Wed, Mar 13th: "Developing Products With GenAl," 6:30 PM, CU Boulder

The Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) will host an in-person meeting on Wednesday, March 13th at 6:30 PM MDT in Boulder on "Developing Products With GenAl."

At our next meeting, we will focus on two different aspects of Developing Products With Generative AI. First, we will look at using GenAI tools, through the lens of one of the world’s leading AI companies, to improve the development process itself and increase developer efficiency. Next, we will explore the challenges and opportunities of building GenAI into our products.

"Developing Products With GenAl"
CU Boulder: In-person
ATLAS building (Room 100)
1125 18th St, Boulder, CO 80309
Wed, Mar 13th
6:30 - 8:30 PM MDT (note new time, 30 mins later than usual due to venue availability!)

Our first two speakers, Carolyn Ujcic and David Soto, both from Google, will talk on Improving Developer Efficiency with Generative AI.

GenAI can help improve developer productivity through assisting code development, DevOps, and non-coding processes. In this demo, we will showcase an AI-powered solution to provide assistance to developers and operators across the software development lifecycle built on Google's state-of-the-art generative-AI foundation models.

Carolyn Ujcic, Director of AI Services at Google, leads an organization of AI consultants and engineers in Google Cloud Consulting. In this role, Carolyn and her teams help Google Cloud customers adopt AI in the enterprise. Carolyn has held positions of increasing responsibility, including Machine Learning Engineering Manager, AI Consultant, Fiber Learning Lab Lead and Global Training Lead. She joined Google as a Change Management Lead for Enterprise customers in 2010. Prior to Google, Carolyn served as a management consultant for multinationals at Accenture.

David Soto is a Data Scientist at Google specializing in machine learning, deep learning and software development. With over 10 years of expertise in systems architecture, IP Core Networks, and Cloud solutions, he has a passion for continuous learning and delivering accurate data driven results to enhance company decisions.

Next, Ian Cairns will present an “Intro to LLMs for Builders: Challenges & Opportunities of Using GenAl In Your Products.”

Ian is co-founder & CEO at Freeplay, an AI infrastructure startup based in Boulder. Freeplay builds experimentation, testing & monitoring tools that help product development teams make use of generative AI in their products. He's spent most of his career in product management for developer products, including as a PM at the Boulder startup Gnip and as head of product for the Twitter Developer Platform. He's also a University of Colorado graduate.

Freeplay is our pizza sponsor for this meeting, yay!

Freeplay (freeplay.ai) helps software development teams experiment, test, monitor & evaluate LLMs in their products. Their developer SDKs and web interface help developers, PMs, designers and other domain experts collaborate to ship great AI products with confidence.

We want to thank the following for generously arranging and providing an awesome meeting space for RMAIIG: Grace Wilson, John Bacus, Mark D. Gross, the University of Colorado and the Roser ATLAS Center at CU Boulder.