Watch more of .local London 2026 → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4RCxklHWZ9tH01MTlChYwUqN8Cm2tl2r Your AI ambitions are only as strong as what you build them on. Join MongoDB leaders, builders, and investors as they explore what production AI really looks like — beyond the hype and at real-world scale. If you’re serious about building AI that lasts, your foundation starts here. Speakers: Alexander Holt, Engineering, @Elevenlabs Luciana Lixandru, Partner, @sequoiacapital Ulku Rowe, CIO for Commercial Banking, Lloyds Banking Group Osmar Olivo, Senior Director of Database Product Management, MongoDB Mikiko Bazeley, Staff Developer Advocate, MongoDB Frank Liu, Voyage AI Research Manager, MongoDB 00:00:00 - Welcome to MongoDB.local London 00:01:44 - Why London is a Global AI Hub 00:03:56 - The Current State of AI: Coding Assistants & ROI 00:05:20 - Understanding Agentic Architecture 00:06:55 - OLTP vs. OLAP for Real-Time Agents 00:08:41 - Accuracy, Scale, and the Run Anywhere Strategy 00:10:36 - Customer Story: Financial Times Retrieval Success 00:12:12 - Operational Resiliency & Multi-Cloud Strategy 00:16:07 - Solving Customer Service Friction with AI 00:19:43 - Announcing Atlas Auto Embeddings & MongoDB 8.3 00:22:19 - Why 89% of AI Agents Fail to Reach Production 00:23:41 - The Role of Memory in the Agentic Loop 00:28:12 - Improving Accuracy with Voyage Embeddings & Rerankers 00:34:34 - Demo: AI Agents Managing a Live Tennis Tournament 00:41:35 - Fireside Chat: Alex Holt (11 Labs) & Luciana Lixandru (Sequoia) 00:48:43 - Investment Moats and the European Startup Scene 00:55:20 - Why 11 Labs Chose MongoDB for Agentic Architecture 01:03:59 - The Next Frontier: Physical AI, Robotics, and Defense 01:09:16 - Foundations: Performance, Scale, and Availability 01:17:11 - Case Study: How Stripe Powers 1.5% of Global GDP 01:20:06 - Predictive Autoscaling for Unpredictable Workloads 01:22:31 - Transformation at Scale with Ülkü Rowe (Lloyds Banking Group) 01:26:53 - Building an AI Academy & Reskilling Talent Subscribe to the MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers?sub_confirmation=1 Sign-up for a free cluster → https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register Subscribe to MongoDB YouTube→ https://mdb.link/subscribe Visit Mongodb.com → https://mdb.link/MongoDB Read the MongoDB Blog → https://mdb.link/Blog Read the Developer Blog → https://mdb.link/developerblog MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel → https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers

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