Enjoy afterwork drinks and practical discussions on Apache Kafka, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL and much more. Enjoy a session designed for data engineers, architects and technical decisions-makers like you, who want to address the challenges they face in data-infrastructure. No high-level pitches but straight into practical discussions on how to build scalable, efficient open sourced-powered data platforms.

Why Attend?

• Connect with local data and tech professionals
• Get practical insights into streaming, storage, and analytics with Kafka, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse
• Learn how to reduce operational overhead while scaling your data infrastructure performance
• Bring your questions and challenges for direct discussions with Aiven experts

Tech Talk: Context Is the New Infrastructure
Speaker: Stan Dmitriev (Aiven)
Abstract: AI agents are powerful - until they hit your data and have no idea what anything means. This talk shows why metadata context is becoming as important as uptime, introduces Aiven for DataHub as the managed catalog layer for your data estate, and demonstrates what happens when AI agents can (and can't) reason about your infrastructure. Practical, live, and relevant whether you run PostgreSQL, Kafka, Clickhouse or all of the above.

Tech Talk: Apache Kafka on Aiven
Speaker: Hugh Evans (Aiven)
Abstract: Apache Kafka is the backbone of real-time data pipelines across the industry, but running it well is hard. This talk starts with a practical look at what Aiven's managed Kafka offering gives you out of the box: high availability, automated ops, and the freedom to focus on building rather than babysitting brokers.
From there, Hugh will walk through Inkless Kafka: Aiven's cloud-optimised architecture that decouples compute from storage, moving data to object storage and cutting infrastructure costs by up to 80%. You'll see how Inkless topics sit alongside classic Kafka topics in the same cluster, what the latency and throughput tradeoffs actually look like in practice, and when it makes sense to reach for each.

Agenda:
* 5:00pm~5:30pm: Checkin, Food, Networking
* 5:30pm~6:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 6:30pm~9:00pm: Happy hour, Open discussion, Networking

Venue:
Atomico Office, 29 Rathbone St, London W1T 1NJ, United Kingdom

Local and Global AI Community on Discord
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- Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
- Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
- Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
- Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers;