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Speaking, hosting, and running the room

Maintaining an open-source project is only half engineering. The other half is explaining it to contributors, to users who have hit something confusing, and to rooms of people deciding whether to adopt it.

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Dataset Validation is coming to Kedro

August 2026

Kedro Coffee Chat

Presenting the KEP-10 design and a live before/after demo: a supplier feed with a duplicate ID, a malformed rating and an invalid flag, caught at the I/O boundary instead of deep inside a node.

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Selected appearances

  • Kedro: The Toolbox for Production-Ready Data Pipelines

    May 2026

    GOSIM Paris 2026 · Station F

    Invited talk at the Own Your Data Science & AI Workshop, hosted by scikit-learn, Probabl and Fraunhofer IAIS.

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  • GraphRAG with Kedro

    June 2026

    Kedro Coffee Chat · with Laura Couto

    On GraphRAG, agents, and the unglamorous pipeline work that makes agentic systems reproducible. The most-watched Coffee Chat of the series.

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  • Host, Kedro Coffee Chats

    2026 – present

    Kedro community livestream

    Took over hosting the community’s public technical stream: booking speakers, shaping each session, and running the broadcast. Recent episodes have covered the Data Catalog, spec-driven development, Kedro in VS Code, and evaluation pipelines with Langfuse.

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The series

Kedro Coffee Chats

A public technical livestream for the Kedro community. I host it, which means booking speakers, shaping each session and running the broadcast. I present on it when the topic is mine.

  1. Dataset Validation is coming to KedroPresenting · August 2026
  2. Reflection HubHosted
  3. All about the Data CatalogHosted
  4. GraphRAG with KedroPresented, with Laura Couto
  5. Kedro in VS Code: From Pipeline View to One-Click Node DebuggingHosted
  6. Should AI Write Your Docs? A Team DiscussionHosted
  7. Spec-Driven Development for Data PractitionersHosted
  8. Now serving: Exposing Kedro Pipelines over HTTPHosted
  9. Ship GenAI with Confidence: Evaluation Pipelines with Kedro and LangfuseHosted
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