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~5:45pm: Checkin, Food/drink and networking
* 5:45pm~6:00pm: Welcome/community update
* 6:00pm~7:30pm: Tech talks, Q&A and Community showcase
* 7:30pm~8:00pm: Open discussion and Mixer

Tech Talk 1: RAG in the new Azure AI Studio
Speaker: Elijah Straight @Microsoft
Abstract: Intro on RAG and demo how RAG functions in the new Azure AI Studio.

Tech Talk 2: The next level of RAG applications - building multimodal applications with Vector Databases
Speaker: Byron Voorbach @Weaviate
Abstract: In this talk, we are going to explore how vector databases like Weaviate can be used to build the next level of RAG applications. Based on examples we are looking at the possibilities of RAG architectures that can handle multimodal context like images, videos and much more and how vector databases work in such a setting

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. You are invited to apply here Community Showcase

Venue:
Microsoft NYC - Times Square, 11 Times Square, New York, NY 10036
Room Name: Central Park West 6501

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community.  Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsor. 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
Join Slack (browse/search and join #newyork channel)