When: Thursday, September 25, 2025
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM BST
Where: Clockwise Edinburgh Leith, Commercial Quay, 84 Commercial St, EH6 6LX
Why you’ll want to be there
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AI in quantitative trading by Ruslan Malsagov – hear how quants tackle noisy market data, provide liquidity and price discovery, and use modern AI modeling to solve engineering challenges in financial markets.
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From Microservices to Microagents: Architecting Systems That Think for Themselves by Oluyemi Olususi – hear how autonomous agents can supercharge microservices, adapt to failures in real time, and why microagents may be the next big shift in system design.
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Pizza, pints & people – mix with Edinburgh’s Tech People, enjoy cold drinks, have fun.
Run‑of‑show
| Time | What’s happening |
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| 17:30-18:15 | Welcome • grab a drink • take some pizza • have a quick chat |
| 18:15-19:00 | Ruslan Malsagov – “AI in quantitative trading” |
| 19:00-19:15 | q&a • chat break |
| 19:15-20:00 | Oluyemi Olususi – From Microservices to Microagents: Architecting Systems That Think for Themselves |
| 20:00-20:30 | q&a • beverages • networking |
| 20:30 | Official close (but the bar next door awaits) |
Speaker spotlight
Ruslan Malsagov – Quantitative Researcher / Trading Strategist, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruslan-malsagov/.
8 years in quantitative trading across Crypto and TradFi. Builds fully automated trading strategies by combining pricing models, machine learning, and statistical arbitrage with execution at scale. Led quant and dev teams to design trading systems from scratch and optimise existing infrastructure – bridging research with production-grade trading.
Oluyemi Olususi – Senior Software Engineer – https://www.linkedin.com/in/yemiwebby.
Senior Software Engineer with nearly a decade of experience building distributed systems across fintech, banking, HR, and hospitality. A leading CircleCI blog contributor, Oluyemi makes complex cloud-native and event-driven concepts practical and accessible through knowledge sharing with engineers worldwide.
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Location:
Clockwise Edinburgh Leith – Coworking & Office Space, Commercial Quay, 84 Commercial St, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6LX