

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. Depending upon the location, we can provide a cloud environment that you can run through the browser of your laptop at NO cost to you. Our meetups are FREE.
Meetp topics include:
- Hadoop-based analytics
- Open Source Hadoop, SQL on Hadoop, R on Hadoop, Integration, Governance, ...
- Real Time Analytics & Stream Computing
- Text Analytics
- Visualization and Discovery tools for Big Data
- Big Data App Development
- Big Data & Cloud
- NoSQL
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- 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.
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Upcoming events
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- Network event
•Online[AI Alliance] Introducing weave-cli - A fast CLI for vector search
Online168 attendees from 115 groupsWeave-cli is a fast CLI for Weaviate, Milvus, Chroma, Qdrant, and other vector DBs to help view, list, create, delete, and search collections and documents in collections for development, test, and debugging purposes. Join us in this session and hear how why Max decided to create it and learn about its strengths and weaknesses for powering vector search for RAG, similarity search and other workloads
About the presenter
Michael Maximilien (aka ‘Max’ or 'Dr. Max') is the founder and CEO of a “stealth” AI Agents startup in Silicon Valley. Before that he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer leading Open Source teams for AI agents and multi-agent systems. His career focused on pioneering software platforms, from early web services, to cloud computing, and more recently multi-agent systems. Max was a key OSS leader in the development of Cloud Foundry and Knative — the Kubernetes serverless platform. His expertise in distributed systems is backed by over 100 published papers and 20 patents; and his PhD in computer science in 2005 was focused on multi-agent systems. Max is also a retired Ironman triathlete and an award-winning photographer.
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.
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