Daytona AI Builders - London, July 2026
An event dedicated to exploring all things AI Engineering!
Event partner: Encode Club
Agenda
🕒 6:30 pm – 6:40 pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks
🎤 Marijan Cipcic, Principal Events Manager at Daytona
🕒 6:40 pm – 7:00 pm
Talk "Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox"
🎤 Mislav Ivanda, DevEx Engineer at Daytona
Outline:
Teams are reaching for Kubernetes to run agent sandboxes, and it's the wrong tool. Kubernetes is built to keep things alive and hold them in a steady state. A sandbox is born, forked, and killed before any of that machinery catches up.
The mismatch compounds because the sandbox keeps gaining requirements without shedding any. In eighteen months it went from a fast code-snippet runner, to a stateful box for long-running agents, to ten thousand ephemeral environments that fork for RL rollouts and die in under a second. It has to be all of those at once, a contradiction set no orchestrator was designed to hold.
The cost shows up the moment you measure it. We ran the same 50-action bug-fix trajectory across five stacks and got a 12x spread: 12.9s on the fastest, 161.5s on the slowest. The gap isn't compute, it's lifecycle overhead per action. We name every stack and explain the mechanism behind each number.
🕒 7:00 pm – 7:20 pm
Talk "TBA"
🎤 RL Nabors, Developer Relations Engineer at Arize AI
Outline:
TBA
🕒 7:20 pm – 7:30 pm
Talk "Agents, Agents Everywhere"
🎤 Sofía Sánchez-Zárate, Head of Technical Ecosystems at CopilotKit
Outline:
AI agents are only as useful as the surface you can put them in front of. CopilotKit makes that surface any frontend — drop an agent into your existing React app and let it drive real UI, not just chat bubbles. In this talk, I'll show how CopilotKit's generative UI turns agent output into interactive components on the fly, walk through real examples like Slack integrations where agents take action in tools people already use, and demo giving an agent its own isolated Daytona sandbox to safely write and run code, then report back. Expect a fast tour of what "agentic frontend" actually looks like in practice.
🕒 7:30 pm – 7:40 pm
Talk "TBA"
🎤 Speaker TBA
Outline:
TBA
🕒 7:40 pm - 8:30 pm
Networking
With pizzas and beverages
About event
This is dynamic gathering for AI enthusiasts, innovators, and professionals to collaborate, share ideas, and explore the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Whether you're building AI products, researching cutting-edge algorithms, or simply passionate about the field, join us to connect, learn, and drive the future of AI forward.
