Tech Events at Databricks London HQ, London

with Simon Whiteley (, Advancing Analytics)

The London Databricks user group's November meetup at Databricks' Fitzrovia office: product updates, an update from Simon Whiteley and the Advancing Analytics team, and a Q&A with Databricks staff. The full line-up is still being finalised. 17:30 to 19:45, pizza and drinks. Free, but you must register on the Databricks User Groups site; a Meetup RSVP alone doesn't get you in. Why go: direct access to Databricks people and one of the UK's best-known Databricks consultancies, in their own office. Best for data and ML engineers already on the platform or deciding whether to move onto it.

Event 26 – The Analytics Engineering Meet-up The London Analytics Engineering Meet-up - Hosted by Databricks! Speakers: Navo Das - Lead Data Analyst @ incident.io Talk: Trust Verdicts Not Vibes: Building an Evals Harness for an Agentic Data System.

with Navo Das (Lead Data Analyst, incident.io) · Katerina Korovkina (Principal Engineer, Skyscanner)

Two practitioner talks on keeping data platforms trustworthy as agents move into them: how incident.io built an evals harness for an agentic data system, and how Skyscanner scales a safe Databricks platform. Hosted by Databricks at its London office. Navo Das (Lead Data Analyst, incident.io) presents "Trust Verdicts Not Vibes: Building an Evals Harness for an Agentic Data System"; Katerina Korovkina (Principal Engineer, Skyscanner) presents "From IaC to Intelligent Interfaces: Scaling a Safe Databricks Platform". Doors, food and drinks at 18:00, talks at 19:00, then on to a local pub at 20:30. There is a hard limit of 100 places, filled from the RSVP list. Missing two events in a row, or two in three, bars you from the next one, so cancel if you can't make it. Why go: the 26th edition of a meetup where analytics engineers talk candidly about production systems. The evals talk is a rare one pitched at data teams rather than ML researchers.