Tech Meetup Glasgow - April 2024
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Join us at Civic House, Glasgow on the first Thursday of each month for our free event featuring two talks on tech with soft drinks and pizza.
April's two talks:
✨ Speaker 1: Daniel Grant, 'Summoning AI agents to do my bidding'
AI is improving by the day, and with each subsequent step forward, my anxiety increases. What exactly does this mean for my work? My sense of purpose? For humanity?
Eager to fend off feelings of hopelessness, and to get on top of this runaway trend, I decided to teach myself AI engineering.
The talk is a whistle stop tour of the three weeks I spent learning how to leverage AI. I'll give a candid summary of the work I was able to automate, and delve into LLM landscape, orchestrating agents/workflows, prompt engineering, local models, vector embeddings, and retrieval augmented generation.
✨ Speaker 2: Lina Srebrova, 'Trending Immersive Use Cases and Opportunities in XR'
Lina Srebrova is the XR Strategist at Digitalnauts. Since joining the company in 2019, she has worked with some of the world's leading industrial organisations to help them achieve strategic business outcomes using immersive solutions across training & development, engineering, surveying, sales and marketing.
Lina is approaching XR from a business perspective, she will talk about the trending, but more importantly meaningful, use cases in the XR space, the potential of combining XR with other emerging technologies and the opportunities to get involved in the sector.
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All are welcome and there is no requirement to have any level of tech knowledge or experience to attend, just a desire to learn. Come along (bring your friends), network and learn something new with us!
To make Glasgow's Tech Meetup welcoming for people joining for the first time we implement the PacMan Rule.
The rule is:
“When standing as a group of people, always leave room for 1 person to join your group.”
More memorably, stand like Pac-Man! You can learn more about this here.
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📣 Agenda
- 18:00 - 18:30, Drinks and Pizza
- 18:30 - 18:45, Opening
- 18:45 - 19:15, Talk 1
- 19:15 - 19:30, Break
- 19:30 - 20:00, Talk 2
- 20:00 - 20:15, Closing
- 20:15, Drinks
Lastly, Tech Meetup couldn’t be brought to you without our awesome sponsors, so a huge thank you to:
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
😎 Meantime, you could follow us for the latest event updates on LinkedIn!
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😊 FAQ
- Who should attend?
Tech Meetup is a generalist event for everyone in the Glasgow tech community. We welcome people with all levels of experience . Even if you are starting your journey into tech as a student or bootcamper or your thinking of starting your development career, you are more than welcome.
- Why should I come?
As well as learning from your peers at our talks, you get to meet other developers and expand your network, and we also share what is going on in the wider Glasgow developer community. If you are still not sold, we have free drinks and pizza!
- Who are the organisers?
Tech Meetup is run by Keith Harrison and James Rasburn, who have both worked in tech and run community events in Glasgow over the last few decades.
- I would like to speak at Tech Meetup
If you would like to give a talk please get in touch:
- keithharrisonuk@yahoo.co.uk
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithdharrison/
- https://twitter.com/keithdhar
- I'd like to do a talk but I've not given one before
No previous speaking experience is required and we really encourage new speaker. In fact lots of people have given their first talk at Tech Meetup. We'll give you all the help and support you need to do your first talk.
- Is the venue accessible?
Yes. Our event is held at Civic House. The main entrance has a small number of steps but there is a fully accessible entrance next to the main one. Just buzz and someone will let you in. You can find more information here or contact with any questions: https://agile-city.com/building/civic-house/
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Tech Meetup Glasgow - April 2024