Engineering with Purpose

April 2, 2025
• 6:00 PM
April 2, 2025
Pimlico, London

The ENGINEERING WITH PURPOSE meetup is back! Great content, great pizzas, and this time a great new venue AND it’s all free, of course.

Anatomy of an AI Hackathon – Nathan Cashmore
How Waitrose harnessed the innovation and creativity of cross functional teams to run an AI Hackathon from concept to event in just 8 Weeks! How we did it, what we achieved, and most importantly, what we learned!
– Nathan is a Principal Software Engineer with 25+ years of experience delivering impactful technical solutions across diverse industries, including Finance, Government, Telecom, Retail, and Entertainment. Currently leading and shaping the future of Backend Engineering at the John Lewis Partnership, driving innovation and success within the profession.

Config-driven layouts for faster experiments – Owen Nicol
Over the last few years we’ve migrated the front-end of johnlewis.com from a single monolith application to Micro Front-Ends. We ended up with 7 teams building different Product Details Pages. This is the story of how we made that better – much better!
– Owen is a Principal Engineer at the John Lewis Partnership where he leads engineering for Front-end and Mobile Apps. He has two lovely children and an annoying dog.

 

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