DC402 meetup: AI zero to hero: Joining Skynet without becoming a meat popsicle

We WILL be meeting at DJs this month!

This month we are IN PERSON meetup.

Join us at 6 PM for social activities (some come even earlier) and 6:30 for the main presentation.

For May 2025:
"AI zero to hero: Joining Skynet without becoming a meat popsicle"

Are you tired of being the only carbon-based lifeform at the water cooler not spouting off about neural networks and machine learning? Fear not, fellow meat bags! This talk is your express ticket to the AI hype train, with just enough actual knowledge to convince your boss you're not a deep fake. * Using AI: Resume building, image producing, slide building* Utilizing AI: Creating dev environment, mcp servers, a2a protocols* Unifying AI: pipelines, workflows, scaling* Undermining AI: limitations, security implications, etc

Speaker: Adam Schaal (@clevernyyyy)
Adam is the creator and leader the Security Hub for Innovation and Efficiency (SHINE) team at AWS, which researches, experiments, and develops mechanisms and constructs to enforce security at scale. Adam has previously contributed to public security projects such as the CTF platform redctf and the malicious cable implant O.MG-Cable. He is a co-founder of DEF CON 402 and Kernelcon.