MLOps Cape Town #5
Join us at the Takealot Head Office for food, drinks, and sneak peeks into the future. In an exciting reveal, South Africa’s largest e-commerce player, Takealot, is lifting the lid on their upcoming third-party agent ecosystem: a bold step toward an agent-powered shopping future. We've also got a special guest flying in from Johannesburg to unpack the architectures that make AI agents actually remember things. This is going to be a big one!
The Talks: Axel Tidemann (Takealot) Preparing for Third Party Shopping Agents on Takealot As platforms like ChatGPT and Perplexity move into e-commerce, Takealot is getting ready for a future where anyone can build a shopping agent. Axel will share how they’re planning for this shift, and how Model Context Protocol (MCP) is key.
Sashen Moodley (MethodData) Forget Me Not: Turning Goldfish AIs into Elephant-Memory Teammates Million-token contexts are flashy, but they’re not enough. Sashen will walk us through new memory architectures—vector-search sidecars, episodic graphs, and forgetting policies—that give agents real, usable recall.
Cost: Free Capacity: Limited to 100 people. If you can no longer attend, please update your RSVP so someone else can attend. As always, food and drinks will be provided.
Special thanks to Takealot for hosting and sponsoring the event!