{dev.talk} - The one in January
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This event is currently being planned, with 2 speakers. Details forthcoming.
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Event Details
Date: Wednesday, 27th January 2027
Time:
- Doors open: 6:50 PM
- Event starts: 7:00 PM
- Event ends: 9:00 PM
Location: Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus
Speakers
First January session
Slot
Toufik Beladi Bio
Your bio would go here. This is a chance to tell the community about yourself and your work. You can talk about your background, your interests, and what you would like to share with the community.
Building AI Agents That Actually Ship: Lessons from Production LLM Systems
Everyone is building AI agent demos right now. Far fewer are shipping them to real users and keeping them running. In this talk I share what changed when a multi agent LLM system moved from prototype to production, and what actually mattered once real traffic, real failures, and real users entered the picture.
I will walk through the practical side of building with LangGraph, structuring agents so they stay debuggable instead of turning into a tangle of prompt chains, and the unglamorous but critical work of handling failure gracefully when a model call times out, hallucinates, or simply gets it wrong. I will also touch on real time constraints, like what happens when your agent needs to respond fast enough to feel natural rather than just eventually correct.
This is not a talk about prompt engineering tricks. It is about the engineering decisions that separate a cool demo from a system your users can actually depend on, and the lessons I wish someone had told me before I started.
Ahmed Khan Bio
Ahmed is a passionate software developer, and tech blogger who love to mentor and share knowledge in the tech community. In his free time, he is a motivation speaker who will bore you with motivational quotes
What to Expect
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