Join us for this in-person MLOps Community London session with amazing talks 😎

🕒 6:00 PM - Welcome chats with pizza and drinks 🍕🍺
Kick off the evening meeting fellow MLOps practitioners, founders, and engineers.

🕒 6:30 PM - Title TBC
🎤 Tyler Reichardt (Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer @ First Central)
Bio coming soon.

🕒 6:50 PM - Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes
As models improve, we’re building long-running, asynchronous agents - deep research agents, browser agents, and multi-step workflows that operate autonomously. But these systems fail differently from short-lived request-response agents: early mistakes compound, retries spiral, and token usage grows unpredictably. Patterns that work for simple LLM calls often break down in production. This talk covers the most common failure modes in async agents and practical design patterns to reduce error compounding and keep token costs bounded at scale.
🎤 Meryem Arik (Co-Founder & CEO @ Doubleword)

Meryem Arik is the co-founder and CEO of Doubleword, where she works on large-scale LLM inference and production AI systems. She studied theoretical physics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. Meryem is a frequent conference speaker, including a TEDx speaker and a four-time highly rated speaker at QCon conferences. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her work in AI infrastructure.

🕒 7:10 PM - break 🍕🍺
Refuel, connect, and continue the conversation.

🕒 7:20 PM - Orchestrating DevOps Agents via Simulated Persona (Beyond State Machines)
Modern DevOps workflows are increasingly automated, but most orchestration still relies on rigid state machines. This talk explores a new paradigm using simulated personas to orchestrate DevOps agents more flexibly, enabling adaptive, context-aware automation across complex enterprise environments.
🎤 Hossein Kakavand (Co-Founder @ Luther Systems)

Hossein Kakavand completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University and has worked across several AI, ML, and distributed systems startups, including companies that achieved IPOs on NASDAQ and the LSE. He is currently the Co-Founder of Luther Systems, where he focuses on solving enterprise operations challenges at scale.

🕒 7:40 PM - 3 Ways in Which Product Design Is Changing, and One Way in Which It Isn't
Peter explores how the design process has undergone fundamental changes over the last five years and how, in today’s generative AI world, designing system behaviour and rules often impacts the user experience far more than the shiny UI.
🎤 Peter Koraca (Founder @ Creative Crow)

Peter Koraca is half product designer, half engineer. For the past 15 years, he has helped organisations define, design, and build AI- and data-heavy products using a prototyping-first approach. His work spans data annotation tools at Meta, a family AI assistant at PanasonicWell, Agent Studio and Computer (the enterprise agent) at DevRev, and more. He combines deep AI curiosity with product craft and occasionally engages in ultra-running.

🕒 8:00 PM - Q&A speaker panel
Join all speakers for an open discussion on MLOps, platform engineering, agents, and real-world ML systems. Bring your questions!

🕒 8:30 PM - Social 🍺 Fitzroy Tavern
(16 Charlotte St., London W1T 2LY)
Continue the conversation in a relaxed setting.

Hosted by Databricks

Databricks is a leading data and AI company and the creator of the lakehouse architecture. Its Data Intelligence Platform enables organisations to unify data, analytics, and AI on a single foundation. Databricks works with thousands of organisations worldwide to help them build, deploy, and scale data and AI applications.

MLOps Community London March