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We’re excited to be part of **“Agentic AI At Work”** — a community meetup happening on **14th May**. If you’re exploring how AI agents are being built and used in the real world, this is a great session to join and learn with the community. From the Redis side, we’ll be presenting: **“Building Production-Ready GenAI Applications with Redis.”** In this talk, we’ll share practical patterns to take GenAI apps beyond prototypes — covering common challenges like **latency, cost, and accuracy**, and how Redis can act as a **real-time context/working memory layer** using approaches like **semantic caching, vector & hybrid search, and efficient retrieval**. If you’d like to learn more about Redis and how teams are using it in GenAI applications, we’d love to have you join. **Important:** RSVP on Meetup is **not enough** — you must register via the **Luma link** to get the joining details and confirmation. Register here (via Luma): https://luma.com/pb93q27u

**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.

**Priority given to regulars, intermediate level players and players who have their private message function switched on. If you dont have it switched on, I cannot ask for your availability and skill level etc** **2 hrs..For Intermediate level and above..** **Decided to organize TT for people living in Central/North side of the island.** **Things to take note** **• Pls message me at 96751920 or drop a private message here if you have any questions.** **• Do bring your own bat. Balls would be provided.** **• If for some reason you aren't able to make it on that day, please remove yourself from the RSVP list so as to not deprive those in the waiting list a chance to play.** **\*****\*****\*****\*****\*NOTE: FOR THOSE WHO HAD RSVP BUT** 1. **DID NOT TURNED UP ON THE DAY OR** 1. **DID NOT INFORMED THAT THEY AREN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT OR** 1. **DID NOT WITHDRAW RSVP WHEN THEY CANNOT MAKE IT** **ON THE FUTURE MEETUP WHICH YOU RSVP, YOU WOULD BE LIABLE TO PAY FOR THE SESSION YOU HAD MISSED PREVIOUSLY.** 1. **REPEATED OFFENDERS (MORE THAN 2 TIMES) WILL MEAN AUTO DROP DOWN TO "NOT GOING" LIST IF I SEE YOUR NAME ON RSVP LIST ON THE NEXT MEETUP.** ******* **• Find us at Tables 2-6** **Any questions, please feel free to drop me a message.** **Cheers**

🌿⛰️ Saturday Afternoon Hike at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve ⛰️🌿 Escape the city stress and spend your Saturday afternoon surrounded by nature! Join us for a refreshing hike at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve — home to Singapore’s highest natural point and one of the country’s richest rainforest reserves. 🌳🐒 We’ll enjoy a steady hike through scenic jungle trails, tackle some stair climbs, and soak in the peaceful greenery while getting a good workout in. Expect a mix of paved paths, forest terrain, and moderate uphill sections. Perfect for anyone looking to stay active and meet fellow hiking enthusiasts! 🥾 Hike Details: • Location: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve • Date: 16 May 2026 (Saturday) • Time: 3:00pm to 5:30pm • Meetup Time: 2:50pm • Meetup Point: Hillview MRT (Passenger Service) • Highlights: Summit point, rainforest scenery, fitness challenge, and great company 🎒 Please Bring: • Water / hydration • Comfortable hiking or sports shoes • Small towel • Insect repellent • Light snacks if needed ⚠️ Notes: • Hike will proceed in light rain unless conditions are unsafe • Please ensure you are reasonably fit for uphill climbing and stair sections • Respect nature and keep the trails clean 🌱 Come recharge, enjoy the outdoors, and make new friends along the way! 😊

Whatsapp Philip for any questions: 8452 0693 Hola! Come and pick up some Spanish at Saturday Spanish: Sábado de Español. Learners of all ages and all levels are welcome. All our language-learning meetup events are free of charge. WE WANT SPANISH SPEAKERS TOO! We are on a constant lookout for proficient Spanish speakers (not necessarily native) to come and share their knowledge of the language and culture. If you speak the language, come and join us and make lots of friends. See you there amigos! Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mRfYKAMXaL9rLLEz8 *** 1. NO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES We welcome anyone who is keen to learn a language or help others learn the language. However, this is NOT the platform for individuals who have other intentions, such as recruiting members for their business/organisation, WhatsApp groups or selling products or services. We will not hesitate to ask such individuals to stop attending our meetups if they have been found to be pestering our members for such purposes. 2\. GETTING THERE Take Downtown Line or Circle Line to Promenade MRT. At Promenade MRT take Exit C, turn right and walk into Suntec City, take the escalators or lift to level 3, you will find FOOD ARENA foodcourt next to Burger King. 3\. LOCATING US INSIDE THE FOOD COURT We usually will have a "SPANISH" sign at our table. You can ask the other language groups at the food court where the Spanish Group is sitting, they will help guide 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)

Join us to discover more about The Enneagram and how it will boost your self-awareness and contribute to your future career! **Takeaways:** 1. Discover your unique strengths and how they align with your career path. 2. Identify your core fears, motivations, and unconscious behavioral patterns. 3. Break self-sabotaging habits, fostering greater self-awareness and empathy for others. **Fresh graduates, aspiring managers, and mid-career switchers are welcomed!**

**LEARN MANDARIN WITH US** **和我们一起学华语/普通话** Come and join us every Saturday afternoon and learn some useful Mandarin from proficient speakers in a friendly and casual atmosphere. Besides learning the language, you will also get to make new friends from all around the world. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate and advanced learner, we welcome you. The meetup starts at 4 pm. We will try our best to arrange seating at this time so that each group has expert Mandarin speakers. If you come later than 4.10 pm we cannot guarantee ideal seating. Seating priorities will be given to those who signed up. **欢迎会说华语/普通话的朋友** 我们非常欢迎会说华语/普通话的朋友来参加我们这个华语/普通话练习小组，帮助来自世界各地的朋友学习华语/普通话。 *** GETTING THERE Take Downtown (blue) Line or Circle (yellow) Line to Promenade MRT. Take Exit C at Promenade MRT, and go up to level 3. LOCATING US INSIDE THE FOOD COURT Look for a round tables section near the wall of the food court away from the stalls. You can drop the Event Host a message if you are lost. NO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES We welcome anyone who is keen to learn a language or help others learn the language. However, this is NOT the platform for individuals who have other intentions, such as recruiting members for their business or organization or selling products or services. We will not hesitate to ask such individuals to stop attending our meetups.

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** TBD **YouTube Link** TBD

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.

**Presenter:** Auri Rahimzadeh, Principal Software Architect, Momentum3 **Time:** Pizza at 6:00, Presentation Starts at 6:30pm Eastern **Location:** Theoris, 9000 Keystone Crossing, Suite 230, Indianapolis Auri's been using AI a lot. Are you? Let's discuss how to be your most effective self by using AI in your development workflow. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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

**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