Tech Events at Accenture, Manchester

with António Morais (Machine Learning Engineer, Elastic) · Akbar Gumbira (Machine Learning Engineer, Elastic) · Shade Obiti (Cybersecurity Analyst, Accenture)

Two talks on the unglamorous end of running AI agents: getting the right context into them, and what happens when one gets taken over. António Morais and Akbar Gumbira, both machine learning engineers at Elastic, cover building better context with visual intelligence and semantic retrieval - how to feed agents the right material and serve the models behind them reliably. Shade Obiti, a cybersecurity analyst at Accenture, follows with a live demo of a compromised AI agent that keeps coming back after the obvious security measures are in place. Hosted by Manchester AI at Accenture's Circle Square office. Registration is gated: RSVP yes, complete the organiser's form, and bring photo ID on the night. Why go: retrieval quality and agent security are where most production AI work actually goes wrong, and both talks come from people shipping it. Best for ML and platform engineers.

Manchester AI is back. After a quiet few months, we're relaunching in person — hosted at Accenture's Circle Square office in the city centre.

The launch event for AI + The Future of Work, aimed squarely at everyone who has been told to "figure out AI" at work without much further guidance. Rather than talks, the group solves a real problem with AI collectively, over food and drinks, at Accenture's Circle Square offices. Free and open to all, and deliberately pitched at people whose job is changing around AI rather than people building models. Already running a waitlist.