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🧠 About TorontoAI
TorontoAI is a vibrant, inclusive community of engineers, builders, founders, and curious minds passionate about making AI infrastructure more accessible, human-centered, and scalable.
We host bi-weekly in-person socials, tech meetups, and hands-on webinars to connect people across disciplines — from DevOps to Data Science, from students to senior architects. Whether you're deploying LLMs in production or just exploring what Databricks does, you're welcome here.
🤝 We’re Building More Than a Meetup
In a world dominated by virtual everything, we believe in real, human-to-human connection.
TorontoAI is a space to:
- Share ideas over coffee
- Spark collaborations face-to-face
- Meet people who understand your stack and your journey
- Build your network beyond LinkedIn likes
💬 What We Talk About:
- Scalable AI & LLM infrastructure (Kubernetes, GPUs, vLLM, Ollama, LangChain)
- Databricks, Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt — building the modern data stack
- MLOps, LLMOps, DevOps — the operational glue of AI systems
- Real-world engineering stories, founder spotlights, and tool breakdowns
🌈 Who We Welcome:
- DevOps, SREs & Platform Engineers moving into data/AI
- Data Engineers, Analysts & ML practitioners
- Founders, freelancers, and technologists in transition
- Students and early-career professionals seeking real-world exposure
We’re committed to creating a welcoming, diverse, and equity-focused space where all voices matter — no gatekeeping, no rockstars, just good humans building cool stuff.
📍 Based in Toronto, open to the world
📅 Join an event — and be part of something human, helpful, and hands-on.
Upcoming events (4)
See all- Webinar Vibe Coding — The Punk Rock Future of AI-Powered DevelopmentLink visible for attendees
## Vibe Coding — The Punk Rock Future of AI-Powered Development
### Description:
Are you ready to disrupt your development workflow and code like a rockstar?
Join us for an electrifying webinar where we explore the future of software development through the lens of “Vibe Coding”—an AI-augmented approach that’s collaborative, intuitive, and undeniably rebellious. In this session, we’ll show you how to turn your local dev environment into an AI-enhanced backstage powered by All Hands AI, Devstral, and VLLM—deployed on the high-performance infrastructure of Denvr Cloud.
Just like a punk band tears down conventions, Vibe Coding smashes the traditional barriers of coding by putting intelligent automation, seamless collaboration, and developer empowerment front and center.***
### What You’ll Learn:
🎸 What is Vibe Coding?
Break free from the mundane. Discover how AI is making coding feel more like creating art than writing scripts.🛠️ Inside the Stack:
Deep dive into All Hands AI, the self-hosted, secure, open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot.⚡ Devstral + VLLM:
Learn how Devstral, an LLM built for engineering, and VLLM, a blazing-fast inference engine, supercharge your coding assistant.🚀 Live Setup on Denvr Cloud:
Step-by-step walkthrough to deploy your AI-powered stack on enterprise-grade GPU infrastructure.
📊 Real-Time Monitoring:
Integrate Grafana and Prometheus to observe your AI assistant in action.
🧠 Use Cases and Demos:
From smart test generation to real-time refactoring, see how Vibe Coding boosts productivity for individuals and teams.
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### Who Should Attend:
- Software Engineers and DevOps who want an edge in their workflow
- AI Engineers exploring self-hosted copilots
- Tech leads looking for secure, customizable LLM solutions
- CTOs interested in the future of developer productivity
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### Event Details:
📅 Date: 16 July 2025
🕒 Time: 6 PM EST
🌐 Location: Live Online (Link will be shared upon registration)
💻 Registration: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/aa019ec2-5e15-4b2a-829c-56e4fa326096@108ca3e6-9880-4a0c-aafe-64c1d2a93795We will be following instruction mentioned on the blog post - https://www.becloudready.com/post/punk-band-of-software-development-vibe-coding-with-all-hands-ai-devstral-and-vllm
Deploy Your Own Vibe Coding Platform with All Hands & Mistral AI on Denvr
Bonus
All attendees will receive a free setup guide, code samples, and access to the deployment repo so you can start jamming with your own AI band right after the session.***
Come for the code. Stay for the Vibe. Let’s bring the punk energy back to software development.
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- Automating Databricks with Terraform: A 2-Hour DataOps IntensiveLink visible for attendees
🎓 Live Training Bootcamp
Automating Databricks with Terraform: A 2-Hour DataOps Intensive
💡 What is this bootcamp?
This is a hands-on, instructor-led bootcamp designed to teach you how to build, automate, and manage your Databricks environment using Terraform and GitHub Actions. In just 2 hours, you'll go from zero to a working infrastructure that includes scheduled jobs, CI/CD workflows, and a complete DataOps-ready pipeline — all using open tools and best practices.
This is the exact foundation used by modern platform teams building production-grade analytics on Azure.
📚 What You’ll Learn (Agenda)
✅ Part 1: Provisioning Databricks with Terraform (30 mins)
- Overview of Databricks + Azure integration
- Workspace provisioning using Terraform
- Setting up VNet, subnets, managed resource group
- Folder structure & multi-environment strategy
- Secrets and GitHub Action integration for infra
✅ Part 2: Deploying Jobs & Notebooks as Code (40 mins)
- Upload Python-based notebooks using databricks_notebook
- Create jobs and schedule nightly ETL pipelines
- Use Databricks serverless compute for jobs
- Organize “infra vs app” layers in your Terraform repo
✅ Part 3: DataOps Workflows with GitHub Actions (40 mins)
- Set up a GitHub Actions workflow to deploy jobs automatically
- Enable approvals and PR-based job promotion
- Introduce Fivetran, dbt, or Delta Lake into the pipeline
- Monitor and test job execution end-to-end
✅ Part 4: Resume and Interview Tips
👨💻 Who Should Attend?
- Data Engineers and Platform Engineers
- DevOps/MLOps practitioners using Databricks
- Cloud Architects managing production pipelines
- Anyone building repeatable data environments on Azure
🧰 What You Get
✅ Live training with real-time Q&A
✅ GitHub repo with all Terraform modules and job code
✅ Templates for Databricks infra, jobs, workflows, and GitHub CI
✅ Follow-up support in Slack/Discord
✅ Resume Review and Tips🏷️ Price & Format
📅 Format: 2-hour live online bootcamp (Teams Webinar)
💰 Price: $24
💬 Format: Live walk-through, repo access, and recording included
Registration : https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/automating-databricks-with-terraform-a-2-hour-dataops-intensive-tickets-1467871315619?aff=oddtdtcreator🔥 Why Join?
Whether you're building a modern data stack or automating an existing pipeline, this bootcamp gives you the tools, repo structure, and CI/CD best practices to go from notebooks to nightly production jobs in one session.
- Webinar - Fine-Tune AI Model on H100 with Hugging FaceLink visible for attendees
### 🔧 Webinar: Fine-Tuning Google Gemma with QLoRA on H100 GPU (Linux Setup + Hugging Face)
🚀 What You'll Learn:
- How to set up a Linux VM with an NVIDIA H100 GPU (Denvr AI Cloud) for ML workloads
- Installing and configuring NVIDIA drivers and CUDA correctly (no more version mismatch headaches!)
- Fine-tuning Google Gemma using QLoRA and Hugging Face Transformers
- Using real-world Text-to-SQL datasets to train LLMs efficiently
- How to save, merge, and test your fine-tuned models
👨💻 Live Demo Includes:
- End-to-end GPU environment setup
- Installing PyTorch, TRL, PEFT, and related libraries
- Downloading and preparing Hugging Face datasets
- Launching Jupyter Notebook to train and run inference
- Model merging and deployment tips
🎯 Key Takeaways:
- Master CUDA + PyTorch compatibility for training
- Optimize for low memory training with QLoRA
- Easily transition from fine-tuning to inference-ready models
📍 Who Should Attend:
- ML Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps Practitioners
- Anyone training open LLMs (Gemma, Mistral, LLaMA, etc.)
- Developers struggling with driver/CUDA issues on GPUs
We will be using Denvr AI Compute for this Webinar - https://www.denvrdata.com/