About this ecosystem
Where AI practitioners and leaders come together to share what is actually working
The AI Operators ecosystem is for the people doing the real work of AI adoption and deployment inside organisations. Not the hype, not the vendor pitches, but the genuine operational and leadership challenges of building AI systems, running AI teams, navigating governance and making AI work in production environments. This ecosystem brings together communities across AI operations, leadership forums and specialist conferences focused on applied AI, Claude, agents and enterprise adoption.
Who this is for
Engineers and architects building and deploying AI systems in production
Technical leaders responsible for AI strategy, delivery and operating models
Teams adopting Claude, LLMs and agent frameworks inside real organisations
AI governance, compliance and risk professionals
Product leaders building AI-native products and platforms
CTOs, VP Engineering and senior technology leaders navigating AI transformation
Topics covered
What this ecosystem covers
Applied AI in production environments
Claude and LLM integration patterns
AI agents and orchestration
Enterprise AI adoption and change management
AI governance, compliance and responsible AI
AI product strategy and operating models
MLOps and AI infrastructure
AI leadership and team structures
Evaluation, observability and AI quality
AI security and risk management
Building AI-native organisations
Procurement and vendor assessment for AI tools
Communities
Communities in this ecosystem
These communities sit inside the AI Operators ecosystem. Join links will be added shortly. Some communities are newly formed and building now.
AI Operators Global
AI Operators Leaders
Claude Operators London
Community highlights
From previous events
Photos from recent community events, meetups and conferences within this ecosystem.
Recent Event Spotlight
Data & AI Leaders - Agentic AI
Hosted with Lloyds Banking Group in London. 120+ attendees exploring the cutting edge of Agentic AI in enterprise.
Speakers
Joanna Crown
Director of Data, Moonpig
Dylan Ratcliffe
Founder & CEO, Overmind
Sultan AI Awar
Solutions Architect (Digital Natives), Databricks
Joseph Reeve
Growth, ElevenLabs
Astitva Karunesh
AI Business Lead, AI CoE, Lloyds Banking Group
Lara Vomfell
Senior Data & AI Scientist, AI CoE, Lloyds Banking Group
Watch the talks
Lloyds Banking Group | Agentic AI in Practice
Astitva Karunesh & Lara Vomfell - AI CoE, Lloyds Banking Group
ElevenLabs, Moonpig, Databricks & Overmind | Agentic AI In The Enterprise
Joseph Reeve, Joanna Crown, Dylan Ratcliffe, Sultan AI Awar
On demand
Watch talks from this ecosystem
Recorded talks and sessions from AI Operators events. Full playlists are available on the Community Stack YouTube channel.
Async Agents in Production: Failure Modes and Fixes
Meryem Arik
Co-Founder & CEO, Doubleword
Coding standards - back to basics
Frank Contrepois
Independent FinOps Voice, Coblan
My first year as an AI Engineer at incident.io
Rory Malcolm
Product Engineer, incident.io
AI Agents in 2025: Beyond Chatbots to Autonomous Workflows
Stephen Toriola
AI Software Engineer, Compare the Market
Conferences
Conferences in this ecosystem
Flagship summits and specialist conferences that sit inside the AI Operators ecosystem, connecting communities with deeper technical content and senior forums.
Speaking
Speak at an AI Operators event
We want practitioners on stage, not just presenters. If you have shipped something, led a team through a difficult decision, contributed to open source, or built something worth talking about in this space, submit a talk idea.
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