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Agentic commerce developer workshop - London
**Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll build an agentic commerce solution and explore how AI agents can discover products and complete payments using Stripe.**
**About**
Experience a hands-on workshop designed for developers interested in the future of AI-driven commerce and agentic payments.
This workshop is the very first time this content has ever been delivered. It is a pilot workshop for Stripe Sessions, and attendees will get early access to technology and workflows that are still very new inside Stripe.
The way customers discover and purchase products is shifting from traditional search to LLM-powered agents. In this workshop, you’ll customize an AI agent to become an intelligent shopping assistant capable of discovering products and completing transactions.
**Through practical exercises, you will:**
* Customize an AI agent for commerce workflows
* Implement Shared Payment Tokens (SPT) using the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)
* Enable secure payment credential handoff from an AI agent to Stripe
* Process payments and perform risk evaluation through Stripe
* Build a complete end-to-end agentic commerce experience
Because this is a pilot workshop, the content is evolving and highly experimental. Participants will be among the first developers anywhere to build an agentic commerce integration with Stripe.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a fully functioning agentic commerce solution complete with code, equipping you with the skills to build next-generation AI-powered buying experiences.
**Attendance & Invitations**
⚡ This is a small, invite-only workshop designed for a very limited group of developers.
To keep the session highly interactive, attendance is restricted to a small number of participants, and admission is **by invitation only**.
To request an invitation:
1. Join the waitlist to express your interest
2. We will review all waitlist requests
3. Selected participants will be moved to the confirmed list
4. You will receive confirmation once your spot is approved.
**Please wait for confirmation before making plans — only confirmed attendees will be admitted.**
This approach allows us to create a focused, collaborative workshop environment and ensure the best possible experience for participants.
**Schedule**
**1:00PM – 1:15PM — Arrival & Welcome**
Arrive, grab coffee and refreshments, and make sure you're set up and ready to go.
**1:15PM – 4:00PM — Hands-on Workshop**
Introduction to agentic commerce and AI-driven purchasing.
You'll build a working agentic commerce solution including:
* AI agent customization
* Agentic Commerce Protocol setup
* Shared Payment Token creation
* Payment flows through Stripe
* End-to-end testing
**Requirements**
This workshop is designed for developers interested in building AI-powered commerce experiences and agentic payment workflows.
Developers should be comfortable with:
* Basic JavaScript fundamentals
* Using a terminal or command line
* Working with APIs
* Basic web development concepts
No prior AI or Stripe experience is required.
**What You'll Need**
Laptop and charging cables — no Chromebooks or tablets
Code editor and ability to download and install necessary tools
Required software:
* IDE such as VS Code
* [Node.js](http://node.js/)
* curl
🏐King of 2 courts-Solo📍Kingscross 📶 Upper Intermediate
**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/47650
**Game Description:**
We’re opening up \*\*2 courts at Somerstown \*\* for a fun \*\*King of the Court–style tournament\*\*. Here’s how it works:
🏐 \*Format\*
\- 2 matches at the same time
\- Winners move to \*\*Court A\*\*\, losers referee the next round before playing again
\- Teams rotate based on match results
\- Matches are \*\*game to 15\*\*\, aiming for \~8 rounds total
\- Max \*\*3 consecutive wins\*\* on Court A \(after that\, the challenger stays regardless of result\)
🌈 \*Rules\*
\- Men’s net height
\- Resting teams help with refereeing 🚩
\- Court A videos uploaded to Balltime\.ai for rewatching 🎥 and highlights editing\.
💸 \*Sign Up Options\*
\- 👥 \*Team signup\*: £80 per team \(team of 6\-7\)
\- 👤 \*Solo signup\*: £14 per player
+ transaction fee and platform fee💸
Rules
-Winner stays on (maximum 3 consecutive games in court A)
\- game to 15 cap on 15
-Court winners move on to play each other in the next round
-Men’s net
-Teams rotate as referees when not playing
-6 teams total, with 6–7players per team
\*Privacy policy for games sessions\*
By attending this game session, you agree to the following:
\* Video recordings/photos are allowed only during the games
\* Attending means consenting to recordings by the organiser which will be shared via private links
\* Distribution limited to session participants only
\* Explicit consent required for any public sharing
\* Respect others' privacy and comfort
\*Please contact the co-organisers if you have any questions about the policy.
Zero-downtime major upgrades in practice
We're excited to be back and pleased to say this event is being sponsored by [pgMustard](https://pgmustard.com).
On the talks front, we have **Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov** from Fresha who will take us through how they recently upgraded their fleet with zero-downtime.
We will then host our first ever debate, on a topic to be determined!
WHERE
Join us at **Doggett's Coat and Badge on 14 April from 18:30.**
PROGRAM
18:30 Welcome
19:00 Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room: Zero-downtime Major PG upgrades in practice (Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov, Fresha) - abstract below
19:45 Sandwiches and bar snacks (paid for by our sponsor)
20:00 Debate — topic TBD
ABSTRACT
**Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room: Zero-downtime Major PG upgrades in practice**
Upgrading PostgreSQL across hundreds of production databases without downtime sounds impossible, especially when logical replication slots, Debezium CDC pipelines, and outbox event streams are in play.
At Fresha, we faced exactly that: mission-critical workloads still on PostgreSQL 12, and no safe way to reach 17 without freezing the business.
This talk walks through how we designed and automated a blue-green upgrade framework using logical decoding, controlled WAL overlap, and connector orchestration. We’ll dive into how Debezium connectors, replication origins, and PgBouncer pools were coordinated to guarantee continuity for both CDC and outbox topics, with rollback and dry-run modes built in.
Attendees will learn practical techniques for:
* Orchestrating zero-downtime Postgres major upgrades on RDS or self-managed clusters
* Managing replication slots and Debezium connectors safely across clusters
* Handling sequence alignment, WAL overlap, and connector state transitions
* Designing reversible, testable database cutovers
This is a practical session from real production experience: no magic tools, just PostgreSQL internals, Debezium, careful planning, and a few well-placed bash scripts.
SPEAKERS
**Anton Borisov** architects real-time data systems centered on PostgreSQL. At Fresha, he designs zero-downtime migrations, Debezium-based CDC pipelines, and overall data strategy integrating Postgres with Kafka and Flink.
His work spans query planning analysis, partitioning and indexing, autovacuum and bloat optimization, and performance tuning under high-concurrency workloads. He also builds downstream lakehouse integrations with Iceberg, Paimon, and StarRocks.
Anton publishes technical deep-dives on PostgreSQL internals, streaming infrastructure, and production reliability at medium.com/@borzoniusy
**Vlad Bokov** is a Staff Engineer at Fresha working on systems behind activity feeds and communication between partners and customers.
He deals with what breaks at scale: PostgreSQL under heavy write load, WAL bottlenecks, replication issues, Kafka pipelines, and zero-downtime migrations. Most of his work is about making production systems behave: fixing what is slow, unstable, or too expensive, and making trade-offs that hold up under pressure.
He works across Snowflake, StarRocks, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis, and is currently exploring newer streaming approaches, including Apache Fluss, for real-world workloads.
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THE OFFICIAL BITS
The meet-up abides by [PostgreSQL Code of Conduct](https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/coc/).
Postgres, PostgreSQL and the Slonik Logo are trademarks or [registered trademarks of the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada](https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/trademarks/), and used with their permission.
Product Evenings LDN: Scaling Product Judgment in an AI Native World
Join us for a conversation with Shailendra Kumar, Product Lead at WhatsApp, as he explores how product leaders navigate decision-making in an AI-native era. Shailendra will share how teams evaluate when AI adds real value, and how thoughtful product judgment shapes scalable, trustworthy products.
As AI becomes embedded in everyday products, product leaders face new challenges around reliability, complexity, and user trust. Drawing on his experience building global-scale products, Shailendra Kumar will share practical frameworks for deciding when to use AI, designing systems that scale responsibly, and shipping features that users can rely on.
**Event Overview**
AI introduces new opportunities and new risks for product teams. In this session, Shailendra Kumar explores how leaders decide when AI is the right solution, design systems that scale responsibly, and ship features without eroding user trust.
**01 - Deciding When AI Helps and When It Hurts**
Learn how experienced product leaders evaluate whether AI meaningfully improves a product experience, and how to avoid unnecessary complexity that can damage usability or trust.
**02 - Designing AI Systems That Scale Responsibly**
Discover frameworks for building AI-powered products that handle uncertainty, fail gracefully, and remain reliable as usage and expectations grow.
**03 - Shipping AI Without Breaking Trust**
Explore how transparency, governance, and accountability can be embedded into product development so teams can innovate quickly while protecting users.
**Speakers**
**Shailendra Kumar - Product Lead, WhatsApp**
Shailendra Kumar is a Product Lead at WhatsApp, where he drives product strategy and execution for features that connect people around the world. With experience in building user-centric products at scale, he focuses on simplifying communication through thoughtful design and data-informed decision-making.
North London Badminton Session - Intermediate-Low to Intermediate High Players
Join us for some friendly badminton sessions and we play from 8.00pm to 10.00pm
We have four badminton courts and we play mainly double matches with feather shuttlecocks.
**The session is at Woodhouse College Sports Hall N12 9EY and is for Intermediate-Low to Intermediate High Players.**
**The session fee is £12.00 per player.**
Check our youtube video:
**https://youtu.be/DhrXm6SXDDw**
If you are a complete beginner, new starter or beginner, you will need to attend our sessions with coaching. Do email us at info@barnetmultisportsclub.com
There is free parking at the venue.
Signals, Systems and Scams: Deconstructing the Future of Financial Intelligence
**Welcome to DSF Sandbox Sessions!**
Top tech talks and masterclasses from the best in the industry. Every month, and completely free. The catch? There isn’t one. Just a monthly dose of epic content to power up your data passion!
**Event details**
📆 **Date:** Tuesday 14th April 2026
⏰ **Time:** 6:00 – 9:30 PM BST
💡 **Topic:** **Signals, Systems, and Scams: Deconstructing the Future of Financial Intelligence**
🗣️ **Speakers:** Kristjan Erik Liive, Volodymyr Panov, Baran Koseoglu, Zoltan Szopory, Vera Shishkina, Aaron Wilson, Mohammed Topiwalla
[Sign up for this event by clicking here!](https://datasciencefestival.com/session/wise-sandbox-session/)
As global financial platforms evolve, the “Trust Gap” becomes an engineering challenge. Scaling a product to millions of users requires more than just better models—it requires a fundamental shift from manual heuristics to automated, high-fidelity intelligence.
Join Wise for an exclusive Sandbox Session designed for senior data scientists and engineers. We’re moving beyond the basics of model training to explore the “Last Mile” of production ML: the infrastructure of compliance, the democratisation of optimization, and the transition to foundational representation learning.
Through three practitioner-led deep dives and a collaborative product-data science panel, we will deconstruct how Wise builds resilient financial infrastructure where performance and safety are never a zero-sum game.
What we’ll explore:
• The GenAI Reality Check: Moving LLM automations from “cool demo” to “compliant production” in highly regulated spaces.
• Decoupling Optimization: How we built “Threshold UI” to empower non-experts to tune model performance across hundreds of cohorts without a single code change.
• Beyond Velocity: Replacing hand-crafted features with User Event Transformers to capture the deep behavioral context that traditional tabular data misses.
• The Co-Design Philosophy: Why the future of fraud prevention isn’t just a better algorithm, but a tighter feedback loop between Product and Data Science.
Food, drinks, and networking with fellow practitioners will follow throughout the evening.
Check out the full session details below!
**Please note: Due to high demand and limited capacity, tickets for this event will be allocated via a random ballot. Submitting an application does not guarantee entry. Successful applicants will be notified throughout March and early April. If you have not received confirmation by April 9th, this means your ballot application was not selected on this occasion.**
**Talk 1: Evolution of GenAI: Building Compliant LLM Automations at Wise**
**Speakers:** Kristjan Erik Liive, Senior Data Scientist & Volodymyr Panov, Senior Data Scientist.
**Abstract:** Evolution of GenAI applications in servicing tasks at Wise. We will share examples, discuss architectures and challenges of building LLM-based automations in compliance-heavy space. We will also present our vision and key opportunity areas in further augmentation and automation.
**Key takeaways:** Practical examples of scoping and implementing LLM-based solutions.
**Talk 2: On the Threshold of Greatness: Democratizing Model Optimization at Wise**
**Speakers:** Baran Köseoğlu, Lead Data Scientist & Zoltán Szopory, Staff Software Engineer.
**Abstract:** This session will talk about machine learning model threshold optimization across hundreds of customer cohorts. Traditionally, optimizing these thresholds has been a complex, time-consuming task, often relegated to highly technical experts. At Wise, we faced the challenge of managing diverse customer segments, each with unique risk profiles and compliance mandates and as a solution we developed Threshold UI we will talk about more in the session.
**Key takeaways:** Boost your machine learning model performance without changing any configuration in your training pipeline.
**Talk 3: More Than Meets the Eye: Transforming User Events into Deep Context**
**Speaker:** Vera Shishkina, Staff Data Scientist.
**Abstract:** Moving from purely manual feature engineering to representation learning. This session covers the technical POC of a User Events Transformer – a foundational model designed to produce customer embeddings that augment traditional tabular features. We will discuss the proposed architecture, the challenges of building temporal data pipelines, and our vision for using these embeddings to boost performance in domains like scam prediction.
**Key takeaways:** How learned embeddings provide deep context that traditional “velocity” features often miss.
**Talk 4: Panel Discussion – Mind & Machine: How Product and DS Co-Design the Future of Trust**
**Panellists:** Aaron Wilson, Fraud and Victim Prevention Product Lead & Mohammed Topiwalla, Fraud and Victim Prevention Data Science Lead.
**Abstract:** Fireside chat to understand how DS and Product work hand in hand to keep wise safe.
**Key takeaways:** How do you find the middle ground between business growth and risk precision? What is the future of DS in fraud prevention?
**Schedule:**
**6:00 PM** – Doors open – networking with food and refreshments
**6:45 PM** – Intro
**6:50 PM** – Talk 1 (20 minutes + 5 minute Q&A)
**7:15 PM** – Talk 2 (20 minutes + 5 minute Q&A)
**7:40 PM** – Comfort break
**7:50 PM** – Talk 3 (20 minutes + 5 minute Q&A)
**8:15 PM** – Talk 4 (30 minutes)
**8:45 PM** – Networking with refreshments
**9:30 PM** – Event close
**Registering for the event:** Click the 'Sign up here!' button on the specific event page following the link below. Once you have completed the registration form, you will be emailed a link to join the webinar. You will also receive a reminder link one week, one day and one hour prior to the event.
**PLEASE NOTE: Clicking 'attend' on Meetup does not register you for the event. You will need to register for the event on the link provided below to receive a joining link. If you do not, you will not be able to join the event.**
**[Click here to sign up for this specific event](https://datasciencefestival.com/session/wise-sandbox-session/)**
Please note the time zone when you book this event.
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Product is... creating a trust gap - BUY TICKETS ON LUMA
**⚠️⚠️ TICKETED EVENT - BUY TICKETS ON [LUMA EVENT PAGE](https://luma.com/icr5pkqs) ⚠️⚠️**
Product Is… is tackling something that keeps a lot of product teams up at night.
AI products are shipping faster than users are learning to trust them. In some industries, that gap is getting dangerous.
Tom Blower, Chief Product and R&D Officer at Agreena, has spent his career building AI products in sectors where the stakes are real - healthcare, agriculture, climate tech. He knows what it looks like when a product gives the right answer and the user still doesn't act on it.
This event will be on the seventh floor at Synechron's office, 35 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7QB. A massive thank you to Synechron for providing the venue.
Doors open at 6:30 PM, we kick off at 7:00 PM, and wrap up by 8:30 PM. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Come ready for proper discussion, new connections, and ideas worth thinking about.
--- THE THEME - PRODUCT IS... CREATING A TRUST GAP ---
AI products are getting better at a rate that is genuinely hard to keep up with. But capability and trust are not the same thing.
Think about a farmer. They have decades of lived experience in their soil, their land, their seasons. An AI tool tells them to do something different. What happens? Often, nothing. Not because the AI is wrong, but because trust has not been earned.
This is not a niche problem. It shows up in healthcare, in finance, in anywhere that human expertise has been built over time. Product teams are shipping features that users are quietly ignoring. The question is why, and what to do about it.
We will be exploring how product teams build trust in AI when the people using it have good reason to be sceptical. How do you design for adoption when lived experience is the competition? And when speed of development is part of the problem, how do you slow down in the right places?
The central question for the evening: can AI earn trust in industries built on lived experience?
Come ready to pick a side.
--- THE SPEAKER - TOM BLOWER ---
Tom is Chief Product and R&D Officer at Agreena, a FinTech, AgTech and ClimateTech platform that helps farmers and corporations unlock the value of nature. At Agreena, Tom has led the development of Agatha, an AI advisory tool that gives farmers data-driven guidance tailored to their land - built on satellite data, remote sensing, and a deep respect for what farmers already know.
Before Agreena, Tom was VP of Product at Kry and Livi, where he built digital and physical healthcare products used by millions of patients across Europe. Before that, he led product at Ada Health, the AI-powered symptom assessment app with over 10 million downloads and the number one healthcare app in 120 countries.
Tom started his career at Dyson, where he spent nearly a decade in R&D and product design, winning a Red Dot Award along the way.
He has shipped AI products to some of the most trust-resistant user groups on the planet. He has a lot to say about it.
-------- ABOUT 'PRODUCT IS...' --------
PMs, UX & UI designers, user researchers, developers - you like to dream big when it comes to digital products… Now it's time share your perspective!
'Product is…' grounds itself in informed, knowledgeable context and healthy conversation - vital ingredients to tech success. One keynote speaker sets the tone on a theme of less travelled subject matter before all attendees add their perspective during the second half of round table-style discussion.
Don't expect standard tech meetup fare like "How to improve your CV/Portfolio for that dream job at Facebook" or "How this new framework/approach will improve your workflow" - this meetup is food for the mind, but also a place to meet like-minded big-thinkers! We welcome everyone who works in tech - EVERYONE has a valuable perspective that we learn from.
-------- WHY WE CHARGE FOR TICKETS --------
We do not aim to make a profit from this meetup, our goal is to create healthy and interesting conversations, meet new people and make new connections. Speakers and the organising team give up their time free of charge to ensure the events are enjoyable for all. A charge is required for attendance - this allows the organisation team to cover overheads, plus food and drink for the evening. To be clear, we're working towards lowering our costs as much as possible to keep ticket prices as low as possible.
Private Substance Misuse Support Group
This group is a private substance misuse support group, for individuals who are experiencing difficulties in their relationship with drugs/alcohol. The group is facilitated by a trained and qualified Janus worker.
This group is designed to offer support, encouragement and to provide a forum, that allows you to make informed choices.
The objective of this group is to liberate you from the labels of addiction, dependency, illness sickness and "disease", replacing them with the more proactive terminology of choice, responsibility, self control and decision making.
Janus does not use the 12 step model. It uses the Janus approach to working with substance use called "The Resonance Factor" http://bit.ly/Resonance_blog
Hopefully you will find these groups informative, innovative and creative.
Before entering this group could you contact CHRISTOPHER ROBIN on 07515663621 to discuss the finer details regarding payment and room number in the venue etc.
London Analytics Engineering Meetup #23
🎉 **Event #23 – The Analytics Engineering Meet-up** 🎉
The London Analytics Engineering Meet-up - Hosted by Monzo!
**Speakers:**
[Pablo Fernandez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablofergui/) \- Head of Data & Analytics Engineering @ Lawhive
[Federico Arduini](https://www.linkedin.com/in/federicoarduini/) \- Lead Analytics Engineer @ Checkout\.com
📅 **RSVP opens 27th March** (3.5 weeks before the event). This event will be **over-subscribed**, so set a reminder — you won’t want to miss it!
📍 **Agenda**
6pm – Doors open, networking, food & drinks
7pm – Talks kick off
8:30pm – More drinks & networking @ local pub
This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with some of the UK’s top data professionals, share challenges, and exchange learnings.
We are always looking to improve the event and get new ideas for talks, if you could please fill out a [feedback form](https://cognifysearch.com/the-london-analytics-engineering-meet-up-feedback-form/), this will help us continue to improve!
The **Analytics Engineering Meet-up** is a community for data professionals working with the modern data stack, machine learning or AI.
We host regular meet-ups featuring talks from data leaders building and scaling analytics, data platforms, and AI in forward-thinking teams.
The community is ideal for Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Analysts, and those working in Data Science, Machine Learning, or AI.
The **Analytics Engineering Meet-up** is organised by [Cognify](cognifysearch.com) — a specialist recruitment partner for teams working across the modern data stack, machine learning & AI.
If you’re looking to hire top data talent or exploring your next move in data, feel free to reach out to the Cognify team — we’re always happy to help and chat through the market.
Our sponsor is [Omni](Omni.co), an AI-powered BI platform that helps people use data to do their best work. Whether users prefer AI, Excel, point-and-click exploration, or SQL, Omni enables fast, trusted answers from a governed semantic model.
If you’re eager to dive deeper into industry insights, check out ***The Stacked Data Podcast*** for conversations with industry leaders:
Listen on: [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/24fIpekn8WfRDZsVHNcf7Q) [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@CognifySearch) or [Apple Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-stacked-data-podcast/id1700301417)
Your feedback is so valuable to us, we'd love to hear from you to help us continue to improve, [Feedback Form here](https://cognifysearch.com/the-london-analytics-engineering-meet-up-feedback-form/)
**No-Show Policy**:
* If you miss **2 consecutive events** or **2 out of 3 events**, you wont be able to attend the next event. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.
🏀Weekend CPBC Basketball Session📍Nunhead Sports Ground📶Mixed Ability
**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/47426
**Game Description:**
Welcome to the CPBC Weekend basketball sessions!
Join us this Saturday for another fantastic session, kicking off right after the youngsters and adults have finished their games.
We'll be running full-court 5v5 or some high-energy 3v3. Come along to enjoy 90 minutes of great basketball, skills, and fun with a great group of players!
Below are the full details:
Nunhead Sports Ground
St Asaph Roadd
London
SE4 2EA
https://share.google/rHBbyqJFYAd4KDogi
Facilities:
\- Parking
\- Changing Rooms
We can't wait to see you on the court!
Disclaimer: Players will be asked kindly to sign the club charity statement, as payments are donations to support our work. For more information please visit www.crystalpalacebc.com
**Rules**
\- 🏀 Games to 11 points \(2 and 1 point\)
\- ⏰⏱️Be there 10min before the start
\- ⚫⚪ Bring a dark and a light top
\- 🔢🔢 12 Players max
\- 🎤✊🏼Call your own fouls
\- 🔊🍦No BS foul calling please
\- 📸🎥 No unauthorised video recording
Product Unleashed London: Closing language gaps + Product Process in the AI age
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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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**Event Format:**
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🚨 **This is an in-person event only.** 🚨
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**Our Product Unleashed London Event:** We are hosted in the beautiful event space @ **[Youlend](https://youlend.com/).**
🚨 **Note:** Youlend Entrance opposite the Rosewood hotel 🚨
We're looking forward to seeing you there!
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**What to expect:**
⚡ This event will be made up of 2 speakers dropping knowledge bombs in the form of 20 minute talks straight into your minds 🤯
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**SPEAKER 1**
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**Alison Howard**
Alison Howard is a Principal Product Design Consultant with 14 years of experience working across some of the UK's most complex and fast-moving products. As an independent consultant, she has partnered with organisations including Trainline, Expedia, BP, HSBC and Emirates to untangle messy problems, align teams and deliver design that actually gets built.
Outside her consultancy work, Alison manages PD Ladies, a community of 800+ women in Product Design.
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**About the Talk:**
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**Learn the Language, Win the Room**
If you've ever left a meeting feeling like no one understood what you were saying, this talk is for you. Alison explores the gap between how designers communicate and how everyone else does, and what happens when you close it.
***Expect practical tools and honest reflections on learning to speak the language of product, commercial and engineering teams, so your work gets the traction it deserves.***
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**SPEAKER 2**
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**Anna Popova**
Anna Popova is Head of Product at [Judge.me](https://judge.me/), one of Shopify’s most installed apps, helping over 600,000 e-commerce brands build trust through customer reviews.
With more than a decade of experience across product management, data science, and delivery, Anna focuses on how product teams can increase leverage and build better systems for decision-making and execution. Recently, her work has centred on exploring how AI can reshape the product development process — from discovery and research to prototyping, UX design, and creating high-quality requirements for engineering.
She is particularly interested in how small product teams can use AI to dramatically increase output while preserving strong product thinking, judgement, and product craftsmanship.
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**When Building Becomes Cheap: Rethinking Product Process in the Age of AI)**
**Software is becoming dramatically cheaper to build. AI tools are rapidly reducing the cost of prototyping, coding, and experimentation — faster than many product teams realise.**
But while the cost of building is collapsing, the cost of process remains high. Many teams still rely on workflows designed for a world where engineering time was scarce: heavy discovery phases, long specification cycles, and complex coordination structures. In the AI era, these processes risk becoming the real bottleneck.
In this talk, Anna explores how product teams may need to rethink how they operate when building becomes cheap. At [Judge.me](https://judge.me/), they've started asking a provocative question: what if a product team should never grow beyond 10 people — even when serving millions of users?
Drawing from experiments with AI-assisted workflows, Anna will share how AI can augment product work — from rapid prototyping and spec generation to creating a “digital twin” of a product manager.
***Get ready to explore which parts of the product process should be automated, which should remain human, and how product leaders can adapt.***
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**Support from:**
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We are kindly hosted by our friends at Youlend.
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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 has worked on the design of products of all shapes and sizes and bring their energy and enthusiasm to this unique meet-up, packed with great guests and knowledge - for anyone interested in levelling up their game in the world of products.
🏐 Level Up Series📍In2Sports 📶 Mixed Ability
**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/46625
**Game Description:**
🎯 LEVEL UP YOUR VOLLEYBALL GAME 🎯
Ready to sharpen your skills and take your performance to the next level? The Level Up Series is built for players who want to grow their game through high-quality, personalised coaching in a competitive environment.
👊 Each session includes:
✅ 1 hour of focused coaching tailored to the group’s needs
✅ 1 hour of game scenarios to apply what you’ve learned in real time
✅ Individual feedback to help you progress faster
🏐 Led by Coach Chester – a dedicated libero and rising leader in the UK volleyball scene, focused on athlete development:
• 🏐 Coach for 2 LVA Pantheon Division 3 teams
• 💼 Former President, Treasurer & Social Secretary, King’s College London Volleyball
• 👑 Founder & CEO, Pantheon Volleyball
• 🤝 Key Connector for up-and-coming athletes and programmes
👨🏫 Chester also brings his coaching and leadership to:
• Pantheon Volleyball initiatives and talent development
• KCL Mixed Premier Team in LUSL League
• Volleyball England as a Level 1 Qualified Assistant Coach
With a unique blend of on-court experience, organisational leadership, and entrepreneurial drive, Chester is deeply committed to helping players unlock their potential and supporting the next generation of volleyball talent.
**Rules**
1\. Players should be respectful and follow the coach’s instructions when given
2\. Remain kind and courteous to players around you regardless of their skill level
3\. Enjoy yourself and remember to ask the coach if you have any questions \(hint: there are no stupid ones\)
Photos and videos may be taken during the sessions and used as promotional material for the Pantheon Volleyball Club. By signing up, you give your consent to be filmed and to be used for the purposes as mentioned above. If you would like to opt out of this, please send a message to the pantheon volleyball page.
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Apply to be an Ohio Virtual Men's Group Leader!
Are you passionate about supporting other men on their mental health journey? We’re building a movement of virtual and in-person men’s groups across Ohio — and we’re looking for group leaders who want to make a real difference with us.
As a group leader, you’ll create a safe space where men can connect, reflect, and grow together. Training and support are provided — you just need heart, presence, and a willingness to lead.
**Apply now to lead a group in your area:**
👉 https://form.jotform.com/taketimespeakyourmind/sym-group-leader-application
Speak Your Mind is a mental health non profit dedicated to bringing our community together to end the isolation that leads to mental struggle and suicide. Learn more about them here: https://linktr.ee/taketimespeakyourmind
Prompt vs. Paintbrush
AI is changing how art is made. But when does it stop being your work and start being the machine’s?
This month we're going to be doing a panel with with digital image, music, and written word artists, talking about at what point, while using AI in the creation process, does the work become not the artist creation?
We encourage audience participation during this event that will be moderated by Chris Slee.
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)
Sign up also accessible via [Transform Labs Luma](https://luma.com/55umjqta)
Brain Tumor Support Group
**Welcome to the Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky’s Support Group.**
*\*\*This meeting has been moved to the 4th Monday of each month.*
This group is a safe space for **survivors of traumatic and acquired brain injuries**, as well as their **families and caregivers**, to find support, share experiences, and connect with others who understand the journey.
Whether you're newly injured, a longtime survivor, or supporting a loved one, you’ll find comfort, information, and encouragement here. Our professionally facilitated groups offer a confidential, compassionate setting for healing, learning, and growing together.
Join us to discover the power of community—because no one should walk this road alone.
*All survivors of ABI/TBI and those who care for them are welcome.*
\* This meeting is for persons with brain tumors and their guests.
\*\* This is a hybrid meeting. For those meeting in-person dinner is served at 5:45pm. Online begins at 6:30pm.
Scali Ristorante
Let’s try this popular Italian restaurant in Reynoldsburg.
This is the menu:
https://scaliristorante.com/#4e468054-0235-43e2-81c2-44e061341e9e
CMG Gives Back: Serve Brunch at FAITH MISSION GRANT KITCHEN!
Join us as we get together to get together to help those in need at this CMG Gives Back event! We have a great little community of Movie Group friends so rather than see a movie this time, we’ll help “create a better world” by helping serve those in need. Here are complete details and our plan for this event:
FAITH MISSION – GRANT KITCHEN: The Faith Mission kitchen and dining room serves residents 3 meals a day, every day of the year. For this event, our group will help prepare food, serve meals, assist residents in the dining room, wash dishes, and clean surfaces.
PLAN: We will be preparing / serving / cleaning for BRUNCH from 10:30am to 12:30pm and have space for a total of 7 volunteers. Please arrive at 10:20am and wear closed-toe shoes and long pants.
LOCATION: Faith Mission – Grant Kitchen is located at 245 N. Grant Ave. Enter the kitchen at Dock 1 (in the back of the building), indicated in the attached map. On-site parking in the adjacent lot and street parking is available in the surrounding area. Below are some links / attachments with additional info/details:
IMPORTANT REMINDER: Our group will be providing all of the volunteers on this day so a firm RSVP count is essential. Please only sign up if you are certain you’ll be able to attend. If something unavoidable comes up, please try to update your RSVP no later than one week prior to the event. With few exceptions, no shows or cancelations within 1
week of the event will not be eligible for future CMG Gives Back events. I appreciate your understanding as we try to ensure the agencies have the volunteers needed to provide the essential services they provide to the vulnerable population they serve. Our Partner Agency for this event is Lutheran Social Services! A huge THANK YOU to all of YOU for volunteering at this (and any of our previous) CMG Gives Back events!
Should be a good/fun/meaningful time together, Dan




























