SF AI/LLMs/ChatGPT Developers Group

** Important RSVP HERE (Due to building security, you must pre-register at the link for admission)

Description:
Join DataStax and Google to learn how to get started and build highly-scalable, production-ready AI applications for your startup or enterprise.

In the instructor-led hands-on workshop, we’ll introduce all of the basics of your new GenAI toolkit - LLMs, embedding models, vector databases, and LLM frameworks. Next we’ll show you the easiest and fastest way to put all that theory into practice building a working Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) API in minutes! You’ll be working with Langflow to visually generate LangChain code, DataStax AstraDB, Google Gemini, and Google text embedding models. Then we’ll be showing you how RAG can be used to enhance recommendations in e-commerce applications. Last, we’ll have an open discussion and Q&A to hear about the challenges others are facing deploying GenAI apps in their work and some of the solutions they’ve found to be effective.

During this workshop, you will learn:
- The new tools GenAI toolset;
- Building a working RAG API in minutes;
- How to enhance your ecommerce applications with RAG

Agenda:
The workshop will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. but stick around for bonus activities and swag from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Tech stack/Requirements:
- Participants will utilize DataStax Astra, Google Gemini and related GCP tooling, Langflow, and some third-party tools.
- GitHub account and laptop

Venue:
GOOGLE CAMPUS, 1265 CROSSMAN AVE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94089

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (the link is at the bottom of the page)

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Description:
"Build with AI" event is community-led technical workshops and hackathons by Google developers. These events are designed to empower developers to both learn about and apply their skills to the latest trends and products in Generative AI, as offered by Google.

Here's what you can expect:
🚀 Tech talks: Deep dive tech talks on Gemini, Gemma, Vertex AI.
🔧 Hands-on Workshops: Learn how to build AI applications through code labs.
🔧 Engaging Challenges: Tackle real-world problems with AI solutions.
🤝 Networking Opportunities: Connect with fellow developers, builders and industry experts.
🎁 Exciting Prizes: Demo your projects and Compete for prizes.
🎓 Certificate: Participants will receive Certificate of Completion.

Speakers/Topics:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue:
Virtual. You can join from anywhere around the world.

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 350K+ AI developers worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (link is at the bottom of the page)

** Important RSVP HERE (Due to building security, you must pre-register at the link for admission)

Description:
Welcome to the AI workshop in San Francisco. Join us for hands-on workshop on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Workshop 1: Self-hosted LLM agent on your own laptop or edge device
Speaker/Instructor: Michael Yuan (Creator of LlamaEdge), Sydney Lai (GaiaNet)
Outline: In this workshop, we will show you how to build a complete AI agent service using an open-source LLM and a personal knowledge base. We will use the open-source WasmEdge + Rust stack for LLM inference, which is very fast and lightweight without complex Python dependencies. As Elon Musk once tweeted: “AGI will be built in Rust. Let that sink in”. It is cross-platform and achieves native performance on a variety of popular OSes, CPUs, and GPUs, including personal and edge devices. No prior Rust knowledge is needed.
You will walk out of this workshop with your personal agent running on your own laptop. We will explore topics such as how to select an open-source LLM, how to finetune the model for your needs, how to build a RAG vector database from proprietary knowledge, how to customize prompts, and how to handle LLM responses for further steps such as function calling and tool use.

Workshop 2: Build Scalable Workflows for LLMs
Speaker/Instructor: Sage Elliott (Union)
Outline: Training today's complex AI models requires combining various steps into an interconnected workflow. Modern MLOps tooling helps you scale your AI training by orchestrating these workflows. Great tooling provides a reliable framework for your machine learning operations by streamlining processes, increasing efficiency, and adding reproducibility.
This workshop will equip you with the skills to harness these benefits effectively and show you how to build AI workflows for LLMs using Union.ai, Hugging Face, and Weights and Biases. This workshop will cover:

• Fine-tune a Hugging Face LLM model.
• Build a scalable workflow using Union.ai (powered by Flyte).
• Integrate with Weights & Biases for experiment management.

What you'll need to follow along: A free Union.ai account (Link provided at workshop), a free Weights & Biases account for logging metrics, a GitHub account, and a google account to follow along in Colab.

Speakers/Topics:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

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 30,000+ AI developers in San Francisco Bay Area or 350K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (the link is at the bottom of the page)

** Important RSVP HERE (You must pre-register at the link for admission)

Description:
Index is the conference for engineers building search, analytics and AI applications at scale. It brings engineers building search, analytics and AI applications together, with a focus on the design and development of search, analytics and streaming engines. You’ll see engineers and architects present on how they built systems to scale to millions of users or centralize search infrastructure to serve a number of applications.

This event is free to attend and topics include:

• Search and analytics systems;
• AI and vector databases;
• Streaming data infrastructure;
• Cloud and serverless advancements.

Agenda:
- 9:00am: Welcome Keynote
- 9:30am: Improving Homepage Personalization at Netflix
- 10:00am: How Cognism Rearchitected In-App Search
- 10:45am: How DoorDash Personalizes the Shopping Experience
- 11:30am: How Miro Optimizes the Timing and Channels for Notifications
- 12:00pm: How We Built Search for Go-to-Market Platforms at ZoomInfo
- 12:30pm: Lunch & Birds of a Feather
- 1:30pm: Vector Search and the FAISS Library
- 2:00pm: How Uber Eats Built a Recommendation System
- 3:00pm: New Architectural Patterns in Recommendation Systems
- 3:30pm: RocksDB Meetup: Scaling Uber's Docstore Database

Attending:
- Virtual or
- In-person: Computer History Museum, Mountain View CA

RSVP: https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2024051609