As the year winds down and the holiday spirits ramp up, we invite you to the most electrifying AI meetup (end-of-year edition). We will throw the most exciting holiday bash for people who build AI!

Join AI developers, ML engineers, Data scientists and practitioners to celebrate all your hard work this year, with tech talks, food, and drinks.

Agenda:
* 5:00pm~5:30pm: Checkin, Food/drink and networking
* 5:30pm~5:40pm: Welcome/community update
* 5:40pm~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 7:30pm: Open discussion, networking

Tech Talk 1: A Year of Generative AI in 20 Minutes
Speaker: Myles Harrison
Abstract: Since the release of ChatGPT last November, 2023 has been a tumultuous and transformative year launching the world into the "age of Generative AI". The pace and progress of recent technologies and models has been astonishing and often difficult to keep up with. In this short talk, we will look back over some of the fundamentals and history of what has brought us to where we are, emerging trends and milestones over the past year, and what we can look forward to in the future of artificial intelligence in 2024 and beyond.

Tech Talk 2: AI as an Agent
Speaker: Yuxi Li @AlphaAgent.net
Abstract: We will talk about What is an agent? Why do we need an agent? How to build an agent? and challenges and opportunities with AI agents and LLMs-based agents.

Topics/Speakers:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Venue:
OneEleven, 325 Front St W 4th Floor, Toronto, ON M5V 2Y1, Canada Google Map

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community.  Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will have the chance to speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, and gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ local or 300K+ developers worldwide.

Community on Slack
- Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
- Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
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