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Conversations in the AI era | Builder Community Meetup | Manchester
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Conversations in the AI era | Builder Community Meetup | Manchester

Wednesday 4 November 2026·6:00pm·Colony King Street
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Date & Time

Wednesday 4 November 2026

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Location

Colony King Street

76 King Street, Manchester M2 4NH

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Free

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Twilio UK

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A lot of what people build with AI comes down to conversations - chat, voice, messaging - and this is Twilio's Manchester builder meetup on what that looks like in practice. Three talks from people shipping it. Harry Chyshkala, CTO at IC Studio, on what a real SMS pumping fraud case taught him. Valdis Strautins, founder and CEO of WD Market, on getting AI agents to write code you would actually merge. Rob Pickering, founder of Polite.ai, on using agents to build, review and improve user-facing voice services. Doors 18:00 with food and drinks, welcome 19:15, talks 19:30 to 20:30, networking until 21:00. Free, at Colony King Street. The second ticket release requires host approval, so register well ahead. Why go: voice and messaging agents in production is a narrower and more useful conversation than the general AI-meetup circuit manages. Best for developers, tech leads and founders already building with LLMs.

Speakers

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Harry Chyshkala

CTO, IC Studio

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Valdis Strautiņš

Founder & CEO, WD Market

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Rob Pickering

Founder, Polite.ai

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