Architecture of Intellect by Innovators Guild: How Real Organisations Build and Use AI
We called this event Architecture of Intellect because the word "AI" has stopped meaning much on its own. What actually matters is everything around the model: how you architect it into a regulated environment, how you wire it into the tools your engineers use every day, and how you stop it from quietly misleading the people making decisions. That's the job. That's what we're here to talk about.
On 2 June, Innovators Guild brings together three people who've been doing that job on a serious scale.
Igor Ageev has spent 25+ years building technology inside banks and fintechs. He'll talk about what it actually looks like to deploy LLM systems in regulated environments, the architectural decisions, the constraints you can't ignore, and the places where even well-designed systems quietly fall apart. Not a slide about AI strategy. A map of the terrain.
Sergey Ignatov is one of the creators of GoLand and DataGrip at JetBrains and has been thinking hard about what happens when AI agents become a serious part of how developers work. He'll talk about ACP (Agent Client Protocol) and what building that kind of standard looks like from the inside, including how intelligent tooling actually scales across teams and codebases.
Vlad Breus is a Principal Data Scientist at SoundCloud. AI is changing how companies run experiments and make decisions, but it's also getting very good at producing confident-sounding nonsense. He'll cover where ML projects fail in production, where analytics misleads, and what better decision-making actually looks like in practice. Probably the talk you'll be turning over on the way home.
Ezra Citron is a Data Scientist at Revolut working on their experimentation platform. In a short lightning talk, “Experimentation: Where the AI stack gets honest,” he’ll share how Revolut uses rigorous A/B testing and experiment design to keep AI systems grounded in real impact instead of nice demos.
Agenda
18:00 Doors open. Come early, grab a drink, talk to people.
18:30 Talks begin.
After the talks, food, drinks, and the conversations that usually end up being the most useful part of the evening.
This is an Innovators Guild event. We keep the room to around 100 people, mostly senior engineers, architects, data and ML practitioners, and technical founders who have actually shipped the kind of systems being discussed. Registration on Luma is required and subject to host approval, and you will need a valid photo ID to access the building on the night.
If you want a room where you can speak freely without explaining what a pod is, this is it.
Innovators Guild is supported by Nebius as a community sponsor.
Revolut is our venue partner for this event and will be hosting us at their Canary Wharf office.
Speakers:
Igor Ageev on LinkedIn
Sergey Ignatov on LinkedIn
Vlad Breus on LinkedIn
Innovators Guild, a curated London tech community, https://innovators.london