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Practically AI: Lightning Talks
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Practically AI: Lightning Talks

Thursday 23 July 2026·6:30pm·Matillion
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Date & Time

Thursday 23 July 2026

6:30pm

Location

Matillion

Two New Bailey Street, Stanley Street, Salford, Manchester M3 5GS

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Price

Free

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Practically AI: Applied AI for Software Engineers Manchester

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One of Practically AI's most popular formats returns: an evening of short, practical talks from engineers building with AI. Esly Lescano shares the journey of taking Refurb AI from an LLM call to a trusted, production-ready multimodal product; Charles Oduk demonstrates a WhatsApp fact-checking bot built to fight misinformation; Abdullah Ola Mudathir makes the case for measuring, not trusting, AI code reviewers; and Robin Roy asks who's really doing the thinking as AI embeds into our workflows. Doors, pizza and networking from 18:30. Aimed at software engineers, engineering managers and anyone applying AI in real software development.

Speakers

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Esly Lescano

Speaker, Refurb AI

CO

Charles Oduk

Speaker,

AO

Abdullah Ola Mudathir

Speaker,

RR

Robin Roy

Speaker,

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