talk-data.com

Venue: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD

Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please familiarise yourself with it before attending.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in. If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as possible. *** Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns. *** As always, there will be free food and drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group. ***

⚡ Lightning Talks

1. Can Foundation LLMs Play Go (Weiqi/Baduk) via Text Protocols Alone? - Victor Zommers
2. Why Python is the best language for algorithmic trading - Richard Hickling @richardhickling
3. HangMAN vs AI - Kavit Tolia
4. Comedy Breeder - Samuel Joseph @tansakuu
5. Answering a dumb question with a smart bird feeder - Hugh Evans
6. AI Playgroup event - Ian Ozsvald
7. Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model - Kefei Hu
8. What we've learnt from the world's largest AI red team - Sam Watts

Logistics Doors open at 6.30 pm (get there early as you'll need to sign in with building security). Talks start at 7:00 pm, with drinks afterwards from 9:00 pm at The Banker (EC4).

We have reduced capacity for this event, but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with!

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST 📢 Want to speak 📢: submit your talk proposal

Main Talks 1️⃣ Real-time plane-spotting with Python, Hugh Evans Hidden from our eyes, aircraft in our skies are constantly transmitting data. In this talk I will explain how you can use some simple tech and the power of open source to fly through this data. See a Raspberry Pi, Apache Kafka, analytical databases, and Python coming together for real-time data production, transport, OLAP, and interactive visualisationation.

2️⃣ Agentic AI and the Future of Decision-Making, Shubhangi Goyal As AI systems become increasingly autonomous, capable of making complex decisions without human intervention, we face both exciting possibilities and significant challenges. From enhancing operational efficiency to redefining human-AI collaboration, the future of decision-making will be heavily influenced by these intelligent agents. We will delve into the implications for business, ethics, and governance, examining how Agentic AI can improve outcomes while also addressing the risks and ethical dilemmas associated with autonomous decision-making

Lightning Talks ⚡ ⚡1️⃣ NIMBYdex - Creating an atlas of renewable excuses - Damien Bemben ⚡2️⃣ TBD

Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your initial/first name and surname on your meetup profile, otherwise, you will NOT make it on the guest list! 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No further confirmation required. You will NOT need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in. If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know so we can assign your place to someone on the waiting list.

*** Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct. *** There will be pizza & drinks, generously provided by our host, Carnival UK. ***

Logistics Doors open at 6.30 pm, talks start at 7 pm. For those who wish to continue networking and chatting we will move to a nearby pub/bar for drinks from 9 pm.

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

Follow @pydatasoton (https://twitter.com/pydatasoton) for updates and early announcements. We are also on Instagram/Threads as @pydatasoton, and find us on LinkedIn.

Welcome back to another Grafana & Friends London Meetup!

Hosted by TurinTech AI, we can guarantee you an evening of fantastic talks and Pizza that definitely hasn't been collected by Taxi (IYKYK)!

Quick overview of the evening:

• Arrival: 18:00
• First Talk (Grafana): 18:30
• Break: 19:10
• Second Talk (TurinTech AI): 19:30
• Networking: 20:10
• Event Wrap-Up: 21:00

As always, there will be pizza, beers and some amazing talks. Here's the speaker lineup:

1. Performance testing with OpenAPI Spec and k6 Speaker: Ayush Goyal, Senior Software Developer

2. Event Driven architecture for practical visualisations Speaker: Hugh Evans, Community Solution Engineer

We look forward to seeing you there for an evening of learning, sharing, and connecting with like-minded professionals!

Details

Venue: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD - IMPORTANT: LOCATION UPDATED! Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in. If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know. *** Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct. *** As always, there'll be free food & drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group. ***

Main Talks

Cosmos: Translating dbt to Apache Airflow - Tatiana Al-Chueyr

This talk will discuss why and how to use dbt Core and Apache Airflow, open source tools that support the development of data pipelines. On one hand, dbt is an extremely valuable tool for analytics engineers to build data transformation pipelines with SQL. On the other hand, Apache Airflow is a consolidated orchestration platform that supports the development, scheduling, and monitoring of batch-oriented workflows written in Python. This talk discusses benefits and reasons to use these two tools, and a few approaches to integrate them, including using the open source library Cosmos: https://github.com/astronomer/astronomer-cosmos

Real-time plane-spotting with Apache Druid and Python - Hugh Evans

Hidden from our eyes, aircraft in our skies are constantly transmitting data. Join us as we use some simple tech and the power of open source to fly through this data set. In this talk, see a Raspberry Pi, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, and Python coming together for real-time data production, transport, OLAP, and interactive visualisation.

⚡ Lightning Talks 1️⃣ Seamless array computation using ndonnx - Aditya Goel 2️⃣ DSPy - A new way of prompting with LLM - Zhaohan Dong

Logistics Doors open at 6.30 pm (get there early as you have to sign-in via building security), talks start at 7 pm, drinks from 9 pm in the bar. We will have reduced capacity for this event but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with! Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members! Follow @pydatalondon (https://twitter.com/pydatalondon) for updates and early announcements.

Maximum number of attendees in venue space: 40 ppl

Join us for this special summer event with the opportunity to learn about how Kafka fits into the analytics space. Please note there are only 40 spaces and entry will be strictly limited to first registered.

👮🏼 Please bring government issued ID to the event as this will be checked by security

🚨 Doors will close at 7:00pm due to security reasons, you will not be able to enter after this time.

Date and Time: 🗓️ Thursday August 8th, ⏰ 18:00 - 20:00 🕘

Venue: Confluent Europe Ltd, 262 High Holborn Floor 1 London WC1V 7EJ · London

Attending Brands: Imply, Confluent & OSO

Networking: Pizza + Beer at the start

Schedule: 18:00: Welcome/doors Open, Food, drinks, networking 18:30 - 19:15: “Simplifying Apache Kafka® : Easy Configurations for Immediate Impact” Bethan Hughes, Confluent & Niamh Thornbury, Confluent 19:15 - 20:00pm: “Real-time plane-spotting”, Peter Marshall and Hugh Evans, Imply 20:00- 20:30pm: Additional Q&A & Networking

🎙️ \~Talk 1\~ Talk Title: Simplifying Apache Kafka® : Easy Configurations for Immediate Impact

Summary: In the realm of event-driven architecture and real-time data processing, Apache Kafka® stands at the forefront in providing an efficient and scalable solution for handling large volumes of data streams in real-time. However, developers often find interfacing with Apache Kafka® producers and consumers to be a labyrinth of complexities.

Are you wasting valuable time deciphering the configuration required for your Apache Kafka® producers and consumers? Whether you require high throughput, low latency, or simply want to start with the fundamentals, our preconfigured profiles streamline and optimize the configuration process to just a few lines of code. Should you require further customization, rest assured that we provide options to modify our configurations according to your specific requirements.

In this session we will cover:

• A whistle stop tour of our high-throughput, low-latency and default producer and consumer profiles.
• How to implement these three profiles to create low code producers and consumers.
• Demo of our high-throughput producer and low-latency consumer profiles in action.
• If you want to boost your productivity and reduce the developer learning curve then this is the talk for you. Getting your producer and consumer Apache Kafka® applications up and running will never be easier than this!

🗣️ Speaker 1: Bethan Hughes is an Partner Innovation Engineer at Confluent in the Partner Applied Solutions Integrations team. She has experience building and validating real-time data streaming pipelines which connect to Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform.

🗣️ Speaker 1: Niamh is a Customer Innovation Engineer who joined Confluent in October 2021. Niamh enjoys spending time with her dog Flo, running and going to the gym.

🎙️ \~Talk 2\~ Talk Title: Real-time plane-spotting

Summary: Hidden from our eyes, aircraft in our skies are constantly transmitting data. Join us as we use some simple tech and the power of open source to fly through this data set. In this talk, see a Raspberry Pi, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, and Grafana coming together for real-time data production, transport, OLAP, and interactive visualisation.

🗣️ Speaker 1: Peter Marshall is an award-winning speaker who leads developer relations at Imply, having worked with adopters and users of Apache Druid for five years. Peter has worked in enterprise architecture in both public and private sector for over 20 years. He has a BA in Theology and Computer Studies from the University of Birmingham.

🗣️ Speaker 2: Hugh Evans is a Developer Advocate at Imply, helping members of the Apache Druid community and bringing them together.

DISCLAIMER

* WE DO NOT CATER TO THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 18.

*THIS IS AN OFFICE SPACE, PLEASE ENSURE TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELVES AND TAKE CARE OF THIS SPACE. RESPECT THE SPACE AND THOSE IN IT. THIS INCLUDES: NO PHOTOS OF THE OFFICE, NO VANDALISM, GOING OUTSIDE OF THE MEETUP AREA ETC.

Join us for this special summer event with the opportunity to learn about how Kafka fits into the analytics space. Please note there are only 70 spaces and entry will be strictly limited to first registered.

Date and Time: 🗓️ Tuesday 23rd July, ⏰ 18:00 - 20:00 🕘

Venue: Confluent Europe Ltd, 262 High Holborn Floor 1 London WC1V 7EJ · London

Attending Brands: Imply, Streambased, Confluent & OSO

Networking: Pizza + Beer at the end

Schedule: 18:00: Doors Open, Food, drinks, networking 18:30 - 18:35: Welcome and introductions 18:35 - 19:00: “Kafka - No Rocks, Please”, Roman Kolesnev, Confluent 19:05 - 19:35pm: “Real-time plane-spotting”, Peter Marshall and Hugh Evans, Imply 19:35 - 20:00:“Indexing Kafka - Why point look ups matter and how we achieve them”, Tom Scott, Streambased

🎙️ \~Talk 1\~ Talk Title: Kafka - No Rocks, Please!

Summary: Using Kafka Streams With Alternative State StoresA popular data transformation library in the Apache Kafka® world - Kafka Streams - is bundled with a high-performance key/value store - RocksDB - with many advantages regarding near real-time, high throughput, and low latency processing.

But what if RocksDB key/value store semantics are just not enough? What if the use case requires features of other storage engines - document indexing, graph processing, or simply secondary indexes? Can we employ other embeddable storage engines or extend RocksDB-based state stores?Luckily, Kafka Streams supports custom state store implementations through a pluggable interface. Even better - we can delegate durability, data sharding, and failure recovery to Kafka Streams runtime. Of course, there are some associated restrictions as well. That, and more, is what we will explore in this session.

🗣️ Speaker: Roman Kolesnev is a Staff Customer Innovation Engineer at Confluent in the Customer Solutions & Innovation Division Labs team. His experience includes building business critical event streaming applications and distributed systems in the financial and technology sectors.

🎙️ \~Talk 2\~ Talk Title: Real-time plane-spotting

Summary: Hidden from our eyes, aircraft in our skies are constantly transmitting data. Join us as we use some simple tech and the power of open source to fly through this data set. In this talk, see a Raspberry Pi, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, and Grafana coming together for real-time data production, transport, OLAP, and interactive visualisation.

🗣️ Speaker 1: Peter Marshall is an award-winning speaker who leads developer relations at Imply, having worked with adopters and users of Apache Druid for five years. Peter has worked in enterprise architecture in both public and private sector for over 20 years. He has a BA in Theology and Computer Studies from the University of Birmingham.

🗣️ Speaker 2: Hugh Evans is a Developer Advocate at Imply, helping members of the Apache Druid community and bringing them together.

🎙️ \~Talk 3\~ Talk Title: Indexing Kafka - Why point look ups matter and how we achieve them

Summary: Have you ever wanted to know the count of messages on a topic? How about the count of messages with a particular property? Ever spent long hours searching for that poison pill message that killed your applications? All of these cases require looking at historical data in Kafka, something it is traditionally terrible at.

Join us in this talk as we explore historical Kafka data interactively and discuss the technologies that can make this possible.

🗣️ Speaker: Tom Scott is the founder of Streambased, Tom is building multi tenant, on-prem and cloud Kafka services to attack common Kafka pain points and break down barriers to starting your data journey.

Venue: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD - IMPORTANT: LOCATION UPDATED! Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in.

If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know.

Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct.

As always, there'll be free food & drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group.

Main Talks

NLP and generative models for psychology research - Thomas Wood

I will present our work on Harmony, harmonydata.ac.uk, which is a free online tool that uses generative AI and LLMs to help psychologists analyse datasets. It uses Python, Pandas and HuggingFace Sentence Transformers to find similarities between questionnaires. Psychologists and social scientists often have to match items in different questionnaires, such as "I often feel anxious" and "Feeling nervous, anxious or afraid". This is called harmonisation. Harmonisation is a time consuming and subjective process. Going through long PDFs of questionnaires and putting the questions into Excel is no fun. We've been working on an open source Python library and free web tool called Harmony which uses natural language processing and generative AI models to help researchers harmonise questionnaire items, even in different languages. https://pypi.org/project/harmonydata/ https://github.com/harmonydata/harmony

Homomorphic Encryption in Python - Sefik Ilkin Serengil Sefik Ilkin Serengil Sefik Ilkin Serengil (@serengil) on X

Discover the power of homomorphic encryption in Python with a focus on secure cloud computing. Learn how calculations on encrypted data can be performed in the cloud without exposing the private key. We'll showcase LightPHE, a lightweight Python library that supports various homomorphic encryption schemes, and walk through an end-to-end example. Uncover the practical applications of homomorphic encryption and its potential to transform data privacy in the cloud.

⚡ Lightning Talks 1️⃣ Is Your Open-source LLM Really Open? - Marco Bonzanini

2️⃣ Art with character(s): Make your own ASCII art with Python - Hugh Evans

Logistics Doors open at 6.30 pm (get there early as you have to sign-in via building security), talks start at 7 pm, drinks from 9 pm in the bar. We will have reduced capacity for this event but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with!

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

Follow @pydatalondon (https://twitter.com/pydatalondon) for updates and early announcements.

TBA

TBA

Hidden from our eyes, aircraft in our skies are constantly transmitting data. Join us as we use some simple tech and the power of open source to fly through this data set. In this talk, see a Raspberry Pi, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, and Grafana coming together for real-time data production, transport, OLAP, and interactive visualisation.

Hidden from our eyes, aircraft in our skies are constantly transmitting data. Join us as we use some simple tech and the power of open source to fly through this data set. In this talk, see a Raspberry Pi, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, and Grafana coming together for real-time data production, transport, OLAP, and interactive visualisation.

Venue: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD - IMPORTANT: LOCATION UPDATED! Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in.

If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know.

Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct.

As always, there'll be free food & drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group.

Main Talks

Microsoft Fabric for Python Data Developers - Barry Smart Fabric is a major new development from Microsoft where Python is treated as a first class citizen. This talk will provide an overview of Microsoft Fabric through the lens of a Python Data developer, with demos showing how Python can be used to build cloud native, enterprise grade data pipelines on the platform. It will also touch on concepts such as lakehouse, data mesh, medallion architecture and star schemas - all fundamental building blocks of a modern cloud native data architecture.

Desert Island Docker: Python Edition - Andrew Collier What 3 Docker images would you choose if you were shipwrecked on a desert island? Choosing the right images will determine whether you are rescued or end up in a cannibals' cooking pot (Python images will make you particularly unpalatable).

Docker is an essential tool for survival as a Python developer, regardless of whether you are stranded or not. In this talk I'll describe three Python Docker images that I consider essential for survival on a desert island. I'll demonstrate how to set up and build a custom image. And finally I'll demonstrate how using a Docker image can simplify CI/CD and deployment.

⚡ Lightning Talks 1️⃣ Why You Should Be Afraid of Pickles - Rikard Anglerud

2️⃣ ASCII Art with Python - Hugh Evans

Logistics Doors open at 6.30 pm (get there early as you have to sign-in via building security), talks start at 7 pm, drinks from 9 pm in the bar. We will have reduced capacity for this event but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with!

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

Follow @pydatalondon (https://twitter.com/pydatalondon) for updates and early announcements.