Turbo Charge Your Stack with AI

In this exciting and insightful session, we'll go beyond the basics and dive into the cutting-edge world of AI integration in modern tech stacks. You will learn how to supercharge your development projects by adding advanced AI capabilities. Topics include:

• Beyond the Basics: Discover advanced techniques to enhance your existing tech stack with AI.
• AI Recruiting Platform: Get an inside look at how we're building an AI-powered recruiting platform using state-of-the-art tools like OpenAI, Hugging Face, Python, Pinecone, PGVector, and cosine similarity.
• AI Approaches: Explore various AI methodologies such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and prompt engineering.
• Community Sharing: Participate in an open discussion where you can share your experiences and learn what other developers are currently using in AI.
• Emerging Tools: Learn about other AI tools and libraries that are making waves in the industry, such as Langdspy, Bedrock, and more.

This meetup is perfect for developers and product leaders eager to explore the latest AI capabilities and understand how they can be leveraged to meet their specific use cases.

Speaker: Ryan Vice is the Founder of Vice Software, a company specializing in delivering affordable and predictable software projects. An AI enthusiast with over a decade of experience in machine learning, he is currently leading the development of an AI recruiting platform. He is also a sought-after speaker, scheduled to present AI topics to exclusive executive networks like Hampton's and 7CTOs.

⚡ Talk #2: RAG in Bedrock
Dive into AWS Bedrock and explore Agents and the Converse API. See how easy it is to do Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and integrate with your app and tools. Speaker: Zeb Evans, Co-Founder & CTO of ClientPoint.

⚡ Lightning Talk: Speed Vector Indexing
Explore an embedding cache built with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB to accelerate vector indexing operations. By caching embedding results, this solution enhances vector indexing speed by 5-10x compared to direct API retrieval. Speaker: Ted Patrick, Co-founder/CTO of [Acumity.com](http://acumity.com/), an AI Application focused on Human Intelligence.

⚡ News From the Bleeding Edge
Brian Moeskau, co-organizer of BEW, will start us off with our monthly crowd-favorite segment about all things browser, JS and web app development.

Agenda
6:30 pm: Arrive, grab a snack / networking
7:00 pm: Talks begin
8:30 pm: Wrap up / networking

Interested in giving a future talk?
https://www.edgeatx.org/speak.html

Food Sponsor
Zilks Foods will be providing tasty Austin-made pimento cheese dip, in addition to our normal pizza offerings.

Event Details
Expedia is our event host, which we greatly appreciate!

The venue is located in the Domain Northside:
Expedia Group office
11920 Alterra Pkwy
Austin, TX 78758

Park in any visitor space on the first level of the parking garage, or in the Green garage next door. Enter through the Expedia garage and sign in with security to get a visitor pass.

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