Name: What is a GPT, anyway?
Start: 2025-07-23T00:30:00.000Z
Location: Weave

Hang out, talk shop, get help on your projects. We're focused on open source stuff, but that's not a rule, just a priority. Come work in the Forge space.

No speaker, no sponsor except Forge, and no food provided. Bring food or drink if you want, bring a laptop if you need it to work, and come hang out and hack!

This is the first hack night of the monthly two.

The Foundry The meetup for Hack Nights in Open Source

Clint Berry

Miriah Peterson

Tod Hansmann

Kaleb Ercanbrack

Andre Carrera

First Monthly Hack Night

Forge Utah

Hangout, Eat Pizza, Talk Zig.

Join Online:
https://twitch.tv/utahzig
https://www.youtube.com/@utahzig/streams
https://meet.jit.si/utah-zig (ping in the discord if this isn't up)

Join In-Person:
Vivint @ Lehi
3401 Ashton Blvd, Lehi, UT 84043

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Utah Zig (Ziglang Ziguanas) in Lehi

AJ O'Neal

Niles Salter

Zig 'n' Chill w/ Ziggy (and Pizza!)

reach out to miriah@theforge.tech to speak

Developing powerful Al tooling has been our theme of the year, with agents and foundational models picking up steam across the board. Therein still lies the question though: how do we serve data for agents to work effectively? What sort of interfaces and service mesh infrastructures will be required? What about at enterprise scale? What even is context? In this talk we discuss the current big data landscape, challenges to data platforming for Al, and why data catalogues and metadata are the only viable path forward to effective, governed Al-development. In this talk we use the open source framework, Apache Gravitino as a key example for why such a solution needs vendor neutrality.

Join us on [slack](https://forgeutah.tech)

Schedule:
6:30pm-6:50pm pizza
6:50pm announcements
7:00pm speaker
7:45-8:30pm mingle

How to find us:
Enter by the East entrance on 400W (across form the Delta Center). If the door is locked ring the bell and you can be let in. Sign in at the security desk. **You can ask security for parking validation for Gateway parking garages, the North garage has easier access to the office.**

Utah Data Engineering Meetup

Ayla Khan

Jared Stout

ramiah.natarajan

Jake Anderson

Raj Pillai

Matt Cutini

Jonathan Seery

Jonathan

Fernando Morales

Travis smith

Lisa H

Rahul Mandava

Christopher Lawton

Ben S

Raman

ananth

mariedarasphd

Using metadata to power and govern MCP and A2A in open lakehouse architecture   

Recursion

Join us every 3rd Thursday for an evening of Elixir programming, good food, and great conversations! Whether you're new to Elixir or an experienced developer, there's something for everyone.

🔹 **6:30 PM - Nate Cassados: Oban**

🍕 **7:30 PM - Food and Networking**
Enjoy some delicious food while chatting with fellow attendees.

All skill levels are welcome! Bring your questions, ideas, and appetite. See you there! 🚀

Utah Elixir User Group

Brian Barrow

Jaxen Turnbow

Alexander

Brian Petersen

Utah Elixir Meetup

Forge Utah Draper

Join us as we demystify the mechanism behind modern LLMs. A fast-paced tour of how GPTs work, why they break, and what you can do about it.

Join us on (slack)[https://forgeutah.tech]

Schedule:
6:15-6:30 food
6:30 pm announcements
6:45-7:30 speaker
7:30-8:30 announcements

MLOps and AI Utah

Chris Brousseau

Kacey Cole

Eric Riddoch

Nick Halverson

Matt Sharp

Brittney Leigh

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