Build with AI: All About APIs, Building AI features using MCP & Cloud API Ga

Details
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

📸 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.

Agenda

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Speakers

Phil Borel - RIVET Work (Engineering Manager)

Umelo Onyejiaka - DevOps Detroit (Founder & Meetup Organizer)

​Barba Carneiro - 77 Innovation Labs (CEO)

The CEO of 77 Innovation Labs, a Security Researcher, and a Chainlink Developer Expert. At 77, he leads cutting-edge initiatives focused on blockchain security and Chainlink integrations, helping protocols build robust, real-world connected applications. A three-time Chainlink hackathon winner, Barba brings deep technical expertise and a passion for secure innovation.

Host

​​Amy Hang - Macro Visuals Media (Founder)

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Partners

Chainlink (http://chain.link/)
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 secto

RIVET Work (https://www.rivet.work/)
RIVET is for better Workforce Management for construction specialty contractors.
Build accurate labor plans and confidently meet customer timelines with a powerful workforce management system.

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