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A practical, builder-first meetup focused on MCP integrations with Neo4j to enable context-aware AI. Live demos are welcome and content should be concise and technically grounded.

Date & Time: December 9, 2025 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm

• Technical Session: Neo4j
• Lightning Talks: Breakthrough Use Cases of MCP in Action

Propose a Talk: Submit Your Talk Proposal via the form. The form requests a concise 5 minute talk or demo illustrating MCP integrations with context-aware AI, and/ or graph-powered workflows.

Sponsors

Neo4j - Neo4j is a leading graph database platform that empowers AI developers to harness the power of connected data. Their technology enables efficient storage\, analysis\, and visualization of complex data relationships\, integrating seamlessly with popular AI and machine learning tools. Neo4j’s features\, including native graph storage and advanced algorithms\, make it ideal for powering AI applications like knowledge graphs and recommendation systems\, helping developers extract deeper insights from their data.

• Testimonials:

“I thought that having participants tell us about their project during last week's hackathon was really great. A super ice breaker, allowed the shy ones to express themselves. Also was a discussion opener to approach them with interest. Really great idea.”

— MLOps lead

PyData Boston 2025 is a 3-day in-person event for the international community of data scientists, data engineers, and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other.

During the conference, attendees will have the opportunity to attend live keynote sessions and talks, lightning talks, and get to know fellow members of the PyData Community.

The event will be in-person at the Microsoft NERD Center 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142. Monday, December 8th is a tutorial day, and Tuesday-Wednesday, December 9th-10th are talk days.

More info and tickets here: https://pydata.org/boston2025

Call for proposals closes October 12

PyData Boston 2025 is a 3-day in-person event for the international community of data scientists, data engineers, and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other.

More info and tickets here: https://pydata.org/boston2025

During the conference, attendees will have the opportunity to attend live keynote sessions and talks, lightning talks, and get to know fellow members of the PyData Community.

The event will be in-person at the Microsoft NERD Center 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142. Monday, December 8th is a tutorial day, and Tuesday-Wednesday, December 9th-10th are talk days.

Call for proposals closes October 12

The final meetup of 2024 will be a set of lightning talks from speakers all over the world. We're starting at 19:00 CTE online using Teams.

The times are loosely set; we might start a few minutes earlier or later depending on attendance, interaction and unforeseen circumstances.

There are 5 minutes between sessions to get a beverage of choice, interact and for speakers to set-up and test.

As usual, adhere to the Code of Conduct. The short of it, behave like a decent human.

The schedule: 19:00 Lisa Hoving: What my pet python taught me about Data Lakes on Azure

19:25: Floris Moest: Unlocking the Power of Custom Connectors in Power BI

19:50: Navya Krishna Alapati: SQL Server Indexing Strategies using query store for Improved Performance

20:15: Zahhar Kirillov: Microsoft Clarity: a hidden gem among Web Analytics tools

20:40: Nikhil Soni: Building Data-Driven Businesses: Insights for Founders and Leaders

Connected Data London is back with our biggest annual conference event ever!

11th - 13th December this year will see the return of our famous annual conference after a hiatus of a few years. Tickets are available for in person and remote attendance.

3 Days 8 Stages 3 Keynotes 27+ Presentations 6 Lightning Talks 20 Masterclasses 8 Panels 73 Speakers

Day 1 is the masterclass day featuring expert workshops and tuition in the latest connected data technologies and techniques.

Day 2 is our main conference day with 3 tracks, our main exhibition, lightning talks followed by a new networking feature for this years event - our gala dinner (tickets sold separately).

Day 3 is also new to the programme in the form of an informal unconference series of panels to discuss the main conference day and

Find out more and purchase tickets at our dedicated event website below.

For meetup members we are offering a 15% discount on ticket prices using code MEETUP15.

https://connected-data-london-2024.heysummit.com/

Join PyData Boston for a night of in-person networking and tech talks by the community and a featured speaker!

If you'd like to sign up to give a lightning talk (\~10 minutes), use this form: https://forms.gle/KJfDN2iiUa4x5GVn9

NOTE: We have limited space, so ONLY RSVP if you are fairly certain you will come. We do keep track of who attends!

6-6:45 - Networking 6:45-7:30 - Featured speaker - Isaac Godfried - Multimodal Deep Learning 7:30-8:00 - Break + Networking 8:00-8:30 - Lightning talks (sign up here: https://forms.gle/KJfDN2iiUa4x5GVn9) 8:30-8:45 - Wrap up

🏠 Venue provided by Microsoft 🍕 Pizza provided by Mattermost - thank you!

This, and all NumFOCUS-affiliated events and spaces, both in-person and online are governed by a Code of Conduct. More at https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct/ This event will not be recorded or streamed.

⚡⚡Speak at PyData! ⚡⚡ We are always looking for speakers! Sign up here and we'll be in touch: https://forms.gle/kfFZ5hiqA9W57Ewg7

⚡⚡Sponsor an event! ⚡⚡ PyData events are totally free and open to all! We have a broad reach to tech professionals of all kinds. We're always looking for sponsors and hosts for our events.

Please get in touch if you're interested in supporting the community: [email protected]

Join us in Edinburgh on 4 December to hear how we can drive sustainable value out of AI and cloud computing while controlling their impact on our environment.

Investment in GenAI is growing like crazy with huge implications for future cloud usage - and the costs and carbon emissions that go with it. Carbon emissions from IT already exceed those from the entire aviation industry. So long as data centres rely on electricity supples from fossil fuels, carbon emissions are set to rise even further unless we take action to limit them.

FinOps and GreenOps offer a well-defined strategic path to better value and lower environmental impact. Join us on 4 December to see how we can get control over what cloud is going to cost us and limit its climate impact.

Hosted by IBM Scotland, this Meetup will look at practical ways we can control how we use cloud to maximise its value to all of us - and our children.

Here's the agenda: 4:00 pm Reception 4:30 pm Introduction & Welcome 4:40 pm Keynote Address 5:00 pm Lightning talks from industry experts 5:45 pm Interactive Breakout Sessions 6:15 pm Informal networking

Welcome to Southampton Data Platform and Cloud Group.

In December we won't host a live meetup, in-person or virtual.

Please check our YouTube channel for recordings of past sessions https://www.youtube.com/@SotonDataCloud

In January we will have an in-person meetup in Southampton, details later. If you want to be a part of that meetup, please let Mikey know (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeybronowski/) as we would love to kick off the new year with some lightning talks - anything between 1 and 15 minutes :)

We wish you all the best in the last few days of 2023 and Happy New Year!

See you soon.

Thanks, Team @SotonDataCloud

The final meetup of 2023 will be a set of lightning talks from speakers all over the world.

You can visit the schedule here:

Be aware, the times are in UTC! Timezones are very hard, ask me how I keep learning that...

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The event kicks off at 16:00 UTC, 17:00 GMT+1, order of speakers:

Deepthi Goguri Sarath Sasidharan Koen Verbeeck Roy Menger Javier Villegas Jon Vöge Hugo Kornelis John Miner

⚠️ NOTE: to ensure your spot at the meetup, please register via the Kickstart AI event page. Registration via this Meetup page is not valid.

Join us for the final PyData Amsterdam meetup of 2023. In collaboration with Kickstart AI, we host a meetup centered around FinTech on December 7th at 18:00. Sign up to enjoy some food, drinks, and excellent talks at Startup Village (Science Park 608, 1098 XH Amsterdam).

Schedule: 18.00-18.45: Welcome (🍕 /🍺) 18.45-19.15: “Smart Banking: Unraveling the Potential of Artificial Intelligence” - Dimitrios Papadimas (ING) 19.15-19.45: “Multi-Model Optimisation in Payment Processing” - Belle Bruinsma (Adyen) 19.45-20.00: “Model Selection in Fintech: The Pros and Cons” - Yash Ramdjas (Globadyme) 20.00-21.00: Networking + Drinks and bites

Talks:

Smart Banking: Unraveling the Potential of Artificial Intelligence by Dimitrios Papadimas - ING Abstract: In today’s rapidly evolving digital age, the intersection of finance and technology has become a driving force behind transformative changes in the financial industry. In Dimitrios' talk, he will explore the innovative AI solutions used in the industry and their impact on businesses and consumers alike. He will cover how AI is being implemented to optimize traditional customer service domains to the more dynamic field of financial crime detection to chatbots using Generative AI. Here, he will also touch upon the challenges and ethical considerations and the guard rails required when using such technologies.

Multi-Model Optimisation in Payment Processing by Belle Bruinsma - Adyen Abstract: Making an online payment using your credit card can be done in a blink of an eye. However, a lot is happening in the background to make sure this process goes as frictionless as possible. Transactions are optimized by multiple machine learning models running in production. Through multi-model optimisation, we are optimizing on the full funnel of a transaction instead of each model individually. In this talk, Belle will dive into the challenges we’ve faced at Adyen while immersing ourselves in the world of multi-model optimisation and highlight some of our achievements.

Model Selection in Fintech: The Pros and Cons by Yash Ramdjas - Globadyme Abstract: A lightning talk about the modelling challenges Globadyme faces within their startup to kickstart an interactive session to collect ideas and feedback.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the popularity of Data Science Festival events, we are now allocating event tickets via a random ballot. Registering enters you into the ticket ballot. The ballot will be drawn two weeks ahead of the event. If you have not received a ticket by December 1st 2023, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful in getting a ticket. Those who are randomly selected will then be e-mailed tickets for the event.

👇 Click below to register for this event for FREE 👇 https://datasciencefestival.com/session/data-driven-decision-making-for-the-open-internet-with-the-trade-desk/

Join us in London for our next in-person meet-up in partnership with The Trade Desk on Tuesday 5th December 2023. A free evening of tech talks, a chance to network with the community with refreshments and food provided.

📆 Date: Tuesday 5th December ⏰ Time: 6:00PM - 9:00PM GMT 📍 Location: 10th Floor, Barts Square, One Bartholomew Cl, London EC1A 7BL

We would like to invite you to an evening of data science and engineering talks, drinks and networking at The Trade Desk’s central London office. The Trade Desk offer a programmatic advertising platform operating real-time bidding at the scale of millions of bids per second. We’ll hear from their Performance Algorithms, Forecasting and AI Lab teams talking about how they deal with mission critical real-time bidding auctions, how to make forecasts with vast quantities of uncertain data and how cross-functional partnership can maximise the impact of your work.

Join us for a series of tech lightning talks, our panel of experts and a chance to network with our growing community.

Full speaker abstracts and bios can be found here.

Schedule: 6:00 PM – Doors open – food, drinks and networking 6:45 PM – Intro from DSF and The Trade Desk 6:50 PM – 3 lightning talks 7:35 PM – Short comfort break 7:40 PM – Panel discussion 8:25 PM – Drinks and networking 9:00 PM – Close.

Food and drinks are included.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have not received a ticket by December 1st 2023, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful in getting a ticket. Those who are randomly selected will then be e-mailed tickets for the event.

👇 Click below to register for this event for FREE 👇 https://datasciencefestival.com/session/data-driven-decision-making-for-the-open-internet-with-the-trade-desk/