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Big Data and AI Developers in Chicago

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Chicago, IL, US

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What we’re about

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This is an IBM sponsored Meetup group geared towards developers, data scientists, data engineers, and ALL Big Data, Cloud and AI enthusiasts. Our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data portfolio and to interact and share knowledge with experts at IBM and in our extended community.

Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology. It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills. We provide a cloud environment that you can run through the browser of your laptop at NO cost to you. Our meetups are FREE.

Meetup topics include:

- Hadoop-based analytics

- Stream Computing

- Text Analytics

- Visualization and Discovery tools for Big Data

- Big Data App Development

- Deep dives into the technologies that makes big data processing possible

- Anything and everything about Big Data

Join us today for a hands on software development experience.

Upcoming events

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Network event
Thu, Nov 13 · 11:00 AM CST
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[AI Alliance] Gofannon: Ramen
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2 attendees from 115 groups
Everyone is talking about agents; if you don't have agents already in production you are hopelessly behind. Wasn't vibe coding supposed to take care of everyone's computer problems? How am I behind if AI takes care of everything for me now? Maybe I need an MCP and then I'll be caught up. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a tool where I could just say what I wanted the agent to do and it would vibe it out for me? And then maybe I could tell it what I wanted the app to look like, and it would vibe that out too. That day is today, that tool is called gofannon.

In this talk we'll discuss our motivations for making gofannon, lessons learned that we've incorporated from prior iterations, and a (possibly live) demo where we'll go from idea to deployed app. See you there!

About the presenter
Trevor Grant (IBM)

About the AI Alliance
The AI Alliance is an international community of researchers, developers and organizational leaders committed to support and enhance open innovation across the AI technology landscape to accelerate progress, improve safety, security and trust in AI, and maximize benefits to people and society everywhere. Members of the AI Alliance believe that open innovation is essential to develop and achieve safe and responsible AI that benefit society rather than benefit a select few big players.

Join the community
Sign up for the AI Alliance newsletter (check the website footer) and join our new AI Alliance Discord.
Wed, Nov 19 · 5:00 PM CST
Apache Cassandra ®User Group
IBM office - Chicago Hyatt Centre , IBM office - Chicago Hyatt Centre 71 S. Wacker Dr. ( Wacker & Monroe ), Chicago, IL, US
Tentative Agenda
5 - 5:45: Food / Networking
5:45 - 6:15: Future of Cassandra® based GenAI with IBM watsonx
6:15 - 7:00: ACID Transactions with Apache Cassandra - Aaron Ploetz
7:00 – 7:45 one more talk coming...
The Chicago Cassandra User Group is dedicated to a harassment-free experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found here.
Talk Descriptions:
Future of Cassandra® based GenAI with IBM Watsonx
With the acquisition of DataStax, the leading provider of Apache Cassandra® based solutions, IBM is demonstrating its commitment to the future of this critical Apache project. We'll help the community understand how this drives the IBM Watsonx platform and GenAI strategy.

ACID Transactions with Apache Cassandra
Get ready for an introduction to the next big feature in Apache Cassandra® - ACID transactions! Watch as these operational concepts come to life with a real-time game of "DataStaxOpoly," (our tech twist on the classic board game) and you'll see how each property purchase and rent payment becomes a real-world example of a multi-partition, ACID-compliant financial transaction across a distributed system. Whether you're a developer or an architect, this session will give you a practical understanding of distributed ACID transactions coming in the next release of Cassandra.

Please register using the Luma link https://luma.com/8s9k5diw
5 attendees
Network event
Thu, Nov 20 · 11:00 AM CST
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[AI Alliance] SEMIONT – AI-Native Knowledge Kernel for Human/Agent Collaboration
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117 attendees from 115 groups
Meet Semiont, the wiki-like knowledge base supporting graph retrieval, where humans and agents co-create Knowledge. Includes MCP server.

About the presenter
Adam Pingel (LinkedIn, GitHub) is IBM's Head of Open Tools and Applications for the AI Alliance. Adam has been fascinated by AI and chatbots since playing with Racter in the 80’s. But the “winters” were long and frequent. The stars aligned in 2015 when he became VPE at Ravel Law. Ravel was building AI-powered tools for the legal industry and was working with Harvard Law School on what is now known as the Caselaw Access Project. After an acquisition by LexisNexis in 2017, he moved his family to Raleigh (in 2019) to take the role of CTO of Global Platforms. In 2022 he joined IBM to work on domain-specific applications of generative AI. Adam holds an MS and BS in CS from UCLA and Stanford, respectively. When not at a keyboard, he enjoys spending time with his family.

About the AI Alliance
The AI Alliance is an international community of researchers, developers and organizational leaders committed to support and enhance open innovation across the AI technology landscape to accelerate progress, improve safety, security and trust in AI, and maximize benefits to people and society everywhere. Members of the AI Alliance believe that open innovation is essential to develop and achieve safe and responsible AI that benefit society rather than benefit a select few big players.

Join the community
Sign up for the AI Alliance newsletter (check the website footer) and join our new AI Alliance Discord.
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