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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- 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.
- 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!
- From Documents to Data: Hands-On with LandingAI’s Agentic Document ExtractionLink visible for attendees
As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that takes you from unstructured documents to structured insights using LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) API.
You’ll:
- Learn the fundamentals of Agentic Document Extraction — its history, principles, and core building blocks.
- Explore the features of LandingAI’s ADE API, including batch and parallel processing, structured outputs, visual grounding, confidence scoring, and advanced parsing.
- Gain practical experience building a Smart Document Auditor for financial filings (e.g., 10-K documents) by extracting, validating, and refining structured fields.
- Understand how to extend ADE-powered pipelines to other domains such as healthcare, insurance, and legal document processing.
📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.
- Building AI Agents with Vector Databases: Hands-on with Weaviate AgentsLink visible for attendees
As part of the Future of Data and AI: Agentic AI Conference, join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop that takes you from the basics of vector search to building fully functional AI agents powered by Weaviate.
You'll:
- Learn the fundamentals of vector search and Weaviate’s architecture for semantic and multimodal retrieval.
- Build an end-to-end agentic workflow using Weaviate, covering document and image search, automated reasoning, and chaining multiple agent steps.
- Gain hands-on experience through templated Jupyter Notebooks, progressing from simple queries to advanced multimodal and agentic flows with real-world data.
- Develop practical skills for integrating agents into intelligent automation workflows across diverse use cases.
📌 Registration is required. Register now to secure your spot.
