Data Sanity London Talks: Let's talk AI agents on 23 July!

Data Sanity has partnered with Sage to bring together AI industry experts and enthusiasts at a free knowledge-sharing event in London.

Here's what awaits you:
🎤 4 talks by leading AI speakers
👥 Networking with 100 professionals
☕️ Coffee and snacks to keep you fuelled

Talks:
> It's All Fun and Games Until You Deploy It in Production — Maria Matveeva, AdTech Holding
> Qwen-Only Conversational AI Agents — Stas Bichenko, Recombine
> AI-Driven Participation in Kaggle Competitions — Andrey Lukyanenko, Kaggle Grandmaster, Meta
> Keeping Financial AI Agents Honest: A Product Playbook from Sage — Yasi Jabbari, Sage

🗓 Date: 23 July, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
📍 Venue: Civo Tech Junction, 32-37 Cowper St, London
🔗 Register to secure your spot

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Here is the first speaker for Data Sanity London Talks!

🎙 It's All Fun and Games Until You Deploy It in Production

Speaker: Maria Matveeva, AI Team Lead @ AdTech Holding

Maria's team built an LLM-powered onboarding agent to help advertisers launch and edit campaigns faster, and the prototype looked great. Then real users showed up. The token budget evaporated in days, innocent-looking prompts pried open surprising weaknesses, and — asked a simple question about traffic sources — the bot cheerfully explained that most of the traffic comes from adult websites.

This talk covers what went wrong in production and how the system was redesigned to survive it.

🗓 When: Thursday, 23 July, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
📍 Where: Civo Tech Junction, London
🚀 Free — Register to secure your spot!

In partnership with Sage. Learn more at datasanity.dev

Meet our second speaker for the upcoming Data Sanity London Talks!

🎙 Qwen-Only Conversational AI Agents

Speaker: Stas Bichenko, CEO @ Recombine

AI agents capable of natural, human-level conversation have typically required closed-source, proprietary models. However, with the release of the latest Qwen models, it's now possible to build high-quality conversational systems using fully open-source, locally deployed models.

Stas will share the practical journey of migrating a real conversational agent from proprietary models to an open-source stack, including the challenges faced along the way and the final architecture.

🗓 When: Thursday, 23 July, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
📍 Where: Civo Tech Junction, London
🚀 Free — Register to secure your spot!

In partnership with Sage. Learn more at datasanity.dev

Here is the third speaker for the Data Sanity London Talks this Thursday!

🎙 AI-Driven Participation in Kaggle Competitions

Speaker: Andrey Lukyanenko, Kaggle Grandmaster, ML Engineer @ Meta

Can you hand a Kaggle competition to AI agents? Surprisingly, yes — but there are some caveats. Andrey will walk us through real competitions where agents wrote code, ran long experiments, and achieved strong results, while also making false assumptions, chasing dead ends, and optimising the wrong signals.

We'll learn how multi-session memory, reusable skills, validation checks, and human judgement turn capable agents into a reliable research workflow.

🗓 When: Thursday, 23 July, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
📍 Where: Civo Tech Junction, London
🚀 Free — Register to secure your spot!

In partnership with Sage. Learn more at datasanity.dev

Data Sanity London Talks is already tomorrow — meet our last speaker!

🎙 Keeping Financial AI Agents Honest: A Product Playbook from Sage

Speaker: Yasi Jabbari, AI Product Lead @ Sage

Financial agents are easy to demo and hard to productise. Using the question “Why did my profit drop?” as a thread, this talk shares a practical product playbook for turning model capability into trustworthy agent behaviour. Yasi will cover how product teams can decide what evidence is needed, who owns the boundary, when an answer should be direct, cautious, or routed, and how to evaluate those decisions after launch.

The lessons come from real financial-agent work, but apply to any high-trust AI product.

🗓 When: Thursday, 23 July, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
📍 Where: Civo Tech Junction, London
🚀 Free — Register to secure your spot!

In partnership with Sage. Learn more at datasanity.dev

Data Sanity Lightning Talks — tomorrow!
September 2 | Belgrade

We're happy to share our speaker lineup:

🎙 Ilya Zakharov — Code in Space: What Software Engineering Can Look Like in Extended Reality
🎙 Alex Prismotrov — Vibe-Coding Browser Automation with Claude (Job Hunt Tool as an Example)
🎙 Stanislav Starchenko — AI in Cold Outreach
🎙 Konstantin Bolotov — Self-Studying Chronicles in the Age of AI
🎙 Aleksei Shevkoplias — AI Agents for Life Science Tasks: An Overview
🎙 Ilya Kareltsev — Creating a Game with an AI Agent
🎙 Katherine Patchett — What AI Reads vs. What Humans See
🎙 Nikola Mitiċ — Collective Innovation. How AI Moves Innovation to the Edge of the Organization
🎙 Viktor Vialov — A Family Vacation Film: Codex, FFmpeg, and a Bit of Engineering
🎙 Konstantin Burkin — Beyond the Average: Multi-Model Routing and Smarter Metrics for High-Stakes Pricing
🎙 Dmitrii Khodorkin — From Touch to Traction: How My 3D Moon Pet Project Became My Best-Performing LinkedIn Post

Join us for an evening of short talks about building with AI, creative experiments, lessons learned and the cool things people make.

The event is free, but seats are limited — save yours while there’s still room.

We also have 2-3 speaker slots left, so if you have a project or story to share, come and shine!

📅 Wednesday, September 2
🕕 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 Haos Community Space, Terazije
🔗 Sign up here