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SASH and London Friend are running a support group for Queer people with an East or South-East Asian background (including mixed heritage) to share lived experiences, joys, fears and questions around sexual and mental health. This is a non-judgemental, inclusive space, which will let you connect with people from the community and address cultural barriers or stigmas you might have experienced. This can also be a space for you to connect and learn more about the community. The QESEA group is a social drop-in where people can join at any time. The structure of the drop-in goes as followed: * 7pm-8:30pm: introductions and group discussion * 8:30pm-9pm: social break out The group will be facilitated at the London Friend building near Kings Cross. Upon arrival, please ring the door bell so the group facilitator can let you in. The group room has step-free access and there is also an accessible toilet on the ground floor.

This week’s **Yay!-DHD Social** is at \*\*Mercato Metropolitano (\*\*42 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6DR), which is large, gently heated space (thankfully!) full of snack/dinner options you’ll think about ordering for an unnecessarily long time before choosing something you immediately defend as “the right call, actually”. This is Yay-DHD: a midweek social that reliably attracts people with ADHD, people who suspect they might have ADHD, and people who’ve simply noticed that most socials feel like admin with drinks. You do not need a diagnosis to attend, everyone is welcome! **What to expect:** Starts at 6.15pm, ends around 10pm, obviously come and go as you please. We are a social group, so fairly easy going and chatty. Don't worry if you're a newbie, we all were once and I (Kieran) know it can be nerve wracking to attend for the first time - It will be ok! We’ll be eating, drinking, talking, interrupting ourselves, losing the thread, finding a better one, and occasionally stopping mid-sentence because someone else’s food looks more interesting. Some people arrive straight from work looking mildly haunted. Others drift in later having almost stayed home. Everyone will, at some point, forget what they were saying. Mercato is ideal for this sort of thing. There’s movement, background buzz but not noisy, and enough going on that wandering off mid-conversation looks deliberate rather than rude. If you go quiet, it just seems like you’re thinking. If you leave early, nobody questions it — they’re too busy choosing between eight cuisines. If you’ve been scrolling Meetup wondering which event requires the least amount of social performance, this is probably the one. We’ll be there from 6.15pm spread across tables, quietly judgemental about food choices (including our own), and relieved it’s Wednesday and not Thursday. *** **A quick note on boundaries:** Yay-DHD is a space where people feel safe and at ease. Not everyone is looking to connect beyond the event or pursue anything romantic, so please be mindful of that and respect boundaries at all times. Obviously, we want friendships to develop, so perhaps give it some time and consideration before asking if someone wants to stay in touch. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- For you robots out there: \| ADHD \| LONDON ADHD \| ADHD SOCIAL\| MAKE NEW FRIENDS \| LONDON \| 42 Newington Causeway\, London SE1 6DR

**This is a face-to-face event only.** **If you would like to attend in person at Birkbeck University in Central London, please register here:** [https://luma.com/aeqqdo33](https://luma.com/aeqqdo33) ​This event is made possible through the support and sponsorship of Lovable. **​Who is this for?** ​AI-powered software creation is transforming how modern apps are built, from MVPs and internal tools to full production-ready platforms. Tools like Lovable allow anyone to build functional apps in minutes using natural language, without needing a traditional engineering background. ​This workshop is for students, founders, product designers, developers, and anyone interested in learning how to build real applications using AI, whether for prototyping, automation or startup ideas. **​Who is leading the session?** ​The session is led by Dr. Stelios Sotiriadis, CEO of Warestack, Associate Professor and MSc Programme Director at Birkbeck, University of London. His expertise includes cloud computing, distributed systems, data engineering, and AI engineering. ​​Stelios holds a PhD from the University of Derby, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, and has worked with Huawei, IBM, Autodesk, and several startups. Since 2018 he has taught at Birkbeck, Boston University and Notre Dame University and in 2021, co-founded Warestack. **​What we’ll cover?** ​This workshop is proudly sponsored by Lovable, whose support provides participants with credits for hands-on access to the Lovable platform, enabling them to build, experiment, and deploy AI-powered applications during the session. ​A hands-on introduction to building fully functional applications using GenAI tools. ​You will learn: * ​How AI-assisted app development works * Turning a prompt into a complete web application * Designing user interfaces with AI * Auto-generating databases, APIs, and authentication * ​Editing and improving app functionality using conversational updates * Adding forms, dashboards, data tables, workflows, and logic * ​Deploying and sharing your app instantly * Best practices for iterating and refining with AI ​By the end of the session, you will have built your own AI-generated application. **​Requirements** ​A laptop with Python (Windows, macOS, or Linux). ​A free Lovable account ​Optional: GitHub account (for exporting your app) ​If you don’t have a suitable laptop, you may use the lab computers. **​Why Lovable?** ​Lovable is one of the fastest-growing AI development platforms, used by founders, agencies, and teams to build software dramatically faster than traditional coding. ​ **​Format** ​A 2-hour live session including: * ​Interactive theory * Hands-on app-building exercises * Real-time app creation * Step-by-step guidance as you build your own full application **​Prerequisites** ​No prior coding experience is required. Basic familiarity with web apps (forms, pages, buttons) is helpful but not necessary.

Join us for an exciting deep dive into the future of Kafka architecture and the intersection of AI with data streaming! Learn how diskless Kafka is revolutionising cloud-native deployments and discover how to interact with your Kafka data using natural language. **Date and Time: 🗓️** Wednesday 4th February, ⏰ 18:00 - 20:30 PM 🕘 **Venue:** Lacon House, London WC1X 8NL, United Kingdom **Attending Brands**: OSO, Aiven, Lenses **Schedule:** 18:00: Doors Open 18:00 - 18:30: Food, drinks, networking 18:30 - 19:00: "Diskless Kafka" - Hugh Evans, Aiven 19:00 \- 19:30: “How Lenses MCP Brings AI to Kafka \| Talk to Your Data with Claude & MCP" \- Tun Shew\, Lenses\.io 19:30- 20:30pm: Additional Q&A, Networking **🎙️ \~Talk 1\~** **Talk Title:** Diskless Kafka **Summary:** Summary: Deep dive into KIP-1150 and the future of diskless Kafka, why diskless matters in cloud-native deployments, rerouting replication to object storage, and how diskless and traditional topics can coexist in one cluster. This talk explores the fundamental architectural shift that allows Kafka to leverage cloud object storage for data persistence, reducing operational complexity and costs while maintaining the performance characteristics that make Kafka the backbone of modern data infrastructure. **🗣️ Speaker 1:** Hugh Evans is at Aiven **🎙️ \~Talk 2\~** **Talk Title:** Go Faster on Kafka with AI-Assisted Engineering (Without Summoning Consumer Lag Demons) **Summary:** Are you spending more time wrestling with Kafka configurations and debugging consumer lag than shipping real-time products? The era of AI-assisted engineering is here to change that. This talk takes you on a journey through the evolution of developer tools, moving from the editor wars of the past to a seamless AI-integrated future. We will demonstrate how next-generation tools like Cursor and Claude Code, paired with the Lenses MCP server, allow you to explore, manage and debug your Kafka environment simply using natural language. Through practical demos, you will see how to design robust topic strategies, apply governance best practices and deploy streaming data pipelines using any framework of your choice in seconds. We'll explore the best ways to shift your mindset towards leveraging an AI copilot and you'll leave with a list of actionable tips to enhance your daily routine and increase your productivity with AI today. **🗣️ Speaker 1:** Tun Shwe, Lenses.io

Hi folks! Welcome to our February Cloud Native London meetup! Join us to hear from our three great speakers and network with your fellow techies over pizza and drinks, or alternatively chat and following along on Youtube! 6:00 Pizza and drinks 6:30 Welcome 6:45 Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production (Jeroen van Erp, SUSE) 7:15 Platform Wars: The Battle Between Golden Paths and Spaghetti Pipelines (Prithvi Raj, Mirantis) 7:45 Break 8:00 Beyond Chatbots: How AI Agents and Humanoids Are Shaping a New Era (Akshya Prakkash, Urban Care Community) 8:30 Wrap up Sponsors: TechShack, Cloudsmith, SUSE See you there! Cheryl (@oicheryl) **Stop Running Mystery Meat in Production (Jeroen van Erp, SUSE)** We have all been there. You need a database or a quick node environment, so you throw FROM node:latest into your Dockerfile and deploy. It works, but you have just introduced a black box into your Kubernetes cluster. For the Developer, it’s a quick fix. For the Platform Engineer, it’s a nightmare. Most upstream images from public registries are a roll of the dice. They come pre-packed with critical vulnerabilities, unknown binaries, and bloated libraries that you didn’t ask for and definitely don’t want running in your secure environment. In a world of Zero Trust, why are we trusting random upstream maintainers with the keys to our infrastructure? *Jeroen van Erp is a technology evangelist at SUSE, specializing in the observability platform. With a rich background spanning engineering, architecture and product management, Jeroen brings over a decade of experience in the DevOps space. Before joining SUSE, he played a pivotal role as technical slliance director at StackState, where he helped shape the future of observability. As a trainer and speaker, Jeroen is known for his ability to distill complex technical concepts into actionable insights. He is passionate about solving challenging technical problems, whether through mentoring or hands-on involvement. An active contributor to the open source community, Jeroen maintains several highly starred repositories. When he’s not diving into the latest technology trends, Jeroen enjoys spending time on his mini-farm, where he cares for his sheep and shares his love for rural life.* *https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvanerp/* **Platform Wars: The Battle Between Golden Paths and Spaghetti Pipelines (Prithvi Raj, Mirantis)** Internal developer platforms promised golden paths: streamlined, reliable routes for delivering software. Yet too often, they lead platform engineers into a tangled web of YAML, Bash scripts, and tool sprawl. The true crisis today isn't implementing the idea of platform engineering but navigating through platform democracy challenges. The true Darth Vader moments in platform engineering appear when good intentions turn dark: developer experience suffers, and open-source tools quietly become villains to velocity. This session aims to dive deeper into the open-source tooling and cloud-native strategies that mitigate the platform crisis. We’ll examine how to maintain the Jedi discipline of paved paths or fall into spaghetti-pipeline chaos while chasing the perfect delivery workflow. Through real-world stories and anti-patterns, we’ll explore the light and dark sides of OSS-powered platform engineering and help you uncover who the true Darth Vader of your stack might be. *Prithvi Raj is a Community Manager & Developer Advocate at Mirantis working with the Open Source Program Office team. He is a CNCF Ambassador with 5+ years of experience who helped scale a CNCF incubating project in LitmusChaos and runs the Platform & Resilience Engineering Meetup group. He is an active member of SIG Project Reviews and currently leads community efforts for the k0s project, k0rdent, OpenSDN, and other OSS initiatives Mirantis contributes to.* *He is a co-organizer for KCD Bengaluru and previously organized Chaos Carnival, LitmusChaosCon and KCD Chennai. He was previously at Harness, ChaosNative, and MayaData.* **Beyond Chatbots: How AI Agents and Humanoids Are Shaping a New Era (Akshya Prakkash, Urban Care Community)** Chatbots introduced the world to AI, but they are only the starting point. A new wave of systems - AI agents and humanoid technologies is shifting AI from conversation to action. This talk explores how AI is evolving beyond text-based interaction into systems that can perceive environments, make decisions and operate in the real world. Drawing from hands-on experience with agent-based AI projects and robotic platforms in community and care settings, we’ll examine what makes these systems different, the challenges of trust and why this shift represents a new era for human-AI interaction. Join this session to see how AI is beginning to act, not just respond. *BSc Computer Science Hons @ UOW & Software Developer at UCC* *LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshya-pv/* *Check out [https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon](https://www.oicheryl.com/cloudnativelondon) if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring.*

Important - Please Read ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Welcome to London's Highest Rated International Languages Exchange group with over 1400 reviews rated 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇯🇵🇮🇹🇩🇪🇮🇳🇧🇷🇰🇷🇨🇳🇪🇬🇭🇰🇺🇦🇺🇸🇹🇷🇹🇼🇷🇺🇵🇱 To learn more about us and our community visit [www.languages.london](https://www.languages.london/) WHEN & WHERE Join us on **Wednesday** for our midweek global language exchange and social from 7pm. The venue is the Craft Beer Co. in **Hammersmith**, a really friendly pub with a great selection of drinks (especially beers!) including non-alcoholic options and excellent access to public transport. HOW WE DO IT It's simple .... \~ When you arrive please collect your personalised language badge from us, **BEFORE** you order your drinks. We'll be waiting to give you a warm welcome 😃 \~ Please wear your badge during the event and return it before you leave. \~ Start meeting the community and having fun, lots of fun! Confirm your place to attend. There's a small fee of £2, which you can pay when you arrive. Please buy something from the bar to support the venue, who kindly offer us a dedicated space. 🇲🇽🇻🇳🇧🇬🇵🇸🇸🇪🇮🇱🇦🇺🇨🇦🇳🇱🇨🇴🇭🇺🇿🇦🇹🇭🇵🇪🇧🇴🇳🇬🇪🇬🇳🇿🇨🇭 **WHO** Languages in London events are organised for our community - being social, making new friends, building cultural bridges and always very relaxed. We have the largest number of languages and countries represented in our weekly language exchange and social events. This is **not** a dating event. Our events are open to Internationals, Locals, Expats, Students, Travellers..... Everyone! Are you an 18 to 24 year old? Come and explore our events. This is the event for a truly global community and for citizens from around the World 🌎 Is this the Intercambio you've been looking for? Want to practice your ingles, espanol , francais, italiano, Deutsch, portugues or other European languages? Asian languages ? Or maybe prefer to only speak English, that's just fine. **All languages and all fluency levels are welcome** Spread the love, bring your family, friends and colleagues 💙 The creator and organiser of **Languages in London - Girish**, will always be visible at the event and there to support you and help with introductions, if you prefer. These are real events with real people. We aren't one of those groups that fill our events with fictitious attendees👻. We want to remain the **BEST** language events group in London, being the biggest isn't our focus. **No-shows at our events are removed from the group.** **Inactive members are also regularly removed from our group.** **LANGUAGES** Here's a selection of some of the languages that our community speak or have been practicing English, Spanish (incl Latin American), French, Italian, Portuguese (incl Brazilian), German, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), Russian, Korean, Hindi, Turkish, Arabic, Ukrainian, Polish, Hebrew, Swedish, Bulgarian, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Bengali, Dutch, Catalan, Farsi, Greek, Urdu, Welsh, Romanian, Norwegian, Czech, Slovakian, Estonian, Danish, Finnish, Turkmen, Latvian, Lithuanian, Nepali, Yoruba, Filipino, Thai, Albanian, Croatian, Serbian, Ebo, Gaelic, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Tamazight, Tagalog, Creole, Malagasy, Mongolian, Tok Pisin and more... you get the idea! 🇷🇴🇬🇹🇨🇿🇳🇴🇩🇰🇫🇮🇨🇾🇺🇾🇪🇬🇧🇬🇦🇷🇰🇪🇱🇰🇲🇦🇹🇳🇩🇿🇸🇬🇲🇾 **SUSTAINABLE** 🌎🌳 Like you, we really care about our planet. We don't like single use paper name tags, stickers or wristbands as they can't be reused or recycled and can even damage your clothing ☹️ The Solution? Our personalised and completely reusable Languages in London badges! 🏆👍 So, please make sure you return your badge to us, before you leave the event. We'll sanitise it (anti bacterial & disinfectant cleaners) and use it again & again & again. Thanks for helping us do the right thing and keep our costs down🙏 **SAFE SPACE FOR EVERYONE** 👮‍♂️ We don't tolerate prejudice or harassment of any kind, at any time. Be polite and respectful to everyone else and they will reciprocate. Let's keep the space safe, welcoming for everyone and free of any political agendas. Please report any concerns to the Organiser immediately. Please look after your belongings, the venue is a public place. We may take photos or video at the event for future promotional use. Let us if know you'd rather not be included, we respect your choice 📸 **SPREAD THE WORD** 🗣️💬 If you enjoy our events, please tell your friends and colleagues and help us grow **your** community, thank you ♥️ Join our community - [www.languages.london](https://www.languages.london/) We're looking forward to welcoming you at Languages in London 😊😃👋 🇲🇰🇳🇵🇧🇩🇵🇭🇦🇪🇦🇱🇧🇪🇮🇪🇲🇹🇰🇿🇱🇦🇯🇴🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪🇰🇭🇨🇱🇲🇳🇨🇺

🍻 Tech Startups in the Pub – Now Twice a Month! 🚀 We’re levelling up! After 3 years of packed evenings in Shoreditch, we’re adding a second monthly event, this time midweek in Oxford Street. That means two chances every month to meet founders, techies, and startup people over drinks. 🎉 👉 What’s New * A **fresh central-London venue**: Simmons Bar, Oxford Street * A new day: **1st Wednesday** of the month * Find one of the hosts to **grab a wristband**, it makes it easy to spot who’s part of the meetup (and not a random party). 😉 👉 What Stays the Same * No agenda, no panels, just relaxed networking with like-minded people. * Friendly hosts (look for Oliver, Pedro, Rob, or Rob) ready to introduce you. * A mix of founders, builders, operators, and curious newcomers. * Drinks, chats, and maybe some new friends. 📍 Where: Simmons Bar \| Oxford Street\, 203 Wardour St\, London W1F 8ZH 🕕 When: From 6 PM, 1st Wednesday of every month House Rules * No hard selling or heavy pitching, this is a chill after-work meetup. * Not drinking? Totally fine, come for the people, stay for the conversation. So grab a drink, throw on your wristband, and come swap stories from the trenches. See you there! 🍻

**Never tried Grafana before? This workshop is for you!** APIs are the backbone of modern software development. They power everything from mobile apps to internal tools, but let’s be honest, reading through raw JSON or API responses isn’t the most exciting way to work with data. What if you could turn that data into clean, interactive graphs without writing a ton of custom code or spinning up a backend server? That’s where Grafana comes in! **Grafana** is an open-source data visualisation and observability platform that lets you create interactive, real-time dashboards from various data sources. It’s best known for visualising metrics from systems like Prometheus or InfluxDB, but thanks to its plugin ecosystem, it can do much more. **In this fun, beginner-friendly workshop, we’ll:** * Explore what Grafana is all about * Connect to an API using the Grafana Infinity plugin * Configure a simple query and pull the data into Grafana * Turn that data into a beautiful dashboard with different panel types **No prior knowledge of Grafana** is required as this session is beginner-friendly, but bring your **(well charged) laptops** as this will be a hands-on session!

**This is a vibrant social at the exciting 'SKY' high 'GARDEN', ROOFTOP skyscraper in the City of London!** **MUST BOOK VIA THIS LINK IN ORDER TO ATTEND, DO NOT SHOW UP WITHOUT A TICKET [https://fatso.ma/3cp0 ](https://fatso.ma/3cp0)*MUST BOOK IN ADVANCE & RSVP PLEASE - NO CASH PAYMENTS - NO WALK INS.*** *If any issues at all, kindly message ELENI!* **\*\*\*\*\*IN ORDER TO ATTEND YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO MEET AT 18:50 IN FRONT OF THE LARCH CAFE** 1, Sky Garden Walk, London EC3M 8AF **AND HAVE BOOKED YOUR TICKET IN ADVANCE VIS THIS LINK AS ABOVE OR HERE [https://fatso.ma/3cp0]( https://fatso.ma/3cp0)** *For those who love to make the effort and enjoy the most!* Are you up for it? *PLEASE FOLLOW EXACTLY THE GUIDELINES OF THIS ARRANGEMENT AS FOLLOWS & DO NOT TURN UP WITHOUT A BOOKED TICKET IN ADVANCE AS YOU WILL BE TURNED AWAY, THANKS!* **Treat yourself to a Thursday fun social at the most iconic SKY high rooftop with a public GARDEN!** *Be immersed in breathtaking 360-degree skyline* views from the 35th floor on the Walkie Talkie building, at the SKY GARDEN exquisite bars in an electrifying atmosphere with a resident DJ, setting the perfect soundtrack for this evening. **Mix, mingle and meet new people, after a busy week as Thursday is the new Friday after all!** **Be introduced to** *new people, catch up potentially with who you may have met in a previous event, interact with all attendees, mix and mingle!* Indulge in expertly crafted cocktails, delicious small plates and nibbles, at the ultimate place to soak up the breath-taking London views. ***Seize the opportunity to enrich your social life and why not, trust in perfect synchronicities of the right people at the right time and place getting together.*** *This is a hosted event where you can get FRIENDLY and SOCIAL, be introduced to like minded people of various backgrounds and see what can potentially happen next!* ***Make friends, perhaps find someone that can make your heart sing or simply go out & about London, making the most of this stunning, photogenic background and of your evening.*** *Approach with the best smile on your face, make a best first impression!, see it reflected back to you!* **HOW TO JOIN :** **-ONCE YOU BOOK YOUR TICKET, YOU HAVE TO BE AT THE ENTRANCE ON THE LARCH CAFE, A FEW STEPS AWAY FROM THE WALKIE TALKIE BUILDING ENTRANCE AT 18:50 SO WE CAN GO UPSTAIRS ALL TOGETHER.** **KINDLY MESSAGE ELENI IF YOU CAN NO LONGER MAKE IT AND YOU HAVE ALREADY PURCHASED A TICKET WITH THE GROUP.** **ELENI is hosting this event, making sure all guests are welcomed, introduced to each other and included throughout the evening.** WE HAVE ENSURED AN EXCLUSIVE BOOKING THIS EVENING OF UP TO 16 PEOPLE, BOOK PROMPTLY, IF IT'S FULL, IT'S FULL! YOU NEED TO BE ACCURATE WITH ALL GUIDELINES FOR A SMOOTH EXPERIENCE IN ORDER TO BE ALLOWED IN. **AS THIS IS A VERY STRICT VENUE TO ENTER, WE NEED TO FOLLOW TIME AND ENTRY RULES & POLICIES.** **PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING :** -**A VALID PHYSICAL PHOTO ID** IS REQUIRED (passport, driver’s licence, or PASS card) **Digital copies are not accepted** **-Bag search is applied** **-Dress Code:** Smart casual - no sportswear is allowed **-Weather:** Naturally ventilated indoors space – please dress warmly for crisp winter evenings as it may be feel a little bit cold despite the heating in order to maintain the the ideal temperature for the indoor plants. -**Payments:** Cashless venue (all major cards accepted) Average age range : usually 30 - 55 and EVERYONE really is WELCOME 💕 By attending this event you accept that you are fully responsible for your own safety and attitude. This ticket is non refundable unless the event gets cancelled for unlike unforeseen reasons. If you can not eventually attend kindly inform the organiser as we need to be specific with number of attendees in any case. Thanks, looking forward to meeting up with you!

**💻 Agentic Coding at Google DeepMind** Agentic Coding Architectures: Tools, Models, and Harnesses **Theme:** ***Agentic AI 🤝 Agentic Coding*** Please register on Luma [here](https://luma.com/p88yqsna) 📅 **Date:** Thursday, 5th Feb 2026 🕕 **Time:** 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm 📍**Venue:** **Google DeepMind** 4–5 Bonhill St London EC2A 4BX Hello London Agentic AI Community, Happy New Year, We are excited to announce the next **London Agentic AI Meetup**, hosted at **Google DeepMind**, focused on one of the most important, heated and fast-evolving areas in AI today: **Agentic Coding**. This meetup continues our highly technical tradition with hands-on insights, deep dives and great technical discussions. **Important:** Only 150 seats available. *Separate Registration on [Luma](https://luma.com/p88yqsna) is required to get the entry code. For security reasons, only invited guests on the official list will be granted access. Walk-ins will not be allowed.* Luma Link : [https://luma.com/p88yqsna](https://luma.com/p88yqsna) **About the Event** **London Agentic AI Meetup #4**: **Agentic Coding** 💻 🎉 This event will explore highly heated topic in Agentic AI which Agentic Coding. We will cover how Agentic Coding systems are designed, evaluated, and scaled, from tooling and model choices to orchestration, harnesses, and real-world constraints.This meetup is intentionally focused on **how Agentic systems are actually built** designed and engineered by experts from Google DeepMind. 🎙️ **Speakers** **Talk 1** : **Google DeepMind (Agentic Coding)** Speaker: [Ian Ballantyne](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianballantyne/overlay/about-this-profile/) Developer Relations Engineer at Google DeepMind Introduction to the Agentic Coding ecosystem at Google DeepMind **Talk2**: **Title: What the heck! Spec driven development for everyone** **Speaker**: [Ricardo Sueiras](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardosueiras/overlay/about-this-profile/) AWS **Abstract**: Spec driven development (SDD) emphasises defining clear specifications before writing any code. It helps you think about what you really want to build, and provides you with better relationship with the code that is generated. After this talk, you will understand the key elements of SDD and how it might be the missing piece in your workflow. **Talk 3** : **Agentic Coding Talk Or panel** **Speakers:** KP Sawhney, Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind Matthew Mauger, Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind **What To Expect** • Deep technical talks from practitioners from DeepMind on Agentic Coding ecosystem at Google DeepMind. Antigravity, Gemini3, Gemini CLI, AI Studio etc • Talk from another agentic coding lab (surprise) • Real-world Agentic Coding architectures and lessons learned • Coding Agents, Models, Tools and harnesses for Agentic Coding • High-quality audience questions and discussion • Post-event networking with fellow builders **Agenda** **6:00 PM -** Doors Open **6:00 – 6:40 PM** Welcome and Refreshments **6:40 PM:** Opening Remarks Introduction to London Agentic AI and the evening theme **6:45 – 7:05 PM** 🎤 **Talk 1: Agentic Coding Ecosystem at Google DeepMind** **7:05 – 7:25 PM** 🎤 **Talk 2: Spec Driven Development - Ricardo** **7:30 – 7:50 PM** 🎤 **Talk 3: Agentic Coding Talk Or Panel** **7:50 – 8:15 PM** 🎙️ **Panel Discussion and Q&A** Agentic Coding architectures, tools, models, harnesses, and evaluation challenges **9:00 PM onwards** 🍻 Networking at a nearby pub **Who Should Attend** • AI Engineers building Agentic systems • ML Engineers and Researchers • Developers working on coding agents, tool use, or orchestration • Practitioners interested in evaluation, robustness, and real-world deployment If you are looking for high-signal discussions on agentic coding and a serious technical audience, this meetup is for you. 📍**Venue** **Google Campus** 4–5 Bonhill St London EC2A 4BX **Important Note** As Meetup doesn't give QR code directly, We are taking registrations from the Luma. Finally, we are on Luma too! • Attendance requires following the registration instructions provided. • Please only attend if you have received confirmation and capacity is limited to 150 Register on Luma [here](https://luma.com/p88yqsna) We are excited to bring together the London Agentic AI community at one of the world’s leading AI labs and continue building a space focused on **real-world Agentic AI engineering**. See you there 🚀

**En’hittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It** by Cory Doctorow https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/enshittification-4 (also available via Spotify premium) Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet. For the monopolists who dominate online - X, TikTok, Amazon, Meta, Apple - this is all part of the playbook. The process is what leading tech critic Cory Doctorow has dubbed en'hittification. First, the platform attracts users with some bait, such as free access; then the activity is monetized, bringing in the business customers and degrading the user experience; then, once everyone is trapped and competitors eradicated, the platform wrings out all the value and transfers it to their executives and shareholders. Book is available at Hatchards and elsewhere. https://www.hatchards.co.uk/book/enshittification/cory-doctorow/9781836742227 Other related books: \- Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now\, by Jaron Lanier \- Empire of AI: inside the reckless race for total domination\, by Karen Hao (https://xigxag.co.uk/audiobook/empire-of-ai-9781837311262/) \- Taming Silicon Valley: How to Protect Our Jobs\, Safety\, and Society in the Age of AI\, by Gary F\. Marcus \([https://www.hatchards.co.uk/book/taming-silicon-valley/gary-f-marcus/9780262551069](https://www.hatchards.co.uk/book/taming-silicon-valley/gary-f-marcus/9780262551069)) \- The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality\, by Rachel Adams \- The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want\, by Emily M\. Bender \- More Everything Forever: AI Overlords\, Space Empires\, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity\, by Adam Becker \([https://open.spotify.com/show/36wi0Xfr6C5eoJnA0WCISN?si=177a406de3014913](https://open.spotify.com/show/36wi0Xfr6C5eoJnA0WCISN?si=177a406de3014913)) \- Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust\, by Ernest Davis \- Dark Patterns\, Deceptive Design\, and the Law\, by M\.R\. Leiser \- Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A\.I\. to Google\, Facebook\, and the World\, by Cade Metz **Venue** Blooms Coffee & Pizza https://maps.app.goo.gl/Yy7etKb94vU1wC5m6 Russell Square is the closest metro (underground) station. **Book Club Rules** * Reading the book is required, even if you read a single chapter. * Discussion is centred around the book and its theme. * No show is not appreciated. Please sign up if you are interested in reading and discussing books. In case you cannot make it anymore to the meeting, do let us know in time.

🎟️ **Get tickets: [https://lu.ma/ai-builders](https://lu.ma/ai-builders)** 🎟️ ☝️This is a free meetup however a Luma ticket is required! **Join our meetup for AI engineers & founders!** We share the latest insights about: *AI dev tools, Agent frameworks, RAG pipelines, automation hacks, Cursor/Claude code hacks, and new gen-AI models.* ​\*\*:: FOR WHO ::\*\* ✅ Anyone actively building with Generative AI ✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders ⚠️Technical LLM knowledge required!\* ​ :: **FORMAT** :: * ​💻⚡️ **Speed Demos** (10 min) Builders share real-world AI solutions and how it's built. Including code, prompts & architecture examples! * ​**🎤 🦄 Pioneer Talks** (20 min) Inspiring talk/demo from emerging Gen-AI leaders from Europe or Silicon Valley * ​**🤝🍕🍻 Informal Vibes** Lots of time to network with other builders over some yummy pizza & drinks. ​\*\*:: AGENDA ::\*\* 17:30 **🤝** Walk-in 18:00 **🍕** Pizza (be early!) 18:30 **🎤** Pioneer Speaker 19:00 ---- 💬 BREAK TIME ----- 19:30 💻 Demo (TBA) ​19.45 💻 Demo (TBA) 20.00 🍻 Drinks 21.00 End ​ **:: FAQ ::** • What is **AI Builders?** A self-organizing nonprofit community of 3000+ AI nerds🤓. and yes.. we're building a democratic AI CEO and run on [opencollective.com](http://opencollective.com/aibuilders) donations. • **Can I demo, give a talk, or just help out?** Message Arthur [(+31636570260)](https://aib.club/whatsapp-arthurp) in case you want to shine✨ on stage and grow your network! • \***I'm not technical. Can I come?** Yes! To fully enjoy the meetup, we recommend chatting with AI to understand these basic LLM concepts: *Multimodal, Vector Embeddings, RAG, Chaining, Structured JSON Output, Function Calling, API calls, Knowledge Graphs, Reinforcement Learning, Fine-tuning, AI Agents.* • **Why hangout at AI Builders?** * NETWORKING: Connect with 80+ technical attendees and a larger community of 3000+ across Europe * ​LATEST KNOW-HOW: We focus on innovative AI demos + slides with diagrams, code/prompt examples. * ​FUN: a lot of time to chill, 10min demos, informal good vibes! **​Location** We look forward to hang out with you: 207 Old St, London EC1V 9NR, United Kingdom It's close to the Old Street Tube Station **Thanks to our friends at [Beyond](https://www.wearebeyond.work/beyond-the-bower)** ![]()🎟️ **Get tickets: [https://lu.ma/ai-builders](https://lu.ma/ai-builders)** 🎟️ ☝️This is a free meetup however a Luma ticket is required!

OWASP is ending use of Meetup, so I built an eventbrite for the event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-development-risk-case-studies-and-how-agentic-ai-is-the-future-of-appsec-tickets-1981450622150?aff=oddtdtcreator AI is transforming how software is designed, developed, and deployed, dramatically accelerating velocity while introducing new categories of risk. As organizations adopt AI-assisted coding, autonomous agents, and increasingly complex model interactions, traditional application security approaches struggle to keep pace. This talk examines emerging AI-driven risks through real case studies from the field, highlighting issues such as insecure code generation, data-leakage pathways, model manipulation, and evolving supply-chain threats. We will explore how engineering teams must adapt their people, processes, and governance models to secure AI-augmented development workflows effectively. The session will then introduce agentic AI as the next evolution in application security—autonomous systems capable of continuous analysis, multi-step reasoning, and real-time remediation. Attendees will learn how combining agentic AI with modern practices can reduce developer friction, improve coverage, and create a future-ready application security strategy designed for the demands of AI-native software development

Columbus Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. People of all skill levels attend, and we love it that way. Many people (optionally) bring projects to work on, and many other people (optionally) socialize the entire time. It's entirely up to you! **What to Expect at the Intro Circle** \~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~ Near the beginning of the event (1:30 pm), we do a standup: * Organizer announcements, updates, and logistics Round 1 - (7 secs max): * Your name * What you're working on * What you can help others with Round 2: * Community events you wanna plug. If none, that's cool too. Round 3: * Job opportunities you're hiring for OR announce that you are looking for one. If none, that's cool. After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized! Feel free to work alone, pair up, attend one of our workshops/presentations, or mingle!

**GIS and Software Programming** (with a focus on Python and JavaScript) by **[Gary Yu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-yu-analyst/)** * GIS Overview * Programming Overview * GIS History * History of Programming * A Cluster of GIS Software * A Tale of Two Programming Languages (Python and JavaScript) * How to integrate GIS Software in Python * How to integrate GIS Software in JS ***Bring your laptop and expect to write some (non-AI generated) code!*** *(title subject to change)* Food and drinks will be available. **LOCATION:** 6515 Longshore Loop, Suite 300, Dublin, OH 43017 **FREE PARKING:** 6725 Longshore Street, Dublin, OH 43017

**People Analytics 101: Making Sense of Compensation Data** Compensation data is one of the most widely used and widely misunderstood forms of people analytics. The session will cover where compensation data comes from, including market pricing data, internal payroll data, and benchmarking sources, and how companies think about structuring and analyzing that information. We will explore how compensation data is leveraged to set salary ranges, manage internal equity, support hiring and retention, and align pay with business strategy. A portion of the session will address common data challenges and limitations, such as market noise, inconsistent job matching, and incomplete datasets, while keeping the primary focus on practical use rather than technical depth. The session will also look ahead at where the space is going, including the growing impact of pay transparency laws, expanding pay equity requirements, and emerging regulations in the US and Europe that require organizations to report on gender and pay gaps. The goal is to give attendees a clear mental model for how compensation analytics works today and why getting it right is becoming increasingly critical. (note: we are back at Rev1 this month!) **About Our Speaker** [Alex Moore](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexscottmoore/) is the founder of [Moore Cooperative](https://moorecooperative.com/), where he advises organizations on compensation strategy, pay equity, and people analytics. His work focuses on helping organizations like the Ohio Supreme Court design, analyze, and communicate compensation systems that are data-informed, defensible, and aligned with organizational goals. Alex lives in Granville, Ohio and has three little kiddos. More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)

[Social Softball 2026 - Calendar - Columbus Ski Club](https://www.columbusskiclub.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=686961&item_id=2871538&actr=3) CSC Softball is a competitive but friendly co-ed league. This is CSC’s largest activity with over 200 participants. Each team typically consists of 6 men and 6 women players. Some teams also have a Non-Playing Assistant (NPA) who helps keep score and organize cookouts. **2026 Regular Season:** Thursdays April 30th - July 30th 6:15pm/7:15pm \*No games the week of July 4th\* **End of Season Tournament:** August 8th-August 9th (All Day) \*5 Game Min., 7 Game Max\* **Location:** Anheuser Busch Fields 4990 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus, OH 43214 **Ratings Clinic:** March 14th or March 21st 10:30am - 11:30am @ Busch Fields \*All New Players must attend 1 of the clinics\* **Team Accouncements:** April 3rd 6:00pm @ Coaches Bar & Grill **Team Practice Dates:** April 16th & April 23rd **Fees:** Coach/Player - $72 Sponsor - $310 Non Playing Assistant/Party Coordinator/Base Coach - $25

Join members of the local UX and Digital Design community for a casual monthly breakfast. There _might_ be a little snow, but there _will_ be effectively infinite serve-yourself coffee, so it evens out if you ask me. Just a reminder, while the other locations are great too, we’re at the Lane Ave one this time.

NFT's are here to stay folks! This is a group for like minded people interested in understanding, leveraging, using, creating for, profiting from, trading too i suppose, NFT's.. everything around them, complexity, fear and exploits, best practices and more. **PLUS** This group will talk AI ART tools, techniques, artists, video, audio, prototypes and more in the AI assisted production space- ART specifically, but we can get into any aspect of some of the cooler things happening in AI in general.