crosspost - PyLadies Vancouver July Meetup

Join PyLadies Vancouver for our July meetup, hosted at Improving Vancouver! This month we have two talks on AI agents and large language models.
⚠️ Please RSVP through Luma, not Meetup: https://luma.com/3oxfwqry
Your spot is only confirmed once you register on Luma, so we can plan for the right headcount and space.
Talk 1: What Happens When Your Agent Has to Wait for a Human by Melanie Warrick
You built an agent in Python. It reasons, calls tools, handles its own steps. Then it hits a step that needs a human to approve something, and that approval might take five minutes or five days. The process sits there holding all its state in memory, waiting, until it crashes and everything the agent figured out is gone. This talk is about that moment: the agentic loop, why its state is only as durable as the process running it, and how durable execution with Temporal makes the loop survive crashes and long waits. Includes a short live demo.
Melanie has been developing AI solutions for over a decade and leads developer relations at Temporal, focused on AI and durable execution.
Talk 2: A Practical Introduction to Generative AI and Large Language Models by Daniel Chen
A grounded, practical look at how generative AI and LLMs actually work: how they generate responses, why the same prompt can give different outputs, and what that means for applications that need reliability. We'll also look at how LLMs fit into real data science workflows in Python, with a focus on building intuition for what these models can and can't do.
Daniel is a Data Science Lecturer in the Statistics Department at UBC and teaches for the UBC Master of Data Science program.
Support PyLadies Vancouver
The event is free to attend. If you'd like to support us, donations help keep our meetups running, and a $25 donation gets you a PyLadies Vancouver tote bag: https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=60
​A huge thank you to Improving Vancouver for hosting us in their space and providing pizza for the evening! 🍕
## ​Thank you to our venue host: Improving Vancouver
​Improving Vancouver is an IT consulting and software development firm (formerly Bit Quill Technologies) based in Vancouver, BC. They specialize in application development, data engineering, and AI solutions — helping teams build modern, scalable, data-driven applications. We're grateful for their support of the local Python community.
👉 Remember: RSVP on Luma to secure your spot — https://luma.com/3oxfwqry