about the social and business pre-requisites for such a transformation, the syllabus that enables developers to use multi-agent workflows, and how 'one-and-done' training is insufficient for this type of behavioural change.
**About Deejay:**
Deejay is an AI Consultant at re:cinq, and has over a decade of experience in assisting organisations with tech transformation. He's been a developer, manager, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, father, bassist, martial arts instructor, games developer, and wearer of a rather silly moustache.
**Expert Panel: Leading Dev Teams Through AI Adoptions**
There are no right answers but there is certainly a lot of talk about when it comes to adopting AI coding tools in the right way. This expert panel will share the lessons they've learnt so far and what's working for their teams.
* Norberto Lopes, VP Engineering, Incident.io
* Corey Leigh Latislaw, Head of Engineering at JustEat Takeaway
* Daniel Jones, AI Consultant, re:cinq
**About Norberto**
Norberto is focussed on the intersection of building technology and how humans behave and work together. Currently VP Engineering at Incident.io, Norberto has enjoyed a varied career from startups to large companies. Growing teams across IT, product delivery, security, data infrastructure, and infrastructure.
Read Norberto's excellent blog here: [nlopes.dev](https://nlopes.dev/)
**About Corey**
Corey Leigh Latislaw is Head of Groceries and New Verticals at JustEat Takeaway and previously led AI adoption alongside her day job at Trainline and Kin + Carta. She believes the human capacity for creativity is key to thriving in the age of AI.
**Code of Conduct**
This event has a code of conduct that you can [review here.](https://aifortherestofus.live/code-of-conduct)
**Providing Your Name and Email**
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Civil Engineering Events Near You
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Spec-Driven Development with GitHub Spec-Kit - Barret Blake
**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you.
The building address is 4450 Bridge Park
The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400
You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge.
**Abstract**
*Spec-Driven Development with GitHub Spec-Kit: From Intent to Implementation*
Spec-driven development flips the traditional workflow on its head: instead of code being the source of truth, the specification becomes the backbone of design, collaboration, and delivery. In this session, we’ll explore how GitHub Spec-Kit enables teams to treat specifications as first-class artifacts—living documents that drive architecture, implementation, and verification.
You’ll learn how Spec-Kit helps teams clearly express intent using structured, version-controlled specs that live alongside code. We’ll walk through a practical workflow that starts with defining system behavior and constraints, then progressively refines those specs into testable, automatable outcomes. Along the way, we’ll show how specs can reduce ambiguity, improve cross-functional collaboration, and make design decisions explicit before a single line of production code is written.
This talk will cover:
--What spec-driven development is (and what it isn’t)
--How GitHub Spec-Kit fits into modern developer workflows
--Using specs to align product, engineering, and AI-assisted development
--Real-world examples of turning specs into implementations with confidence
Whether you’re building greenfield systems, integrating AI into your stack, or trying to reduce costly rework, spec-driven development offers a scalable way to move faster without sacrificing clarity. Attendees will leave with concrete patterns and a clear mental model for adopting GitHub Spec-Kit in their own projects.
**YouTube Link**
TBA
Westerville Queer Coffee Meetup
WQC has weekly Thursday night social nights at the Westerville Java Central. Come and grab a coffee and connect with the community: low stakes, chill environment, and tasty drinks. No registration is required; come as you are.
Columbus HUG February
Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!!
https://sessionize.com/cbus-hug-2026/
WordPress Knoxville. Beyond the Prompt: Autonomous AI Agents in WordPress
Happy Holidays!
The first Wednesday of January is 7th, and this is Orthodox Christmas. And i will be wishing everyone Merry Christmas in January, and i am sure many of you will be tired from all this socializing.
That is why we are going to meet on February 4th. And we will continue discussing the Hot topic of our age an AI.
We’ve spent the last few sessions learning how to *talk* to AI. We’ve mastered prompt engineering and "vibecoding" to build things faster. Now, it’s time for the next leap: **letting AI work for us while we sleep.**
In this session, we are moving beyond simple chatbots to explore **Autonomous AI Agents.** Unlike standard tools that wait for you to type a command, Agents are designed to perceive a goal, plan a series of tasks, and execute them independently within your WordPress site.
We will discuss **Generative vs. Agentic AI:** Understanding the shift from *"Write me a blog post"* to *"Monitor local Knoxville news and draft a weekly summary every Friday."*
I am sure many of you have seen WordPress ads offering different Agentic tools like **Uncanny Automator**, **AI Engine**, or **n8n**. What do these tools do? How successful they are? And how implementable all these agents are for your current WordPress site?
I will gather some info and make research. But please join us and bring your stories and experience on topic.
See you!
Quarterly Community Gathering
Join the Columbus AI community for our quarterly gathering — a casual, community-focused evening where everyone has a chance to share, learn, and connect. These open mic–style events give anyone in the community up to **5 minutes** to present a project, share a tool, pose a question, or offer a perspective on the evolving AI space.
No slides required — just a welcoming space to exchange ideas and keep the local AI conversation moving.
If you’d like to take the stage, message **Chris (the organizer)** with a **title and short description** of what you’d like to share.
Whether you’re deep in the field or just getting curious, come connect with others building and exploring AI in Columbus.
Sponsored by [Transform Labs](https://www.transformlabs.com/services)
COhPy Monthly Meeting
**NEW LOCATION: Improving Office in Franklinton**
Physical location:
Improving Office
330 Rush Alley Suite #150
Columbus, OH 43215
Schedule:
* 6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat, and drink. Improving will be providing pizza and beverages.
* 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Main meeting and presentation(s).
See the handy Parking Map - we recommend street parking.
[Street Parking Map](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u2A4fLNlxwLJn0KA_hKc8bnFlFHLvsHBDh-_8wzX_tk/edit?usp=sharing)
We meet on the last Monday of each Month. Presentations are given by members and friends of this group. If you would like to do a presentation (small or large) on a python topic, please contact centralohpython@gmail.com
Rise and Shine with Atlassian - Reynoldsburg
Come chat about Atlassian tools and best practices at the Reynoldsburg Sunny Street Cafe and Breakfast is on Atlassian!
Let's get the day started off with breakfast with your ACE Leaders! We're always excited to talk about Atlassian Products, share our knowledge and hand out swag! Come chat with us about new product news and anything you are working on within the Atlassian product stack. This is a great opportunity to come see what we are all about, hear new business news and share with other Atlassian users your questions and experiences. We'd love to see new and old friends come out to chat and learn about Atlassian!
Agenda
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Moderators
Kimberly Deal - Columbus Atlassian User Group Leader
Kevin Stanley - Columbus Atlassian User Group Leader
Greg Sprowls - Columbus Atlassian Community Leader
Hosted By
Kimberly Deal, Atlassian User Group Leader
Kevin Stanley, Chief Everything
Greg Sprowls, Agility Lead
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Global Partner
Atlassian (http://atlassian.com)
Millions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality.
Partner
Atlassian
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For over a decade, Atlassian customers have come together to network, share ideas, solve problems, and find new ways to use Atlassian products. Today, more than 15,000 people take part in Atlassian community events in more than 30 countries.
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Complete your event RSVP here: https://ace.atlassian.com/events/details/atlassian-columbus-presents-rise-and-shine-with-atlassian-reynoldsburg-4/.




















