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🏐 Women's Only - Coaching Session for All Levels📍Brixton 📶 Mixed Ability
**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/38035
**Game Description:**
Please be aware that our sessions are also on our own mobile app. Therefore, the number of participants you currently see may not reflect the total number of participants. Elevate your volleyball skills at our Women's only adult coaching sessions! Led by expert coaches, our sessions cater to all levels, from beginners to experienced players. Develop your technique, agility, and teamwork through drills and gameplay. Join our vibrant community and unleash your full potential on the court. Let's play, learn, and excel together.
**Rules**
By booking this session, you acknowledge and agree to comply with our terms and conditions, privacy policies, and cancellation policy, which can be found below. Terms & Conditions at: https://www.littlegiantsvc.com/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy at: https://www.littlegiantsvc.com/privacy-policy
From Strategy to Legacy - The Executive Product Leadership Panel
You're invited to our next Women in Product London event!
Join us for an in-person evening with a panel of senior product leaders as we unpack what it really takes to succeed at the highest levels of product leadership — and how to build a lasting legacy along the way.
Are you curious about what changes when you move into executive territory? The focus shifts from product strategy to influencing a board, owning commercial outcomes, shaping culture, and building the right leadership team around you to succeed.
In this candid fireside-style conversation, our panel will share the realities of executive product leadership, from developing executive presence and navigating complex organisations, to the mistakes and lessons that rarely get talked about, plus how they juggle these pressures alongside their personal life.
You'll have an opportunity to ask the panelists questions in a safe and friendly environment, as well as the chance to network with your peers over drinks and canapés before and after our panel take the stage.
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\>\>Faith Forster\, Founder and CPO @ Discoveree
Faith is a Chief Product Officer (ex. Wise, Dext, Legl) and advisor to PE owned companies. She is currently building an AI-native platform called Discoveree, which helps product leaders and teams better align product work with customer and commercial goals, and is recording a weekly podcast on the process of building an AI native product called Building Out Loud. Faith also manages a program with the charity Centrepoint, to help disadvantaged young adults access the tech industry.
\>\>Cait O'Riordan\, VP Product for Search Verticals at Google
Cait O'Riordan has two decades of experience in product management leadership for global companies - Google, FT, Shazam and BBC.
As VP Product for Search Verticals at Google she was responsible for multiple products with more than a billion monthly active users - consistently innovating across a portfolio that covers more than 40% of Search traffic.
Previously: CPTO at the Financial Times, running product and engineering, driving strategy and huge subscription growth; VP of Product at Shazam driving user and revenue growth that resulted in acquisition by Apple; Head of Product for BBC Sport for the London 2012 Olympics, the first truly digital Games.
\>\>Jacintha Love\, Product Director @ Wise
Jacintha is a Product Director at Wise, where she leads the development of the Finance and Treasury products that power Wise. She is passionate about building financial infrastructure for the world's money.
Prior to joining Wise, Jacintha spent 14 years in financial markets trading and technology.
\*Additional panelist to be announced shortly\*
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\>\>Lucinda Faucher\, VP Product @ Valve
Lucinda Faucher is a product leader with over 14 years of experience and a track record of building high performing, diverse teams. As VP of Product at Valve, she drives product strategy within the commercial real estate tech space. Lucinda has built her career on a simple but powerful belief: that great products are made by great teams, and great teams thrive when they feel seen, heard and empowered. Beyond her role, she mentors, consults, and speaks at events and on panels; and as a fierce advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion, Lucinda also founded TheProdBox podcast to champion a more inclusive, empowered product community and to demystify the world of product management helping to open doors for those finding their way into, and within the field.
Venue, food and drinks are proudly sponsored by [Wise.](https://wise.com)
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Addiscombe Healing & Drum Development Group
HEALING DEVELOPMENT GROUP
This Healing Development group will also included the use the Drum and Journeying.
If you have your own please bring it and/or rattle.
I will have a few spare drums so please let me know that you are attending so I know if we have enough.
Lorna facilitates a fun monthly open awareness and support group from beginners, to all levels of students and workers in the healing/therapy Energy fields.
Please come to the support groups at venues and Zoom, below to keep up your practice, ask questions, support each other and discover how you use your healing skills and abilities as they develop.
* Meditation/Journeying
* Discussion
* Awareness
* Energy Sharing
* Sound and Drumming at some venues
I work mainly in the following areas but if you would like me to do a group in your area, contact me and we can discuss. If you cannot make a particular group please feel free to attend any of the others or on Zoom.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE ATTENDING.
Cost £10.00 per session
See my web site or contact me on my MOBILE: +44 (0) 7950 985 799 - for further details: www.blaze2wotherapieslorna.co.uk
Please like my page: https://www.facebook.com/Blaze2woHolisticTherapies
2022
ADDISCOMBE Healing & Drum Development group
Forth Tuesday of the month
19.30 pm - 21.30 pm
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REDHILL Healing Development Group - Currently full
Third Monday of the month
19.00 pm - 21.00 pm
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RICHMOND Drum Healing Group
Bi-monthly Saturday
19.30 pm - 21.30 pm
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WALTON Drum Healing group
Second Monday of the month
19.00 pm - 21.00 pm
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One Beat 2 Heal via zoom
First Tuesday of the month
19.00 pm - 21.00 pm
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Learning Holistic Harmony of the Self via zoom
Second and Fourth Thursday of the month
19.00 pm - 21.00 pm
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Email: blaze2wo@gmail.com
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Taster workshop
A fun and hands on introduction to LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, ideal for those who have not experienced the method before.
After being welcomed by our experienced facilitator Sean Blair, you will explore building models as an individual and as a group. You will become practiced at several methods of communication and learn to hear and understand others, all using LEGO!
Following the workshop we will send you a free pdf copy of the book "SeriousWork" - a hands on guide to using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® yourself (5\*\*\*\*\* reviewed book that sells for £25 on Amazon
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Facilitate-Meetings-Workshops-Serious-Method/dp/0995664706)
Ideal for those who are interested in participatory leadership, better communication and creativity.
If you have attended a taster workshop before, you are welcome to attend but please note this introductory workshop will be a similar experience.
Tuesday Hot Choc Mob
Join Us for a Hot Choc Mob Evening!
We’ll be hitting the streets of London with something simple but powerful: warm drinks, snacks, and human connection.
The Hot Choc Mob is a group of volunteers who believe a small act of kindness can mean a lot to someone sleeping rough or living through a tough time. We’re not a charity or religious group—just people who care and want to make a difference in our city.
You don’t need any experience to join us. You’ll be welcomed by our walk leader and introduced to the group. From there, we’ll spend about an hour sharing hot chocolate, food, clothing, and friendly conversation with people who need it most. Afterwards, if you’d like to stay, we’ll regroup at a local pub to share stories and get to know each other.
Items to bring along that are highly appreciated include bottled water or juice, soft fruit, tinned sardines, new socks, boxer shorts and t-shirts.
And if you have a flask for hot water - instant coffee, tea bags, instant hot chocolate, sugar and milk enable us to make hot drinks for those we meet.
If you can’t attend but still want to support us, we also have an
[Amazon Wishlist](https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3T0FPY3DHUG9A?type=wishlist&filter=all&sort=priority&viewType=list)
for essential items.
This is your chance to make a real impact in someone’s day while meeting like-minded people who care about community and connection. Spaces are limited, so click RSVP now and join us for an evening that truly matters.
Questions? Message Lynn on 07970 983340
Follow us on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/hotchocmob/)
AI Exchange - Volary AI, Canonical, Capgemini
Join us on Tuesday 24th March for the next AI Exchange event, hosted by Dawn Capital.
We have three great talks lined up; [Volary](https://volary.ai/) will give us insight into what they've learned from building memory systems agentic era. [Canonical](https://canonical.com/) will be diving into how advances in AI have been driven by major improvements in customer interaction and [Capgemini](https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/) are exploring the evolution of Engineering with an AI-native mindset.
As always, doors open at 6:30pm and talks start at 7pm sharp. We have a tight capacity for this event, so please RSVP as soon as you can to secure your space.
**Agenda:**
**[Peter Ebden](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterebden/) @ [Volary AI](https://volary.ai/)**
**Volary: The memory layer for the agentic era**
We're seeing an explosion of innovation driven by AI agents, but they lack good options to remember and learn over time. At Volary we are building the missing memory layer for AI agents.
This talk explores how we think about the problem, what we've learned from building memory systems, and how better memory can take agents from stateless tools to workers that improve through experience.
Peter is an engineering leader with two decades of experience. After several years working on text-to-speech at Google, he joined Thought Machine as a founding engineer. He later served as CIO on the executive team, leading Infrastructure as the company scaled to over 500 employees, achieving unicorn status along the way, and went on to lead development of Vault Payments, a universal payments platform for retail banks. He is now CEO of Volary, where he is applying that experience to building foundational infrastructure for AI agents.
**[Artur Vartanyan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-vartanyan/) @ [Canonical](https://canonical.com/)**
**How Global Technology Alliances enable AI success**
Artur will dive into how modern advances in artificial intelligence have been driven by major improvements in how customers experience and interact with AI. These advancements are largely enabled by strategic technological alliances. Instead of competing, leading tech companies are joining forces to make AI more accessible and impactful.
This talk will explore the programs and tools that enable collaboration among technology companies in developing AI solutions, supported by real-world examples of successful alliances.
Bio: Artur has 20+ years of business development experience in the IT industry across EMEA. Since January 2024 Artur has been working as Dell Alliance Manager at Canonical in London, UK to drive joint Canonical/Dell efforts in the AI, Cloud and Open Source. Prior to joining Canonical, he spent over 10 years at Dell Technologies (EMC) in various sales and leadership roles.
Since 2016, Artur has been working as a visiting university professor and developed 12 educational programs on Big Data, IT Infrastructure and Digital Transformation for the leading universities in the CIS. He also authored 15 scientific publications on digital technologies, including SCOPUS.
Holding a Phd in Economics, as well as honours degrees in Business Management and International Law, Artur was also certified in digital technologies by top universities (Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, Wharton, NYU) and global companies (Dell, IBM, Linux Foundation).
As a digital technologies expert, Artur has been invited as a keynote speaker to over 200 IT-related conferences across the world.
In 2023, Artur was endorsed as a Global Exceptional Talent in the field of digital technologies, by Tech Nation UK.
**[Ezhil Suresh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezhilsuresh/) @ [Capgemini](https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/)**
**Evolution of Engineering Organisations**
Ezhil will explore how static governance models give way to adaptive, AI‑driven controls — forming the backbone of a fully governed autonomous engineering control plane.
When hundreds of engineers rely on shared platforms, standards, guardrails, auditability, and developer experience can’t be afterthoughts. They must be embedded. Becoming AI‑native demands a new mindset: one where engineering systems govern themselves, teams move faster with trust, and AI becomes the multiplier across the entire technology organisation.
Bio: Ezhil Suresh Chockalingham is a cross‑functional technology leader in UK Public Sector , specialising in transforming engineering organisations into AI‑native, autonomous delivery ecosystems. With a background spanning cloud, data platform engineering, developer experience, and large‑scale governance, Ezhil focuses on building high‑trust, self‑governing engineering systems that accelerate value creation across complex enterprises.
Ezhil serves as a strategic bridge across engineering, product, and governance functions — championing adaptive standards, AI‑driven guardrails, and scalable platform capabilities that enable hundreds of engineers to deliver securely and autonomously. Their work is centred on moving organisations from static governance to dynamic, AI‑powered control planes that reshape how modern technology gets built.
We hope to see you there for another great AI filled evening!
**Sponsors...**
The AI Exchange is brought to you in partnership with[ LinuxRecruit](https://www.linuxrecruit.co.uk/) and[ AWS.](https://aws.amazon.com/)
LinuxRecruit is building the next wave of Tech Unicorns in Europe.
Whether you're hiring or exploring your next opportunity, [get in touch](https://www.linuxrecruit.co.uk/jobs).
The types of roles we have currently are across Founding Engineers, Engineers across Product, Software, AI/ML, Data and Platform Infrastructure/DevOps.
Mobile Development Events This Week
Discover what is happening in the next few days
Londroid at Checkatrade
**Be part of the next Londroid event on Thursday, 26th March 2026, hosted by Checkatrade.**
Join us for an evening of Android talks, conversation and community. Expect engaging sessions, the chance to meet others working in Android, and time to catch up with familiar faces. After the event, we’ll head to **The Red Lion** for post-event drinks and further conversation.
**Tickets:**
We have 110 tickets available. Don’t miss out. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn for updates.
**Schedule:**
18:00 – Doors open & registration
18:30 – Welcome from Londroid and Checkatrade
18:45 – Bilal Haider – *How AI Agents Saved My (Developmental) Life*
19:30 – Fanny Demey – *Mobile accessibility: Small screen, big difference!*
20:15 – Q&A and socialising
20:30 – Drinks at The Red Lion
**Our Hosts and Sponsors**
**Checkatrade**
Checkatrade is a leading UK platform that connects consumers with vetted and reviewed tradespeople, helping homeowners find trusted professionals for jobs of all sizes.
**Novoda**
Novoda is a digital product agency dedicated to building high-quality software. Their team of engineers helps companies scale, modernise and improve their development practices to deliver exceptional digital experiences.
Join us for an evening of learning, collaboration and community. See you there.
🏐 Coaching Session for All Levels 📍 Brixton 📶 Mixed Ability
**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/44791
**Game Description:**
Please be aware that our sessions are also on our own mobile app. Therefore, the number of participants you currently see may not reflect the total number of participants.
Elevate your volleyball skills at our adult coaching sessions! Led by expert coaches, our sessions cater to all levels, from beginners to experienced players. Develop your technique, agility, and teamwork through drills and gameplay. Join our vibrant community and unleash your full potential on the court. Let's play, learn, and excel together.
**Rules**
By booking this session, you acknowledge and agree to comply with our terms and conditions, privacy policies, and cancellation policy, which can be found below.
**Terms & Conditions at:**
https://www.littlegiantsvc.com/terms-and-conditions
**Privacy Policy at:**
https://www.littlegiantsvc.com/privacy-policy
1# London Software Guild
**About the London Software Guild**
The London Software Guild gathers developers, architects, and teams across London who care deeply about the craft of building great software. No fluff, no vendor pitches — just people who take the work seriously, sharing what they've learned the hard way.
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## **Tonight's Speakers**
## **🎤 Kieran — Founding Engineer, Demand-Genius**
Kieran is a founding engineer at Demand-Genius, working to close the gap between how humans and machines perceive your brand versus reality. Background in electrical & electronic engineering, previously working on real-time payments systems, high-scale distributed dynamic rules engines, and reverse proxies. Third Start-Up/Scale-Up (because I'm dumb and have never learnt my lesson).
**Talk: The Statistical (Un)Certainty That Our AI Co-Founder Ruins Everything**
We have handed the most powerful text prediction machines ever built the keys to our codebases. They write code that is statistically likely to be correct. But "statistically likely" and "correct" are not the same thing. As we move toward autonomous multi-agent systems writing production code at machine speed, that gap becomes the central engineering problem of our time.
Code is not text. It is a formal, deterministic, mathematical structure that happens to be serialised as text. Every tool in the agentic coding stack — retrieval, editing, version control, coordination — treats it as text.
This talk argues that the answer isn't better frontier models. It's better systems around models. Specifically, the engineering disciplines we've used for a century to control uncertain systems — feedback loops, formal verification, dependency analysis, and control theory — are the missing layer between "AI can write code" and "AI can write code you can trust."
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## **🎤 Andy Roberts — Senior Engineering Leader**
Andy Roberts is a senior engineering leader with 25+ years of experience — the kind where you've actually written the code, run the teams, and been in the room when things went wrong at scale. Previously Head of EMEA Enterprise Solutions at Apollo GraphQL, where he helped companies like [Booking.com](https://booking.com/), PayPal, and The New York Times stop arguing about their APIs. Before that, Head of API Engineering at RS Components, wrangling 11 teams. Has strong opinions about federated architecture and isn't afraid to use them.
**Talk: Built for Browsers, Billed by Tokens**
*Your microservices solved for latency. AI agents are solving for context. Nobody told your APIs.*
Every era of software development has been defined by a constraint that reshaped architecture. In the database era we optimised for round trips. In the web era we obsessed over latency. Mobile forced us to think about bandwidth and battery. Each shift required new instincts, new patterns, new defaults. We're in the middle of another one.
The AI era introduces a new constraint: context. Language models have finite working memory, and every API response your services return goes into it. The kitchen-sink response payloads that work fine for browsers are quietly making your AI agents more expensive and less capable — and the cost is almost entirely invisible in your existing dashboards.
This talk maps the constraint transition from latency to context, shows what it means for the microservice APIs you have today, and offers five concrete things you can do about it without touching a line of existing backend code.
🏐 Coaching Session for All Levels📍Brixton 📶 Mixed Ability
**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/38116
**Game Description:**
Please be aware that our sessions are also on our own mobile app. Therefore, the number of participants you currently see may not reflect the total number of participants. Elevate your volleyball skills at our adult coaching sessions! Led by expert coaches, our sessions cater to all levels, from beginners to experienced players. Develop your technique, agility, and teamwork through drills and gameplay. Join our vibrant community and unleash your full potential on the court. Let's play, learn, and excel together.
**Rules**
By booking this session, you acknowledge and agree to comply with our terms and conditions, privacy policies, and cancellation policy, which can be found below. Terms & Conditions at: https://www.littlegiantsvc.com/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy at: https://www.littlegiantsvc.com/privacy-policy
The RAG Reality Check: From Vibe-Coding to Production
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the gold standard for grounding LLMs in proprietary enterprise data. However, the journey from a flashy proof-of-concept to a reliable, secure production system is fraught with complexity. This talk bridges the gap between rapid prototyping and rigorous engineering. We will begin by exploring the actual merit of “vibe-coding”—using AI-assisted, rapid prototyping to build compelling demo apps that secure client buy-in and validate use cases.
Once the demo is sold, the real work begins. We will navigate the architectural decision matrix, comparing the trade-offs of off-the-shelf products, cloud-managed services, and fully custom-built RAG solutions. Diving into the technical pipeline, we will cover modern ingestion strategies like agentic chunking and sophisticated retrieval methods, including re-ranking and GraphRAG, to overcome the limitations of simple vector search. We will detail the essential role of telemetry and LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation frameworks in ensuring sustained performance, faithfulness, and relevancy. Join us to learn how to transition from impressive demos to robust solutions that deliver measurable business value.
Our Speaker, **[Dr. Enrico Fonda](https://www.linkedin.com/in/enricofonda/)** is a data scientist with a background in physics. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland and New York University, where he studied quantum fluids and applied deep learning to turbulence. In 2019, Enrico moved to London and transitioned his skills to the industry. He has since worked across the MarTech, Telco, and Tech sectors, focusing on machine learning modeling, generative AI applications, and code generation. Today, as a Solution Consultant at Sahaj Software, he continues to solve complex problems in data science and AI.
🗓️ **Save the Date:** 26th March, 2026
📍 **Location:** Sahaj Software, 1 Quality Court, London, WC2A 1HR
🕕 **Time:** 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (BST)
The evening will feature:
🎤 **One engaging talk** with Q&A
🤝 **Plenty of time for networking** over free pizza and non-alcoholic drinks
Don’t miss this chance to learn, connect, and share with fellow tech enthusiasts.
👉 Please click the link below to register.
https://sahaj.ai/events/the-rag-reality-check-from-vibe-coding-to-production/
Product Unleashed Brighton + Online: Behind TV Apps + When 'too easy' backfires
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Welcome product enthusiasts!
We're a meet-up group that hosts regular speaking events for those interested in the world of **digital products** and **doing things differently!**
Each meet-up features new guests from some of the most influential product companies around the world, providing unique insights, tangible ideas, and new techniques to help drive change from the inside out.
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This is a **hybrid** event, offering the option to come along in person or join us from anywhere in the world online!
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🚨 We are at Wrap co-working Brighton, a stone's throw from the station. We're looking forward to seeing you there! 🚨
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**Our Supporters:**
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Our March event is supported by **[MPB](https://www.mpb.com/en-uk)** the world’s leading platform for buying, selling and trading used photography and videography equipment, making kit more accessible and sustainable for creators everywhere.
And as always our friends at **[Silicon Brighton](https://siliconbrighton.com/)**, whose mission is to put Brighton on the map as a technology hub, spotlighting the region for talent and investment.
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**Steve Down**
**Steve Down is a Senior Product Manager at Channel 4, specialising in building high performing streaming apps for the biggest screen in the home.**
He’s spent years shaping TV experiences at major UK broadcasters, tackling platform fragmentation, performance constraints and all the quirks that make doing product on TV Apps a whole world of its own.
He regularly writes and speaks about the realities of Connected TV product development, sharing lessons from building and scaling TV apps across diverse platforms and fast changing user behaviours. His industry contributions unpack everything from platform limitations and UX challenges to experimentation gaps and the future of big screen viewing.
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**Behind the Streams: The untold story of TV App Product Management**
Forget what you know about doing Product Management on web and mobile - TV is a whole different ball game. You’re juggling dozens of platforms & stakeholders, designing for a lean-back user experience, and working in an environment where optimal performance is everything. Add in the giants like Netflix, Disney+, and YouTube as competitors, and standing out gets tough.
**In this session, Steve will pull back the curtain on:**
\- What makes TV product management so different
\- The skills you need to succeed in streaming
\- How you can break into one of the most exciting areas in product today
If you’ve ever thought about working in streaming or just want to know what happens behind the biggest screen in the house, this talk is for you.
**Raff Di Meo**
Senior Product Design Manager at Optimizely.
Raff has spent over 10 years designing products across startups, agencies, and enterprise SaaS, including a startup acquisition. Today, he's a Senior Product Design Manager at Optimizely, where he leads a team of designers reshaping how marketing teams create content across the web.
He's an active speaker in the UX community and writes Some Designers on Substack, championing inclusivity and supporting designers through a profession that won't sit still.
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**When too easy to use becomes a problem: from e-commerce returns to AI in design**
A few years ago, Raff designed a returns flow for an e-commerce product. It was fast, frictionless, and users loved it. It also helped normalise a behaviour that cost businesses millions and generated thousands of tonnes of waste. By every metric tracked, it was a success. By every metric not tracked, it was a disaster.
Today, the same pattern is playing out. Not just in the products we design, but in how we design them. Teams are reshaping their entire process around AI tools that can't even retain their own users. We're told the old ways are dead. Move faster. Ship more. Trust the tools.
In this talk, Raff will share what the returns project taught him about the gap between a successful design and a responsible one, and how those lessons are shaping how his team is navigating AI right now: what they're using, what's genuinely working, and what they're deliberately protecting.
You'll leave with three things you can take back to your team: why understanding the problem still comes first, how to explore with AI without losing your craft, and a dead-simple habit for catching unintended consequences before they ship.
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**About your hosts:**
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Product Unleashed is brought to you by your hosts **[John Griffin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-griffin-designer/)** and **[Dominic Port](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-port/)**.
The duo have worked on the design of products of all shapes and sizes and bring their energy and enthusiasm to this unique meetup, packed with great guests and knowledge - for anyone interested in levelling up their game in the world of products.
Mobile Development Events Near You
Connect with your local Mobile Development community
From Web Forms to Web Components - Burton Smith
**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
**Abstract**
Web Forms gave .NET developers a powerful abstraction for building reusable UI controls long before design systems were a thing. Web Components finally bring that same idea to the browser natively.
This session explores how the Web Forms mindset translates into Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, and HTML templates. We’ll examine how Web Components enable design systems that work across frameworks, how they differ from server‑driven controls, and why they’re becoming a foundational layer for modern UI. Whether you’re maintaining legacy apps or building greenfield projects, you’ll leave with a practical understanding of how to apply familiar patterns in a modern, standards‑based way.
**YouTube Link**
TBA
From Idea to Working App in Minutes: The Agentic Development with Amazon Kiro
Discover Kiro, AWS’s innovative development environment that adapts to your workflow. Whether you prefer specification-driven development or a more intuitive, vibe-based approach, Kiro empowers you to build applications your way.
In this session, speakers will explore Kiro’s core functionality and its evolution through re:Invent 2025, along with demonstrations of prompts used to create APIs, hooks, and steering documents.
In the latter part of the session, watch as we build a complete example from scratch, showcasing Kiro’s agentic AI workflow in action for spec-driven development and vibe coding.
What You'll Learn - Core Kiro concepts and development philosophy
Feature evolution: pre and post re:Invent 2025
Practical examples: API creation, hooks, and steering docs
Live coding demonstration with real-time problem solving
Who Should Attend - Developers, solutions architects, and technical leaders interested in modern AWS development tools and AI-assisted coding workflows.
**Speakers Bio:**
Matthew Jorat: Matthew Jorat is a Customer Solutions Manager at AWS with nearly three decades of expertise in AI, cloud transformation, migration, modernization, IT, technology, and business. His career spans infrastructure engineer, solutions architect, security auditor, customer success director, support and services director, and operations officer. He was an early adopter of AWS services as a customer, and his current role at AWS uniquely blends his technical and business skills as he partners with executive teams to translate strategic priorities into measurable business outcomes through cloud adoption, AI implementation, and operational excellence. Matt leads end-to-end AI initiatives for enterprise customers, identifying high-impact use cases and maintaining relentless focus on measurable ROI. He holds eight AWS certifications and serves as Adjunct Professor at Franklin University teaching cloud computing and AWS architecture. His expertise encompasses GenAI, agentic AI systems, migration, modernization, and optimization strategies that drive transformation at scale.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjorat/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjorat/)
Girish Bhatia: Girish Bhatia is a seasoned technology delivery leader with deep expertise in cross-domain program management. He holds multiple AWS certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, and AWS Generative AI Practitioner, and is also an AWS Community Builder. Girish brings over two decades of experience in the information technology industry.
Throughout his career, Girish has led major technology-driven business transformation from modernizing on-premises applications to driving large-scale cloud migrations. His work includes API-based integration platforms, data-center and mainframe modernization, and enterprise cloud adoption initiatives.
Based in Columbus, Ohio, Girish works at a tech-forward fintech company. He is passionate about AWS serverless architectures, Generative AI and emerging cloud technologies. An avid learner and builder, he continues to explore and apply the latest innovations in AWS to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/[https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/)
**THANK YOU** *Franklin University* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Franklin University*, please visit their website: https://www.franklin.edu/
**DIRECTIONS**
Franklin University
Fisher Hall
300 E. Main St, Columbus, OH 43215
Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jxjBA2hUmS5qrvhq8
Parking is FREE! Please park in Lot C in front of Fisher Hall. See attached map.
NOTE: Map the address only. When mapping with Google Maps it may use the Fisher Hall at OSU, which is NOT correct.
**Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?**
Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com
Web Design Decoded: Tools, Practices, and Proven Processes (Semantic HTML)
**Web Design Decoded: Tools, Practices, and Proven Processes:**
**Semantic HTML**
At WebDev Columbus, we are exploring some of the most important topics of professional high-end web design and page building. Primarily focused on site building in the WordPress environment, our group explores tools, tips, and techniques for building the best WordPress sites possible. Additionally, we focus on disciplines and technologies that take website design from visually appealing to optimized spaces for delivering you and/or your client's message effectively and with a nod towards extended reach.
Each session combines practical demonstrations with real-world insights, giving you actionable knowledge you can apply immediately. Whether you're a seasoned developer looking to enhance your design skills or a newcomer wanting to understand design best practices, this series offers valuable insights for every skill level.
**What to expect:**
* Hands-on demonstrations of popular design tools
* Best practices for design-to-development workflows
* Tips for creating responsive, accessible designs
* Real-world problem-solving scenarios
* Interactive Q&A sessions
* Networking opportunities with fellow developers
**Each meetup features:**
60 minutes of focused presentation
30 minutes of live demonstrations
30 minutes for questions and discussion
**See you there!**
Our casual, collaborative environment encourages learning from both presenters and fellow attendees. Bring your questions, share your experiences, and connect with Central Ohio's web development community!
**Stay tuned for specific session topics and dates.**
NSCoder Night
Bring your work or your hobby, hang out, and code with us.
Follow @buckeyecocoa for more information.
Columbus PHP: Monthly Meetup
Our monthly PHP meetup.
A virtual shindig courtesy of Zoom. Check back here for the details around 6:15 pm
Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts - WiFi HaLow: Introduction and Practical Use
Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts—CORE—is an informal community for anyone enthusiastic or curious about radio—whether you're new to radio and want to learn or you've been tinkering for years and want to share. Ham radio operators, GMRS users, Meshtastic fans, software-defined radio nerds, makers, and technical and non-technical folks are all welcome. No experience required or expected.
This month we have **WiFi HaLow: Introduction and Practical Use** with **Alex Barbur**.
Details are are [core.radio](https://core.radio).
The Clawwww
OpenClaw, NemoClaw, personal assistants, 24/7 agents. What does it all mean? How does it all work and what should we know about it?
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)






























