MLOps Meetup Oct 2025 (Two talks!)

​Tonight we’ll be hearing from:

• ​Joan Figuerola Hurtado on “From Blue Links to Answers: How Agents Enable A New Era of Information Access and Discovery".

  • ​Joan co-founded SpecifiedBy, where he led engineering for 12 years. He focused on organising the world’s building construction information, making it easier for specifiers to access and discover what they need.

• ​Richard Bownes on "Bring-your-own-tooling in the age of AI"

  • ​Richard leads AI at Vector8 - an AI service provider focussing on Financial Services and Insurance. He helps create the tooling and solutions to solve client problems at internet scale and in regulated environments.

​We will be hosted this evening by Skyscanner in their newly-refurbished offices.

​Plan for the evening:

• ​18:30: doors open

• ​18:30 -> 19:00: chat / pizza

• ​19:00 -> 20:00: talks + q/a

• ​20:00 -> 20:30: tidy-up / head to nearby bar

• ​20:30: event close