We have two exciting talks to present in combination with Leeds Digital Festival:
17.45 – 18:00 Network 🤝
18.00 – 18:30 Drinks & Pizza 🍕
18:30 – 18:40 Intro🎙️
18:40 – 19:30 Talk 1: Shubhangi Goyal – Context driven AI agents
In this session, we will explore how agents are built and use dynamic context to execute complex tasks and deliver real value. This also includes using context engineering to move beyond single prompt based interactions. The key takeaways would be:
19:30 – 19:40 10-min Break 🥤
19:40 – 20:30 Talk 2: James Bentley – Red Team Redemption: Finding AI Weaknesses Before Attackers Do
Generative AI is rapidly becoming part of enterprise applications, but how do you know if your AI behaves safely when faced with malicious, unexpected, or simply creative users?
In this session, we’ll explore the world of AI red teaming: the practice of thinking like an attacker to uncover vulnerabilities before they reach production.
We’ll look at common attack techniques and adversarial behaviours which can cause AI systems to act in ways their creators never intended.
Using real world engagements as inspiration, you’ll see how open source security tools such as Garak, PyRIT, and more can be combined into a repeatable testing framework, and how these findings map to industry standards to make sure you know where your gaps are, and what that even means!
Of course we’ll also discuss the practical mitigations you can implement, and the growing security capabilities available within Databricks to safeguard your deployments.
So whether you’re deploying your first chatbot, or operating AI at enterprise scale, this session will help you understand how attackers think, how AI systems fail, and how to ensure your first red team engagement isn’t conducted by your users.
Come and join the Leeds Data Community and start learning and networking! All are welcome!
