Data Mining

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**תאריך: 02 בפברואר 2026** **שעה: 18:00** **מיקום: רוטשילד 57** **אנו שמחים להזמינכם ליום איין ראנד, אירוע מיוחד שיתקיים ביום שני, ה-2 בפברואר 2026, התכנסות בשעה 18:00 ברוטשילד 57, מתחילים בשעה 19:00.** **בתכנית הערב:** **\- התכנסות וכיבוד** **\- דברים מפי בועז ארד\, מייסד ומנהל מרכז איין ראנד ישראל** **\- דברים מפי אייר רייכל\, עמית מרכז איין ראנד ישראל** **\- ברכה מוקלטת מד״ר ניקוס סוטירקופולוס** **\- ברכה לזוכי תחרות החיבורים מאת טל צפאני מנהל מכון איין ראנד** **\- הכרזה על זוכי תחרות החיבורים בנושא מרד הנפילים לשנת 2025** **במהלך הערב ישולבו קטעים מוסיקליים בביצוע חי.** **לבאי האירוע, יוענק לכל משתתף עותק של הספר ״מעלת האנוכיות״.** להרשמה ושמירת מקום, אנא מלאו את הטופס הבא: [https://forms.gle/Ac8aUcKFzpdoZxtc9](https://forms.gle/Ac8aUcKFzpdoZxtc9)

**TAMI Hacking Nights** \- join TAMI CTF team and practice challenges and CTFs with us \- share your knowledge about ethical hacking techniques and tools \- bring some device to reverse engineer it and explore how it works \- propose a bug bounty program to work on together \- just watch and learn from others The meetings are informal and open to all levels - from total beginners to hardcore CTF veterans. Join our HackaTAMI Telegram channel ([https://t.me/+KAXY_iPcPlpmZTRk](https://t.me/+KAXY_iPcPlpmZTRk)) to discuss what we will do this Tuesday and come to TAMI. ========== TAMI wiki: [https://telavivmakers.org](https://telavivmakers.org) TAMI main Telegram channel: [https://t.me/+0t5M0-jK9iIwZmM8](https://t.me/+0t5M0-jK9iIwZmM8)

**TestIL Group and JFrog are pleased to invite you to a meetup on:** **“Powering Quality KPIs with AI: The Why and How”** **Location: JFrog Office, Derech Menachem Begin 156, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel (11th Floor)** **Schedule** **18:00–18:30 Arrival, Networking & Mingling** **18:30–18:35 Opening Remarks - ITCB&TestIL** **18:35–18:40 Opening Remarks - JFrog** **18:40–18:55 Tal Zaguri (JFrog) - Navigating Industry AI Trends** **19:00–19:15 Elad Or (Waze/Google) - Revolutionizing Waze Automation with Gemini AI Agents** **19:15–19:30 Idan Marcino & Lihi Gilboa (JFrog) - Quality Enforcement with AI: Code Discipline & DevOps Discipline** **19:30–19:45 Yaniv Zohar (Coralogix) - Reinventing Reliability & Observability with AI Agents** **19:45–20:30 Expert Panel & Live Q&A (All Speakers)** **About the Event** **Moving Beyond Demos: Real Problems, Smart Solutions** **Join us for an engineering meetup that prioritizes architectural depth and practical takeaways. We’re moving past “hello world” demos to tackle real world challenges and the why and how of intelligent quality engineering.** **In a dynamic, TED-style session, we’ll explore how teams are applying AI to measurably improve key Quality KPIs: enforcing code discipline, reducing blast radius, and strengthening reliability at scale. Expect concrete strategies, real success stories, and a forward-looking view of what quality engineering becomes when AI is implemented with intent not hype.** **Hosted by JFrog, this meetup brings together industry experts to share proven approaches, technical insights, and what’s next for modern quality engineering.** **Lecture by Elad Or - SQA Group Manager, Waze (Google)** **Topic: Revolutionizing Waze Automation with Gemini AI Agents** **Bringing an insider’s perspective from Google, Elad will share practical AI automation strategies from the teams behind Waze. Learn how his group scales test coverage, improves execution efficiency, and leverages Gemini AI Agents to accelerate automation without compromising quality or engineering discipline.** **Elad [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elad-or-36680158)** **Lecture by Yaniv Zohar - Director of Engineering, Coralogix** **Topic: Reinventing Reliability & Observability with AI Agents** **What happens when reliability and observability move beyond dashboards and start acting like autonomous teammates?** **In this talk, Yaniv shares the story behind Olly, Coralogix’s AI agent, and how building it challenged long standing assumptions in the observability world. From early hypotheses that failed, through unexpected breakthroughs, to production outcomes that surprised the team this session offers a candid, engineering-first view of what it really takes to apply AI to complex systems.** **Yaniv will cover what worked, what didn’t, how AI agents reshape 'day to day' team operations, and where reliability and observability are heading in an AI-first future.** **Yaniv [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaniv-zohar)** **Lecture by Tal Zaguri - Senior Product Manager, JFrog** **Topic: Navigating Industry AI Trends** **This talk provides a high-level snapshot of where AI in engineering stands today and where it’s heading next. Tal will break down the biggest industry shifts, the most common adoption patterns we’re seeing across organizations, and how leading teams are preparing for the next wave of AI driven development.** **From tooling and workflows to engineering culture, you’ll leave with a clear framework for understanding what’s changing, what’s sticking, and what matters most as AI becomes part of everyday engineering.** **Tal [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tal-zaguri/)** **Lecture by Idan Marcino - Automation Infrastructure Team Leader, JFrog & Lihi Gilboa - Quality Tech Lead, JFrog** **Topic: Quality Enforcement with AI: Code Discipline & DevOps Discipline** **How do you close the gap between quality strategy and what actually ships in code? In this joint session, Idan and Lihi present a complementary two pillar approach to AI driven quality enforcement pushing accountability to the earliest stages of the development lifecycle.** **Pillar 1 - Strategic Enforcement (Idan):** **Meet our AI Test Plan Generator. By analyzing Jira context and internal documentation, it automatically produces actionable test cases and enables tracking a strategic KPI: Test Plan Completion Rate a data driven signal of quality coverage and compliance.** **Pillar 2 - Tactical Enforcement (Lihi):** **See how we enforce standards in real time through AI Guardrails embedded directly in the IDE and CI pipeline. These guardrails act as automated gatekeepers, enforcing code discipline and organizational DevOps best practices before a single line is merged.** **Idan [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-marciano-4a494696/)** **Lihi [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lihigilboa/)** **The lectures is aimed for Seniors and Managers and will be held in Hebrew.** **TestIL group \| [Nitzan@itcb.org.il](Nitzan@itcb.org.il) \| Nitzan 052\-6718757** **join ITCB Events Whatsapp group:** [https://bit.ly/TestIL_Whatsapp](https://bit.ly/TestIL_Whatsapp) **To summarize the meeting and to discuss the issues raised: [http://bit.ly/TestIL-FB](http://bit.ly/TestIL-FB)** **Find us in Telegram [http://bit.ly/Test_IL-Teleg](http://bit.ly/Test_IL-Teleg)**

**User interviews are one of the most powerful tools product teams have - and also one of the most commonly misused.** **Many interviews sound reasonable on the surface, but fail to produce insights that actually inform product decisions. This meetup, led by Nurit Gazit, together with Yarin L. (product design and product management mentor), Sharon Heller-Bar (Director of Product Design at Tipalti and UX research lecturer), and Aviram Marom (Senior Product Manager at [Riverside.fm](http://riverside.fm)), focuses on closing that gap.** **We will go beyond theory and best-practice lists, and spend most of the time experiencing what good interview questions feel like in practice. We’ll break down why certain questions unlock real behavior and motivation while others quietly shut them down. You’ll see a live user interview, analyze it together, and actively practice crafting and asking better questions yourself.** **The goal is simple: by the end of the session, participants should be able to recognize a strong interview question instantly - and know how to generate one under real-world constraints.** **Agenda:** * **18:30 - Assembling: Food, drinks & schmoozing!** * **19:00 - Nurit Gazit and a special guests panel, Ask Better Questions: User Interviews for PM** * **20:00 - More Schmoozing: Eating to the last bite, until they kick us out.** **Our Speaker:** **[Nurit Gazit:](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nuritgazit/)** **Nurit Gazit is a senior product leader and product-management mentor with over 20 years of experience building and leading products in B2B and B2C companies, from early-stage startups to large global organizations. Today Nurit works independently with PMs and product teams on discovery, leadership, and product skills, such as user interviews and continuous discovery.** **Nurit teaches product management in academic and professional programs, speaks at product conferences, and helps PMs develop sharper judgment, stronger discovery skills, and more confident decision-making.** **Special Guests: Yarin Lerer, Sharon Heller-Bar, Aviram Marom.** **With thanks to our sponsor: Riverside** **\*The event is held in Hebrew\***

## Details Hi everyone, ⚠️ You need to join the Whatssapp community and get a confirmation on WhatssApp that there are still spots available in order to be able to attend. You can join the chess community here by filling the form: https://chessbarisrael.com/#join-us The next edition tournament will take place on **Tuesday.** 📍 **Where:** Masaryk Wine & Flowers, **80 King George St, Tel Aviv** 📅 **When:** 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM ♟️ **Format:** 5 rounds of 8+2 (Rapid) OR Meet & Play (depends on which Tuesday) 🥇 **Prizes:** * **Top Winners:** bottles of wine * **Best Under 1500/800:** 1 hour of private chess lesson * **Sandwich for a randomly picked player** ✨ **How does it work?** This is a friendly, unofficial event (not reported to FIDE) and part of a **bi-weekly series of tournaments** held in bars around Tel Aviv. ⚠️ There is an entrance fee for the event including the first free drink and prizes! **Spots are limited!** ⚠️ You need to join the Whatssapp community and get a confirmation on WhatssApp that there are still spots available in order to be able to attend. Olivier 🎉

18:00 - 18:30 - Gathering & Mingling 🍻 18:30 - 18:45 - Opening Notes 18:45 - 19:15 - **Turning a One-Off Fix into Org-Wide Automation** 19:15 - 19:45 - **Decouple Your Decoupling: Level-up your GitHub workflows** Sponsor and host us for this event - **Melio** \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-**Full-Agenda-Below**\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- **18:30 - 18:45 - Introduction & Community updates** **18:45 - 19:15 - Turning a One-Off Fix into Org-Wide Automation** *by Rotem Gani / Efi Merdler-Kravitz / Chen Amrani* Every engineering team has that moment - a repetitive, error-prone change that needs to be applied across dozens of repositories. Everyone knows it should be automated - but somehow it never is. This talk tells the real story of how one such "annoying but necessary" fix evolved into a fully-fledged Github Copilot Agent powered automation platform used across our organization. **19:15 - 19:45 - Decouple Your Decoupling: Level-up your GitHub workflows** *by Tom Brovender* GitHub Actions has made it easy to automate almost anything, but building CI/CD that truly scales across many repositories and teams is still hard. As projects grow, pipelines tend to become tightly tied to specific repos, environments, and assumptions, which makes change slower and harder than it should be. In this talk, I’ll share how to think about GitHub Actions in a more modular way, so teams can move faster without stepping on each other. You’ll see how small design choices in your workflows can make a big difference in how easy your CI/CD is to grow, maintain, and trust over time.

אורן ציזאנה, ראש צוות פיתוח בבנק הפועלים, חוקר כלים מבוססי בינה מלאכותית וחובב הדפסה תלת־ממדית, יספר כיצד נכנסנו אל עידן החלומות - תקופה שבה כל אחד יכול לקבל יכולות יצירה שלא היו אפשריות בעבר. בהרצאה נסקור את הדרך שעבר העולם הטכנולוגי עד לנקודה שבה כל אדם יכול ליצור בתלת־ממד - בלי רקע הנדסי ובלי שנים של לימוד. אורן ידגים כיצד כלי בינה מלאכותית חדשים מאפשרים להפוך רעיון למודל תלת־ממדי ולהמשיך משם לאובייקט מודפס. כמו כן נכיר את התהליך המלא: החל מיצירת מודל, התאמות וחשיבה מרחבית ועד שלב ההכנה להדפסה, כולל הרחבה על תחום התלת ממד והצצה לכלי הסלייסינג של מדפסות וההחלטות שמתרגמות רעיון דיגיטלי לאובייקט פיזי. נדבר על החיבור בין דמיון, טכנולוגיה וייצור, על שינוי תפקידו של היוצר ועל איך לחשוב מחוץ לקופסה בעידן שבו כל אחד יכול לעצב ולבנות עולמות. למבוגרים/ות ונוער (16+). שימו לב: לא מספיק להרשם במיטאפ יש להרשם גם בקישור הבא , שם תמצאו גם פרטים נוספים https://www.makelab.org.il/registration/dream-era

מוזמנים/ות לקורס קנבה (Canva) **למתקדמים** בשלושה מפגשים. בקורס נכיר כלי בינה מלאכותית מתקדמים בקנבה, נלמד לבנות דפי נחיתה, נתרגל שימוש מקצועי בקנבה לצרכי סושיאל מדיה באופן מקצועי, ניצור משחקים מותאמים ועוד. בסיום הקורס תדעו לא רק איך לעצב עיצובים מתוחכמים – אלא איך להשתמש בקנבה בצורה חכמה ונכונה בשילוב כלי בינה מלאכותית וקוד. תוצר: חיתוך לייזר של עיצוב שיצרנו בקנבה. למבוגרים/ות ונוער (14). עלות: ₪300 ליחיד/ה, לתושבי יהוד: ₪270 ליחיד/ה. שימו לב: לא מספיק להרשם במיטאפ יש להרשם גם הבא https://link.makelab.org.il/Canva-Advanced

**People Analytics 101: Making Sense of Compensation Data** Compensation data is one of the most widely used and widely misunderstood forms of people analytics. The session will cover where compensation data comes from, including market pricing data, internal payroll data, and benchmarking sources, and how companies think about structuring and analyzing that information. We will explore how compensation data is leveraged to set salary ranges, manage internal equity, support hiring and retention, and align pay with business strategy. A portion of the session will address common data challenges and limitations, such as market noise, inconsistent job matching, and incomplete datasets, while keeping the primary focus on practical use rather than technical depth. The session will also look ahead at where the space is going, including the growing impact of pay transparency laws, expanding pay equity requirements, and emerging regulations in the US and Europe that require organizations to report on gender and pay gaps. The goal is to give attendees a clear mental model for how compensation analytics works today and why getting it right is becoming increasingly critical. (note: we are back at Rev1 this month!) **About Our Speaker** [Alex Moore](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexscottmoore/) is the founder of [Moore Cooperative](https://moorecooperative.com/), where he advises organizations on compensation strategy, pay equity, and people analytics. His work focuses on helping organizations like the Ohio Supreme Court design, analyze, and communicate compensation systems that are data-informed, defensible, and aligned with organizational goals. Alex lives in Granville, Ohio and has three little kiddos. More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)

I love my job and one of the main things I do is help customers get going with any of the data technologies at Microsoft. Right now there are a lot of my customers asking about Microsoft Fabric. It's hard to weave across all the shiny new options across the Fabric landscape, let alone figure out where it fits into your organization. In this session we'll focus on answering one question - how can I get data into Fabric? We'll talk through the "it depends" options and see some of the options in live demos.

The February Ohio North Database Training user group meeting will be held on **February 3rd, 2025 at 5:00PM**. This will be a **HYBRID** event and we will be joined in person by **David Pickering**. You're welcome to come meet in-person at our meeting location, the offices of Improving at **[6000 Freedom Square Dr,](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Improving/@41.4004167,-81.6614462,17z/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x8830e5b8255c5919:0xd8297060eb68fe04!4m6!3m5!1s0x8830dc7a0fe35dc9:0xbfc4710ecadfc5c!8m2!3d41.4004127!4d-81.6588713!16s%2Fg%2F1hm3hkqp3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDQzMC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)** **[Unit 110,](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Improving/@41.4004167,-81.6614462,17z/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x8830e5b8255c5919:0xd8297060eb68fe04!4m6!3m5!1s0x8830dc7a0fe35dc9:0xbfc4710ecadfc5c!8m2!3d41.4004127!4d-81.6588713!16s%2Fg%2F1hm3hkqp3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDQzMC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)** **[Independence, OH 44131](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Improving/@41.4004167,-81.6614462,17z/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x8830e5b8255c5919:0xd8297060eb68fe04!4m6!3m5!1s0x8830dc7a0fe35dc9:0xbfc4710ecadfc5c!8m2!3d41.4004127!4d-81.6588713!16s%2Fg%2F1hm3hkqp3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDQzMC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)** [Teams Link ](https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/27861114692350?p=lHdrSV1OOELhLnCiAg)if anyone needs it after RSVP-ing for in person. If you would like to subscribe to our email list outside of Meetup, we have changed platforms recently and you will need to register [here in Kit ](https://ohio-north-data-training.kit.com/b8f036f615)instead to receive emails. Agenda: **5:00 PM EST**: Online and in-person meeting begins with a social hour. This is an unstructured hour where you can join us to catch up and meet other group members before the session starts. There will be food brought in for in-person attendees. **6:00 PM EST**: Updates and announcements, followed by our feature presentation. See below for presentation details. **7:30 PM EST**: Optionally after the main presentations, the in-person crowd may go out for snacks and drinks at a local establishment. We hope to see you there! Session Abstract **No Map Required: Geospatial Analytics Directly in Your Data Warehouse** Think geospatial analysis requires specialized GIS software? Think again. This session introduces you to shapefiles and spatial operations right inside your database—no mapping application required. We'll demystify shapefiles (what they are, how they work, and where to get them) and show you how nearly every modern database —from DuckDB to Snowflake, supports spatial operations. You'll see practical demos covering spatial joins, distance calculations, and how to determine if two shapes interact with each other. Whether you're a data engineer optimizing delivery routes, an analyst aggregating metrics by geography, or a BI developer building location-aware dashboards, this session will show you how to unlock powerful spatial capabilities already built into your database stack—no specialized tools required. \*Please note, that we will be using Microsoft Teams for the online portion of this meeting. You may want to join a few minutes early to ensure you do not have any issues. If you are attending in person, there are large TVs at the office, and you do not need to bring a laptop or use Teams.

OWASP is ending use of Meetup, so I built an eventbrite for the event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-development-risk-case-studies-and-how-agentic-ai-is-the-future-of-appsec-tickets-1981450622150?aff=oddtdtcreator AI is transforming how software is designed, developed, and deployed, dramatically accelerating velocity while introducing new categories of risk. As organizations adopt AI-assisted coding, autonomous agents, and increasingly complex model interactions, traditional application security approaches struggle to keep pace. This talk examines emerging AI-driven risks through real case studies from the field, highlighting issues such as insecure code generation, data-leakage pathways, model manipulation, and evolving supply-chain threats. We will explore how engineering teams must adapt their people, processes, and governance models to secure AI-augmented development workflows effectively. The session will then introduce agentic AI as the next evolution in application security—autonomous systems capable of continuous analysis, multi-step reasoning, and real-time remediation. Attendees will learn how combining agentic AI with modern practices can reduce developer friction, improve coverage, and create a future-ready application security strategy designed for the demands of AI-native software development

**Abstract:** The Advanced Photon Source (APS) is an X-ray light source at Argonne National Laboratory where researchers perform imaging, diffraction and spectroscopy experiments at 68 specialized beamlines. APS recently completed a major upgrade that made it the brightest synchrotron in the world and upgraded many of the beamlines to take advantage of the dramatically brighter, more coherent beam. These new capabilities are increasing the facility’s raw data production from <10 PB/year before the upgrade to >100 PB/year once all instruments are back online. To meet this data challenge, the APS Beamline Data Pipeline project team is partnering with beamline staff to develop and deploy science data pipelines that use a common set of open-source software tools (many written in Python) to link instruments with the Polaris supercomputer at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) for data processing. This talk will describe the APS data systems, our file-based and streaming pipeline templates, and some of the open-source software we use to extract scientific insights from beamline data. **Audience Takeaway:** Open source Python data acquisition and analysis tools are ubiquitous at the APS. Many of the packages that are mentioned can be found at [https://github.com/AdvancedPhotonSource](https://github.com/AdvancedPhotonSource). This is a *hybrid* event. To attend online, join us on Zoom here at 6pm: [https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/89399976851?pwd=UEgMUZXdYmKdK1x1dIPL6hwUYnp7NW.1](https://numfocus-org.zoom.us/j/89399976851?pwd=UEgMUZXdYmKdK1x1dIPL6hwUYnp7NW.1) **Sponsor**: Grainger will provide the meeting site, as well as snacks for the onsite participants. * **Address:** 222 W Merchandise Mart Plaza, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL 60654 * **Grainger's Overview:** W.W. Grainger, Inc., is a leading broadline distributor with over $17 billion in revenue. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) products and services delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. Our machine learning team builds broadly across search, recommendations, product matching, computer vision, and generative AI. * **Logistics**: To access the Grainger office, we require **first and last names** of those who RSVP'd by **Feb 11**. Please take the main elevators at the center of the Mart. Attendees will then present their **IDs** when they arrive at the front desk on the 18th floor.

### Tools in your AI's Toolbox : An introduction to MCP Servers The generative AI revolution has unlocked unprecedented capabilities, but the next frontier is agency: empowering models to interact with, query, and act upon the world. The current challenge is the “N x M integration problem,” where every AI model requires a custom, brittle integration for each external tool or data source. This approach simply doesn’t scale. How can we give an AI access to our sales leads, code repositories, or IoT devices in a standardized, secure, and reusable way? This session introduces Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open-source framework designed to solve this challenge and become the universal connector—the USB-C port—for AI. MCP standardizes how AI models discover and use external tools, moving beyond simple function-calling to a robust, client-server architecture. We will dive into how this open protocol is creating a new ecosystem for building powerful, context-aware AI agents. Join this session for a developer-focused introduction where you will learn how to: Understand the core concepts of the open-source Model Context Protocol and its architecture. Utilize pre-built, open-source MCP servers to instantly connect AI to tools like Git, Slack, and databases. Build a custom MCP server to securely expose your own proprietary data and APIs as tools for any compliant AI. Move beyond bespoke integrations and contribute to a standardized, collaborative, and open ecosystem. Stop building one-off connectors and start building intelligent agents. This session will give you the practical knowledge to leverage MCP and create the next generation of AI that doesn’t just talk, but does. Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! [https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/](https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/)

**We'll have two meetings covering AI - this one is for RStudio** We will review which AI features are linked in for RStudio, and a quick demonstration of using AI to write R code with external AI (such as ChatGPT, ClaudeAI, etc.) The code will be either run on Posit Cloud (RStudio on the web) or in RStudio desktop (from a Github repository). **Location:** The meetup will be at SPARK's ([https://annarborusa.org/](https://annarborusa.org/)) Ann Arbor site: [SPARK HQ (Ann Arbor)](https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ann*Arbor*SPARK*Headquarters/@42.2792515,-83.7447708,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x883cae3effe193cb:0x5296a53db2a282bf!8m2!3d42.2792515!4d-83.7447708?hl=en-US__;Kysr!!HXCxUKc!3EEdBNXRJKknP6LCGkZetSuEsdtChFojQnOVitFUC5C0fyilqXEbiMstT9ajBR3Cw-55qoFkrElCjQvjMdTxUw$). There is on street parking, and parking at local structures. **This will be a hybrid meeting - the Zoom session starts at 6:30 PM.** **Time:** The doors will be open at 6:00, with pizza and beverages provided. We will have a meet-and-greet-and-pizza session, and then at 6:30 we'll have a presentation. **Zoom information:** https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87236570854?pwd=zhj9DSebB1LaBeam4LFF90OHFVzPrz.1 Passcode: 012862 **If you can't get in, please call me at: 734 223-3307** **Document source:**