Speaker Series #03: Train Your Own AI_

Night three of Greater Philly AI, our regular AI meetup in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Train Your Own AI: Build a Digital Clone for Your Products and Brand

Want AI images that actually look like your products instead of generic prompts? This beginner-friendly session explains how custom AI training works, how to build a high-quality training dataset, and how businesses can create reusable AI models for product photography, marketing, e-commerce, and content creation.

Your speaker is Kateri Waltermeyer, a Creative Technologist at Stability AI who works across image and video model training and has built fully independent agentic content pipelines.

Kateri will walk through:
- How custom AI training actually works, explained for people who have never touched a model
- What separates a training dataset that works from one that wastes your time
- How a small business turns that into a reusable model for product shots, marketing, and e-commerce

You'll leave knowing whether this is worth doing for your own products, and what it would take to start.

The plan for the night:
- A quick welcome and recap of what Greater Philly AI is about
- The talk: "Train Your Own AI" by Kateri Waltermeyer (about 30 min)
- Q&A, ask anything
- Networking, grab a drink and meet people

No technical background needed. If you sell something and you're tired of stock photography, this one is for you.

📍 Root Down Brewing Company, 1 N Main St, Phoenixville
🕡 Thursday, August 20 · 6:30-8:30pm
💵 Free, grab a drink at the bar

See you there.