Welcome to the monthly in-person AI meetup in San Francisco. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda:
- 5:00pm~5:45pm: Checkin, food and networking
- 5:45pm~6:00pm: Welcome, Community update
- 6:00pm~8:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A
- 8:00pm~8:30pm: Open discussion, Mixer and Closing.

Tech Talk: Image Contextual Understanding via LLM
Speaker: Faye Zhang (Pinterest)
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss: a) common challenges on Image understanding for multi-modality; b) optimizations with RAG and other techniques.

Tech Talk: Making Friends with Vector Search
Speaker: Adam Chan (Weaviate)
Abstract: In this talk, we'll dive into a RAG use case that isn't a chatbot application. We'll leverage the power of a language model to create more consistent and organized formats of data representing a person and then use vector search in Weaviate to create viable connections between people who already have similar interests. From there we'll use our integrated generative module to help produce prompts for things that people can talk about and connect over.

Tech Talk: Customizable RAG workflows with your own Data
Speaker: Christy Bergman (Zilliz)
Abstract: You’ve heard good data matters in Machine Learning, but does it matter for Generative AI applications? Corporate data often differs significantly from the general internet data used to train most foundation models. Join me for a demo on building a customizable RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) stack using Milvus vector database, LangChain, Ollama with Llama 3, Ragas RAG eval, and optional Zilliz cloud, Anthropic, OpenAI.

Speakers/Topics:
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:
GitHub, 88 Colin P Kelly Junior Street, San Francisco, CA

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 not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 30,000+ AI developers in San Francisco Bay Area or 350K+ worldwide.

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