Welcome to the AI meetup in Boston. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agent, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers..

Agenda:
* 5:30pm~6:20pm: Checkin, Food and Networking
* 6:20pm~6:30pm: Welcome/community update
* 6:30pm~8:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 8:00pm: Open discussion & Mixer

Tech Talk: The power of low latency data for AI apps
Speaker: Monica Cisneros (Firebolt)
Abstract: RAG has transformed AI applications by grounding responses with external data. It can be better. By pairing RAG with low latency SQL analytics, you can enrich responses with instant insights, leading to a more interactive and insightful user experience with fresh, data-driven intelligence. In this talk, we’ll demo how low latency SQL combined with an AI application can deliver speed, accuracy, and trust.

Tech Talk: Evaluating LLMs: Adding Insight and Confidence to your Model Evaluations
Speaker: Micaela Kaplan (HumanSignal)
Abstract: LLMs have changed the way we look at model performance, but how can you be sure that your model is behaving the way you want it to? Without clean metrics, there’s no way to ensure that your LLM, or LLM-as-a-Judge, is accurately doing the tasks you’re asking of it. In this talk, I’ll explain why it’s important, especially for LLM-as-a-Judge, to get clean performance metrics you can trust, and show you how easy it is to get those metrics in a tool like Label Studio, an open-source tool for data labeling.

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

Sponsors:
- Firebolt: The Data Warehouse for AI applications, ELT at Scale. Learn more
- HumanSignal: the creators of Label Studio. Learn more

We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ AI developers in Boston and 500K+ worldwide.

Venue:
Microsoft New England – 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Conf Room NERD/1215 Horace Mann

Community Partners:
Contact us if you are interested in partnership.
- Microsoft: Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Every day, the innovative technology we create here takes that mission to new and exciting places and impacts the lives of millions of people around the world.

Local and Global AI Community on Discord
Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:
- Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
- Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
- Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
- Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers;