Data Salon: Systems Thinking, part 2

An event series for fostering thought leadership across data disciplines and those who work closely with data practitioners. More details on our two featured speakers to come shortly! MC'd by Akpanoluo Etteh, Sr. Director of Data Engineering at Arcspan (fmr: Anthropic, Bandcamp) and founder of The Soundshop music salon series, and co-hosted by Michael Bartoli, Founder of Newtown Analytics (fmr: obé Fitness) Featured speakers are Jean Haley and Jenny Kim; you can find details on Jean's talk below, with Jenny's to be shared next week:Jean Haley is a site reliability engineer who spent several weeks building a headless AI agent on a dedicated laptop. What began as a simple Telegram relay to a backend AI model grew into a full home assistant that monitors his home lab, tracks weather, manages network traffic, and delivers daily news summaries. This talk walks through how building the pieces first led, almost by accident, to a coherent platform.