Research lead
What foundation models still cannot do
A talk about the failure cases rather than the demos, and about how to tell the two apart before a budget is spent.
Head of platform
Payments across nine currencies
Settlement, reconciliation and the two weeks a year when everything arrives at once.
Engineering
Autonomy at scale
What changes when a fleet is large enough that the rare failure happens every day.
Founder
Quantum computing, honestly
Where the field actually is, which problems it will touch first, and which ones it will not.
Head of design
Design systems that survive
The rules that keep a component library usable after the team that wrote it has moved on.
Build systems
The cost of a slow build
Measuring what a ten minute build does to a day, and what it takes to get it under one.
Three days
Opening talk
Tracks: models, platform, design
Drinks and demos
Two conversations on stage
Workshops, four tracks
Panel: keeping a team small
Twelve lightning talks
Closing talk
Lunch and goodbyes
Venue
One building, three rooms, and a courtyard that stays open all day. Ten minutes from the station on foot.
Address
12 Harrowgate Lane
Capacity
3,000 seated
From the station
10 minutes on foot
Accessible
Step-free throughout
The Harrowgate Halls