Data Science using Python

TOG Watch Night: The Secret Life of Components (Tim Hunkin) We’re kicking off a new bi-weekly Monday Watch Night at TOG. We’ll watch an episode of Tim Hunkin’s “The Secret Life of Components” together, then have a relaxed Q&A and discussion afterwards. This is a friendly, low-pressure way to learn the kind of practical tips you normally only pick up through years of making, fixing, and building. Perfect for beginners, makers, repair folks, and engineers who enjoy the practical side of components and mechanisms. How it works \- Watch together \(one episode per night\) \- Q&A and chat after: questions\, examples\, tangents\, and “how would we do this at TOG?” \- If you miss a week\, no stress\. Watch it at home and come along to the next one First session \- Monday 26 January \- Episode 1: Chain \- Free and open to all \- TOG Hackerspace \(Dublin 12\, D12 CF6V\) Full details: https://www.tog.ie/2026/01/tog-watch-night-the-secret-life-of-components-tim-hunkin/

Learn to dance the lindy hop. Join our famously fun and friendly Dublin Swing Dance Community. **HOW DO I BOOK A TICKET?** [Tickets can be booked via our website failteswing.ie.](https://www.failteswing.ie/classes) *Note: If tickets sell out you can email us at [failtehotclub@gmail.com](mailto:failtehotclub@gmail.com) to add your name to the waiting list OR let us know you are signing up with a partner (in which case you might be able to skip the waiting list!! 😎)* **WHO ARE THE CASSES SUITABLE FOR?** We have swing dance classes for complete beginners, improvers and intermediate level dancers. We also have solo jazz classes which are suitable for all levels. **TIME:** Every Monday (except on public holidays) 7:00 - 8:00pm Solo Jazz or Intermediate Swing Dance Courses 8:00 - 9:45pm Beginner/Improver Swing Dance Courses **PRICE:** €77 for a 4 week course. [You must book in advance on our website failtesswing.ie](https://www.failteswing.ie/classes). **CLASS DETAILS:** Our experienced teachers will give individual student feedback and they will email you recap videos of each week's class content. **PARTNER:** For swing dance classes you don't need to sign up with a partner but if you can find someone to sign up with it might help you skip the waiting list. If one of the roles is sold out but you have a partner email us directly at [failtehotclub@gmail.com](mailto:failtehotclub@gmail.com) as we may still be able to offer you a ticket. **AGE:** 18 to 118 years. **WHAT TO BRING:** • Water bottle. • Comfortable footwear. **VIDEOS:** Check out our [Video and Photo Gallery.](https://www.failteswing.ie/performance-gallery) **REFUNDS:** If you can't make it and you let us know at least 24 hours before the event starts we will issue a refund. The 10% booking fee is non-refundable. Tickets are not transferable. No refunds once the event begins. **WHAT ELSE TO KNOW ABOUT:** • Fáilte Hot Club @ Leinster Cricket Club Rathmines- MONTHLY Live Jazz and Swing DJ dance party with drop in complete beginner swing dance class, social dancing, and dance performances. All welcome, no experience or partner required. [Get Tickets at failteswing.ie.](https://www.failteswing.ie/classes) • Private classes- Fast track your learning and enjoyment of solo and partnered swing dancing. Contact [failtehotclub@gmail.com](mailto:failtehotclub@gmail.com) for prices and more information. • Gift cards- You can't go wrong with the gift of dance. Put a swing in the step of someone special with one of our [eGift Cards available via failteswing.ie.](https://www.failteswing.ie/gift-card)

Join us to **practise and improve your target language with native speakers on Monday in River Bar**(1 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2) from **6.30pm to 8.30pm**. **Our system:** **• You sit opposite a native speaker of the language you're learning** **• You speak 5mins English, 5mins other language, then change table** This ensures everyone gets an equal opportunity to practise the language they're learning. Our team seats people, controls the time, organises the table changes etc. What to expect: • Relaxed easy going atmosphere • Professional and quality service • Great networking opportunities • All levels welcome from absolute beginner to fully fluent • A big mix of ages with attendees at each event from 18 to 70+ years old • Topic cards on the tables to help start conversations Languages: We usually have **native speakers of English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese** and more depending on who shows up. **Admission fee €7** (€6 for student card holders). **No pre-registration required, just show up**. Loyalty card system: Come to 5 events and the 6th is free. Over 150,000 people since 2012 have attended our language exchanges to practise and improve their target language - you can too! Everyone is welcome! For more news and info check: Website: [www.languageexchangeireland.com](http://www.languageexchangeireland.com/) FB: [www.facebook.com/languageexchangeireland](http://www.facebook.com/languageexchangeireland) Instagram: [www.instagram.com/languageexchangeireland](http://www.instagram.com/languageexchangeireland) NOTE: The MeetUp attendance does not reflect actual attendance. There are usually around 100 people at each event. We are also in the River Bar every Thursday at 6.30pm

Come join us at The Playground with our weekly drop-in improv workshop! Running on Monday evenings, this is a chance to experience improv among like minded people. No experience necessary and all levels are welcome! Each week we will have a different theme with exercises and activities to allow us improve our improv skills. Whether you are interested in developing the skills for your professional or personal life, or you are someone who currently performs or would like to perform on stage, then there is something for everyone. The long-term objective of The Playground is to create a place for people to develop and create projects and shows, providing regular opportunities for those who wish to perform in shows. Facilitated by two very experienced improvisers, Neil Curran and Quinton O'Reilly, join us for some play! We also have guest teachers join us too. **Important Info** \* Each drop-in session lasts 2 hours and starts at 7pm in the Teachers' Club. \* Each drop-in costs just €12. \* You can also sign up for membership which costs just €30 per calendar month and gets you access to all workshops. \* No experience necessary and all levels welcome. \* Events run on a drop-in basis offering flexibility for those who can't commit to doing a course. \* Payment can be made on arrival. \* After the workshop, many of us stick around for chats in the bar upstairs so do stick around for it. For more about Neil Curran please visit www.lowerthetone.com Check us out on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/improv_playground/

Come along to get rid of the number one fear people have. Every week we have new members and people starting from scratch so you will not be alone. Everything is based around what you're comfortable with and you don't have to stand up, talk or do anything if you don't feel like it. But you will have the opportunity to speak at least 4/5 times a night. You can come along to see what we're doing and take part if you like. We will be running this for beginners every week and anyone is welcome to join us to learn and get better together. Hope to see you there :D We charge €5 to help towards the room rental.

**New Absolute Beginners Course!** Join us for a fun-filled new evening class of Tango for Beginners. Whether you have two left feet or have never danced before, this class will have something for you. We will guide you through the basic steps and techniques of tango, helping you discover the elegance and passion of this captivating dance form. *Join us to experience the joy and freedom of this beautiful dance and meet a room of new friends along the way.* In these classes our experienced instructors will break down the tango moves and build them up gradually, ensuring that you get a solid foundation. You will learn the fundamental techniques, including posture, embrace, and footwork, and gain confidence in leading or following your partner. Throughout these lessons we will focus on partner connection and musicality, allowing you to express yourself and create beautiful movements on the dance floor. **No partner or previous dance experience is necessary**. Just come with comfortable clothing and shoes, and be prepared to immerse yourself in the enchanting world of tango. Join us for a memorable evening of rhythm, connection, and pure enjoyment. **CLASS FEES:** *We offer a 6 week Pass for just €99 or you can pay as you go for €20 per class* *Let's dance the night away at Tango Fiesta Dublin!* [VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS AND INFO](https://tangofiesta.ie/) [www.tangofiesta.ie](http://www.tangofiesta.ie/)

Hello! Meeting place: outside the Italian Cultural Institute. Have your ticket ready for inspection by the staff working there. Meeting time: I'll be there at 545pm taking my seat. We can chat before it starts at 6pm. Please get your ticket ASAP as this is likely to sell out soon! Thanks! Alan Screening of “Un boss in salotto” by Luca Miniero (2014)- ITA SUB ENG Date: 23 mar • 18:00 https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/screening-of-un-boss-in-salotto-by-luca-miniero-2014-ita-sub-eng-tickets-1984130782582?aff=ebdsshother&utm_share_source=listing_android&sg=aa3360161324b058e17050be574c8f26674c63726438c66c4ea0c19ae9be9a0bb63b95052c68f3d8d7abf9b0a2881ef64320fd0d08c254115ccbc22e6f75f45cdf678fe758fe9333cda2c34b43

🎉 Friday Salsa & Bachata – Weekly Classes + Social Dancing 💃🕺 Looking for a fun way to start your weekend? Join us every Friday for a night of dancing, learning, and great vibes! ✨ What to expect: * Beginner-friendly Salsa & Bachata classes to get you moving * Social dancing after class to practice and enjoy * A relaxed, welcoming atmosphere — no pressure, just fun 👣 No partner or experience needed 😊 Come solo or bring friends — everyone is welcome 📅 When: Every Friday 📍 Where: NYX Christchurch Dublin Exchange street ⏰ Time: 7:30pm-00:30am Whether you’re trying dancing for the first time or already love Latin rhythms, this is the perfect place to meet new people, build confidence, and enjoy your Friday nights. Bring your energy, your smile, and let’s dance! 🎶🔥

Hi All, We are excited to invite you to another informative and coding session on Saturday morning. Come network with data enthusiasts, share ideas, projects, advance your analytics and programming skills. We recommend bringing a fully charged laptop. Agenda: 10:00 – 10:45 Building an actionable dashboard on short term rentals using Power BI by Henrique Ricardo and Krupa Patel 11:00 – 11:45 Tableau: Transform Your Data into Actionable Insights 11:45 – 12:30 Networking Curious about turning data into beautiful visual stories? Join our PowerBI and Tableau analytics technologies for a friendly, hands-on session perfect for beginners! We’ll guide you step by step—from connecting to your data and creating your first charts, to exploring simple dashboards and interactive visualizations. No prior experience needed—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to learn. You’ll pick up practical tips, see real examples, and leave ready to start creating your own data insights with confidence. Let Roman Golovnya know if you're interested in hosting the next event or presenting at future meetups. You can contact him via meetup messages or email [roman.golovnya@gmail.com.](http://roman.golovnya@gmail.com./)

My name is Aurelie and I'm graduating with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Limerick. I run monthly **machine learning** and **deep learning** tutorials in Dublin with a small group of people. \*\*In this tutorial, we will build an end‑to‑end object detection workflow using the **DETR** model from Meta AI, powered by **Hugging Face Transformers** and **PyTorch** based on a Hugging Face tutorial. We will use a small public dataset, walk through data preprocessing, fine‑tuning the model, evaluating performance, and finally running inference on a **new, unseen image** containing a similar object that was not part of the training set. You will receive a Jupyter notebook with clean, reusable code covering every step. No setup required beyond a laptop and a Google account to run everything in Google Colab. **The tutorials are limited to 15 participants and you can reserve your spot either here or by emailing aureliem219@gmail.com. Please make sure to book as soon as possible, as the registration count on Meetup does not guarantee availability.** **For more information about the tutorials:** * The tutorials are interactive and will be conducted using **Jupyter notebooks** on **Google Colaboratory** (a free, cloud-based platform that lets us write and run code directly in the browser). While **Google Colaboratory** is free to use, tasks that require more computational power (such as training deep learning models) may benefit from GPU access. In that case, Google offers a once-off payment for around €10 which can last several months depending on your usage. Some familiarity with **Python** or other programming languages is helpful but not required. Everyone is welcome to join and learn at their own pace. * The tutorial lasts for 1.5 hours. * During the tutorial, I share the Jupyter notebook with participants so they can keep it for future reference. We go through the notebook step by step together and I do my best to answer any questions along the way. * The notebook includes the complete code from data preparation to model training and evaluation. It can be reused or adapted for your own business needs or personal projects * We will be working with a variety of **Python** libraries including **Scikit-learn**, **PyTorch**, **TensorFlow**, **Keras**, **Seaborn**, **Pandas** and **Matplotlib** and the **Hugging Face** framework. These tools will help us explore different machine learning and deep learning techniques using publicly available datasets. * Each tutorial focuses on a different algorithm in depth. Topics covered include **linear regression**, **logistic regression**, **K-means clustering**, **decision trees**, **artificial neural networks (ANNs)**, **convolutional neural networks (CNNs)** for image classification, **object detection** and **natural language processing**. The goal is to break down each technique step by step, making it approachable and practical for real-world applications. This tutorial take place at the **Grafton Hotel, 32 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2** (We will be sitting in the lobby in the corner or on the right handside). It will run from **3 pm** to **4.30 pm**. **Grafton Hotel, 32 Stephen Street Lower, Dublin 2** * The tutorials are a high-level practical introduction to machine learning and deep learning and the emphasis on understanding how we process the data , train and evaluate a model with Python. We won't cover the mathematics behind it however some tutorials may have mathematical formulas as part of the algorithm explanation and some tutorials might have more complex data preprocessing as it depends on the datasets and the task we are doing. However the tutorials focus on the practical part! * *Payments need to be made in advance to secure your place and fees are non-refundable unless I need to cancel the event, in this case refunds will be made.*

**Speaker:** Mick Cooney Survival analysis is a statistical method for analyzing the expected duration of time until an event occurs. In this one-hour talk, we will walk through the application of survival analysis to life insurance policy lapses, starting from foundational concepts and moving toward Bayesian modeling approaches using Stan. We will begin by setting the scene with a practical example: the impact of the 2008-2011 credit crisis on Irish life insurance. This provides a backdrop to introduce core survival analysis concepts, including censoring, truncation, survival functions, and hazard functions. Next, we will review classic approaches to modeling survival data. We will cover the non-parametric Kaplan-Meier estimator, discuss standard parametric models, and examine semi-parametric methods like the Cox Proportional Hazards model. The second half of the talk will focus on Bayesian survival analysis. Using R and Stan, we will demonstrate how to construct Bayesian models for time-to-event data. We will step through the process of assessing model fit and discuss strategies for improving model performance, focusing on handling right-censored data and quantifying uncertainty. This session provides an overview for practitioners interested in applying both traditional and Bayesian survival analysis techniques to their own data problems.

**Code Apps**: Leveraging AI to build code-first custom web apps that live natively within the Power Platform **Malachy Keaveny:** Malachy is a D365 Senior Technical Consultant at Codec, where he leads a team of consultants on large scale Power Platform implementations. **Microsoft Fabric:** From ingest-to-insight: End-to-end data engineering, including AI-assisted Power BI reporting. **Sara Boukob:** Sara is a senior Data Engineer at Codec, currently leading the delivery of a data and analytics platform through an Azure Landing Zone and Microsoft Fabric

**AGENDA\*** Sponsorship enquiries [here](https://forms.gle/6mgfTiL9Jo3RM2feA) Thanks to **fourTheorem** for sponsoring this event! **6:00 PM - WELCOME** Ronan Ó Caollaí, AWS User Group Ronan Guilfoyle, AWS Solutions Architect Lead **6:15 PM - LUCIANO MAMMINO, Senior Architect, fourTheorem** "Serverless Podcast Transcription with Durable Lambda Functions, ECS Managed Instances, and Bedrock" **7:00 PM - NETWORKING** **7:20 PM - GLEN KEANE, Senior Software Engineer, BRIGHTBEAM** "Dr. Strangeagent, or: How I Learned to Stop Prompting and Love the State Machine” --Glen Keane, Senior Software Engineer, Brightbeam --Brian Finnegan, Principal Solutions Director, Brightbeam --Blake Rizk - Head of AI and Transformation, Laya Healthcare **8PM - Francis Flannery, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS** Talk details TBA **8.30pm - ENDS** **SPEAKER BIOS** +++++++++++++ fourTheorem **LUCIANO MAMMINO** Senior Architect at fourTheorem, AWS Serverless Hero, author, and podcast host, Luciano is a popular standout voice in the AWS Community, known for his immense expertise and tireless dedication to the community. Luciano's talk explores Lambda Durable Functions, ECS GPU workloads, Amazon Bedrock and building scalable, serverless podcast transcription pipelines. Luciano also co hosts AWS Bites with Eoin Shanaghy. The show has passed 150 episodes and, as a side project alongside a full time job, the production workflow has to be efficient. A few years ago Luciano and Eoin built an automated system to transcribe each episode and generate subtitles for YouTube and the website. That system became Podwhisperer, an open source pipeline that anyone can deploy in their own AWS account to automate podcast transcription. Three years is a long time in the AWS world. Better speech tooling showed up, new ways to run GPU workloads became practical, and durable orchestration in Lambda showed up as a great option to build workflows programmatically. So the project was rebuilt as Podwhisperer v2: a serverless transcription pipeline optimized for podcasts, with GPU accelerated transcription, speaker diarization, and an optional refinement step powered by Amazon Bedrock. v2 also produces captions in VTT, SRT, and JSON, including word level timing, so the output can be used directly across platforms without extra manual work. *This talk is a practical case study of the v2 architecture and the trade offs behind it, but it is also designed to teach the foundations behind the building blocks that make it work. Luciano will introduce Lambda Durable Functions and explain how checkpointing and replay enable long running workflows to survive Lambda timeouts. He will then break down ECS Managed Instances and show how they can provision CUDA capable capacity on demand for containerized GPU workloads, scale to zero between runs, and avoid the operational overhead of managing an EC2 fleet. Finally, the talk will cover how Amazon Bedrock can be used for transcript refinement in a controlled way, improving readability without turning the output into creative writing.* *Along the way, the session digs into the implementation details that make or break these systems in practice, including idempotency, worker callbacks, queue based coordination, and startup latency when scaling from zero. Attendees will leave with a clear mental model of the services involved and a set of practical patterns they can apply to their own long running, event driven workloads.* **Speaker Bio** Luciano is a Senior Architect at fourTheorem in Dublin, helping teams be successful with AWS by adopting serverless. He is an AWS Serverless Hero, co-host of the AWS Bites podcast, and co-author of the books [Node.js](http://node.js/) Design Patterns and Crafting Lambda Functions in Rust. **SPEAKER BIOS** +++++++++++++ BRIGHTBEAM **Blake Rizk - Head of AI and Transformation, Laya Healthcare:** Blake is Head of AI and Transformation at Laya Healthcare, part of the AXA Group, where he leads the strategy and delivery of AI-driven transformation across the organisation. With over 20 years of experience in technology, data and digital transformation, he focuses on applying practical AI solutions to modernise core healthcare insurance operations and deliver measurable business value. Blake is currently responsible for advancing the adoption of artificial intelligence across many areas including claims processing, document intake, customer service, and knowledge management. **Brian Finnegan - Principal Solutions Director, Brightbeam:** Brian brings three decades of experience to his role as a Principal Solutions Director at Brightbeam. His expertise in technology delivery stems from a diverse background - which includes previous roles as a Technical Account Manager at AWS and Solutions Architect at Sungard and Presidio. As well as Cloud Architect at Zurich Insurance. This broad perspective gives Brian a pragmatic edge (cutting and otherwise) in bridging the gap between the promise of AI and other new technologies and the gritty reality of scaling it in production. **Glen Keane** \- Senior Software Engineer\, Brightbeam: Glen is a senior software engineer at Brightbeam who wears many hats. Lately, he’s been focused on building intelligent systems using AI. In his past he built smart systems without it. A fullstack developer in all the worst possible ways - he does backend, frontend and devops in both startup and enterprise environments. Previously, he’s been a node.js core maintainer at Nearform; the first engineering hire (outside the founding team) in an Irish Unicorn, Wayflyer; and a Head of Engineering for a local startup. He likes to pretend he’s cosplaying as Chewbacca when he needs a haircut (which is most of the time) and enjoys sitting by beaches in the sunny south east writing code and sipping coffee. **BRIGHTBEAM - TALK DETAILS** AI agents nail demos and drift in production. They skip steps, hallucinate results, and present confident garbage. The fix is not better prompts - it is better architecture. This talk shows how Step Functions patterns - typed I/O, explicit transitions, choice states, parallel execution, error catchers - solve the reliability problem for AI agents. I will walk through a real mutation testing workflow (Chaos Monkey for your test suite) that orchestrates five parallel AI agents, routes on data, and validates intent at the terminal state, without the orchestrating agent remembering anything. Three ideas that land: * **Split intelligence from execution.** AI reasons freely to scope the problem, then a typed state machine drives the steps. Same mental model as Step Functions, applied to agents. * **Isolated sub-tasks.** When a step needs real thinking, spin up a fresh agent with focused context and only the data it needs. The main thread stays deterministic. The sub-task gets the model's full attention. * **Self-driving I/O.** Every step's output carries the next instruction. The agent follows the chain - it does not maintain a plan. If you have used Step Functions on AWS, you already understand the mental model. This talk shows where it maps directly to AI orchestration and where the AI-specific patterns diverge. **Takeaways** 1. 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How do you scale an AI startup from an initial idea to an enterprise-grade solution? Hear from the Snowflake Startup Program team and a cohort of founders who are leveraging Snowflake to transform complex data into intelligent, scalable products **Snowflake for Startups Program** **Ryan Lieber** Ryan Lieber will introduce the Snowflake for Startups Program, which provides several initiatives (e.g.,Startup Package, Startup Program & Cortex REST API) focused on supporting early-stage companies from a financial, technical and co-marketing perspective as they look to build their businesses on top of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Learn how the program supports startups with technical enablement, go-to-market guidance, and direct access to Snowflake’s ecosystem to help scale innovative AI and data-driven products. **From Program to Agentic AI: Building Enterprise Context** **Ekai** How do startups move from the Snowflake Startup Program to delivering high-impact AI solutions for major industries? In this session, the leadership team at Ekai will share their journey of building enterprise AI products powered by Snowflake. They will explore how they tackle one of the biggest challenges in AI: Enterprise Context. You’ll learn how Ekai developed an AI Backbone that transforms fragmented enterprise data into intelligent, agentic AI systems, along with the technical and commercial strategy required to scale across industries such as manufacturing and media. **Unlocking the 80%: Turning Unstructured Data into Governed AI Intelligence** **EmergeGen** Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because of the models. It fails because 80% of critical enterprise data - including contracts, PDFs, and emails - remains unstructured, ungoverned, and inaccessible to decision-making systems. In this session, EmergeGen, a Snowflake Native App, will demonstrate how organisations can unlock this hidden intelligence. Using ontology-based reasoning, EmergeGen converts messy unstructured data into governed, analysis-ready intelligence without data leaving the Snowflake environment. **Key Highlights** * Native Integration - Build a governed intelligence layer directly inside the Snowflake Data Cloud * Beyond the LLM - Use ontologies to make AI systems explainable and trustworthy * Real-World Impact - Case studies from MSD Partners (Private Credit) and 101 Logistics **Speakers** Ryan Lieber - Snowflake Startup Program EMEA & AJP Tero - Chief Commercial Officer, Ekai Hussnain - AI Architect, Ekai Allan Beechinor - EmergeGen **Event Schedule** 📍 26 March 18:30 - Ryan Lieber, Snowflake - Introduction to the Snowflake Startup Program 18:45 - Ekai - From Program to Agentic AI 19:10 - EmergeGen - Unlocking the 80%: Unstructured Data to Governed AI **Food & Drinks** Food and drinks will be provided during the event.

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**Improving Office in Franklinton** Physical location: Improving Office 330 Rush Alley Suite #150 Columbus, OH 43215 Schedule: 6:00 p.m.: Socialize, eat, and drink. Improving will be providing pizza and beverages. 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Main meeting and presentation(s). Topic: Type Annotations with John Cassidy We meet on the last Monday of each Month. Presentations are given by members and friends of this group. If you would like to do a presentation (small or large) on a python topic, please contact Central OH Python at centralohpython@gmail.com

**New Dojo Location!** **Knotty Pine Brewing** 1765 W 3rd Ave, Columbus, OH 43212 We're going to try a new dojo location for a few weeks and see how it works Dojos are informal Python group study sessions where everyone interested in Python gathers to learn about Python, help others with Python, or just hang out. Everyone is welcome from Python beginners to experts. Bringing a laptop is encouraged (we'll have extension cords and power strips). If there's something you want to learn leave a comment on this invite so we can plan ahead. We're looking for topic suggestions and people interested in presenting at our monthly meetings. To this end we've set up a survey form at [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15eBKF1nQQ2XS5gzD4rvhVRHMBEj7lJtHuA9wXupS3Uc](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15eBKF1nQQ2XS5gzD4rvhVRHMBEj7lJtHuA9wXupS3Uc)

Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85031832141?pwd=7Sa7wy8KlHqPhKxYQUl42uCsf8YawO.1 **Opening Talk:** Luisa will demo a sassy AI-powered plant built in FastAPI using GPT-4o to explore personality, dialogue design, and human-AI interaction. **Main Talk:** What about using certain CLIs puts a smile on your face and gets you telling all your friends and colleagues about it? The Unix philosophy emphasizes simplicity, modularity, and the idea that programs should do one thing well and work together. However, CLI programs are primarily used by humans. Programs that you actually enjoy using can achieve both of these aims of composability and human-centeredness. This talk explores what makes CLIs great: fast, trusted, and delightful. Through real-world examples from modern tools like uv, cargo, ripgrep, and GitHub CLI, you'll learn the design patterns that separate good CLIs from great ones. Whether you're building package managers, creating developer tools, or just curious why modern CLIs feel so much better, you'll leave with a practical checklist of techniques to apply to any CLI tool you build. **Agenda:** 7:00pm - Opening announcements 7:10pm - Opening Topic - Build an AI-powered, Sassy Speaking Plant 7:25pm - Main Topic - Designing Delightful CLIs with Python 7:50pm - Q&A

Discover Kiro, AWS’s innovative development environment that adapts to your workflow. Whether you prefer specification-driven development or a more intuitive, vibe-based approach, Kiro empowers you to build applications your way. In this session, speakers will explore Kiro’s core functionality and its evolution through re:Invent 2025, along with demonstrations of prompts used to create APIs, hooks, and steering documents. In the latter part of the session, watch as we build a complete example from scratch, showcasing Kiro’s agentic AI workflow in action for spec-driven development and vibe coding. What You'll Learn - Core Kiro concepts and development philosophy Feature evolution: pre and post re:Invent 2025 Practical examples: API creation, hooks, and steering docs Live coding demonstration with real-time problem solving Who Should Attend - Developers, solutions architects, and technical leaders interested in modern AWS development tools and AI-assisted coding workflows. **Speakers Bio:** Matthew Jorat: Matthew Jorat is a Customer Solutions Manager at AWS with nearly three decades of expertise in AI, cloud transformation, migration, modernization, IT, technology, and business. His career spans infrastructure engineer, solutions architect, security auditor, customer success director, support and services director, and operations officer. He was an early adopter of AWS services as a customer, and his current role at AWS uniquely blends his technical and business skills as he partners with executive teams to translate strategic priorities into measurable business outcomes through cloud adoption, AI implementation, and operational excellence. Matt leads end-to-end AI initiatives for enterprise customers, identifying high-impact use cases and maintaining relentless focus on measurable ROI. He holds eight AWS certifications and serves as Adjunct Professor at Franklin University teaching cloud computing and AWS architecture. His expertise encompasses GenAI, agentic AI systems, migration, modernization, and optimization strategies that drive transformation at scale. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjorat/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjorat/) Girish Bhatia: Girish Bhatia is a seasoned technology delivery leader with deep expertise in cross-domain program management. He holds multiple AWS certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Developer – Associate, and AWS Generative AI Practitioner, and is also an AWS Community Builder. Girish brings over two decades of experience in the information technology industry. Throughout his career, Girish has led major technology-driven business transformation from modernizing on-premises applications to driving large-scale cloud migrations. His work includes API-based integration platforms, data-center and mainframe modernization, and enterprise cloud adoption initiatives. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Girish works at a tech-forward fintech company. He is passionate about AWS serverless architectures, Generative AI and emerging cloud technologies. An avid learner and builder, he continues to explore and apply the latest innovations in AWS to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/[https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishbhatia/) **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

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