AI Agents in Production with Kubernetes
Welcome to our 2nd Liverpool meetup of 2026, hosted and sponsored by The Very Group in Speke! Details below: Location: Skyways House, Speke Rd, Speke, Liverpool, L70 1AB. Time: Doors open at 6PM Drinks, Pizza, talks, and networking. We're excited to invite you to our 8th DevOps Society Meetup of 2026, proudly hosted and sponsored by The Very Group. This event has two technical talks, which can be a fit for anybody. There will be some really technical bits in both talks, but also some high-level bits too, with three really exciting speakers lined up for this one in Ryan, Sean and Richard. Format of the Meetup: 6:00pm – 6:30pm — Networking on arrival, with food and drinks provided by The Very Group. 6:30pm – 7:10pm — First speaker + Q&A 7:10pm – 7:20pm — Break for refreshments and networking 7:20pm – 8:00pm — Second speaker + Q&A 8:00pm onwards — More networking at the venue, then at a nearby pub. Timings can vary slightly depending on Q&A. SPEAKER #1 \- Ryan Healey \- Principal Platform Engineer @ The Very Group Bio: Ryan Healey is a Principal Platform Engineer working at The Very Group, a UK-based digital retailer. Ryan helps deliver platforms and tooling for internal software engineering teams to accelerate developing and deploying software. Since joining Very in 2021, Ryan has been embedded within multiple engineering squads, covering observability, production support, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and most recently AI Platforms. Talk Title: Helping engineers go faster: developing an agentic AI pattern for The Very Group Description: Our journey of adopting agentic AI to help our software engineering teams deliver value to families. SPEAKER #2 \- Sean Clerkin \- Senior Solutions Architect @ AWS\, and Richard Orrick \- Senior Technical Account Manager @ AWS Bios: Sean Clerkin is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. Sean has been with AWS for 6 years and works with Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods customers in the UK. Richard Orrick is a Senior