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shipped #2 - London's FDE Meetup

OCT29
17:30 · Europe / London

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shipped #2 - oct 2026

Speakers:
Eoin O., Snr Staff FDE @ Databricks - "Let Me Fix That Properly This Time". The story of one real enterprise customer where an AI agent kept confidently doing the wrong thing, each time promising to fix it properly and sending the users into a panic. Scrappy tooling, building confidence and knowing the limits of your technology: the real craft of the Forward Deployed Engineer, told through one agent that refused to behave.
To be followed by a panel discussion
Moderated by Nicole Perryman, FDE Manager @ Databricks
Panelists:
Dimi Nikolaou, Field CTO @ Fireworks AI
Anirudh Gangwal, Forward Deployed Engineer @ OpenAI Deploy Co.
Selena Jackson, Dir. of Engagement Management, FDE @ Databricks
Sam Freeman, Founding FDE @ Cinder
Venue: Databricks HQ - London
Doors: 5:30pm
Talks: 6:00pm
Finish: 8:00pm
Shipped - London's FDE Meetup
shipped is London's Forward Deployed Engineers Meetup, hosted monthly, we'll be hearing from leaders across the FDE space.
Over the past 6 months, the FDE job title has taken off and there wasn't a forum to network and learn for:
- practitioners in the role
- individuals scaling teams
- those who are just wanting to understand more about what it is to be an FDE.
That is what shipped is.
shipped is organised by Sam Keene (Xcede) & Sam Freeman (Founding FDE Manager @ Cinder)
To stay up to date with all our monthly events, please join our communty: lu.ma/shipped or connect with us on LinkedIn

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