What we’re about
Welcome to Data Science Dojo's Meetup group. Our goal is to help connect other like-minded business professionals who are interested in teaching, learning, and sharing their knowledge and understanding of data science to a larger community.
We encourage all members of this group to be pro-active in leading discussions on topics related to data science like machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, big data, and IoT, as well as programming languages such as R, Hadoop, and Python.
Stay tuned to our Meetup calendar for future community events and be sure to follow us on Twitter at @DataScienceDojo. Also, be sure to visit our data science bootcamp for more information about our training.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Builders Hack Day Seattle with Microsoft Research and GitHub Copilotgithub, bellevue, WA
** Important: register on AICamp website is required for admission.
GitHub & Microsoft Research Present: Builders Hack Day Seattle
Are you using tools like AI Agents for marketing? outreach? coding? design? Are you building a technology company? Do you want to build your own tech startup?
We'll be hosting a full day Builders Hack Day at GitHub in Seattle. Our goal is to empower builders with the community.
This event is designed to connect builders and founders like you with the Microsoft Research Team and the Investor network in Seattle.
Plus, it’s a special research edition Hackathon: By participating in the hackathon, you’ll also be joining a Microsoft Research study that will help define how AI empowers the next generation of founders. Learn more about this research below. Ready to build something amazing while shaping the future of AI for startups?
🛠 What You Will Build
You will build commercially viable, innovative products using Microsoft’s open-source projects: GraphRAG and NLWeb.They’re foundational technologies designed to supercharge your product development. With GraphRAG, you’ll harness graph-based retrieval-augmented generation for multi-hop reasoning, explainable outputs, and enterprise-grade knowledge synthesis. With NLWeb, you’ll explore natural language interfaces that unlock web-scale intelligence and semantic search capabilities.
The top 6-10 projects will be invited to pitch to a panel of investors.
🚀 Not JUST another hackathon - What You Get
This isn't just another hackathon - you'll receive free access to GitHub's latest Copilot development tools, plus priority technical support from GitHub Developer Advocate team during the hackathon. You'll also have direct pitch and demo opportunities with PNW VCs and technical leaders from GitHub and Microsoft.As part of Microsoft Research's study on AI-accelerated startup development, teams are randomly assigned to one of two advanced Copilot feature configurations to help us understand how different AI approaches impact development speed, creativity, and outcomes. See below for more details.
📅 Event Schedule: ##### Monday, Sept 8 - Hack Day
9:00 AM - Check Ins
9:30 AM - Event Kick Off & Talks
10:00 AM - Team Creations
12:00 PM - Lunch
5:00 PM - Dinner
8:00 PM - Day 1 is Done
9:00 PM - Community Judging##### Tuesday, Sept 9 - Demo Night
5:00 PM - Doors Open
6:00 PM - Demos Begin
7:00 PM - Networking
8:00 PM - Day 2 - Demo Night is DoneJudges
- Kevin Crosby - GitHub Fund and Accelerator
- Kevin Leneway - Pioneer Square Labs
- Jon Turow – Madrona
- Yohei Nakajima - Untapped VC
- Angie Parker - Alliance of Angels
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 20,000+ AI developers in Seattle and 500K+ worldwide.Not open - Agentic AI Protocols: MCP, A2A, and ACPLink visible for attendees
## Agentic AI Protocols: Coordinating the Future of Autonomous Systems
As autonomous agents become more capable, coordinating their interactions with tools and with each other has become a critical challenge. In this session, we’ll introduce the emerging landscape of Agentic AI protocols — with a focus on MCP (Model Context Protocol), A2A (Agent-to-Agent Protocol), and ACP (Agent Communication Protocol). These AI protocols are laying the foundation for interoperability, scalability, and real-world adoption of agentic AI.
We’ll begin with an overview of the multi-agent coordination challenge — why multiple agents require shared standards for communication, negotiation, and orchestration. Then we’ll explore how MCP, developed by Anthropic, provides a “USB-C for AI” that enables seamless integration with thousands of external tools. Building on this, we’ll look at A2A for direct agent-to-agent coordination and ACP for creating a common messaging language between heterogeneous agents.
You’ll also see a live demo of Zapier’s MCP integration, showing how an AI agent can trigger multi-step workflows across 7,000+ apps — extended with a multi-agent scenario to illustrate how protocols complement each other in practice. Finally, we’ll compare MCP, A2A, and ACP, and discuss strategies for designing scalable, standards-based agent systems.### What We Will Cover:
- Understand the multi-agent coordination challenge and why protocols are needed
- Learn how MCP, A2A, and ACP address different aspects of agent interoperability
- See a live demo of Zapier’s MCP integration with an extended multi-agent workflow
- Explore design strategies for orchestrating multiple agents, including retries, delegation, and error handling
- Compare MCP vs. A2A vs. ACP — when to use each and how they work together
- Discover practical applications and future directions for Agentic AI protocols
#### Hands on Exercise:
Through live demos and audience Q&A, participants will gain hands-on insights into MCP-powered automation and explore how emerging protocols like A2A and ACP extend agent capabilities for real-world, multi-agent systems.
- AI Meetup (September) for GenAI, LLMs and Agentgithub, bellevue, WA
** Important: register on AICamp is required for admission.
Welcome to the AI meetup in Seattle. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.
Agenda:
- 5:00pm~5:50pm: Checkin, food/drink and networking
- 5:50pm~6:00pm: Welcome, Community update
- 6:00pm~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A
- 7:30pm~8:00pm: Open discussion and Mixer
- 8:00pm: closing and head to barSpeakers/Topics:
Check the event website for Speakers and Topics.
If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit TopicsSponsors:
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 20,000+ AI developers in Seattle and 500K+ worldwide. - Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI ConferenceLink visible for attendees
After the huge success of the Agentic AI Conference this past May with 51,000+ attendees, we’re back for the second edition - happening September 15–19, 2025 - and it’s fully virtual!
Join us for five days of expert-led sessions and hands-on workshops from the builders shaping the future of agentic systems:
✅ Designing Intelligent Agents: The role of memory, cognition, and planning
✅ Architecting Scalable Multi-Agent Workflows: From coordination to orchestration
✅ Managing Security and Governance in MCP Deployment: Best practices for safe and compliant AI
✅ Building Agentic Research Assistants with Reka: Multi-source intelligence for business and markets
✅ Giving Eyes to Your AI: Building Vision-Enabled Agents with Haystack
✅ From Data to Agents: Building GraphRAG systems with structured & unstructured data
✅ Going Beyond the Chatbot: Building event-driven agents with GitHub Webhooks
✅ Workshop on Visualizing Transformer Models by Luis Serrano
✅ Workshop on Building AI Agents with Vector Databases by Weaviate
✅ Workshop on Building Agentic AI for Semantic Search by Pinecone
✅ Workshop on Building Smarter Agents, Faster by Arize
✅ Workshop on LandingAI’s Agentic Document ExtractionRegistration is required — Register Now to secure your spot!
