AI That Plays: LLM Creativity, Agents & Smarter Search

Come join us for a fun, thought-provoking evening where we explore what happens when Large Language Models play like humans.

Thank you to our sponsors:
🍕 Couchbase – for providing food and drinks
🏢 SHI International – for generously sponsoring the venue

Featured talk by CouchBase:

The Database for AI Use Cases
Speaker: Rusty Brown
Takeaway: Build your next generation of applications with a high-performance, multipurpose database built for predictive and generative AI.

🔍 Tech Talks:
🎤 Talk 1:
Raising the Bar on Benchmarks: Simulation of Right-Brain Games with LLM
Speakers: Aditya Patil, Apurva Shrivastava, Ganesh Bankey
Discover how word association games like Codenames are being used to test and quantify creativity in AI. Includes a live AI-vs-AI match and real-time audience interaction!

🎤 Talk 2:
Enterprise Data Solutions for the AI-driven future
Speaker: Sanath Chilakala
Takeaway: Attendees will leave with a clear career transformation roadmap—understanding that the future belongs to engineers who design collaborative AI agents rather than write traditional code.

🎤 Talk 3:
Search Smarter: Using S3 Vectors for Lightning-Fast Semantic Retrieval
Speaker: Danil Temnikov
Takeaway: A clear understanding of what S3 Vectors are and how they work, Real-world examples of how companies are already using them, Inspiration for applying vector search to your own S3-based data lake or AI platform, A look at how this capability fits into the broader GenAI and RAG ecosystem on AWS, Whether you're building for users, training models, or just trying to make your content more searchable — this session will show you how to start using the power of meaning, not just keywords.

🍕 Agenda
6:30 PM – Networking, Pizza & Drinks, and intros
7:00 PM – Tech Talks + demos

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Thank you,
Akshay
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshaymittal143/