AI Tinkerers Ottawa v1.3.0 (Fall Edition): November Meetup + Hackathon Projects Demo [AI Tinkerers - Ottawa]
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AI Tinkerers Ottawa v1.3.0 (Fall Edition): November Meetup + Hackathon Projects Demo

Nov
27
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Monday, November 27th, 2023 • 5:30PM (EDT)
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Attendees include CTOs and ex-Google Brain researchers; the most common skills are Full-Stack Engineering, AI/ML, and Python development.

(Banner) A banner advertising an in-person November meetup for AI Tinkerers Ottawa v1.3.0. The banner features a retro computer monitor displaying the event information, with fall leaves and a pixelated cityscape in the background. Text: AI Tinkerers Ottawa v1.3.0 IN-PERSON NOVEMBER MEETUP LangChain Invest Ottawa Investir Ottawa Gadget retro, pixel art | Colors: #d4b790, #000000, #e65100, #ffb300 Note: The image is clearly a promotional banner designed to advertise an event. It contains headline text, background imagery, and sponsor logos, all characteristic of a banner.

Introduction

Did you go to OpenAI Dev Day?

Chances are that you didn’t. But who cares, we have AI Tinkerers at home.

We’re back with another meetup. There’ll be a ton of AI / LLM app demos (from the first Ottawa-based generative AI hackathon), light beverages and good company on a cozy night. Plus, we’re making sure you’re up-to-date with the latest development in AI & LLM with a short presentation on what you might have missed in November in AI.

Quick summary:
  • The monthly meetup is happening as usual, on November 27th, 5:30pm EST.
  • RSVP at the top of this page for the upcoming in-person meetup.
  • Starting on November 1st, we run a remote 100%, generative AI hackathon, with prizes from LangChain, Gadget and Invest Ottawa. The hackathon ends at 10am EST on November 27th.
  • You don’t have to join the hackathon to go to the in-person meetup.

Event schedule
  • 5:30PM: Doors open and networking.
  • 6:30PM: Presentation: past meetup recaps and what you might have missed in November in AI & LLM.
  • 7:00PM: Demos start.
  • 8:00PM: Quick break and networking
  • 8:30PM: Hackathon winners revealed
  • 9:00PM: Go home.

There will be drinks and appetizers served, courtesy of our sponsors.

Who are AI Tinkerers?

Our city didn’t have a space for AI / LLM practitioners to share knowledge and code without being bothered by businesses pitching their products and services.

So we started a thing.

Join us at our next meetup by subscribing for updates here: ottawa.tinkerer.ai

And join our Discord

AI Tinkerers Ottawa organizers:

Photos from previous meetups

Meetup 1

(Photo) A man is presenting to a group of people seated at tables in a room. people | indoor | presentation, audience, tables, chairs | candid Note: The image is a real-life captured scene of a presentation, depicting people and a room, making it a photograph. Greg giving a 1.5 hour workshop on running open-source LLMs in Google Colab.

Meetup 2

(Photo) A photo of a person presenting a slide about instantiating a large language model. Text: Instantiate Model model_type = "LLAMA-2" model_name = "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf" happy_gen = HappyGeneration( model_type=mc _type, model_name=m^ name ) person | indoor | presentation, projector screen, audience | candid Note: The image is a photograph of a presentation, capturing a person, a projector screen, and an audience. It's a real-world scene captured by a camera. Eric Fillion presenting Happy Transformer, an open-source library that he authored to help with fine-tuning HuggingFace models.

(Photo) A photo of a presenter speaking to an audience in a room. A projected screen displays lines of code. Text: 07:34:48.456 [Thread-12] INFO lang.thread.ShutdownHook - Shutdown hook 07:34:48.456 [Thread-12] INFO lang.api.NetFileClassLoader - Closing classloader NetFileClassLoader(name= "langstream-agent") 07:34:48.456 [Thread-12] INFO lang.api.NetFileClassLoader - Closing classloader NetFileClassLoader(name= "langstream-agent") 07:34:48.456 [Thread-12] INFO lang.api.NetFileClassLoader - Closing classloader NetFileClassLoader(name= "langstream-agent") 07:34:48.456 [Thread-12] INFO lang.api.NetFileClassLoader - Closing classloader NetFileClassLoader(name= "langstream-agent") processing 2007, a Langstream doc run test - eops example/applications/docs/onboarding 5 user docs, 2 query docs, 0 primary to answer 4.1 sec derivation (157) 07:34:52.611 [Thread-12] INFO lang.api.NetFileClassLoader - Closing classloader NetFileClassLoader(name= "langstream-agent") 4.1 sec derivation (157) 07:34:52.611 [Thread-12] INFO lang.api.NetFileClassLoader - Closing classloader NetFileClassLoader(name= "langstream-agent") 4.1 sec derivation (157) 07:34:52.611 [Thread-12] INFO lang.api.NetFileClassLoader - Closing classloader NetFileClassLoader(name= "langstream-agent") 4.1 sec derivation (157) 07:34:52.611 [Thread-12] INFO lang.api.NetFileClassLoader - Closing classloader NetFileClassLoader(name= "langstream-agent") springfox.swagger2.DerivableList@133.nor? Closing environment (yarn run workspace @aws-amplify/e2e-tests repo:list --json) | jq '.repositories[] | select(.name == "@aws-amplify/e2e-tests")' | jq -r '.location' cd "$REPO_DIR" yarn install --frozen-lockfile yarn test:e2e --filter docs-onboarding-e2e --verbose Docs are kept in a read-only dir, and primarily in answer... Welcome to (volume 1) people | indoor | presentation, audience, code projection | candid Note: The image captures a real-life scene of a presentation, making it a photograph. It's not a logo, banner, illustration, or handwriting. Chris Bartholomew demoing LangStream, an event-driven LLM framework by DataStax.

(Photo) A table laden with a variety of food items, likely for a catered event or gathering. There are sandwiches, wraps, vegetables with dip, and canned drinks. Text: bubly food | indoor | catered food, buffet style, variety of options | candid Note: This is a real-life image captured with a camera, depicting a scene of food laid out for an event. It's clearly a photograph of a buffet-style setup. Food and beverages are often sponsored by our partners (in this case, Invest Ottawa)

(Photo) A photo of a presentation or meeting taking place in a large, modern space. An audience sits facing a speaker and two large screens. Text: AI Tinkeres - Ottawa #2 AI Tinkering - Ottawa people | indoor | presentation, audience, large screens | candid Note: The image is a real-life captured image of an event, depicting people in a presentation setting. This clearly falls under the category of a photograph. Hai Nghiem opening the 2nd meetup.

What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a meetup designed exclusively for practitioners who possess technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds and are actively building and working with foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI.

If you’re deeply passionate about creating LLM-enabled applications, have hands-on experience in building such systems, and are eager to connect with like-minded individuals who share your level of commitment, then this group is the perfect fit for you.

With AI Tinkerers meetups taking place in multiple cities, we cater to a dedicated community of practitioners.

Who is this for?

We’re not “AI Enthusiasts”, we are AI Tinkerers.

The core essence of AI Tinkerers lies in active collaboration surrounding early-stage discovery and innovation, which requires a high degree of experimentation, vulnerability, openness to sharing challenges and learnings, and collaboration among individuals with a shared level of expertise.

This unique environment allows us to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and LLMs while maintaining a strong sense of camaraderie and mutual support.

Photos of AI Tinkerers meetups from around the world

Seattle

(Photo) A group of people are sitting around a table in a meeting room, looking at a large screen displaying code and applauding a presenter. people | indoor | meeting, presentation, code on screen, applause | candid Note: The image is a real-life captured moment of a group of people in a meeting room, making it a photograph. It depicts a scene rather than a designed graphic or piece of text.

(Photo) A large group of people are gathered in a spacious room, many sitting on the floor, seemingly watching a presentation or event. A projector is set up in the center. people | indoor | large group, projector, presentation | candid Note: The image is a real-life captured moment of a gathering, indicative of a photograph. It's not a logo, illustration, banner, or handwriting.

(Banner) This image is a banner for an online event about navigating the IP landscape in AI. It features headshots of three speakers and logos of sponsoring organizations. Text: AI TINKERERS + PSL techstars_ Seattle Accelerator Navigating the IP Landscape in AI mapster Jordan Ritter Co-Founder at Napster & Augmented. AI WILSON SONSINI Gary Greenstein Billboard magazine's "Top Music Lawyers" 2017-2023 FIXT Heather Johnson Director of Label Operations FIXT Record and Publishing Co. Wednesday, July 26th @6:00PM PST modern, minimal | Colors: #000000, #ffffff, #32CD32, #ED1C24 Note: The image is promotional in nature, advertising an online event. It has a clear headline, event details, and information about speakers and sponsors, characteristic of a banner.

San Francisco

(Photo) A photo of a man giving a presentation to a large audience in a spacious venue. people | indoor | presentation, audience, large venue | candid Note: The image is a real-life captured scene of an event, depicting people and a venue, characteristic of a photograph.

(Photo) A large group of people are seated in an auditorium, watching a presentation displayed on a large screen. Two presenters stand on a stage in front of the screen. Text: mindsdb Build AI applications people | indoor | presentation, audience, presenters | candid Note: The image is a real-life captured scene of an event, depicting people and a presentation, which makes it a photograph.

(Photo) Two men are seated on a stage, one holding a microphone, apparently engaging in a discussion or presentation. An audience is seated on chairs in the background. Text: 6:42 Kevin Bethune Design Director people | indoor | presentation, audience, stage | candid Note: The image is a real-life captured scene of an event with people, indicating it's a photograph. It's not staged for artistic or illustrative purposes.

👑 Sponsors

The hackathon is sponsored by LangChain, Gadget and Invest Ottawa.

The in-person meetup and hackathon are generously sponsored & hosted by Invest Ottawa.

Invest Ottawa helps accelerate your growth and success, leverage the best programs, people and places, and make your mark in Ottawa, a global tech hub and collaborative business community.

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