OSHK x HKPUG Meetup #86 Polars & AI Agent (Matt Harrison, Mary Grygleski)

Open Source Hong Kong Meetup #86
Python User Group April Meetup

Please submit the form for admission: https://forms.gle/tRb7XcXYHQByAdFu6
Venue : LT-4, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building (AC1), City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
Date: 30-April-2025
Time: 19:00 - 21:30

Session
19:00 Networking
19:30 Introduction
19:40 - 19:55 AI Agents and the multi-agentic workflows - Mary Grygleski
20:00 - 20:55 Polars: An accelerated dataframe library - Matt Harrison
21:30 Closing

Polars: An accelerated dataframe library - Matt Harrison
Abstract:
Polars: A fast dataframe library. Polars is a relatively new dataframe library. This talk will compare and contrast with other libraries like Pandas and NumPy.

About Matt Harrison:
Matt Harrison is a Python, AI, & Data Science corporate trainer and consultant. He has authored multiple books and helped many teams work more efficiently.

A Quick and Gentle Introduction to AI Agents - Mary Grygleski
Abstract:
The hype of GenAI is slowly receding as we, the technical thinkers, realize its limitations, especially when it comes to doing some serious computing work such as handling complex workflows in enterprise types of application usages. We'll take a quick at what AI Agents are and why they are gaining traction especially in the GenAI space.

About Mary Grygleski:
Mary is the Director of Emerging Technologies at Callibrity. She has deep hands-on software engineering experiences. After 20+ years of being a software engineer and technical architect, she discovered her true passion in Developer and customer Advocacy. She is active in the tech community as the President of the Chicago Java users group, Organizer of the Chicago chapter of GenAI Collective and Co-Lead.