AI meetup (SV) - September

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Description:
Welcome to the AI meetup in Silicon Valley. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agent, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda:
- 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, food and networking
- 6:00pm~6:10pm: Welcome, Community update
- 6:10pm~8:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A
- 8:00pm~8:30pm: Open discussion, Mixer and Closing.

Tech Talk: Stop Writing Text-to-SQL: Give the LLM the Job It's Actually Good At
Speaker: Ashish Shubham, Engineering Fellow at ThoughtSpot
Abstract: Most agentic analytics projects start by asking an LLM to write SQL. It demos well and fails in production. The problem isn't broken syntax; it's queries that run, return a number, and are quietly wrong. Fan traps. Unvalidated join paths. Same question, different answer.
We'll present the right way to build instead: a semantic/context layer where metrics, join paths, and permissions are defined once and enforced deterministically, exposed to the agent as a narrow tool surface rather than a SQL field. We'll close with a real working solution built on this architecture and its trade-offs.

Speakers/Topics:
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Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 50,000+ AI developers in San Francisco Bay Area and 500K+ worldwide.