The ODSC AI Skills Accelerator | London | Snowflake

​ODSC AI Skills Accelerator is Coming to London!

​We are ecstatic to announce the return of the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator to London! Join the local data science and AI community for an exciting, exclusive evening supported by Snowflake.

​Dive into a cutting-edge technical session led by a Snowflake expert and connect with your peers over complimentary food and drinks. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your AI journey, this is the perfect place to learn, share, and network with fellow innovators.

​Featured Session

​Speaker: Teresa Nascimento, Senior Solutions Engineer at Snowflake

​https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresanascimento/

​Talk Title: Optimize your Agent’s GPA with Coding Agents

​In this talk, we will share how coding agents help developers build high quality agents faster.

A key insight from building agents in production is that high quality agents operate with their goals, plans and actions aligned. We introduce the Agent Goal-Plan-Action or Agent GPA framework to capture this insight, which achieved state of the art benchmarks on TRAIL/GAIA with 95% error coverage and 86% error localization.

This framework goes beyond examining the agent's final results to assessing the agent's process: Was the goal achieved efficiently? Did the plan make sense? Were the right tools used? Did the agent follow through? Without visibility into these steps, teams risk deploying agents that look reliable but create hidden costs in production. Inaccuracies can waste compute, inflate latency and lead to the wrong business decisions, all of which erode trust at scale.

This approach to agent evaluation enables effective and fast optimization with coding agents. We will also show how to use coding agents to automate the process of measuring and improving an Agent's GPA by using agent optimization skills that take advantage of the GPA evaluation framework.

By the end, attendees will be able to use coding agents and the GPA framework to identify common agent failures, improve their agent and make it ready for production.

​Event Details

• ​Date: Thursday, July 9th, 2026

• ​Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM BST

• ​Location: Snowflake HQ, 3 Crown Place, London EC2A 4EF, UK

• ​Networking: Enjoy pizza and refreshments 🍕🥂 included with your attendance!

​Evening Agenda

• ​6:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Arrival, Welcome & Initial Networking

  • ​Doors open! Grab some snacks and refreshments, and start connecting with the local London tech community.

• ​6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Featured Technical Talk by Teresa Nascimento + Q&A

  • ​Dive deep into AI and data insights straight from a Snowflake Senior Solutions Engineer.

• ​7:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Final Networking & Wrap-up

  • ​Your last chance to connect with the speaker, mingle with fellow attendees, and wrap up technical discussions.

​RSVP today to secure your spot for this must-attend evening!

​Useful Links

• ​Free access to more talks/trainings: Ai+ Training platform

• ​ODSC Blog: opendatascience.com

• ​Slack Channel: Join the Community

• ​Code of Conduct: odsc.ai/code-of-conduct