Welcome to the London Agentic AI Meet-Up! Hosted by Xcede & Rod Rivera

Join us for a monthly deep dive into the rapidly evolving world of Agentic AI.

Hosted by Xcede (Bailey Snow) and Rod Rivera (AI Product Engineer) this community is for AI practitioners, product builders, researchers, and curious minds who want to explore how Agentic AI is shaping the future of products, businesses, and society.
Every month, we’ll bring together thought leaders, engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators to share insights, demos, and discussions on topics such as:

• Building and deploying agentic AI systems
• Productisation challenges and success stories
• Emerging tools, frameworks, and research
• Real-world use cases and industry adoption

Whether you’re hands-on with the tech, leading AI strategy, or simply keen to learn more, you’ll leave each session inspired and connected with like-minded people driving the AI frontier forward.

Our Speakers:

1. Douglas Li: CEO/Co-Founder at Lightfern (Ex-OpenAI) –  “Design principles for agentic AI”
2. Andrew Balleguier: Applied AI Lead, EMEA at Anthropic – “How to actually scale Agentic AI in 2026: a practitioner’s view”

Connect with us here: Bailey Snow (LinkedIn)

Whether you’re architecting the next generation of data systems or battling bottle-necked data pipelines, Data Engineers London is your one stop meetup for all things data engineering! We are a networking and knowledge sharing space for the data engineering cohort in London. From the experienced engineers staying on top of the latest developments to those trying to enter the industry, we are open to all levels. We have delved into a range of topics – pipeline architectures, data security, the rise of AI and have even questioned the environmental impact of our architecture decisions. Come along to mingle with your fellow data engineers, share some data engineering stories and stay on top of the rapidly evolving data landscape.

5:30-5:45pm: Gathering at the Data Governance, Risk & Compliance Theatre.

6:00pm: Talks Start

🗣️The Speakers🗣️

The API-fication of Data Engineering with Data Contracts
Samhita Sarkar, Data Engineering Tech Lead at HP Inc
(Samhita’s LinkedIn)

Talk Abstract:
Traditional data engineering is often reactive, relying on fragile pipelines that break whenever upstream software changes. By adopting Data Contracts, teams can shift toward a formal, versioned interface modelled after software APIs. This architectural evolution treats data as a public product, ensuring stability and ending the cycle of constant firefighting.

Samhita’s Bio:
Samhita is a Data Engineering Tech Lead at HP Inc, having worked across diverse domains including marketing, supply chain and insurance in her career. Samhita is passionate about empowering others having mentored over 100 individuals, guiding them to navigate the career path in data engineering.

Speaker 2: tbc

7:30pm: End of event.

The London Snowflake User Group (LSUG) gets together to share best practices and network with other Snowflake users and data enthusiasts in the local area. Whether you are just starting out with Snowflake, or are a veteran user, join our group. We’re always interested in hearing stories of how to use Snowflake to do more with your data, or solve mission-critical business data issues.

Talk 1: Jean Mandarin, Snowflake CoE Lead @ Kubrick Group

From Data Platform to Decision Engine: A Snowflake CoE playbook for agentic AI

Snowflake has moved well beyond cloud data warehousing. With Cortex Agents, Snowflake Intelligence, Openflow, managed MCP servers, and growing support for open table formats and interoperable architectures, the CoE remit has changed. This session shares how a modern Snowflake CoE can help enterprise teams move from platform ownership to AI product delivery, without losing control of governance, security, or cost. Expect practical guidance on operating models, reference architectures, guardrails, and the patterns that let federated teams build faster on Snowflake.

Talk 2: Snowflake Solutions Engineer, Jenny Zhou

Join us for a 30 mins lighting talk on Snowflake AI coding agent, Cortex Code and how it can help you build and evolve data pipelines, applications, and ML workloads faster on Snowflake.
We’ll show how Cortex Code can accelerate secure, production‑grade development across your use cases — from transforming data pipelines and working with Dynamic Tables, to creating AI agents with Cortex Agents/Snowflake Intelligence, to simply writing better SQL and Python directly in your worksheets and IDEs.
We’ ll cover how to use Cortex Code directly in Snowsight, via the Snowflake CLI, and in popular IDEs like VS Code and Cursor, walk through recommended best practices, and then bring it all together with an end‑to‑end example using Cortex Code to build sth exciting from scratch. No spoiler about what we are going to build – join us to discover!

The meetup will is co-led by Data Tocks, Women. On the RISE AI & London Business Analytics Meetup Group

Hear from 5 speakers as we discuss

1. Data and Human trafficking
2. Ethical AI
3. Social media metrics for SME
4. Data in marketing strategy for enterprise
5. The Data of Ux/Ui