Day 1 sets you up for success with the new terminology and concepts you need to know. Then in the afternoon we go deeper into how this technology has been used in the real world.

Agenda Thursday

Thursday 24th October   |   Friday 25th October

09:45 - 10:00

Welcome

10:00 - 10:30

Keynote Stage

Everybody's Going Surfing: Get Ready To Ride The AI Wave

Nigel Poulton, Educator and Author of AI Explained, Facts, Fiction and Future

10:30 - 11:00

Keynote Stage

AI Cram Session

Rachel-Lee Nabors, Founder Dressed for Space

11:00 - 11:20

Morning Coffee

11:20 - 11:50

Keynote Stage

Large Language Models for Humans

Andy Burgin, DevOps Nuisance

11:50 - 12:20

Keynote Stage

Prompt Queen

Cien Solon, Founder LaunchLemonade

12:20 - 13:00

Keynote Stage

Lingo Bingo

Hannah Foxwell wraps up the morning with a fun quiz! 

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch
Don't miss the book signing with Nigel Poulton!

14:00 - 14:30

Track: AI Fundamentals 

From Infinite Possibilities to Finite Results - What Handwriting Can Teach Us About How AI Works

Anand Bhaskaran, Senior Software Developer at Beekeeper

Track: Real World Stories

One year delivering Agentic AI

Rob Price, Co-Founder Futuria

Track: Developer Experience

Quantifying GenAI's Impact Across the Entire SDLC: Useful Metrics and Insights

Matthias Zieger, Field CTO, Digital.AI

14:30 - 15:00

Track: AI Fundamentals 

Beyond LLM-Washing: When Other ML Models are Simply Better

Lisa Becker, Machine Learning Engineer at PureApp

Track: Real World Stories

Anatomy of an AI Hackathon

Matt Osborn, Archie Webb, Nathan Cashmore, The Waitrose Hackathon Team!

Track: Developer Experience 

DevOps in the Era of AI Application Development

William Arias, Staff Developer Advocate at GitLab

15:00 - 15:30

Track: AI Fundamentals 

RAG: 0-100km/h in 30 mins

Walter Heck, CTO Helixiora

Track: Real World Stories

The Insights Sector’s AI tipping point…from “if only” to “HELL YEAH!”

Matt Gibbs, Managing Director at Bayes Price

Track: Developer Experience

Pushing AI to Production: Real Stories From Infra and Code Challenges

Ana Filipa de Almeida, Front-End Lead at Inngest

15:30 - 15:50

Afternoon Coffee

15:50 - 16:20

Track: AI Fundamentals 

Regression (Towards Mediocrity)?

Frances Buontempo, Consultant and Author at BCL

Track: Real World Stories

Who, What, Where and When? Uncovering the benefits of GenAI

Claudia Harris OBE, CEO Makers

Track: Developer Experience

Observability x AI: How Grafana has approached AI / Machine Learning

Nathan Marrs, Tech Lead 0f DataViz at Grafana

16:20 - 16:50

Track:  AI Fundamentals 

Getting comfortable with data for AI!

Nathan Crus Coulson

Track: Real World Stories

AI in Wildlife Conservation 

Henrik Cox, Head of Product at Conservation X Labs

Track: Developer Experience

AI Spec Manifesto: making GenAI easy for normal developers & DevOps

Luke Marsden, CEO HelixML 

16:50 - 17:30

Track: AI Fundamentals

Lightning Talk: Growing Up With AI: A Teenager’s Perspective 

Megan Kennedy, Year 9

Panel: Pivoting Your Career into AI

Facilitated by Rosanne Werner

Track: Real World Stories

Using New Tech To Solve Old Problems - Legacy Modernization Meets GenAI

Shodhan Sheth, Head of Enterprise Modernization Thoughtworks

Track: Developer Experience

Machines vs. Machines: Cybersecurity in an Intelligent World

Clinton Herget, Field CTO Snyk

17:30 - 18:30

Networking & Drinks Reception

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