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PyData Eindhoven April 02, 2026

PyData Meetup @ Bright Cape

When
Thursday, April 02, 2026 · 03:30 pm
Where
FIFTH, Gasfabriek 5, Eindhoven, NB, Eindhoven, NB, nl
Attendees
3 confirmed
Dmitry Bagaev
Gareth Thomas
Yawen Wang
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Starts apr 02, 2026 at 03:30 pm

PyData Eindhoven & Bright Cape We’re excited to announce our upcoming meetup in collaboration with Bright Cape, focused on “Scalable AI & Cloud Deployments.” The event will be hosted in the Stage Room at Fifth NRE. Mark your calendar and join us for an evening of insights, networking, and discussions on cutting-edge technology with fellow members of the data and AI community.

Schedule

Agenda

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17:30 - 18:00
Doors Open
30 minutes
18:00 - 18:15
Welcome
15 minutes
18:15 - 18:45
Lucas Bresser
Deploying AI resources using IaC with Pulumi
Lucas Bresser
Company logo
AI solutions increasingly run on a mix of cloud providers, making infrastructure management complex and error‑prone. At Bright Cape, we deliberately chose Pulumi over traditional IaC tools such as Terraform and Bicep. In this session, I will show how Pulumi helps us deploy AI resources more consistently, securely, and transparently. Curious why we made this choice? I’ll walk you step by step through our reasoning and real‑world experiences.
Bright Cape
30 minutes
18:45 - 19:30
Food & Drinks
45 minutes
19:30 - 20:00
Tom Matheussen
Building Instead of Buying: Engineering a Scalable Engine from the Inside
Tom Matheussen
Company logo
What happens when off-the-shelf AI solutions don’t fit your reality? This talk shares lessons from developing a mature in-house AI platform instead of buying one. We explore the trade-offs of build vs. buy, key engineering challenges in scalable solutions, and how engineers can play a more strategic role in shaping the product.
Argenta
30 minutes
20:00 - 20:30
Keep Calm and Trust the AI
Dmitry Bagaev
Company logo
Large language models are powerful, but when asked for facts or numerical answers, they can hallucinate with surprising confidence. In this talk, we take a different approach: instead of asking an LLM to guess, we let it orchestrate real probabilistic inference. Using RxInfer and an MCP server, we connect a language interface to a Bayesian linear regression model running on an actual dataset. The LLM translates user intent into structured computation, the regression model performs principled inference, and the result is grounded in data—not generated from patterns alone. You’ll see how combining probabilistic programming with tool calling creates AI systems that are transparent, verifiable, and dramatically more reliable. Sometimes, the best way to trust the AI is to make sure it does the math.
TU/e
30 minutes
20:30 - 21:00
Networking
30 minutes
Community

Attendees

3 attending

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3
Job titles
2
Companies
2
Locations
1
Returning
0%
Core members
33%
Top job titles
  • Entrepeneur1
  • Postdoctoral Researcher1
Top companies
  • CGI1
  • TU/e1
Top locations
  • Nuenen1
Dmitry Bagaev
Dmitry Bagaev
Postdoctoral Researcher · TU/e
Gareth Thomas
Gareth Thomas
Entrepeneur · CGI
Nuenen
Yawen Wang
Yawen Wang
Attendee
Sustainability

Carbon footprint

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0.0 kg CO₂
Total reported
0.0 kg
Avg distance
7.5 km
Overnight stays
0.0%
Travel methods
  • Walking/Biking2
How we estimate

Attendees self-report travel mode and distance during registration. We multiply distance by an emission factor per mode (kg CO₂ per km) and add a 20 kg per-night estimate when overnight travel is indicated.

  • Walking/Biking: 0.0
  • Public Transport: 0.05
  • Car (solo): 0.2 · Car (shared): 0.1
  • Train: 0.04 · Plane: 0.15 · Other: 0.1
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Gareth Thomas
Gareth Thomas
PyData Eindhoven
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Core crew
Dmitry Bagaev
Dmitry Bagaev
Organizer · TU/e
Gareth Thomas
Gareth Thomas
Organizer · CGI
Podcaster
Yawen Wang
Yawen Wang
Organizer
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Bright Cape
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Lucas Bresser
Lucas Bresser
Senior Data Scientist · Bright Cape
Tom Matheussen
Tom Matheussen
Product Owner Data Intelligence · Argenta
Dmitry Bagaev
Dmitry Bagaev
Postdoctoral Researcher · TU/e
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Keep Calm and Trust the AI

by Dmitry Bagaev at PyData Meetup @ Bright Cape

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MATLAB |> Julia

by Gareth Thomas at Julia for ∀ll

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Getting Started with Soccer Analytics

by Gareth Thomas at PyData Meetup @ BigData Republic

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by Gareth Thomas at PyData Volunteer Feedback Session

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