Artificial Intelligence

This session of HKWD will be on creative tech and AI About Ilmari HEIKKINEN Award-winning Creative Technologist and SXSW 2025 Innovation Award winner with 20+ years of experience bridging the gap between high-performance engineering and visionary brand storytelling. A pioneer in web standards (WebGL) and an expert in Generative AI, I have spent the last decade as a high-level consultant for world-class agencies and in-house teams. He specializes in delivering "world-first" digital experiences for a portfolio of iconic brands including LVMH, Chanel, Google, and HSBC. Seeking a leadership role within Publicis Groupe to scale innovation, integrate emerging tech (AI/XR), and lead multidisciplinary teams in creating the next generation of immersive advertising. About Rhys Turner Rhys Turner is a Creative Technologist and Innovation Technologist, specialising in the intersection of technology, design, and luxury experiences. With a background in emerging technologies, AI, and interactive media, he explores innovative ways to enhance digital storytelling and customer engagement. His work focuses on blending creativity with technical innovation, pushing the boundaries of digital craftsmanship in the fashion and beauty industries. Sponsors and supporting partner Tronica - HKWD sponsor Event notes This event is first come first serve and will be letting people in on a capacity basis food and drinks buy by the bar vip reserved seats upon request 

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 7:15 - Talk and Panel 8:00 - Q&A 8:30 - Forum and mingle

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Regular Wednesday Evening Happy Hour! Sharing interesting software development projects! Venue: A Private Lounge, Central, HK (PM to inquire exact venue) LKF Tower, 55 D'Aguilar Street, Central, HK Format: Cash Bar Basis (the event will follow Restriction Order of HK government) Who can join? Welcome experts coming from but not limited to below areas: > > Languages: C/C++/c#/Java/Python/MATLAB/R, etc > > Programming Technique: Full Stack development/ Database/ Game development/ Unreal Engine/ Unity Engine/ Data Mining/ AI/ Machine Learning/ Blockchain/ Crypto/ Algo Trading/ High Frequency Trading/ Scientific Research, etc.

HKGHH Event on Tue Jan 20th at Boomberang LKF (Partner's Event) HKGHH Event on Tue Jan 20th 7pm HKT at Boomberang LKF HK Build Your Own Client Base / Resource Networks FOR FREE:) \*Special Drink Discount for all Guests\* \*Extra Special Drink Discount for Lady Guests\* Hope to see you and your friends at 7pm in HKGHH Event:) Luma: https://lu.ma/hkghh Eventbrite: https://hkghhdeal.eventbrite.hk Event Venue: Address: Boomberang & Gram the Gourmet, LG/F, LKF Tower, 55 D'Aguilar Street, Central, HK https://maps.app.goo.gl/6zpArv2mtQobWtc36

This is Dim Sum Labs' Public HackJam meet. Free! Everyone is welcome to join us. If you are an engineer, designer, programmer, artist, creator, innovator, visionary, entrepreneur, or inventor, join us for an evening of thought-provoking conversations. Or better yet, bring your projects, ask for help, and show them off. This is also your chance to test the space before becoming a member. Members have access to the space and all the [equipment within](https://www.dimsumlabs.com/equipment/), 24/7 for a very reasonable price! For details, [please see our website](https://www.dimsumlabs.com/become-a-member-of-dim-sum-labs/). Calling for show-and-tell: if you want to share your projects on coding, making, art, and tech venture projects, come jam with us on HackJam. We can accommodate and help you promote here. Contact us here or via the means listed below. Being Hong Kong's longest-running Hackerspace (since 2011), we are happy to host you, who may: * Be coming from out-of-town * Be from other Hacker/Maker/co-working spaces * Want to get hands-on and create * Wish to network with high-quality, friendly, like-minded people * Be curious about what all this is about * Just want to have a drink while coding. Can't arrive at the start time? Drop in when you can make it :) For more information, check out our website at [https://www.dimsumlabs.com](https://www.dimsumlabs.com), or chat with us (we are happy to chat with you): * Telegram: https://t.me/dimsumlabs * IRC Chat: #dimsumlabs on https://libera.chat/

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**NOTE**: Event registration is managed on [Luma](https://luma.com/tw56oi8s). We had double the capacity register last time, so please include your Linkedin page or your company/position/interest area for us to help accept your registration. And arrive early as we will allow entry based on first come first serve day of. Lunatechs and Berkeley Club Hong Kong are coming together to bring a great tech event to Hong Kong. Wall Street is getting automated, and the alpha is moving from spreadsheets to code. ​Join us for a high-signal, strictly technical night focused entirely on how AI is rewiring financial modeling, quantitative research, and live trading. We are skipping the high-level theory and diving straight into hands-on live demos. If you are building at the intersection of fintech and AI, or just want to see how the next generation of financial tools is engineered, this is for you. ## ​Important Disclaimer: ​This presentation is for **technical demonstration purposes only** and is intended to showcase the capabilities of AI in financial data analysis and software development. The information provided, including any data models, outputs, or strategies shown, **does not constitute financial, investment, or legal advice**. ​**The Lineup:** * ​**The AI Financial Analyst:** Jason Xu, AI PM, ex-Google & Alibaba. His demo is live teardown of how to automate the grueling work of a junior investment banker. We'll show you how to combine Python and LLMs to autonomously fetch annual SEC filings, map historical data, reconcile statements, and generate a fully functional 3-statement financial model. * ​**Automated Trading Idea, News, & Research Generation:** Alice Lam, independent investor who transitioned from fundamental research at a Tiger Cub hedge fund to quantitative analysis at Millennium; after earning a Master’s in Data Science from UC Berkeley, she now leverages AI to build her own systematic trading platform, automating the pipeline from raw data to a production-ready execution stack. Her demo will focus on generating automated reports using LLM, combining Finnhub APIs with personalized securities filter rules to curate your own portfolio. * ​**Quant Research Deep Dive:** Shally Liu, Bilibili up主 / KOL **叫我Shally就好** and crypto market alpha researcher. Her demo involves how to use claude code to find features related to crypto market, explore the profitability of factors, and how to build a backtest simulation. * ​**The Frontier of Agentic Trading:** Dale Satre, Advisor for Minara, an AI-powered financial agent designed for the digital asset ecosystem*.* His demo will showcase how users interact with Minara through natural language to analyze market trends, track on-chain activity, evaluate assets, and execute trades. The system combines market data, on-chain analytics, and community signals to generate insights and assist decision-making. ​**Who should attend:** Builders, quants, founders, and developers looking to leverage the latest AI frameworks in the financial sector. ​**About Compass Offices** ​​Compass Offices provides businesses with professional, efficient, and flexible workspaces tailored to support growth at every stage. Our serviced offices offer ready‑to‑use workspace solutions with flexible lease terms, making it easy for startups, SMEs, and multinational teams to scale as their needs evolve. ​​With prime locations across major business districts in Asia Pacific, Compass Offices provides a comfortable, convenient, and productivity driven environment designed to help companies stay agile and succeed in a fast changing business landscape. **About Lunatechs:** Lunatechs is a community for people crazy about technology. Founders, developers, AI builders, creators, and tech enthusiasts. In today's AI world, teams are getting smaller and more solo, and many of us spend long hours at our computers building the future. Our events are designed to break that pattern. Get outside, connect with fellow builders in the real world, and have a good time doing it. ​**About Berkeley Club Hong Kong**: The official UC Berkeley alumni association in Hong Kong. ​**About Minara:** Minara is an AI-powered financial agent designed for the digital asset ecosystem. Its goal is to integrate the entire investment workflow — information retrieval, market analysis, and trade execution — into a single AI interface.

As the world pivots towards artificial intelligence (AI)-driven innovation, Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market has emerged as a lucrative frontier for Hong Kong brands seeking expansion. In this seminar, an expert will unveil how AI can transform businesses’ e-commerce strategies to succeed in Southeast Asia. Topics include key emerging trends for 2026, regulatory compliance essentials, and practical tips for efficient and cost-effective operations in the Southeast Asian e-commerce market, with a view to assisting SMEs in expanding to the digital markets of Southeast Asia through AI application. This seminar is one of the seminars under the SME Service Centres' "4-in-1" Seminar Series. Language: Cantonese Speaker: Mr Terry Chan \- Founder and Chairman\, Hong Kong eCommerce Supply Chain Association \(HKeCSC\) \- Founder and Group CEO\, JUSTT GROUP \- Founder and Group CEO\, SEA321 Interested persons are welcome to participate in this seminar. Registration: [Link](https://www.success.tid.gov.hk/tid/eng/activity/activity.jsp)

由《香港01》主辦的「人工智能升級轉型交流日2026」將於2026年5月15日在香港會議展覽中心2樓會議室S221-S230舉行，智慧城市聯盟(SCC)是支持機構。 活邀旨在進一步匯聚科研力量與多間AI企業，透過實戰案例與應用場景，助力企業突破成本與人才瓶頸，實現「AI產業化、產業AI化」的戰略目標，共同推動香港成為國際AI樞紐。 立即報名：[鏈接](https://space.hk01.com/event/69c26a2182bb08fbc646d6d9/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF01%E4%BC%81%E6%A5%AD%E4%BA%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%99%BA%E8%83%BD%E5%8D%87%E7%B4%9A%E8%BD%89%E5%9E%8B%E4%BA%A4%E6%B5%81%E6%97%A52026%E5%B9%B4%E5%BA%A6ai%E7%95%8C%E7%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B-ai%E5%B1%95%E8%A6%BD%E5%85%8D%E8%B2%BB%E5%A0%B1%E5%90%8D?utm_source=guest&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=AI2026&utm_content=member)

Feel free to join if you are interested in low level computer stuff. If you have any cool projects or ideas you wanna share, bring them along

Learn different techniques and different media (e.g. watercolour painting, sketching with pastel, charcoal...) for different subjects (still-life, landscape, portraiture…) of different themes to produce your own portfolios for DSE, IGCSE, GCSE / A-LeveL / IB, application for universities. Only one charge and all art materials will be provided! Please RSVP call or WhatsApp Win Davies +852 9332 0424. your own portfolios for all art exams, IB, application for universities. Only one charge and all art materials will be provided! Please RSVP call or WhatsApp Win Davies +852 9332 0424.

This is our third book club event. it's FREE! International and local friends welcomed! We're looking for people who want to think and grow in a post-AI world. What to expect: · Bring a book you love to share or exchange (physical or digital). Discuss them with the group.

Customer identity resolution becomes increasingly complex as organizations scale across multiple systems, regions, and data formats. Traditional rule-based approaches often fail to keep up with data variability, require constant manual tuning, and struggle with real-time processing needs. This session presents a practical approach to building a scalable identity resolution pipeline using AWS services and modern AI techniques. The architecture combines data ingestion through Amazon S3 and AWS Glue, transformation pipelines using Spark on EMR, and machine learning models deployed via SageMaker for entity matching and standardization. Graph-based relationship modeling is implemented using Amazon Neptune to improve resolution accuracy by incorporating household and shared attribute context. We will walk through how machine learning models can be used for name and address normalization, how intelligent blocking strategies improve matching efficiency, and how feedback loops can be introduced to continuously improve accuracy. The session also highlights how serverless components such as AWS Lambda can be used for orchestration and real-time processing. **SPEAKER BIO** Mosaic Syed is a Senior Data Engineering and Cloud Solutions Architect with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions across global enterprise environments. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosaic-basha-syed-92300856 **CALL FOR SPEAKERS** Learn more: [https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/](https://www.awscolumbus.com/get-involved/) **THANK YOU** *VEEAM* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Veeam*, please visit their website: [https://www.veeam.com/](https://www.veeam.com/) **DIRECTIONS** 8800 Lyra Dr #450 · Columbus, OH go to 4th floor. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

Join the Columbus AI community for our quarterly gathering — a casual, community-focused evening where everyone has a chance to share, learn, and connect. These open mic–style events give anyone in the community up to **5 minutes** to present a project, share a tool, pose a question, or offer a perspective on the evolving AI space. No slides required — just a welcoming space to exchange ideas and keep the local AI conversation moving. If you’d like to take the stage, message \*\*Chris (the organizer)\*\*with a **title and short description** of what you’d like to share. Whether you’re deep in the field or just getting curious, come connect with others building and exploring AI in Columbus. Sponsored by [Transform Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/transformlabs/) Sign up also accessible via [Transform Labs Luma](https://luma.com/transformlabshq)

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** TBD **YouTube Link** TBD

Topic to be announced. **THANK YOU** *Franklin University* for hosting our meetup! To learn more about *Franklin University*, please visit their website: https://www.franklin.edu/ **DIRECTIONS** Franklin University Fisher Hall 300 E. Main St, Columbus, OH 43215 Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jxjBA2hUmS5qrvhq8 Parking is FREE! Please park in Lot C in front of Fisher Hall. See attached map. NOTE: Map the address only. When mapping with Google Maps it may use the Fisher Hall at OSU, which is NOT correct. **Want to sponsor the pizza and/or bar tab?** Please contact me if you would like to sponsor this meetup's pizza and/or bar tab: angelo@mandato.com

Join us for a practical, beginner-friendly guide to choosing the right large language model. We’ll compare major models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama, talk about when to use hosted APIs versus local models, and break down the tradeoffs around cost, speed, quality, privacy, context windows, coding ability, and reliability. You’ll leave with a clearer mental model for picking an LLM based on your actual use case instead of hype, benchmarks, or brand names. No deep AI background required. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

Practical AI for Power BI Developers A year ago, “agentic AI” was mostly hype for Power BI teams. Today, it deserves your undivided attention. For Power BI pros, there is now a real opportunity to reduce repetitive development work, accelerate delivery, and help developers do more, but only when strong DataOps practices are in place to make AI workflows effective. This session is a no-nonsense introduction to effective AI patterns for Power BI and Fabric development. Along the way, we will make sense of the growing pile of terminology, including skills, plugins, hooks, and MCP. You will see examples of how modern AI tooling can help with development tasks across Power BI and Fabric, along with the prerequisites, guardrails, and DataOps principles needed to use it responsibly. Whether you're burned out on AI hype or already using Copilot CLI daily, this session will show you the foundations that are finally making AI-assisted development genuinely useful.

NFT's are here to stay folks! This is a group for like minded people interested in understanding, leveraging, using, creating for, profiting from, trading too i suppose, NFT's.. everything around them, complexity, fear and exploits, best practices and more. **PLUS** This group will talk AI ART tools, techniques, artists, video, audio, prototypes and more in the AI assisted production space- ART specifically, but we can get into any aspect of some of the cooler things happening in AI in general.