DSD Monthly: All About APIs, Building AI features using MCP & Cloud API Gateways

Special 3-talk event featuring presentations on APIs, Building AI Features using MCP & Cloud API Gateways!

📣 Talk: All about API's 📰
• What are API's and what are they used for?
• API Development
• Cloud API gateways demo
• Building AI products using MCP's
• What are Chainlink Functions
• How you can connect API's to web3 with Chainlink

📣 Talk: Building AI Features using MCP (special RIVET example: RosieBot) 🤖
RIVET Engineering Manager & Meetup Host, Phil Borel, will talk about his journey building AI features at RIVET using Model-Context Protocol (MCP). This is a great talk for anyone interested in learning how to leverage MCP to build useful AI applications.

📣 Talk: Cloud API Gateways ☁️
Speaker: Umelo Onyejiaka

​​​​​​📌 Location 📌
RIVET Work HQ
1555 Broadway St, Detroit
2nd Floor

📆 Agenda 📆
5:30 PM | Meetup convenes and food served
6:00 PM | Talks begins
7:30 PM | Migrate to Queen's bar

🎟️ Registration 🎟️
RSVP in advance for this event, space is limited.​​​​

​​​📸 Photography 📸
​​​​By attending this event, you agree to be photographed and/or filmed and give permission to use your likeness in promotional and/or marketing materials.

​​​​​​​🍽️ Food and Beverages 🍽️
Refreshments & snacks will be provided.

​​​​​​🎤 Speakers & Hosts 🎤
​​Amy Hang
Founder of Macro Visuals Media
Detroit's Community Development for Chainlink
Ambassador for Alchemy
Co-Founder of Detroit Blockchain Collective

Phil Borel
Engineering Manager @ RIVET Work
Meetup Organizer @ Detroit Software Developers

Umelo Onyejiaka
Founder & Meetup Organizer @ DevOps Detroit
Cloud Engineer

🤑 Sponsors 🤑
Chainlink
The standard for onchain finance, verifiable data, and cross-chain interoperability. Chainlink is unifying liquidity across global markets and has enabled over $18 trillion in transaction value across the blockchain economy. Major financial market infrastructures and institutions, such as Swift, Fidelity International, and ANZ Bank, as well as top DeFi protocols including Aave, GMX, and Lido, use Chainlink to power next-generation applications for banking, asset management, and other major sectors. Learn more by visiting chain.link.

RIVET Work