MLOps Community London ☃️ winter 2026 special
Join us for this in-person MLOps Community London session with amazing talks 😎
🕒 6:00 PM - Welcome chats with pizza and drinks 🍕🍺
🕒 6:30 PM - Building with Qwen: A practical guide
A look at building applications with Qwen, covering model selection and deployment patterns.
🎤 Alex McLeman (Strategic Solutions Architect @ Alibaba Cloud)
Alex McLeman is a Strategic Solutions Architect at Alibaba Cloud in London, where he helps organisations adopt and scale language models for their own unique use cases. Prior to Alibaba, Alex worked at another leading cloud provider helping enterprise retail customers leverage ML technology.
🕒 7:00 PM - Local Code, K8s Scale: Building a Vendor-Agnostic AI Platform
Hamza breaks down the architecture of ZenML, an open-source framework that bridges local development and production. Learn how automated orchestration, artifact lineage, and caching enable teams to ship reliable agents at scale, without the infrastructure burden.
🎤 Hamza Tahir (Co-Founder @ ZenML)
Hamza Tahir is the co-founder and CTO of ZenML, the open-source AI platform framework that decouples machine learning pipelines from infrastructure. He helps engineering teams build portable, production-grade AI platforms that bridge the gap between "works on my machine" and large-scale Kubernetes execution.
🕒 7:30 PM - break 🍕🍺
🕒 7:45 PM - Controlling the Wild: From Tool Calling to Computer Use
There's a continuum from traditional tool calling through to full computer use, with interesting options at every point along it. This talk is about one particular answer: Monty, a sandboxed Python interpreter built for AI agents. Come watch my code fail in microseconds.
🎤 Samuel Colvin (Founder @ Pydantic)
Samuel Colvin is a Python and Rust developer and the founder of Pydantic Inc. With over 13 years of software engineering experience, he created Pydantic Validation, an open source library downloaded over 550M times monthly and a core dependency of virtually every GenAI Python library. Samuel has also built Pydantic Logfire (developer-first observability), Pydantic AI (agent framework), Pydantic Evals (AI evaluation), and Pydantic AI Gateway (model routing) and Pydantic Monty (a python implementation, in rust, for LLMs to run code without host access).
🕒 8:00 PM - A Day in the Life at Isomorphic Labs
A candid look at what it's like working on large-scale ML infrastructure at Isomorphic Labs - building systems that power foundation models for drug discovery and real-world impact in biotech.
🎤 Nam Kaur (Senior Software Engineer @ Isomorphic Labs)
Nam Kaur is an ML Infrastructure Engineer at Isomorphic Labs in London, driving accelerator strategy and performance optimization for large biotech foundation models while collaborating closely with researchers to accelerate drug discovery. She brings 10+ years of large-scale ML infra experience, previously building low-latency, globally distributed systems at Amazon Ads
🕒 8:30 PM - Q&A speaker panel
🕒 9:00 PM - Social 🍺 The Royal George
(133 Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0EA)
Hosted by Dawn Capital
Dawn is Europe’s leading specialist B2B software investor, with assets under management of over $2bn. Dawn partners with founders building the next generation of global software leaders, primarily backing companies from Series A and B, and continuing to fund the top-performing through growth rounds to exit.