About us
The AZ AI & Emerging Tech Meetup is a free group that is committed to providing a platform for people to learn about and discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies.
If you are interested in AI, we encourage you to join the meetup.
Here are some of the topics that we have discussed in the past:
- Generative AI security
- Natural language processing
- Machine learning
- Deep learning
- Artificial intelligence ethics
The AZ Emerging Tech Meetup is a great way to learn about artificial intelligence from experts in the field. The group is also a great way to meet other people who are interested in AI.
We hope to see you at our next Meetup!
Please review our Code of Conduct if you plan to attend.
Upcoming events
5
Agent Harnesses and Systems Engineering
1951@SkySong, 1475 N. Scottsdale Road, Room 151, Scottsdale, AZ, USPRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Agent harnesses are becoming the way teams turn nondeterministic AI into something worth trusting in real work. This talk gets into what it actually takes — the engineering patterns, the failure modes that only show up after many runs, and the design choices that matter most — based on agentic AI work in security and infrastructure. Trust in agents isn't a property of the model. It's something you engineer around it.
Speaker:
Bryan StarbuckPrincipal AI Research Engineer with 25+ years of experience, focused on building agentic AI systems for critical infrastructure. The interesting problem in agentic AI right now isn't capability — it's reliability over long horizons. My work centers on the scaffolding around models: verification agents, adversarial testing, and regression frameworks that enable empirical trust-building in agents over time.
Event Details:
- Location: 1951@Skysong @ Scottsdale, AZ
- Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM - talk will begin at 6:00pm (we get kicked out promptly at 7:30pm)
- Free Parking: Easily available (free)
- Food: Simple Pizza and Water
47 attendees
Agentic LLMs and Software Architecture
1951@SkySong, 1475 N. Scottsdale Road, Room 151, Scottsdale, AZ, USPRESENTATION OVERVIEW
LLMs can be thought of as infinite personality simulators. I'd like to discuss how to think of interacting with AI as being similar to the "wave function collapse" generative AI strategy, and how that "quantum cloud" way of thinking about probability can guide effective use.
Speaker:
BT (Brandon) FranklinEvent Details:
- Location: 1951@Skysong @ Scottsdale, AZ
- Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM - talk will begin at 6:00pm (we get kicked out promptly at 7:30pm)
- Free Parking: Easily available (free)
- Food: Simple Pizza and Water
22 attendees
Building Production-Grade Agentic AI
1951@SkySong, 1475 N. Scottsdale Road, Room 151, Scottsdale, AZ, USPRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Building an AI demo is easy. Shipping an agentic system that thousands of real users depend on daily is a completely different problem. Roberto Moreno has done it — multiple times — at PLACE, including Ask Gabbi (an AI-first assistive OS inside a CRM), AI call coaching, and live lead qualification agents. This talk is the unfiltered technical and product reality of taking agents from prototype to production: reliability, failure modes, human-in-the-loop design, trust layers, and what "done" actually looks like. Key Takeaways: • The 3 failure modes that kill production agentic systems (and how to design around them) • Human-in-the-loop: when to require it, when to skip it, and how to build trust over time • Multi-agent orchestration in real workflows — what the architecture actually looks like • How to define "production-ready" for AI systems with no clear spec
Speaker:
Roberto MorenoEvent Details:
- Location: 1951@Skysong @ Scottsdale, AZ
- Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM - talk will begin at 6:00pm (we get kicked out promptly at 7:30pm)
- Free Parking: Easily available (free)
- Food: Simple Pizza and Water
19 attendees
AZET Monthly Meetup
1951@SkySong, 1475 N. Scottsdale Road, Room 151, Scottsdale, AZ, USPRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Details will be posted soon!
Speaker:
TBDEvent Details:
- Location: 1951@Skysong @ Scottsdale, AZ
- Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM - talk will begin at 6:00pm (we get kicked out promptly at 7:30pm)
- Free Parking: Easily available (free)
- Food: Simple Pizza and Water
4 attendees
Past events
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