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🗓️ Run-of-Show

• 18:30 PM — Doors & Check-in
• 18:45 PM — Lightning Talks
• 5–10-minute technical deep dives—unfinished, unpolished, totally real
• Q&A time as available
• Live coding, prompt traces, failed experiments encouraged
• Pizza and drinks kindly provided by Prolific
• 20:00 — Close & pub overflow (post-event pints @ The Belvedere nearby for those so inclined)

🎙️ Call for Lightning Talks & Demos

We have mic slots and table space! If you’ve been:

• Re-implementing the Google Gemini CLI in Rust
• Stress-testing Claude Opus 4 on chain-of-thought safety puzzles
• Building a course-work chatbot that grades itself
• A HITL scenario specific implementation

…submit a proposal. Five bullet points about what you tried, where you’re stuck, and what you learned is perfect.

Submit your talk or demo →

Need inspiration or a sanity-check before submitting? Ping the organiser (Sean). He’s very happy to help you flesh out and idea or offer some suggestions on what might help you put something together :)

👩‍🎓 Who’s in the Room?

• PhD students, Post Docs, Profs
• Undergrads shipping side-projects between lectures
• Devs putting the newest AI developments through its paces
• Researchers exploring AI ethics and novel ways the Anthropic Fair-Use Ruling reshapes data pipelines

Every attendee passes a quick build-cred screen (GitHub, LinkedIn, or equivalent).

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📌 Quick Facts

Exact venue address released to approved attendees only.

📊 Liverpool Tinkerers Stats

• Members & RSVPs: 37 members: ~23% AI/ML, ~16% full‑stack engineers, ~13% Python specialists, ~10% data scientists, with additional representation in JavaScript, AWS, Node.js, React and serverless. Membership combines senior engineering leaders, applied ML researchers and full‑stack AI builders; several members have hands‑on LLM/RAG and agentic systems experience and maintain ties to academia and regional consultancies.
• Companies Represented: Prolific, Atla AI, PDFTA, Emerging Data Technologies, iMirror, Kalavai, Helm, OnCare Ltd, Reffle, Door, Very and more
• Demos Submitted: Seven demos have been submitted and seven have been presented. They have explored human-in-the-loop data labeling, agent testing, deployment and orchestration, error analysis, and AI-powered UI control; standout demos include 'I know Kung Fu', 'A Noob's Account of Learning about Agent Testing with Deep Eval', 'Put your idle devices to work and become your AI cloud', 'Automating error analysis', and 'Conversational Agentic AI for UI control.'
• Attendee Quotes:

  “The discussions were really interesting, intriguing and gave a lot of talking points to take home to keep on thinking about. Really nice to have exposure to what happens in the AI world outside the usual 4 walls.”

  — Data scientist, ML

  “Interesting approach, it looks a good starting point for playin around with LLMs and Agents. It made me want to build an “agent” myself.”

  — Data scientist, ML

  “Good presentation, the demo was interesting and he was ready for any usual obstacle in the presentation”

  — Data scientist, ML

  “Great job getting this off the ground!”

  — Founder, AI devops

  “Keep doing live demos like we have seen”

  — Lead software engineer

  “I loved it. We should invite more people who wants to demo their live projects.”

  — Lead software engineer