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

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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.

Serhii Sokolenko, founder at Tower Dev and former product manager at tech giants like Google Cloud, Snowflake, and Databricks, joined Yuliia to discuss his journey building a next-generation compute platform. Tower Dev aims to simplify data processing for data engineers who work with Python. Serhii explains how Tower addresses three key market trends: the integration of data engineering with AI through Python, the movement away from complex distributed processing frameworks, and users' desire for flexibility across different data platforms. He explains how Tower makes Python data applications more accessible by eliminating the need to learn complex frameworks while automatically scaling infrastructure. Sergei also shares his perspective on the future of data engineering, noting in which ways AI will transform the profession.Tower Dev - https://tower.dev/Serhii's Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ssokolenko/