Vertical Slice Architecture: Effective Guardrails for AI Development

⌖ Barcelona · Alice Secret Garden

Hosted by AI Engineers Barcelona

Build alongside Barcelona’s AI engineering community at this weekly, in-person meetup for people actively coding AI products and projects. Taking place on Monday, 26 October 2026, from 7:00–10:00 PM CET, the session is hosted by Daniel at Alice Secret Garden, Carrer de Pau Claris 90, in Barcelona. Bring your laptop and a project you are working on. The format centres on sharing your progress, seeing what other attendees are building and meeting fellow practitioners. It is best suited to: - Engineers coding AI projects - Technical founders building AI products - Researchers working hands-on with AI This is a practical community meetup rather than a published programme of talks; no formal agenda or speaker line-up has been announced. The group meets every Monday, with recurring sessions currently listed until 4 October 2027. On arrival, walk through the main entrance and continue straight to the garden at the back. The meetup’s seating location changes weekly, so ask staff where the AI Engineers group is seated. Learn more through the AI Engineers Community website, follow the community on LinkedIn, or apply to its developers-only WhatsApp community. Register for AI Engineers Barcelona

◎ Nottingham + online

Hosted by .NET Notts

Discover the surprising history behind “bugs”, hackers, C and other tech terms at this hybrid .NET Notts talk in Nottingham on 26 October 2026. .NET Notts welcomes developer and author Molly Painter for a journey through ancient history, popular culture and the unexpected origins of everyday computing language. The talk will explore: - Why computer “bugs” have nothing to do with insects - The link between a Viking warlord, a Hollywood starlet and modern technology - What hackers have to do with horses - Why a developer is nothing like a fajita - What the “C” in C means, and why it is sharp Molly has worked as a .NET developer for more than 20 years across government, retail and manufacturing. She speaks internationally about Functional C and wrote Functional Programming with C, published by O’Reilly Media in 2023. Find her on LinkedIn or Bluesky. This hybrid event runs from 6:30pm to 8:30pm GMT on Monday 26 October 2026. Attend in person at CGI (formerly BJSS), 16 King Street, Nottingham, opposite the Brian Clough statue, or watch via Zoom; the online link is visible to attendees. The topic is suitable for developers and anyone curious about computing culture and language. Sponsors include CGI, Rebel Recruiters and PJG Creations; pizza and drinks are listed with Rebel Recruiters. Register for this event

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⌖ Mexico City

Hosted by Rafael Mendiola

AI Builders Meetup brings React and AI developers to Mexico City on 27 October 2026 during Mexico Tech Week and Día de Muertos. This planned meetup offers developers a timely opportunity to connect with Mexico’s technology community, compare what they are building and spend time discussing the intersection of React and artificial intelligence. Organised by Rafael Mendiola, it is designed to bring local builders together with developers travelling from outside Mexico. What to expect The concept is deliberately community-focused: gather strong developers in one place, invite interesting speakers and create space for conversations about React, AI and current projects. While the detailed programme and speaker line-up have not yet been announced, the meetup is expected to centre on: - React development and the evolving tools and practices around it - AI products, applications and developer-led experimentation - What attendees are currently designing, coding and shipping - Connections between Mexican developers and visiting builders - Exposure to one of the world’s most energetic technology communities The event is being timed to coincide with Mexico Tech Week and Día de Muertos, making it particularly relevant for people who want to combine a developer meetup with several days in Mexico City. That wider context gives international attendees an opportunity to experience the local technology scene while the city hosts other activity and one of Mexico’s most significant cultural occasions. Who should attend? The meetup is aimed specifically at React and AI developers. It should appeal to working engineers, independent builders and technically minded product creators who want to exchange ideas with peers and learn what others are building. The published announcement does not specify a required experience level, so prospective attendees should register their interest and follow future updates as the agenda takes shape. Current event status… Register for this event

⌖ Nottingham · Fothergill House

Hosted by DevOps Notts

Explore architecture governance for AI coding agents at Fothergill House in Nottingham on 27 October 2026, from 6–8pm GMT. This DevOps Notts talk presents a financial-services approach to moving governance earlier in the software development process. Rather than relying solely on architecture review boards, deployment failures and late-stage guardrails, the session will show how governance can become part of an AI agent’s reasoning. You’ll learn how an agent can read real policy documents, explain applicable requirements in plain English while a developer is still describing a system, and identify constraints before any Terraform is created. The talk also covers mirroring those policies in OPA/Rego rules, allowing the agent to check its own proposed design before presenting it and enabling CI to verify changes made by hand. The event is particularly relevant to DevOps practitioners, software engineers, architects and teams working with AI-assisted development in regulated environments. No speaker biography or experience-level requirement has been published. Agenda - 18:00: Doors open - 18:30: Talk begins - 19:15: Pizza and catch-up - 20:00: Doors close Hosted by Mica B. for DevOps Notts at CGI Fothergill House, 16 King Street, Nottingham NG1 2AS. Register for this event

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⌖ Singapore · Lorong AI @ One-North

Hosted by Lorong AI

Explore how AI-powered robots move beyond controlled labs at this technical session in Singapore on 28 October 2026, covering embodied AI, VLA models and edge intelligence. Part of Lorong AI’s weekly AI Wednesdays series and presented with IMDA, this in-person event brings together researchers, practitioners and innovators for three research-to-deployment talks: - Soujanya Poria, Associate Professor at NTU, will examine what generalist physical agents still need beyond better actions. Drawing on GE-Act 2.0, MemBodied and RoboQuest, he will discuss fast control, persistent memory, evidence gathering, planning and verification. - Raphael Yee, Director of Griffin Labs, will explain how his team built Griffin Alpha, an open-weight vision-language-action model developed in Singapore, why it was open-sourced and how Alpha-S performs across robotics benchmarks. - Dr Ernest Tan, Assistant Professor at SIT’s Infocomm Technology Cluster, will explore edge intelligence for responsive, reliable robotics. Topics include 5G/6G communications, distributed AI, inference-aware offloading and applications in facilities management, public safety and the built environment. Event details Wednesday 28 October 2026, 3:00–5:00 PM GMT+8 Lorong AI @ One-North, Vidacity Building, Level 3, The Collider (Entrance B), 69 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore 139961. Registration requires host approval. Learn more about Lorong AI, then request to join the event.

⌖ São Paulo · Auditório Oracle

Hosted by Vibe Space

Devin Meetup São Paulo brings a live demonstration of Cognition’s AI coding agent to the Oracle Auditorium on 28 October 2026, with practical learning and networking. Hosted by Vibe Space, this three-hour, in-person meetup explores how engineers and product teams can use AI agents throughout the software development lifecycle, from an initial draft to production deployment, while retaining technical control and rigour. The event is aimed at developers, technical founders, CTOs, students, AI professionals and builders interested in writing and scaling software with natural language. A live Devin demo and open Q&A will show what agentic development looks like in practice, while the happy hour and networking sessions provide time to exchange implementation lessons, make connections and discuss potential partnerships. Agenda - 18:00–18:30: Reception, drinks and networking - 18:30–19:00: Welcome and event context - 19:00–20:30: Live Devin presentation and Q&A - 20:30–21:00: Open networking and close Bring a fully charged laptop to follow the practical walkthrough. Participants will also receive a code providing AI usage credits and 30 days of free access to the tools. The meetup takes place at Auditório Oracle, Rua Dr. José Áureo Bustamante, 455, Santo Amaro, São Paulo. Get tickets for Devin Meetup São Paulo.