This event is for adults only (21+).

As the year winds down and the holiday spirits ramp up, we invite you to the most electrifying AI meetup (end-of-year edition). Instead of our usual scheduled talks, 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.

Agenda:
* 5:00pm: Checkin, Food and Networking
* 5:45pm: Welcome/Community update
* 6:00pm: Tech Talks and Q&A
* 7:30pm: Community Showcases
* 8:00pm: Open discussion and Happy Hour Mixer

Tech Talk: Beyond RAG: Vector Databases
Speaker: Yujian Tang @Zilliz

Tech Talk: AI in Microsoft SQL
Speaker: Katherine Lin @Microsoft
Abstract: In this talk, we will provide an overview of our AI investment landscape across Copilots, AI Applications on SQL, Autonomous DB, AIOps, and Business Intelligence.

Tech Talk: LLMOps: Tools and Best Practice
Speaker: Robert Mao @AIGNE
Abstract: LLMOps covers a range of crucial elements, such as Prompt Engineering, Version Management, Test Automation, and Deployment and Monitoring, and more. Throughout this presentation, we will highlight 8 significant dimensions of LLMOps and elaborate on how LLMOps has enhanced productivity and cost-effectiveness across 4 major software delivery cycles.

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

Startup Showcase:
We have 5~10 demo desks available for the community showcases and ~5 minutes quick demo on the stage. We will have judges and attendees vote for projects, with 3 amazing awards (best of innovation, best of technology, popular vote). You are invited to apply here Community Showcase

Venue:
GitHub Bellevue, 10900 NE 4th St, Floor 21, Bellevue, WA 98004

Sponsors:
GitHub, Zilliz, AIGNE
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 20,000+ 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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