Hello, fellow MLOps Engineers and ML Enthusiasts, ready for a new meetup?

We're announcing our next meetup event, in collaboration with Slalom. Location will be: Slalom office, Sendlinger Str. 7,

Agenda:

18:30 - 19:00 - Drinks, food & networking

19:00 - 19:00 - Welcome

19:00- 19:30 - Talk #1: Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes

Meryem Arik, CEO at Doubleword

As models improve, we are starting to build long-running, asynchronous agents such as deep research agents and browser agents that can execute multi-step workflows autonomously. These systems unlock new use cases, but they fail in ways that short-lived agents do not.

The longer an agent runs, the more early mistakes compound, and the more token usage grows through extended reasoning, retries, and tool calls. Patterns that work for request-response agents often break down, leading to unreliable behaviour and unpredictable costs.

This talk is aimed at use case developers, with secondary relevance for platform engineers. It covers the most common failure modes in async agents and practical design patterns for reducing error compounding and keeping token costs bounded in production.

19:30 - 20:00 - Talk #2: Gen AI at Scale: From Lambda Struggles to Bedrock Agents

Pradeep Gunana, Senior Cloud Consultant at Slalom

20:00 - Onwards - Drinks, food & networking

***More about the Speakers:***

Pradeep Gunana (Linkedin) is a Senior Cloud Consultant at Slalom
Meryem Arik (Linkedin) is CEO at Doubleword.

About Hosts:

Sadik Bakiu (LinkedIn): CEO at DataMax
Jitendra Kasaudhan (LinkedIn): Senior Data Engineer at Myra Security
Marina Bevacqua (LinkedIn)
Wilson Cely (LinkedIn)

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