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An independent community initiative for engineers applying generative AI to real systems. We share production patterns, hard trade-offs, and lessons learned across agents, ML platforms, search, and software delivery.

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BERLIN / DE52.52° N

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01Code agents

02Guardrails & evaluation

03ML & data systems

04Engineering leadership

Past events

Two Berlin evenings.
One continuing conversation.

Our first two editions at Zalando BHW brought engineers together to examine how GenAI changes day-to-day engineering work—from code agents and guardrails to production ML systems.

01 / ARCHIVE

28APR
2026

Zalando Office BHWBerlin

Past eventIn personTechnical

GenAI Transforming Engineering

Research harnesses, low-code feature engineering, ranking migrations accelerated by code-agent benchmarking, coding agents for ML pipelines, and a panel on the evolving AI engineer role.

01
Talk 01
Research Harness Engineering for Model Development
How an agentic research harness enables structured experimentation and faster iteration in applied AI.
Florian HönickePrincipal AI Engineer · Elastic
02
Talk 02
Low-Code Feature Engineering with Agentic Support
Configuration-driven feature pipelines that reduce infrastructure friction and shorten the route to production.
Ola WahabZalando
03
Talk 03
Ranking Logic Migration from Monolith
Using code-agent loops and async-profiler to benchmark a latency-critical ranking migration and close the p99 gap.
Ivan PotapovZalando
04
Talk 04
Coding Agents for ML Pipelines & AI Systems
Prompt-driven development, problem decomposition, and experimentation workflows for production ML systems.
Jim DowlingCEO · Hopsworks
05
Panel
Product Mindset in Engineering: The Evolution of the AI Engineer
With Jim Dowling (Hopsworks), Leela Sharma (Zalando), Alexey Grigorev (DataTalks.Club), and Florian Hönicke (Elastic).
Hosted by Ivan PotapovZalando

Luma Meetup

02 / ARCHIVE

17FEB
2026

Zalando Office BHWBerlin

Past eventIn personTechnical

Agents and Guardrails

Reusable skills and role-based subagents for modern code agents, followed by a production support agent built around retrieval, strict tool boundaries, policy-driven responses, and evaluation guardrails.

01
Talk 01
Building Blocks of Modern Code Agents
A practical map of code-agent types, reusable skills, and role-based subagents for reliable development workflows.
Alexey GrigorevDataTalks.Club
02
Talk 02
Guardrailed Agents at Scale
A production support agent for incident triage built with retrieval, observability context, strict tool boundaries, policy-driven responses, and evaluation checks.
Ivan Potapov & Saugandh KaranZalando SE

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Main organizer

Programme curator · Community builder

Ivan Potapov

Ivan curates the programme and brings practitioners together to share what they have learned from building and operating GenAI systems.

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Why we meet

“The useful conversation starts where the demo ends.”

Talks stay close to engineering practice: architecture, code, evaluation, latency, safety, and the organisational choices behind systems that reach production.

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