Chicago AI/LLMs/ML Developers Group

AI Builder Lab - Build AI Voice Agents

Wed, Jun 24 · 5:00 PM CDT

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Important: RSVP on the external event website is required for admission.

Join SignalWire for a hands-on session to learn building AI Voice Agents

Every voice AI demo works. Most production deployments don't. In one evening, build a working agent on infrastructure where state lives in the call, logic lives in your code, and you can see what happened on every turn. By the end of the workshop you'll have a working voice agent in your own GitHub, built on patterns you can take to production.

What You’ll Build:

• Learn AI Voice Agents basics.
• Omnichannel flows with programmable voice and messaging
• AI Agents with memory and context
• Deployment patterns that work at 10 calls and 10,000 in production

Who Should Attend:

• Developers building telephony, AI, or automation tools
• Product managers designing customer experience workflows
• Contact center engineers looking to modernize infrastructure
• Anyone curious about real-time voice AI

Who Should NOT Attend:

• Students, Job seekers, as this event is NOT for job/hiring/career
• Non-technical individual, as this event is NOT for networking, but hands-on building.

Raffle Prize:
Every attendee is automatically entered for a chance to win an iPad 🎁 at the end of the workshop!

Agenda:

• 5:30pm~6:00pm: Check-in, networking, refreshments
• 6:00pm~6:35pm: Tech Talk & QA
• 6:35pm~8:00pm: Hands-on build of an AI agent through the five production patterns.
• 8:00pm~8:30pm: Q&A, raffle (iPad!), wrap-up

AI Agent Security Documentary Premiere

Tue, Jun 30 · 5:00 PM CDT

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This is exclusively invited event, please apply to attend on the event website REQUIRED for admission.

The event is designed for Senior AI Developers and Tech Leaders, such as CTOs, CIOs, AI architects, and senior leaders making decisions about AI adoption and security.

THE DOCUMENTARY
Before this documentary is released to the world, we are bringing together a select group of senior AI leaders for an exclusive premiere screening.
AI agents are being deployed faster than they are being secured. 88% of organisations have already experienced a confirmed or suspected AI agent security incident — yet only 14% have full security approval for their agent fleet. This documentary confronts that gap head on.
Hosted by Alex Kantrowitz — founder of Big Technology, the film brings together four of the most important voices on AI agent security working today.

• Ramesh Raskar , MIT Associate Professor — what makes AI agents uniquely dangerous and what the speed of deployment actually means for security.
• Theresa Payton , former White House Chief Information Officer — why this is not just an enterprise risk problem and what the broader stakes are.
• Sharon Gai , ex Alibaba - what innovation is happening in enterprises and scale ups.
• Rory Blundell , CEO of Gravitee — what organisations can actually do about it right now.

All captured by an Emmy award winning director.

The EVENT
This is an invite-only evening. A red carpet champagne reception, a private screening of the documentary, a Q&A, and a conversation worth having. The decisions being made about AI agent security right now will matter for years.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
CTOs, CIOs, AI architects, and senior leaders making decisions about AI adoption and security.

AGENDA:

• 6:00 Red carpet champagne reception
• 7:00 Screening (25 minutes)
• 7:25 Q&A (30 minutes)
• 7:55 Networking
• 9:00 Closing

Q&A SPEAKERS:
Lessons From The Documentary Q&A - Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee and Linus Hakansson, CPO of Gravitee
The process of making this film took Rory and Linus deep into the AI agent security conversation — across disciplines, industries, and perspectives.They share what they found and what it means for the decisions organizations are making right now.