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Welcome to the Poetry Group! We meet once every other month for round table group critiques of each other's poetry. This in person meeting will take place at the Book Bar, close to Tanjong Pagar MRT. The bookshop also hosts a cafe with food, light snacks and drinks. Please come along for a night of poetry and refreshments. Since Book Bar has generously allowed us to use their space, we would like to ask members to purchase at least one drink during the meeting. https://www.bookbar.sg/ Thank you. General Group Notes: * Please email Singaporewritersnetwork@gmail.com for submissions with this Subject Heading and file name: poems_submission_(your name). If the heading and your file do not contain this information, they will be deleted. To view submissions please wait for the hosts to send you an email with the google drive folder link, at the deadline. If you do not receive an email, please contact the host as soon as possible. * A maximum of 7 submissions will be accepted, one per person. However, if you are submitting a short form poem, I.e haiku, you can submit up to a two. * Please read and review all the submissions before the meetup. * Uploads are due 1 day before the meeting. * Please view member files for rules and guidelines: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eu0hzJTrMNdSEXsLJ8em0iU5kbHXkiyA?usp=sharing * File sharing and non-meeting discussion happens in a private Slack group which you can join once you’re a member. * If you’d like to check out our group, please contact Alaa or Eneida for the monthly reading list or for any questions. Happy writing and see you soon!

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.

**Special topic for this week: TODO!** Have you ever wondered what happens after you write your program in any programming language and hit "Run"? Welcome to the new group dedicated to Compiler Engineering so we can discuss language design, static analysis, VMs, and code generation. Topics related to hardware architecture and FPGA are also welcomed! **Join us weekly and learn about:** * The vision for this group. * A crash course on how to start learning compiler dev (including top book recommendations). * An open networking session for showcasing projects and finding collaborators. * Weekly topic to learn about particular aspect of programming languages or hardware **Who is this for?** * Anyone building DSLs or new languages. * Anyone curious about low-level systems and programming * Anyone hiring for compiler/toolchain roles (come pitch your jobs!). * Anyone who wants to learn more about programming languages nature! This isn't a lecture—it's a conversation. Come share your projects and get motivated! This group is not super serious, so if you want to just yap about how bad is the new C++ standard you can find some listeners here. See you!

⚠️ **REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED VIA [THIS LUMA FORM](https://luma.com/numbjl55)**[ ](forms.gle/saLWmbr5XbwUX8Jp8)⚠️ SHELLgym is the regular cybersecurity workout you have been looking for! Whether you're just starting out and need some exercises, studying for a cert (hint: OSCP), looking at CTF challenges, or developing something cybersecurity-related (maybe your own automated tools?), SHELLgym aims to help you progress in picking up practical cybersecurity knowledge and skills. Come and go as you please, work on your own stuff with like-minded individuals, or just have fun during the workout! **AGENDA** Thematic activities for this session * General web frameworks and their administration * Dockerisation * Web enum and attacks * Web defences, logging and threat hunting **⚠️ NOTE** Bring your own laptops (and laptop chargers). Optional - Linux VM **TRAINER** **KK Tan — Founder, counterShell** As a mid-careerist convert to cybersecurity, **Tan KK** picked up his practical skills through getting OSCP certified and by participating in a variety of CTFs. In his career at CSIT, he performed a variety of red-teaming and vulnerability research roles and established the Cyber Training School at CSIT as the Lead Instructor. Besides the OSCP certification, KK is also OSCE and OSEE certified, and has a Bachelor's degree in Social Science (Psychology). He now sees psychology as a field of study where you fuzz humans until they produce unexpected behaviour. **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, AI Governance, Data governance, synthetic data, Data Regulation, finance, state of data talent demand, investment environment and more! # **​This month’s topic: The AI Reliability Gap - RAG, search and LLM evaluation** # AI adoption has moved faster than the ability to measure, control and debug it, creating a clear reliability gap in production systems. This event focuses on RAG, search and LLM evaluation - how to ensure AI outputs are correct, consistent and explainable in real use. Join for a morning networking session ahead of conference week. Casual coffee and peer discussion for professionals in data, AI and business. We’ll discuss how data governance, operating models, talent capability, infrastructure, and regulation are shaping real-world AI adoption - and what’s evolving as organisations grow. Expect open, peer-to-peer conversations on topics - No formal presentations. No sales pitches. Just shared learning. ​​**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.

AI Engineer is coming to Singapore - and Google DeepMind (as a sponsor of the event) also wants to contribute to its general aura of awesomeness! Talks (subject to updates...): **"Prototyping fast in Antigravity" - Ivan Leo** Ivan has been using Google Antigravity to rapidly build and prototype systems-level Zig libraries like teul and gil. He’ll walk through his actual day-to-day workflow and share the biggest lessons he's learned about steering AI when writing low-level code. Before joining Google DeepMind, Ivan worked on building agents at Manus AI (SG) before its acquisition by Meta in 2026, and so brings a practical view on what it takes to turn agent capabilities into products developers can actually use. **"Robotics Planning with Gemini" - Chaitanya Jadhav & Anurag Roy** Seizing the opportunity to do a lightning talk at the intersection of Robotics (the subject of the April MeetUp) and Gemini, Anurag and Chaitanya will demonstrate how Gemini's multimodal and reasoning capabilities can power a pipeline that converts photos of an indoor space into a map and generates executable task plans for robots with different embodiments. **"Something cool with TTS" - Martin Andrews** In this lightning talk, Martin has been playing with the Gemini Flash TTS models - and will demo both its regular API, and how it can be incorporated into various workflows. **"From Lab to Laundry: Scaling Robot Autonomy in the Real World" - Daniel Ng & Siddharth Krishnan** Google DeepMind’s ALOHA accelerated robot learning and model development, yet a gap remains between successful lab demos and robots working reliably in production. Daniel and Siddharth share their experience deploying ALOHA-based teleoperated robots in real work environments to bridge this autonomy gap; and explain why teleoperation will play key role in autonomous deployment. Apparently, there will be hardware! **FOOD UPDATE :** Google has told us that **there WILL BE** pizza at the event \-\-\- Talks will start at 7:10pm (entry at 6:45pm) and end at around 9:00pm, at which point attendees can come up to the front for a bit of a chat with each other, and the speakers. Due to some recent security incidents at the venue please take note of the new DevSpace security procedures [https://bit.ly/devspace-security](https://bit.ly/devspace-security) Attendees will not be admitted later than 15min after the talks have started. As always, we're actively looking for more speakers - both '30 minutes long-form', and lightning talks. For the lightning talks, we welcome folks to come and talk about something cool they've done with keras, PyTorch, JAX and/or Deep Learning for 5-10mins (so, if you have slides, then #max=10). We believe that the key ingredient for the success of a Lightning Talk is simply the cool/interesting factor. It doesn't matter whether you're an expert or an enthusiastic beginner: Given the responses we have had to previous talks, we're sure there are lots of people who would love to hear what you've been playing with. If you're interested in talking, please just introduce yourself to Martin at one of the events.

Join us for an **advanced, hands-on session** focused on mastering best practices for development with Claude Code. We'll go beyond the basics to cover *planning, testing, and implementation, including deep dives into custom skills, subagents, hooks, context management, and maximising parallelisation using worktrees*. It's a walk-through of powerful agentic coding techniques on a live project, not slides about them. **What we'll cover** \- Claude Code configs\, plugins\, MCP\, and CLAUDE\.md \- The plan to review to implement workflow and why planning first prevents AI slop \- Power\-user territory: custom skills\, subagents\, and hooks\, and how to know when to reach for each \- Context management and progressive disclosure \- Worktrees: running multiple agents in parallel and trusting the output **Speakers** Aritejh — Senior Software Engineer working on agentic applications in the FinTech industry. He's used Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and GitHub Copilot to ship agentic systems in production. Manaswini — Senior Backend Engineer passionate about tackling the hardest problems in this space. She's drawn to the start-up world and volunteers across communities to support women in tech. Eileen — Lead at Women Devs SG. She enjoys supporting others on their engineering journey and believes AI will reshape software development, pushing engineers to keep adapting how they learn, build, and think. **Who is this for?** Software developers already using Claude Code (or another agentic coding tool) who want to push their workflow further. Whether you live and breathe these tools or you're using them sometimes and want to level up, this one's for you! **What to bring** \- Your laptop with Claude Code installed beforehand\. This is hands\-on\, and we'd rather spend the time on techniques than on setup \- Your current workflow questions as there will be Q&A throughout **About the partners** Women Devs SG is a Singapore community for women developers that organizes events, mentorship, and spaces where engineers at every stage can learn from each other. General Assembly is a global learning community and our venue partner for the evening, providing the space for us to gather and build together. A community initiative by Women Devs SG, in partnership with General Assembly. Registration starts at 6:30pm and the actual session at 7pm!

**Ship Agents That Earn Trust** ​Wed\, 13 May 2026 \| 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM SGT ​📍 \*SCAPE, L5 TreeTop, 2 Orchard Link, Singapore 237978 ​🎫 Complimentary food and drinks provided ​⸻ ​**About the Event** ​Every AI team is building agents, but very few can answer what happens when those agents need to act outside their own system. ​When an AI agent crosses an organisational boundary, it carries no verifiable identity. There is no way for the system on the other side to confirm what it is authorised to do, who sent it, or whether it can be trusted at all. The result is a trust gap that no amount of model improvement closes, because it is an infrastructure problem, not an intelligence one. ​This afternoon brings together AI founders and builders to confront that gap directly. Glenn Gore, CEO of Affinidi and former AWS Chief Architect, will give an opening address on building the Internet of Trust, and we will have a guest speaker, Managing Director of Temasek, Pradyumna Agrawal, who will speak about identity, trust, and the future of AI agents. ​You will also hear from a select group of AI companies already building on Affinidi Trust Fabric, sharing their production challenges. ​Whether you are architecting agentic infrastructure, building AI products, or stress-testing your assumptions about what trustworthy agents actually require, this is a conversation worth leaning in. Expect sharp thinking, real use cases, and the space to connect with a community of founders and builders working on the same hard problems. ​Complimentary dinner and drinks are included as the afternoon winds down, to continue conversations. ​RSVP on LUMA required: [https://luma.com/2lv08v20](https://luma.com/2lv08v20) ​⸻ ​**🛠 What's Happening** ​2:00 PM — **Registration and networking** ​2:35 PM — **Opening Address by Glenn Gore**, CEO of Affinidi and former Chief Architect at AWS: *Building the Internet of Trust* ​2:50 PM — **Guest Speaker: Pradyumna Agrawal**, Managing Director of Temasek: *Identity, Trust, and the Future of AI Agents* ​3:05 PM — **Community Spotlight: Arul Murugan,** Founder, GrowthLab ​3:15 PM — **Featured builder spotlights**: How AI companies are applying Affinidi Trust Fabric in real-world agentic solutions ​4:40 PM — **Panel discussion and audience Q&A** ​5:20 PM — **Networking dinner and builder conversations**: Mingle with founders, AI leaders, and builders over dinner. Meet the Affinidi team for a closer look at early access opportunities. ​6:30 PM — **Event ends** ​⸻ ​**🍽 Food & Drinks** ​Dinner will be served during the networking session, so you can keep the conversations going with fellow founders, AI leaders, and builders. ​⸻ ​**📍 Venue** ​\*SCAPE, TreeTop — Level 5 2 Orchard Link, Singapore 237978 ​⸻ ​**🏠 Organised by** ​[GrowthLab.sg](https://growthlab.sg/?utm_source=luma) An all-in-one founders platform — connecting Singapore's startup community to the world through events, resources, and tools to help founders build and grow. [linktr.ee/GrowthLab.sg](https://linktr.ee/GrowthLab.sg?utm_source=luma) ​Affinidi is building the trust infrastructure the Internet never had. Its technology gives builders and organisations the architecture and tools to enable verifiable, privacy-preserving interactions between people, businesses, systems, and AI agents, via open standards with zero vendor lock-in. Founded by Temasek and an active contributor to the Linux Foundation, Affinidi is helping define the trust layer the digital economy needs. Find out more at [www.affinidi.com](https://www.affinidi.com/?utm_source=luma). ​⸻ ​**🤝 Supported by** ​\*SCAPE A youth development space by the National Youth Council, providing a platform for young people to explore their passions, develop their potential, and connect with a community of like-minded individuals. [www.scape.sg](https://www.scape.sg/?utm_source=luma) ​⸻ ​**🔗 Stay Connected** ​[linktr.ee/GrowthLab.sg](https://linktr.ee/GrowthLab.sg?utm_source=luma) ​#TrustedAI #AIAgents #Affinidi #GrowthLab #AgenticAI #SingaporeStartups #BuildInPublic

**ANNOUNCEMENT – Registration via this [link](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-14may2026-mc) only.** * Seats are on a first-come, first-served basis. * For admission into our event space, please register beforehand via GovEntry only. * Please present the QR code within your registration confirmation email upon check-in at our event space. **About this Meetup** Balancing speed and stability is a constant challenge in evolving multi-product ecosystems, where teams must make deliberate trade-offs between rapid iteration and long-term reliability. In this edition of ***STACK Meetup [Engineering]***, GovTech speakers from the ***GovWallet suite – GovEntry, GovRewards, GovSupply, and GovWallet*** – will share their grounded experiences from building and scaling across multiple products, offering a closer look at how engineering teams make decisions, prioritise effectively, and evolve systems as complexity grows. Whether you’re shaping architecture, building systems or driving delivery, gain practical perspectives on making better trade-offs, prioritising effectively, and building with greater clarity and intent. Learn with us today: **[go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-14may2026-mc](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-14may2026-mc)**! Who should attend: Software engineers, backend developers, system designers, and engineering managers, who are building and scaling systems across multiple products. **Programme** 6:30pm: Networking 7:00pm: Introduction By STACK Community 7:05pm: Opening By ​Satoshi Hayashi, Lead Product Manager, Platform Products, Government Digital Products (GDP), GovTech Singapore 7:15pm: Our API-First Journey: Building the Engine Before The Car By Chia Wei Kang, Software Engineer, Government Digital Products - GovEntry, GovTech Singapore 7:35pm: The Art of Small Wins: Build Only What You Need, When You Need It By Alvin Choong, Engineering Manager, Government Digital Products - GovEntry, GovTech Singapore 7:55pm: Diving Into Various Multi-Product Use Cases and Our Learnings By Immanuella Lim, Engineering Manager, Government Digital Products - GovWallet, GovTech Singapore 8:15pm: Q&A 8:30pm: End of STACK Meetup Click **[here](https://go.gov.sg/stackmeetup-14may2026-mc)\*** to sign up! \*Registration will be accepted via GovEntry only.

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

We will show how to build custom agents with Microsoft Agent Framework. Attendees will learn how to build and custom host agents when Microsoft Foundry is not a viable option.

**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: This month John Lairson will share a notebook describing the Alpaca (Paper) Trading API and discuss different algorithms for evaluating stock trades. 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

Bring your Raspberry Pi, Arduino, microcontroller, or any other electronic project and join fellow electronics makers for a night of creativity and collaboration! This session is open forum to share your current projects—whether complete or in progress, it’s all interesting! Whether you’re deep into embedded systems, exploring new ideas, or just getting started, you’ll find a welcoming space to collaborate, share, and get inspired. **New to electronics or curious about tinkering?** You’re absolutely welcome. If you’re a beginner and want to experiment, I’ll have a couple of starter kits available so you can try things out—whether that’s blinking your first LED, putting something on a display, or experimenting with simple sensors. No pressure and no experience required—just an interest in learning and building. While we continue to pursue a more permanent venue for this Meetup, we’ll be using public library facilities based on availability. This session will be at the Worthington Park Library in the Olentangy Meeting Room.

**Latest 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 speakers for our Monthly Meetups! Fill out the form if you are interested in presenting to the Python Community. https://forms.gle/ehSfUAC2WgR34Crq9

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.

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)