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**🤔 WHAT IS THIS AH? 🤔** * A initiative centred around **game design and the tabletop gaming industry** brought to you by #laiplayleow * This tabletop initiative is held an office area at the Labrador Park / Alexandra area * This is a non-ticketed initiative, **so do contribute with some F&B contributions!** * **THERE MAY OR MAY NOT BE ANY TABLETOP GAMING as that is not the focus for this monthly initiative.** **1\. The Designer’s POV: Poon Jon \(KL\, Malaysia\)** *Insights into the Malaysian tabletop design scene.* *First-hand experience as a game creator.* *Exclusive Teaser: Details on a major event he is organising this April.* **2\. The Player’s POV: Alex** The consumer experience: What makes a game stay on the shelf? Analysis of gameplay trends from a player’s perspective. *Don't miss this opportunity to hear from both sides of the board* **👥 HOW MANY CAN COME LEH? 👥** 18 game designers **💸 ADMISSION AND CONTRIBUTIONS 💸** 1. If this is a ticketed initiative, please pay money first ah before joining us on a tabletop adventure. 2. If this is a non-ticketed initiative, bring some snacks and drinks lor as contributions. **📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌** **Important: No refunds for sudden unavailability. In the event of cancellation, a full refund will be provided promptly.** **📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌** **📚DON'T SAY WE NEVER SAY 📚** * *We are candid. Like, very candid.* * *We think we can behave well for the first 10 minutes.* **🌐 CLICK BELOW TO KNOW MORE 🌐** * **[Our Website](https://laiplayleow.wixsite.com/home)** * **[Follow us on IG](https://www.instagram.com/laiplayleow/)** **[📞](https://emojipedia.org/telephone-receiver) WHATSAPP US [📞](https://emojipedia.org/telephone-receiver)** **[Contact us today! (WhatsApp ONLY)](https://wa.me/90531466)** **📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌** **Important: No refunds for sudden unavailability. In the event of cancellation, a full refund will be provided promptly.** **📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌📌** ***(All of the above information was last updated on January 14, 2024)***

✨ **Introducing Social Sisters SG — Monday Girls Socials!** ✨ Join us for a relaxed, casual dinner session where you’ll meet new friends, share stories and exchange cultures in a cosy group setting! 🌸 Location: **OGOG 오곡 - Marina One** Time: **6:30-8;30pm** (Feel free to come and leave earlier or later!) Price: **$2 to RSVP. Paynow to 89897063** 📍**Note:** Social Sisters SG is a space for **genuine connection and friendship** — not for business promotion or MLM (multi-level marketing) activities. You’re welcome to exchange contacts, but please do so at your own discretion. 📌 We try to keep our events **small and cosy**, with limited slots per event. However, with the number of RSVPs and potential no-shows, it can be hard to gauge whether someone who has RSVP’d will eventually turn up. Hence, from **15 January 2026**, we’ll be introducing a **$2 RSVP fee to ensure attendance**. This will help us plan better, potentially reduce no-shows and manage our going list 💛 Follow us[ @socialsisterssg](https://www.instagram.com/socialsisterssg/) for real-time updates on our exact location or any unexpected venue changes on the day itself ✨

Exploring Entrepreneurial Projects in Singapore and also in the China-Asean Economic Agency business in Guangxi, China. Explore the various channels of starting, operating and growing a thriving business in fast-growing industries. Explore opportunities to overcome the pressing challenges that Singapore faces: fastest ageing population, declining productivity, sky-rocketing costs, super competitive environment and ever growing number of foreign talents entering the already very tight economic spaces.....and many more. Complaining about these challenges will not help at all. Let's explore viable options and avenues opened to the average individuals to overcome these social-economic pressures.

Hatha Yoga practice at a condo right by Farrer Road MRT every Monday. 🦅 08:00pm - 09:15pm These are weekly classes where the whole group practice and progress together, working on fundamentals and slowly building up. This class is good for beginners or anyone working with injuries. A consistent practice will build your foundation strong physically & mentally. Details: ✨ Class time: 08:00pm - 9:15pm (75mins) ✨ Single drop in session: $40 (SGD) ✨ Please [WhatsApp 96469599 ](https://wa.me/6596469599)(Hwee) to sign up. ✨ Minimum 5 pax to start ✨ Bring your yoga mat, face towel and yoga blocks (if you have challenge bringing yoga blocks, let me know, i will arrange something) ✨ As always, we progress step by step as we practice consistently every week, it is not a full 75mins of workout, we start of with mindfulness and end with a long mental relaxation which most people look forward to. Please feel free to ask any questions or raise any concern. Please reach 5mins early.

We're back with our first meetup in Singapore for 2026! Come join us for an evening of learning from database experts, and great conversations with the ClickHouse community. **🗓️ AGENDA:** * 6:30 PM: Registration, Dinner & Chitchat * 7:00 PM: Welcome and Introductions * 7:10 PM: **The Journey to Zero-Copy: How chDB Became the Fastest SQL Engine on Pandas DataFrame** by Auxten Wang, Technical Director @ ClickHouse * 7:40 PM: **Powering Bullet's Sub-millisecond Perpetuals Trading Platform** by Tristan Frizza, Co-Founder and CTO @ Sierra Research * 8:10 PM: Q&A & Networking **👉🏼 RSVP to secure your spot!** **Interested in sharing a talk at this meetup or future events? Complete this [CFP form](https://clickhou.se/chmeetup-cfp) and we’ll be in touch.** **_____________________________________** **🎤 Session Details: The Journey to Zero-Copy: How chDB Became the Fastest SQL Engine on Pandas DataFrame** In this talk, Auxten Wang, creator and lead developer of chDB, shares the story of how the world’s fastest OLAP engine was made to fly on Pandas DataFrames, reducing query times from 30 seconds to just 0.5 seconds. He walks through chDB’s evolution from a serialization-bound prototype into a fully zero-copy SQL engine for Pandas, covering how DataFrame and Parquet round-trips were eliminated, how Python GIL limitations were overcome, and how string handling was rethought for parallel performance. The result is true DataFrame in and DataFrame out SQL with ClickHouse speed, delivering up to 200× faster analytics, native JSON support, streaming for data larger than RAM, and a complete zero copy loop with no servers, no setup, and no friction. **Speaker: Auxten Wang, Technical Director @ ClickHouse** Auxten Wang is a Technical Director at ClickHouse with 15 years of experience designing high-performance databases, recommender of systems, and infrastructure across startups and major tech firms. He co-founded CovenantSQL and contributed storage-layer and write-query functionality to a decentralized SQL database with blockchain features, and is an active author/contributor to ClickHouse and low-level projects like jemalloc, Kubernetes, and Memcached. His background includes leading RecSys and infrastructure teams as Principal Engineer at Shopee and director-level roles at 4Paradigm, combining production ML/recsys experience with rigorous systems engineering. Early at Baidu he architected and implemented Gingko—the company’s p2p large-dataset distribution system—writing the majority of its C++ code and applying a Dynamo-inspired design. Based in Singapore, he brings a rare mix of hands-on C/C++ systems work, testing and storage engineering, and product-driven startup leadership. **🎤 Session Details: Powering Bullet's Sub-millisecond Perpetuals Trading Platform** Tristan Frizza, Co-Founder and CTO of Sierra Research, shares their multi-year journey to delivering low latency and near real time trading data, charts, leaderboards, and analytics at scale. This talk explores the evolution from data lakes and complex, painful serving architectures to a streamlined single source of truth powered by ClickHouse Cloud, highlighting the technical lessons learned in building fast, reliable analytics for demanding trading workloads. **Speaker: Tristan Frizza, Co-Founder and CTO @ Sierra Research** Tristan Frizza is the Co-Founder and CTO of Sierra Research, focused on building the financial infrastructure the world deserves. Originally from Australia and now based in Singapore, he has led the development of high-performance trading and consumer systems, including a decentralized trading platform with over 100,000 users and $15B in notional volume. Previously, Tristan worked in machine learning and data science roles at Atlassian, Nearmap, and Lumaway, to name a few, building large-scale ML systems and data infrastructure used by tens of millions of users.

Systemic family constellation was founded by Bert Hellinger (and I trained with him and many other practitioners). It uses energy and subtle movement and invites healing. Those with issues offer a question and participants are selected to move into the circle as 'representatives' of people or issues. Then an amazing unfolding occurs in which knowledge arrives quietly and 'unknots' the glitches of the past' - our ancestry and the difficulties we carry in our familial lines. Few words, just trust and patience... come and see. You could google this but experiencing it is quite a unique experience which provides information about past problems that affect your harmony today - generating a gentle unravelling which provides more optimistic futures. There is no charge but if you are able a donation to the room costs is very welcome

⚠️ **REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED VIA [THIS GOOGLE FORM](https://forms.gle/fKG6vXcPmNK1APP39)**[ ](forms.gle/saLWmbr5XbwUX8Jp8)⚠️ **ABSTRACT** Conference badges are more than just simple cards. Combining cyber security challenges with creative hardware electronics, #BadgeLife is a growing movement that bridges the gap between the digital and physical security. At this meetup, we will explore the history of #BadgeLife with Singapore’s local scene rapidly carving out its own unique identity. **ABOUT BADGELIFE QUARTER** Badge Life Quarter provides a focused gathering for those curious about the intersection of cybersecurity, hardware hacking, and electronics design. No prior experience in electronics design or soldering is required. Whether you are a seasoned engineer or a complete beginner, this meetup is the perfect starting point. **SPEAKERS** * **Terence Chan** \| Terence is a 3rd year NUS Computer Engineering student\, and also an electronic badge enthusiast\. He has made various Electronic Badges for NUS Greyhats GreyCTF and other similar events\. He is also currently interning at Espressif Systems as a Digital IC Designer\. [Linkedin Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/terence-chan-zun-mun/) **SPONSORS** * VENUE SPONSOR: [CyberSG TIG Collaboration Centre](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cybersg-tig-collaboration-centre) **IMPORTANT NOTICES** * Code of Conduct: [https://www.div0.sg/code-of-conduct](https://www.div0.sg/code-of-conduct) * Terms of Use & Disclaimer Notice: [https://www.div0.sg/terms-of-use-disclaimer-notice](https://www.div0.sg/terms-of-use-disclaimer-notice)

**Just another Tuesday?** ​Join us for another casual morning coffee to meet new tech and data industry people - to discuss and explore data innovation in use cases such as Robotics, ML, AI, Quantum Computing, synthetic data, Data Regulation, finance, state of data talent demand, investment environment and more! *** # ​**This month’s topic: Scaling AI together – data and operating models** ​By now many organisations have experimented with AI, but scaling it is a very different challenge. ​Join this month’s Data Tuesday Singapore for a peer to peer discussion on what data governance practices and operating model choices actually help - and what we’re still collectively figuring out. ​Share your own experiences and learn from others! *** **​​Location** ​The location is The Terrace Cafe at Conrad Centennial, next to the Millennia Walk Monument Square. Please try to locate organizer (Desiree, Zhijing, Michael, Robert or Ville) we do not have specific signage. ​ **Two rules of the DT event:** 1. ​**Strictly no soliciting or shilling.** 2. ​**Coffee is not free. In fact, it is expensive (but of great quality). Please do the right thing and order a coffee or drink, so we can appreciate the amazing venue we have. Breakfast available.** ## ​Thank you - we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday morning! \-\-\- ​How to find us: Location: The Terrace cafe - Conrad Centennial Singapore 2 Temasek Blvd Singapore 038982 Cafe is next to Monument Square of Millenia Walk (18-metre tall white marble spiral helix and roundabout). ​From Conrad lobby walk through to the other side. You can see The Terrace cafe at the corner of roundabout. Ask Lobby for directions if you can't find.

​​​**Founders Running Club** (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer—pets, friends, family, are welcome. ​​​🗓️ Launched in San Francisco, July 16, 2022 🌍 Now in 50+ cities 📅 Running + Networking events + Community ​​​**Join the community** [http://foundersrc.com/chats](http://foundersrc.com/chats) Singapore Instagram http://instagram.com/frc_singapore ​​​**Global FRC**: Instagram [http://instagram.com/foundersrc/](http://instagram.com/foundersrc/) LinkedIn [http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/](http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/) Strava [http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC](http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC) Website [http://foundersrc.com/](http://foundersrc.com/)

🚨 **IMPORTANT – REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED VIA THE AWS UG SINGAPORE MEETUP PAGE** 👉 **Please RSVP here:** 🔗 [https://www.meetup.com/aws-sg/events/312539597/](https://www.meetup.com/aws-sg/events/312539597/) 📌 **This event is hosted under the AWS Users Group Singapore.** 📩 All attendees **MUST** register via the link above to receive a confirmation email and secure access to the AWS Singapore building. ❗ Registrations on this Grafana Meetup page will **NOT** be considered valid for building entry. **👋 Hello Grafana & Friends!** This month, we are excited to partner with the **AWS User Group** for a collaborative evening of tech! We are bringing the worlds of **Observability** and **Cloud** together. You can expect a mix of sessions covering architectural deep dives, cloud best practices, and advanced monitoring techniques. **🚀 Grafana Feature Session:** **Topic:** **Lessons from Simulating AWS T3 CPU Throttling** **Speaker:** Goh Chun Lin – Grafana & Friends Community Lead, Singapore **Synopsis:** We often use AWS burstable instances (T3/T4g) to save money, but "Unlimited Mode" can mask architectural inefficiencies by converting performance bottlenecks into silent financial debt. In this session, we go beyond standard metrics to demonstrate **Predictive Engineering**. We will show how to use **Grafana** to visualise invisible infrastructure limits and expose the true cost of performance and how to use **Discrete Event Simulation** to predict architectural breaking points as well. **🤝 Full Agenda:** In addition to the Grafana session, we will be joined by speakers invited by the AWS User Group sharing insights on cloud and infrastructure at scale. **👉 Please check the [Main Registration Page](https://www.meetup.com/aws-sg/events/312539597) for the complete lineup of speakers and topics as they are announced!** See you there!

🚀 **Kicking Off 2026 Together – First AWS Meetup of the Year** Hello AWS Community! A new year is here, and we are starting 2026 the best way we know how, by coming together to learn, build, and share real world AWS experiences. Join us on **Thursday, 29th January 2026**, for the first AWS User Group Singapore Meetup of the year at the AWS Singapore Office, IOI Central Boulevard. This meetup marks the beginning of another exciting year for the community. Expect fresh perspectives, practical cloud lessons, and conversations shaped by what teams are building right now. Whether you are setting goals for the year ahead, exploring new architectures, or simply reconnecting with fellow builders, this is the perfect place to start 2026 strong. Let us set the tone for the year ahead and grow together as one AWS community. 📢 **IMPORTANT! Registration Information** To ensure a smooth check-in process, please take note of the following: ✅ Confirmed attendees will receive a confirmation email before the event titled **"AWS User Group Singapore: Registration Confirmed for AWS User Group Meetup – January 2026"**. You must present this email at the Level 1 Concierge to gain access to Level 5 for attendance verification. 🚶 Walk-ins (those without a confirmation email) will only be considered if the venue has not reached full capacity. Priority will be given to registered attendees with confirmation emails. 🔒 Strictly enforced: No confirmation email = walk-in. Entry not guaranteed. 📅 **Date**: Thursday, 29th January 2026 🕡 **Time**: 6.30pm 📍 **Location**: AWS Singapore; 2 Central Blvd, IOI Central Boulevard East Towers, Level 5 🎤 **Meetup Track** ✅ **Lessons from Simulating AWS T3 CPU Throttling** *📌 Goh Chun Lin - Grafana Community Lead, Singapore* Chun Lin explores the CPU Credits system of AWS burstable instances (T3) and the architectural risks of the credit system. The session combines observability techniques with Amazon CloudWatch, Grafana, and Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to reveal how to visualise and model the token bucket algorithm in AWS. **✅ Automate and Optimize your Kubernetes / EKS** *📌 Amit Pahwa - Director, Solutions Engineering - APAC Cast AI* **✅ The Real Battle Begins After You Build the Agent** *📌 Lahiru Ratnayaka - Software Engineer (Leading Southeast Asian Bank)* Building an AI agent is just the beginning. This session looks beyond the initial build to explore the challenges that emerge as agents move toward real-world use and how AWS Bedrock AgentCore fits into this journey from an engineering perspective **Workshop Track:** 🚨 Complete **BOTH** Steps to Confirm Your Workshop Registration! 1. RSVP on Meetup 2. Fill out this [Google Form](https://forms.gle/dLkxS26dJQ1dunPr9) ✅Topic: Amazon GuardDuty & Amazon Detective 📌Host: *Loi Liang Yang – Principal Security Specialist Technical Account Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)* This workshop is a deep dive in threat detection and response use cases for Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Detective. Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity. Amazon Detective simplifies the investigative process and helps security teams conduct faster and more effective investigations. 💡 **Pro Tip:** Arrive early to avoid queues and secure your seat for the sharing sessions! Additional Highlights: 🍕 Pizza Time: Begin your evening with some delicious pizza at 6:30 PM, courtesy of our generous sponsor, AWS. Vegetarian and halal options will be available. 🍻 Post-Meetup Networking: Stick around for casual networking over drinks. Let’s forge new connections and continue the conversations! 🎁 AWS Swag & Promo Codes: Don’t miss the chance to win exclusive AWS swag and promo codes. Prizes will be drawn for attendees present at the event—so stay till the end! **Connect with us here!** Meetup: [AWS User Group Singapore](https://www.meetup.com/aws-sg/) LinkedIn: [AWS User Group Singapore](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aws-user-group-singapore/) Discord: [https://discord.com/invite/nkZagBG](https://discord.com/invite/nkZagBG) Please reach out to us at **[aws.usergroup.singapore@gmail.com](mailto:aws.usergroup.singapore@gmail.com)** for collaboration or other enquiries!

**NEW LOCATION - THE DAILY GROWLER -** **2812 Fishinger Rd, Upper Arlington, OH 43221** Over the years, we’ve heard two requests constantly: 1. A place that was quieter and possibly private. 2. “I wish they accepted Bitcoin.” We’ve finally found a solution to these requests with The Daily Growler. We’ll have access to their private room, and you’ll be able to pay your tab with Bitcoin. Join us for a fun and relaxed social event! Enjoy delicious food and drinks as we chat about the latest news in the Bitcoin world. Everyone is welcome, whether you're looking for guidance, have questions, or just want to meet like-minded people. These social evenings are a great opportunity to make new friends and enhance your experience at the larger events throughout the year. We look forward to seeing you there! PSA: If the attendee RSVP seems low, keep in mind that most of our attendees come from X and not [meetup.com.](http://meetup.com./) You are welcome to come and become a part of our online community. Recordings of past guest speakers are available on our YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/@columbusbitcoin](https://www.youtube.com/@columbusbitcoin)

## Learn Infrastructure-as-Code (the FUN Way) — Through Minecraft 🎮☁️ **Joint Meetup: Azure CBUS × Columbus HashiCorp User Group × DevOps Columbus** What if learning Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code didn’t feel like a whitepaper… but more like a game? Join us for a joint Azure CBUS, Columbus HashiCorp User Group, and DevOps Columbus meetup where **Mark Tinderholt** \(Principal Architect\, Microsoft Azure \| HashiCorp Ambassador \| “The Azure Terraformer”\) shows how **Minecraft** can be used as a surprisingly powerful way to understand real-world Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. In this session, Mark will demonstrate how Terraform and Azure can be used to provision, configure, and manage Minecraft servers—while teaching the same patterns you’d use for production cloud infrastructure. ### What we’ll cover * Infrastructure-as-Code fundamentals using **Terraform** * Provisioning real infrastructure on **Azure** * Applying **IaC best practices** (immutability, repeatability, versioning) * How playful environments like Minecraft make complex concepts *click* * Why learning through experimentation beats click-ops every time ### Who should attend * Developers, platform engineers, and cloud engineers * Terraform users (new or experienced) * Anyone curious about Infrastructure-as-Code but tired of boring examples * Minecraft fans who want to see it used in a totally unexpected way No prior Minecraft experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to learn infrastructure the fun way. Come for the blocks, stay for the Terraform. 🧱➡️📐 Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/azure-cbus-2026/

## Details \#\# Learn Infrastructure\-as\-Code \(the FUN Way\) — Through Minecraft 🎮☁️ **Joint Meetup: DevOps Columbus - Azure CBUS - Columbus HashiCorp User Group** What if learning Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code didn’t feel like a whitepaper… but more like a game? Join us for a joint DevOps Columbus, Azure CBUS and Columbus HashiCorp User Group meetup where **Mark Tinderholt** \(Principal Architect\, Microsoft Azure \| HashiCorp Ambassador \| “The Azure Terraformer”\) shows how **Minecraft** can be used as a surprisingly powerful way to understand real-world Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. In this session, Mark will demonstrate how Terraform and Azure can be used to provision, configure, and manage Minecraft servers—while teaching the same patterns you’d use for production cloud infrastructure. \#\#\# What we’ll cover * Infrastructure-as-Code fundamentals using **Terraform** * Provisioning real infrastructure on **Azure** * Applying **IaC best practices** (immutability, repeatability, versioning) * How playful environments like Minecraft make complex concepts *click* * Why learning through experimentation beats click-ops every time \#\#\# Who should attend * Developers, platform engineers, and cloud engineers * Terraform users (new or experienced) * Anyone curious about Infrastructure-as-Code but tired of boring examples * Minecraft fans who want to see it used in a totally unexpected way No prior Minecraft experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to learn infrastructure the fun way. Come for the blocks, stay for the Terraform. 🧱➡️📐

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

## Learn Infrastructure-as-Code (the FUN Way) — Through Minecraft 🎮☁️ **Joint Meetup: Azure CBUS × Columbus HashiCorp User Group** What if learning Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code didn’t feel like a whitepaper… but more like a game? Join us for a joint Azure CBUS and Columbus HashiCorp User Group meetup where **Mark Tinderholt** \(Principal Architect\, Microsoft Azure \| HashiCorp Ambassador \| “The Azure Terraformer”\) shows how **Minecraft** can be used as a surprisingly powerful way to understand real-world Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. In this session, Mark will demonstrate how Terraform and Azure can be used to provision, configure, and manage Minecraft servers—while teaching the same patterns you’d use for production cloud infrastructure. ### What we’ll cover * Infrastructure-as-Code fundamentals using **Terraform** * Provisioning real infrastructure on **Azure** * Applying **IaC best practices** (immutability, repeatability, versioning) * How playful environments like Minecraft make complex concepts *click* * Why learning through experimentation beats click-ops every time ### Who should attend * Developers, platform engineers, and cloud engineers * Terraform users (new or experienced) * Anyone curious about Infrastructure-as-Code but tired of boring examples * Minecraft fans who want to see it used in a totally unexpected way No prior Minecraft experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to learn infrastructure the fun way. Come for the blocks, stay for the Terraform. 🧱➡️📐 Want to be a speaker? submit your talk to our Call for Presenters!!! https://sessionize.com/cbus-hug-2026/

In this local meeting, you will discover knowledge that you can use to get over the past. The key to improving your personal motivation, self-confidence, and happiness is to get over your painful memories. When you become free of your past, you will be free from stress, anger, anxiety and depression. Studies show that negative emotions can affect your health. By being free of negative emotions, believe it or not, you will most likely even look younger, feel more energetic, and become healthier! Be sure to click on the red "Attend" button below to come to this local event. We look forward to seeing you there. This group is brought to you by the Dianetics and Scientology life improvement center.

### 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/)