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Join fellow Airflow enthusiasts and leaders at Salisbury House for an evening of engaging talks, great food and drinks, and exclusive swag!

We'll start you off with a deep dive into the Airflow 2026 survey results, and finish off with a community member presentation on the Apache TinkerPop provider.

PRESENTATIONS

Talk #1: The State of Apache Airflow® 2026

Apache Airflow® continues to thrive as the world’s leading open-source data orchestration platform, with 30M downloads per month and over 3k contributors. 2025 marked a major milestone with the release of Airflow 3, which introduced DAG versioning, enhanced security and task isolation, assets, and more. These changes have reshaped how data teams build, operate, and govern their pipelines.

In this session, our speaker will share insights from the State of Airflow 2026 report, including:

• Latest trends in how teams are using Airflow today
• What’s next for the project and ecosystem
• A discussion of emerging best practices and evolving use cases

Join us to hear directly from a leader in the community and discover how to get the most out of Airflow in the year ahead.

Talk #2: Building the Apache TinkerPop Provider for Airflow

• Speaker: Ahmad Farhan, Data Engineer

Graph databases are powering everything from recommendation engines to fraud detection, but integrating graph operations into modern data pipelines has often required custom code and workarounds. Earlier this year, Ahmad built a new Apache TinkerPop provider for Airflow, making it easier than ever to orchestrate Gremlin queries, manage graph workloads, and connect Airflow to TinkerPop-enabled systems. In this session, you’ll learn:

• What the TinkerPop provider does and why it matters for graph-based workloads
• How to run Gremlin queries and manage graph jobs directly within Airflow
• Real examples from the development process, including design decisions and lessons learned
• How this provider opens the door for new use cases in graph analytics and data engineering

Join us to explore how Airflow and TinkerPop can work together to streamline graph workflows and unlock new patterns in modern data pipelines.

AGENDA

• 5:30-6 PM: Arrivals, networking, food & drinks
• 6-7PM: Presentations
• 7-8PM: Networking

We’re excited to be back at Big Data LDN this year—huge thanks to the organisers for hosting Databricks London once more!

Join us for an evening of insights, networking, and community with the Databricks Team and Advancing Analytics!

🎤 Agenda:

6:00 PM – 6:10 PM | Kickoff & Warm Welcome

Grab a drink, say hi, and get the lowdown on what’s coming up. We’ll set the scene for an evening of learning and laughs.

6:10 PM – 6:50 PM | The Metadata Marathon: How three projects are racing forward – Holly Smith (Staff Developer Advocate, Databricks)

With the enormous amount of discussion about open storage formats between nerds and even not-nerds, it can be hard to keep track of who’s doing what and how this actually makes any impact on day to day data projects.

Holly will take a closer look at the three big projects in this space; Delta, Hudi and Iceberg. They’re all trying to solve for similar data problems and have tackled the various challenges in different ways. Her talk will start with the very basics of how we got here, what the history is before diving deep into the underlying tech, their roadmaps, and their impacts on the data landscape as a whole.

6:50 PM – 7:10 PM | What’s New in Databricks & Databricks AI – Simon Whiteley & Gavi Regunath

Hot off the press! Simon and Gavi will walk you through the latest and greatest from Databricks, including shiny new AI features and platform updates you’ll want to try ASAP.

7:10 PM onwards | Q&A Panel + Networking

Your chance to ask the experts anything—then stick around for drinks, snacks, and some good old-fashioned data geekery.

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 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

1. How to prepare your AI Agents for the Ice(berg) Age - Serhii Sokolenko

In a future world where AI agents interact with billions of users, many of these agents will also have to interact with data querying tools to provide answers grounded in facts. As enterprise data analytics is rapidly moving towards open table formats like Apache Iceberg, these agents need to be able to speak to Iceberg-based data. In this talk, we will discuss how Apache Iceberg tooling and portable application runtimes make agents grounded in facts and enable them to run across different GPU stacks and deployment models.

2. Fuzzy, Not Fussy: Using AI to Tackle Data Entity Resolution at Scale - Yash Sakhuja @sakhuja_yash

Messy customer data — typos, inconsistent formats, and duplicates — can make it surprisingly difficult to answer basic questions, such as “How many unique customers do we have?” In this talk, I’ll share how I built an AI-powered fuzzy-matching system using Python and vector embeddings to accurately group similar customer records. Drawing on a real-world e-commerce use case, I’ll walk through a scalable, end-to-end solution that automates deduplication and delivers clean, reliable customer insights.

⚡ Lightning Talks

1. Continuous Prompt Evaluation and Optimisation in Production - Anand Rawat 2. The future of Python Notebooks - Rahul Ayyappan

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.

Hi Everyone,

We’re thrilled to announce that Meet-Up #7 is now confirmed for Tuesday 1st July 2025! 🎉

Join us at our London HQ, 100 Liverpool Street, for an evening packed full of insightful talks, great conversations and plenty of opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a proper meet-up without pizza and refreshments to keep the energy high all night! 🍕🥤

🕕 Doors open for networking at 18:00 🎤 The first talk kicks off at 18:30 🚪 Wrapping up at 20:30

We can’t wait to see you there!

#1 Kat Holmes \| Data Director @ Siemens Energy Data Readiness - The Elephant in the AI Room Kat has been transforming organisations through data and technology leadership for the past 20 years – most recently as a data director specialising in strategy and governance. Currently holding a senior leadership role at Siemens Energy, the world's most influential energy technology company, Kat's key responsibilities include driving data readiness for AI throughout the organisation.

She has also recently been able to integrate her lifelong commitment to ESG into her data career, through her public talks on diversity, inclusion and belonging in data teams. In 2021, Kat founded MenopauseX, on behalf of Women in Data®. MenopauseX is an initiative whose mission is to help organisations better support their staff through leveraging data and analytics.

#2 Muna Tutton, Muna Tutton, Strategic Initiatives Lead, FTSE Russell Engineering, LSEG Lighting the Fire: How Hackathons Ignite Change in Financial Services

Muna will be be sharing how a journey from physics to the fast-paced world of financial services taught me that the toughest challenges aren’t just technical — they’re human. From architecture roles to hackathons, I’ll share how embracing ambiguity and empowering people to act can turn ideas into impact.

#3 Barbara Correia, Lead Data Scientist @ Mesh-AI & Alejandra Gutierrez, Software Engineer @ Schroders Scaling Equity Research: A Multi-Agent Approach to Analytical Workflows

Alejandra is a graduate software engineer at Schroders, where she works in the AI research team. She has a degree in Biomedical engineering from Imperial College. Barbara is a Lead Data Scientist at Mesh-AI and has been working on the Agentic Scope, focusing on the FS industry.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by incident.io

RSVP opens on the Tuesday 6th May (2.5 weeks before the event), this is to reduce our drop-off numbers. Set a reminder to not miss out, this event will be over subscribed!

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking - Drinks sponsored by Omni

Speakers:

• Elena Burykh & Manou Campbell @ Medik8 - TBC
• Sarah Levy @ Euno - "Should we build this in Tableau or dbt?"

We are always looking to improve the event and get new ideas for talks, if you could please fill out a feedback form, this will help us continue to improve!

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

No-Show Policy:

• If you miss 2 consecutive events or 2 out of 3 events, you wont be able to attend the next event. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

After a long hiatus since the pandemic, we’re thrilled to reignite the Qlik community in London with our first in-person Meetup! Whether you’re a long-time Qlikie or just starting your data journey, this event is the perfect chance to reconnect, share knowledge, and get inspired.

Qlik has evolved tremendously in recent years, it’s no longer just about Qlik Analytics. With the addition of Qlik Data Integration, AI, and the broader "Talend" family, we’re now looking at the full modern data platform under one roof. And this Meetup reflects that shift. Our community is growing, and so is the scope of what we’ll cover going forward.

This kickoff session brings together familiar faces and new ones from across the ecosystem for an evening of insights, networking, and collaboration. Here's what's in store:

🕕 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM Welcome drinks and networking – Catch up with the community over a drink!

🕡 6:30 PM – 6:40 PM Meetup intro and opening remarks

🕢 6:40 PM – 7:00 PM Top 10 Takeaways from Qlik Connect 🎙 Presented by: Kabir Rab (Senior Product Manager at insightsoftware) James Sharp (Managing Director at Climber UK)

🕖 7:05 PM – 7:35 PM Qlik's Agentic AI experience + Natural embedding 🎙 Presented by: Dave Channon (Director of Product Management at Qlik)

🕢 7:40 PM – 7:50 PM Qlik Roadmap Highlights 🎙 Presented by: Dave Channon (Director of Product Management at Qlik)

We’re excited to reboot this community with fresh energy, relevant topics, and plenty of opportunity for discussion. Whether you’re focused on data integration, analytics, AI, or all of the above, this is your space. We are excited to see you all there.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Monzo.

RSVP opens on the Monday 24th March (2.5 weeks before the event), this is to reduce our drop-off numbers. Set a reminder to not miss out, this event will be over subscribed!

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking - Drinks sponsored by Omni

Speakers:

• Analytics Engineering - Discipline or Buzzword? Measuring real impact - Daniel McNamara Head of Analytics Engineering @ Taptap Send
• DuckDB: your new favourite database - Bill Wallis Software Engineer @ Sainsbury's

We are always looking to improve the event and get new ideas for talks, if you could please fill out a feedback form, this will help us continue to improve!

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

No-Show Policy:

• If you miss 2 consecutive events or 2 out of 3 events, you wont be able to attend the next event. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

🌟 SPECIAL EVENT: Allies of Women in Data & Analytics 🌟

Are you an ally of women working in data & analytics?

In collaboration with The London AE meet-up, Stacked Pathways, is bringing you an all-female panel of industry leaders.

We’re on a mission to reduce the dropout rate of women in data and increase their representation in leadership roles.

As part of this effort, we run Stacked Pathways—a free mentoring initiative dedicated to empowering women in data and analytics.

This event is open for any allies of women in data & analytics.

Agenda:

• 6:00 PM: Doors open – Networking, food, and drinks
• 7:00 PM: Panel discussion featuring industry leaders
• 7:45 PM: Audience Q&A
• 8:30 PM: Drinks and networking – Sponsored by Omni

Panellists:

• Klara Raic - Senior Analytics Engineering Manager @ Monzo
• Sara Sheridan - VP Data & AI @ Beauty Pie
• Holly Foster- Analytics Engineering Manager @ Tesco
• Lucy Kendrick - Head of Analytics Engineering @ Gelato

If you’re passionate about driving real change in the industry and fostering greater diversity, we’d love for you to join us!

📅 RSVP Details:

Registration opens Tuesday 18th February. We recommend setting a reminder as this event will be oversubscribed!

RSVP will close at 21:00 on Wedneday 5th March.

The Cognify Team

We are always looking to improve the event, if you could please fill out a feedback form, this will help us continue to improve!

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Omni, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

No-Show Policy:

• If you miss 2 consecutive or 2 out of 3 events, you won't be able to attend the next meet-up. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Deliveroo.

RSVP opens on the Monday 27th Jan (2 weeks before the event), this is to reduce our drop-off numbers. Set a reminder to not miss out, this event will be over subscribed!

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking - Drinks sponsored by Omni

Speakers:

• Iceberg and the hype of multi-engine data stacks - Borja Vázquez @ Spotify
• Neurodiversity is more than workplace policies, it's about cultural challenges and the decision to be more inclusive - Nik Walker - The Co-op

We are always looking to improve the event, if you could please fill out a feedback form, this will help us continue to improve!

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

No-Show Policy:

• If you miss 2 consecutive events or 2 out of 3 events, you wont be able to attend the next event. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

Details

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Wise.

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking @ The Owl & Pussy Cat - Drinks sponsored by Omni

Speakers: How to Build a Market Leading Embedded Analytics Product in 2024 – Jonny Dungay - Primary Bid

How Analytics Engineering empowers 150+ Analysts at Wise - (21) Deckel de Lange, Yara Burvin & Moritz Kerstan - Wise

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

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.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Checkout.com.

Agenda:

6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers:

Beyond D2C: Unlocking B2B Growth with Marketing Mix Modeling – Jake Barnett + Adam Dathi + John Napoleon-Kuofie - Day1Data

A practical guide to building data testing and monitoring - Petr Janda, Founder at Sync

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Hey there, data enthusiasts and ClickHouse aficionados! We've got some exciting news to share - our next meetup is on the horizon, and it's going to be in London!

Get ready for a delightful mix of mind-boggling data tales, insightful conversations, and maybe even a surprise or two up our sleeves. But here's the deal: to secure your spot, make sure you register ASAP!

Location: Techspace Shoreditch 25 Luke St, London EC2A 4DS, United Kingdom

Agenda: 6:00 - 6:40 - Arrival and Check-in 6:40 - 7:00 - An introduction to ClickHouse: Your favourite database, you don't know yet - Christoph Wurm - ClickHouse 7:20 - 7:40 - Monitoring Payments in Real-Time: How we use Clickhouse to power search and analytics - Josh Thomas, Software Engineer ProcessOut. 7:40 - 8:00 - Building a Real-Time Financial Analytics Platform with ClickHouse and Kafka - Zach Naimon 8:00 - 9:00 - Food, Drinks, and Conversation

London Analytics Meetup #7 - Big Data London 2024 week

At Zego’s office in the City of London near Liverpool Street Station!

Please bring some ID.

Please register with first and last name so that we can match to the guest list on the day.

Please fill in this form so we can continue to keep this Meetup and it’s topics relevant to you! Don’t worry if you have filled it before.

Please unRSVP if you find you can’t make it nearer the time.

We’ll have some food and drink courtesy of Paradime.

Talks:

Katie Hindson - VP of Product @ Lightdash - Semantic Layers: The next data revolution or just overrated hype?

Francesco Puppini - co-author of the Unified Star Schema

Germán Lopez-Campos - Lead Data Engineer @ Zego - Cost and efficiency enhancements at Zego

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.

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

Building a Gesture-Controlled Arduino Robot and Python Suyash Joshi

Delve into the realm of robotics with a hands-on exploration of a gesture-controlled robotic powered by Arduino and Python. This talk will cover the fundamentals of human-robot interaction using computer vision gestures, providing practical insights into setting up and controlling a robotic arm. Attendees will learn to integrate TensorFlow for gesture recognition and utilize a time-series database for real-time telemetry and analytics. The session will also include a live demonstration, allowing participants to interact with the robotic arm, and offer access to open-source code on GitHub for further experimentation.

Building trip itinerary planner with RAG Pearl Prakash

Learn to create a smart trip itinerary planner using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), blending data retrieval and generative AI for efficient and personalized travel plans.

⚡ Lightning Talks 1️⃣ Abstractly reasoning - failing with an LLM Ian Ozsvald 2️⃣ TBC

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.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Datatonic.

Agenda:

6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers:

Building a Modern Data Strategy – Jess Franks - Data & Analytics Engineering Manager @ Not On The High Street

Monolithic to Mesh – dbt at GoCardless - Katie Wiedmann and Priscila Fischer

Data Governance in BigQuery: Managing Privacy, Security & Compliance - Ash Sultan – Lead Data Architect at Datatonic

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

About London Reactor Meetup Microsoft Reactor London Meetups are a community of like-minded engineers, developers, professionals and students, allowing you to connect with people, skills, and technology to enhance your career or personal learning. Our regular meetups are an opportunity to hear from leaders in the industry about challenges, tooling and best practices. If you are interested in speaking or want to suggest a talk you’ve heard before, please do let us know (no vendor / recruitment / sales pitches please).

Agenda

6:00 PM - Arrivals: Registration and welcoming of guests 6:30 PM - 6:40 PM - Welcome Address 6:40 PM - 7:00 PM - Understanding AI: build your own enterprise ChatGPT with LangChain4J by Sandra Ahlgrimm 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Break 7:30 PM – 7:50 PM - Deploying a Python Web App with Azure by Marlene Mhangami 7:50 PM - 8:10 PM - Accelerating Development: Harnessing Service Bus and Azure Functions for Event-Driven Solutions by Chandan Bhagat 8:10 PM - 8:45 PM - Networking / Questions & Closing

Session Descriptions:

Understanding AI: build your own enterprise ChatGPT with LangChain4J

In this session we will build a chatbot from based on OpenAI models and implementing the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern. Using a reference document database, the model will be able to answer questions in natural language and generate complete, sourced responses from your documents. To do this, we will create a Quarkus service based on the open-source LangChain4J framework and a website to test our chatbot.

Accelerating Development: Harnessing Service Bus and Azure Functions for Event-Driven Solutions

In this session, dive into the world of event-driven development with Service Bus and Azure Functions. Discover how to leverage these powerful Azure services to create robust, scalable, and responsive applications that react to events in real-time. We'll start by exploring the fundamentals of event-driven architecture and how it enables loosely coupled and highly scalable systems. You'll learn how Service Bus acts as the backbone of event communication, allowing seamless publishing and consuming of events across your application. Next, we'll delve into Azure Functions and understand how they can be used to process events triggered by Service Bus. We'll walk through real-world scenarios and explore best practices for designing and implementing event-driven solutions using Azure Functions.

Throughout the session, you'll gain practical insights and tips for designing resilient architectures, handling message processing, and optimizing performance. Whether you're building microservices, IoT applications, or real-time analytics pipelines, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools to accelerate your development with event-driven architecture on Azure.

Join Snowflake London User Group & DET community in Holborn at MMC HQ for an evening of networking, drinks, food and talks from some brilliant speakers from the Data Engineer community, including:

Anna Aleshko (Data Engineer and Founder of Data Engineers London)- How we power insights using Snowflake for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services

Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

🤝Sponsored by Snowflake, Orchestra and MMC Ventures

Event Schedule 6:30 - 7:00 : food, drinks, networking

7:00 - 7:20: Anna Aleshko, Data Engineer - How we power insights for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose

7:20 - 7:40: [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services + Q&A

7:40 - 8:00 : Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

8:00-8:30: Q&A

8:30 onwards: drinks and pub

Join the guestlist 👉to secure your spot as spaces are limited.

This gathering of London’s Data Engineer Things community is organised by Hugo Lu (Orchestra) and sponsored by Snowflake and MMC Ventures

About DET: Data Engineer Things (DET), founded by Xinran Waibel, is an online community and publication dedicated to curating learning resources for data engineers. The London chapter is focused on bringing together like-minded data engineers and practitioners to share experiences, and speak about high-quality real-world data engineer projects, and of course, socialise.

Talk submission: If you'd like to submit a talk (or help us organise!) please reach out to Hugo or Tim Webster on Linkedin. Similar to the Data Engineer Things Medium blog, we recommend submitting talks on some of the topics below, which are educational and beneficial to the wider community!

Speaking about relevant professional experiences is also recommended:

Project ideas: Interesting data engineering projects you've done (ideally in a professional capacity)

---> Tech stacks: Building a batch/streaming pipeline on AWS, for example

---> Engineering process: Integrating CICD into data engineering dev cycle

---> Overlooked topics: e.g. how to design systems for high data quality

Which could be interspersed with stories about:

---> Career switching: Transitioning into DE from another field

---> Interviews: Preparing for data engineering interviews

DET Resources: Slack: http://join.det.life

Medium: https://blog.det.life

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@data-engineer-things/streams

Website: https://www.dataengineerthings.org/aboutus/

Agenda

6:30 PM: food, drinks, networking

7:00 PM: Anna Aleshko, Data Engineer - How we power insights for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose

7:20 PM: [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services + Q&A

7:40 PM: Dario Morelli - Lessons from Truelayer - Building the Data & Analytics Team for the UK's largest Open Banking provider

8:00 PM: Q&A

8:30 PM: drinks and pub

Speakers

Anna Aleshko - Waitrose (Data Engineer)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-aleshko;

Dario Morelli - Truelayer (previous) (Head of Data Analytics)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/morellidario/;

Surprise Speaker

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowpark-container-services/overview;

Partner

Data Engineering Things (https://blog.det.life/)

Snowflake User Groups

Complete your event RSVP here: https://usergroups.snowflake.com/events/details/snowflake-london-presents-london-snowflake-user-group-x-data-engineering-things-community-meetup-at-mmc-hq-holborn/.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Lyst.

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers: Will GenAI replace Data Engineers? - Gaurav Tiwari - Engineering Manager @ Spotify Brownfield data integration: how to transition from complex legacy data sources to modern data platforms - Erik Schmiegelow - CEO @ Hivemind Technologies

The London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Food and drink will be provided by Lyst with additional support from Spectacles and SELECT.