Tech Events by Practically AI: Applied AI for Software Engineers Manchester

Practically AI's October meetup at AZoNetwork's offices in NEO on Charlotte Street, with two talks on the same theme: as AI takes on more of software engineering, the engineering fundamentals matter more rather than less. Phil Whittaker walks through the stages teams pass through as they move from simple prompting to managing context, building agent harnesses, and eventually running reliable autonomous development loops and graphs, looking at what each stage solves and what new problems it creates. The session keeps returning to the traditional practices, testing, architecture and observability, that make any of it work. Doors from six, talks from half six. Why go: most agentic-AI talks are demos; this one is about what breaks at each step and why your existing engineering discipline is the thing that saves you. Best for software engineers and leads actually shipping AI-assisted work.

Applied AI for software engineers, hosted at Matillion. Two speakers on production AI engineering rather than prototypes — one of the strongest technical AI nights in the city.

with Esly Lescano (Speaker, Refurb AI) · Charles Oduk (Speaker, ) · Abdullah Ola Mudathir (Speaker, ) + 1 more

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.