Natural Language Processing

* **ENGLISH** • Language Exchange: We will be at Lastarria📍 Padre Luis de Valdivia 352 from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm • International Party: After the Language Exchange we go to a Pubcrawl📍Between Lastarria and Bellavista (We go to different clubs, all together) Board games + Party games + English / Spanish / Portuguese Speaking party host Price: $15.000 chilean pesos Includes a craft beer draft or dessert (variety available) until 11:00 pm. Check our Instagram @vivethink to see more Meet people from different countries, learn languages, make new friends & have fun! * **ESPAÑOL** • Intercambio de idiomas: Estaremos en Lastarria 📍 Padre Luis de Valdivia 352 desde las 9:00 pm hasta las 11:00 pm • Fiesta internacional: Después del intercambio de idiomas vamos a un Pubcrawl 📍 Entre Lastarria y Bellavista (vamos a distintos clubes, todos juntos) Juegos de mesa + juegos de fiesta + anfitrión de la fiesta que habla inglés / español / portugués Precio: $15.000 pesos chilenos Incluye una cerveza artesanal de barril o postre (variedad disponible) hasta las 11:00 pm. Revisa nuestro Instagram @vivethink para ver más ¡Conoce personas de distintos países, aprende idiomas, haz nuevos amigos y diviértete!

* **ENGLISH** • Language Exchange: We will be at Lastarria📍 Padre Luis de Valdivia 352 from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm • International Party: After the Language Exchange we go to a Pubcrawl📍Between Lastarria and Bellavista (We go to different clubs, all together) Board games + Party games + English / Spanish / Portuguese Speaking party host Price: $15.000 chilean pesos Includes a craft beer draft or dessert (variety available) until 11:00 pm. Check our Instagram @vivethink to see more Meet people from different countries, learn languages, make new friends & have fun! * **ESPAÑOL** • Intercambio de idiomas: Estaremos en Lastarria 📍 Padre Luis de Valdivia 352 desde las 9:00 pm hasta las 11:00 pm • Fiesta internacional: Después del intercambio de idiomas vamos a un Pubcrawl 📍 Entre Lastarria y Bellavista (vamos a distintos clubes, todos juntos) Juegos de mesa + juegos de fiesta + anfitrión de la fiesta que habla inglés / español / portugués Precio: $15.000 pesos chilenos Incluye una cerveza artesanal de barril o postre (variedad disponible) hasta las 11:00 pm. Revisa nuestro Instagram @vivethink para ver más ¡Conoce personas de distintos países, aprende idiomas, haz nuevos amigos y diviértete!

* **ENGLISH** • Language Exchange: We will be at Lastarria📍 Padre Luis de Valdivia 352 from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm • International Party: After the Language Exchange we go to a Pubcrawl📍Between Lastarria and Bellavista (We go to different clubs, all together) Board games + Party games + English / Spanish / Portuguese Speaking party host Price: $15.000 chilean pesos Includes a craft beer draft or dessert (variety available) until 11:00 pm. Check our Instagram @vivethink to see more Meet people from different countries, learn languages, make new friends & have fun! * **ESPAÑOL** • Intercambio de idiomas: Estaremos en Lastarria 📍 Padre Luis de Valdivia 352 desde las 9:00 pm hasta las 11:00 pm • Fiesta internacional: Después del intercambio de idiomas vamos a un Pubcrawl 📍 Entre Lastarria y Bellavista (vamos a distintos clubes, todos juntos) Juegos de mesa + juegos de fiesta + anfitrión de la fiesta que habla inglés / español / portugués Precio: $15.000 pesos chilenos Incluye una cerveza artesanal de barril o postre (variedad disponible) hasta las 11:00 pm. Revisa nuestro Instagram @vivethink para ver más ¡Conoce personas de distintos países, aprende idiomas, haz nuevos amigos y diviértete!

* **ENGLISH** • Language Exchange: We will be at Lastarria📍 Padre Luis de Valdivia 352 from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm • International Party: After the Language Exchange we go to a Pubcrawl📍Between Lastarria and Bellavista (We go to different clubs, all together) Board games + Party games + English / Spanish / Portuguese Speaking party host Price: $15.000 chilean pesos Includes a craft beer draft or dessert (variety available) until 11:00 pm. Check our Instagram @vivethink to see more Meet people from different countries, learn languages, make new friends & have fun! * **ESPAÑOL** • Intercambio de idiomas: Estaremos en Lastarria 📍 Padre Luis de Valdivia 352 desde las 9:00 pm hasta las 11:00 pm • Fiesta internacional: Después del intercambio de idiomas vamos a un Pubcrawl 📍 Entre Lastarria y Bellavista (vamos a distintos clubes, todos juntos) Juegos de mesa + juegos de fiesta + anfitrión de la fiesta que habla inglés / español / portugués Precio: $15.000 pesos chilenos Incluye una cerveza artesanal de barril o postre (variedad disponible) hasta las 11:00 pm. Revisa nuestro Instagram @vivethink para ver más ¡Conoce personas de distintos países, aprende idiomas, haz nuevos amigos y diviértete!

We meet to learn and practice American Sign Language and to grow our familiarity with Deaf culture. Facilitated by hearing folks (with a connection to a professional interpreter) using Deaf-created content. People of all ASL skill levels are welcome! As we learn, we hope to connect more with the Deaf community in Central Ohio. Join us as you're able! Come regularly or just once - whatever you're looking for! Each meetup will explore different topics related to ASL/Deaf culture, and will feature time to practice conversation with one another. Just bring yourself and a willingness to learn!

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."

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.

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)

Nature Printing with Gelli Plate Thursday May 21, 2026 Join local artist Diana Andrews to explore the process of gelli plates. This hands-on, creative experience is suitable for all skill levels, focusing on creating unique monoprints without a traditional printing press. All materials will be provided, but participants are asked to bring additional leaves. Class Fee - $30 6PM - 8PM Location: James Bradley Center, Infirmary Mound Park Register and pay here: [https://www.lickingparkdistrict.com/269/May-2026](https://www.lickingparkdistrict.com/269/May-2026)

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.