March 2026: MLOps/AgentOps & the AI-Native Engineering Journey

Meetup – Thursday, 12th March 2026 | 7:00 PM
Venue: Waterford Treasures Museum (X91 K10E)

Join us for our next Tech Meetup at the Waterford Treasures Museum. The evening will feature engaging technical talks, networking, food and drinks, and spot prizes, with a focus on practical challenges shaping today’s technology landscape.

Speaker 1: Clodagh Walsh (Red Hat)

Clodagh is a software engineer at Red Hat working on the Emerging Technologies team under the office of the CTO. She has experience working with cloud native technologies and is currently working on enabling AI in diverse environments outside the central datacenter. She enjoys sharing her passion for technology by volunteering at her local CoderDojo club teaching children to code.

Tech Talk: MLOps and AgentOps: The Future of Orchestration

The rise of AI has driven enterprises to start thinking about model and more recently agent lifecycle and management. This talk guides the audience through a practical MLOps and AgentOps pipeline highlighting the differences between a traditional CI/CD, MLOps and AgentOps pipeline. Given the wide array of hardware and software that models and agents can run on, we will discuss best practices for the centralised creation of models and agents that are then distributed to multiple locations.

Speaker 2: Cian Clarke (Nearform)

Cian is the head of AI at Nearform. His expertise spans Generative AI, Natural Language Processing and Cloud Native Architecture. At Nearform, he helps clients imagine the art of the possible at the intersection of Data and AI.

Before joining Nearform, Cian was a co-founder of ServisBOT, a startup in the Conversational AI space, and an early member of the FeedHenry team, acquired by RedHat in 2014. An avid open-source advocate, Cian has both authored and contributed to numerous projects in the domain.
When not working, Cian is an avid sailor & coffee aficionado.

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Tech Talk: From 1x to 10x: The AI-Native Engineering Journey With Vibe Coding, Spec-Driven Development & Agent Orchestration

The presentation outlines the AI-Native Engineering journey from 1x to 10x gains. It details four maturity stages: AI-Assisted, AI-Augmented, Spec-Driven, and Orchestration. Spec-Driven Development improves predictability by grounding models in specs. Orchestration uses parallel multi-agent teams for a 10x future horizon. The shift makes planning the new bottleneck for engineering leaders.