About us
This group is for all IT professionals, past, present, and future. We are a dedicated group of professionals who love to learn about anything in the broad IT field, and our group is for all skill levels. We host at least one meetup a month where we get together to learn about new technologies, fields, and opportunities. Our guest speakers are full-time professionals who work with cutting-edge technologies and want to share their passions.
Recruiters are always welcome at our events. Networking is a key to success when you are job hunting, so please reach out to any of the organizers with your resume if you would like us to give it to our recruiting partners.
Intellectual Point has been kind enough to host our meetup since its inception. If you would like to connect with Carrie at Intellectual Point please use carrie@intellectualpoint.com.
Upcoming events
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Tiny LLMs on Your Laptop: Private AI Apps with Ollama + Prompt Patterns
·OnlineOnlineReady to run your own private AI on your laptop without relying on the cloud? In this hands-on session, you will learn how to install tiny but powerful LLMs using Ollama and turn them into fast, secure, and completely local AI apps.
What You Will Learn
- How tiny LLMs work and why they run smoothly on everyday laptops
- How to set up Ollama, download models, and customize them for personal use
- How to build local AI tools for summarizing, research, writing, and automation
- How to use prompt patterns to make small models act smarter and more consistent
Why This Session Matters
Cloud AI is powerful, but not everyone wants their data leaving their machine. Local models give you privacy, speed, and control. With tiny LLMs you can create personal assistants and mini apps that work offline, protect your information, and cost nothing to run.
What You Will Take Away
- A working local AI assistant running directly on your laptop
- A set of prompt patterns that make small models more reliable
- A toolkit to continue building private AI apps for work, study, or creativity
- A simple workflow you can repeat for any new model you want to try
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Don't forget to register for CEUs the day before the Meetup: Register Here!70 attendees
Talk to Your Data: Build a Voice AI Assistant (STT → LLM → TTS)
·OnlineOnlineImagine asking questions out loud and getting instant, natural responses from your own AI assistant. In this hands-on session, you will learn how to build a voice powered AI that listens to you, thinks using an LLM, and speaks back with clear, natural audio.
What You Will Learn
- How speech to text works and how to turn your voice into clean, accurate transcripts
- How to send those transcripts into an LLM to reason, answer questions, or analyze information
- How to convert the AI response into smooth, realistic speech using modern TTS models
- How to chain STT, LLM, and TTS together to create your own voice assistant for research, work, or personal tasks
Why This Session Matters
Voice is becoming the next major interface for AI. It is fast, natural, and effortless. When you combine it with your own data, you get a personal assistant that can search documents, explain complex topics, organize ideas, and help you work hands free. Best of all, you can build it with no coding.
What You Will Take Away
- A working voice AI system that listens and responds in real time
- A simple workflow you can reuse for interviews, study sessions, note taking, and data exploration
- A set of tools for STT, LLM reasoning, and TTS that you can mix and match
- A clear blueprint for building more advanced assistants after the session
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Don't forget to register for CEUs the day before the Meetup: Register Here!24 attendees
No-Code AI Automations: From Prompt to Workflow with Sheets + Zapier/Make
·OnlineOnlineIf you have ever wished your daily tasks could run themselves, this session is for you. You will learn how to turn simple prompts into automated workflows using Google Sheets and tools like Zapier or Make, all without writing a single line of code.
What You Will Learn
- How to connect AI tools to Google Sheets for instant analysis, summaries, tagging, or content creation
- How to build automated workflows that trigger from form submissions, new rows, or text inputs
- How to use Zapier or Make to pass data through AI steps, organize outputs, and send results where you need them
- How to design prompts that are reliable, reusable, and automation friendly
Why This Session Matters
AI becomes dramatically more useful when it runs automatically in the background. No-code automation lets you scale your work, reduce manual tasks, and streamline anything from content creation to customer responses to internal operations. With Sheets and Zapier or Make, you can build powerful systems that save hours every week.
What You Will Take Away
- A working automation that uses AI to process data and deliver results automatically
- A set of reusable prompts for structured outputs and clean workflows
- Templates for Sheets, Zapier, and Make that you can personalize for your own needs
- A clear blueprint for automating tasks across marketing, operations, admin, or personal projects
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Don't forget to register for CEUs the day before the Meetup: Register Here!11 attendees
Multimodal RAG: Ask Questions Across PDFs, Web Pages, and YouTube
·OnlineOnlineImagine asking a single question and getting an answer sourced from your documents, online articles, and even YouTube videos. In this session, you will learn how to build a multimodal RAG system that understands text, images, audio, and video and brings all that knowledge together into one searchable assistant.
What You Will Learn
- How multimodal RAG works and why it goes beyond text only systems
- How to extract and process information from PDFs, web pages, and YouTube videos
- How to combine text, visuals, and transcripts into a unified knowledge base
- How to ask natural questions and get grounded answers backed by multiple sources
Why This Session Matters
Most of the world’s information is locked inside mixed formats. A multimodal RAG system helps you cut through that complexity by combining retrieval and generation across different types of content. It gives you clearer answers, better context, and stronger accuracy because it sees more than just text.
What You Will Take Away
- A working multimodal RAG workflow that can pull insights from videos, documents, and online content
- A simple method to build a single assistant that understands multiple source types
- Templates for processing PDFs, scraping pages, and extracting YouTube transcripts
- A toolkit you can reuse for research, study, content creation, onboarding, or project planning
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Don't forget to register for CEUs the day before the Meetup: Register Here!7 attendees
Past events
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