Andy McMahon

Director - Principal AI & MLOps Engineer Barclays

Andy McMahon is an AI engineering leader focused on turning modern AI capabilities into real-world systems at scale. As Principal AI Engineer at Barclays, he builds platforms and applications that bring generative AI and machine learning into production in complex, regulated environments. He is the author of Machine Learning Engineering with Python and a guest lecturer at Oxford.

CONFERENCE DAY ONE

4:00 PM From Black Box to Glass Box: The Observability Blueprint Behind Barclays' AI Agents

As Barclays expands the use of AI agents across its internal platforms, observability is becoming the foundation that turns experimentation into safe, scalable capability. By embedding observability into the architecture from day one and working in lockstep with security and engineering governance, Andy's team can monitor how agents behave, what data they touch, and where usability gaps emerge in real time. This deeper visibility is enabling the bank to boost productivity and respond to issues faster in a rapidly evolving AI landscape, all while maintaining compliance.

• Monitoring AI agents with integrated observability that reveals behaviour, data usage patterns and real world performance

• Collaborating across security, architecture and platform teams to ensure AI adoption aligns with governance, compliance and organisational standards

• Improving productivity and user experience by rapidly identifying usability gaps and driving targeted interventions

4:30 PM Panel Discussion: AI in Engineering Work: Productivity Boost or Reliability Risk?

AI is already changing how teams write code, investigate incidents, and ship changes - but adoption stalls when trust is low and governance is unclear. Leaders need clarity on where AI helps today, where it introduces new risk, and how to roll it out responsibly.

• Identifying safe, high-value AI use cases across engineering workflows

• Defining guardrails: access, approvals, auditability, and blast-radius limits

• Building trust through evaluation: quality, MTTR impact, and false positives

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Andy.

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