Meetup #4

About this event

Thank you everyone for joining us at the last event with Emma and Zack! It was such a great event and super engaging with an awesome crowd as always. Now we move onto the 4th meet up of the year hosted by the wonderful team at Tessl! Grab an RSVP when you can as we have limited space available! *** 🎤 Macey Baker \| Agent Enablement @ Tessl 🗣️ Dimming the Lights Lessons from the front lines of transforming our enterprise SDLC into a dark factory. We'll talk about quick wins, surprising sticking points, the unsolved problems of orchestration and validation, and controlled experiments and challenges that you can try with your team. Bio As Tessl's Founding Agent Enablement Engineer, Macey Baker is busy helping to build the future of AI-native development (and helping you build it too). Now an AI code generation obsessive, she got her start as an early employee at tech unicorn Intercom in San Francisco, before jumping the pond and roaming the London startup scene, working primarily in big data / ML houses. Some of her best friends are LLMs. *** 🎤 Holly Smith \| Staff Developer Advocate @ Databricks 🗣️ What even is a meta-harness, and why has Databricks just open-sourced one? Databricks keeps open-sourcing ambitious things and seeing what sticks. Spark stuck. Dolly didn't. Delta Sharing did. In June 2026 they added Omnigent, a "meta-harness" that sits above Claude Code, Codex, and friends. So did Vercel. So did five other people. The whole category is six months old. This talk walks through what a meta-harness is, why everyone in the AI space built one in the same month, how Omnigent compares to the alternatives. And, honestly, whether any of them will still exist by next year. Bio Holly Smith is a developer advocate and multi-award-winning Data and AI expert and tech communicator with over a decade of experience working at the cutting edge of Data and AI in various capacities. One of the first employees at Databricks, she is a renowned public speaker and teacher. She is well known for her YouTube series on data engineering. As always we kick things off with some pizza, drinks and networking around 6pm. We will then start the talks at 6.30pm sharp, please arrive on time! See you then :D