Name: Tulsa AWS User Group: Let's Build with AI – Become an AI Practitioner
Start: 2025-03-26T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-26T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Atlas School

**Date:** Wednesday, March 26
**Time:** 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
**Location:** Atlas School - Annex Assembly Room (Tulsa)

**\*\* Are you ready to take your AI skills to the next level?** \*\*
Join us for an exciting **hands-on** AI workshop designed to empower professionals like you to navigate the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence. Whether you're an AWS enthusiast, a developer, or just curious about AI, this session will provide valuable insights and practical experience.

### **What to Expect**

💡 **Session 1: The AI Product Lifecycle (Wed, 3/26)**

* Understand key concepts: **data preparation, fine-tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agent tool calls, and AI model evaluation.**
* Learn how to incorporate AI into real-world applications.

💡 **Session 2: Deploying an Open-Source LLM (April 2025)**

* Deploy **DeepSeek R1** on an EC2 instance using Ollama.
* Gain practical experience in running foundation models on AWS.

### **Bonus! Join the AI Practitioners Group**

At the end of the workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to **join our new AI Practitioners group at Gradient**—a free, ongoing study group where we’ll work together on AI-driven products and support each other in passing the **AWS AI Practitioner certification!**

**Don't miss this chance to be part of the next wave of AI innovation!** Bring your ideas, questions, and enthusiasm for AI.

**RSVP now to secure your spot!**

**Let’s build with AI, together!**

Dwight McDonald

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Joshua Ogden-Davis

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Kaitlin Cort is a software engineer working on the AI platform at AidKit, a mission-driven financial technology company that partners with government and NGO's to administer over $270 million in aid programs across the U.S., while minimizing the risk of fraud. She is also an educator, and civic tech maker, who consults as an Enterprise Technical Instructor at PluralSight. She studied applied math and public policy at Columbia University and NYU, and graduate-level computer science with a focus on machine learning at the University of Pennsylvania. A new member of Tulsa Remote, Kaitlin trained as a community organizer and policy researcher, before transitioning from data science to software engineering. She served in state government as the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Task Force in the New York State Assembly, and is passionate about the practical implications of AI for community engagement, participatory budgeting, and movement-building.

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