Welcome to the AI meetup in Melbourne, in collaboration with Natural Velocity and Featherless AI. 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 and networking
* 6:30pm~8:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 8:00pm: Open discussion & Mixer

Tech Talk: Rapid Attention Distillation to Linear Attention Decoder at Scale
Speaker: Harrison Vanderbyl (Featherless AI)
Abstract: Architecture innovation with language models is normally thought to be an incredibly expensive, time consuming process. To train a 70B model from scratch can require many millions of dollars, and many months, to accomplish. Our team at Featherless.ai, working with the RWKV foundation and open source community, have released a method to convert existing models to new architectures with only a tiny fraction of the time and money normally required. This opens up the gates to model architecture innovation that allows us to completely sidestep the costs of proving and scaling new architectures.

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:
Natural Velocity Innovation Centre, Docklands Dr, Docklands VIC 3008, Australia
How to find us: Level 1 up from Penny Café, corner of Star Crescent and Docklands Drive, Docklands Trams 86 & 70 stop at the front door, plenty of car parking available. We will provide car park discount tickets for attendees.

Sponsors:
- Natural Velocity Innovation Centre
- Featherless AI

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 3,000+ AI developers in Melbourne and 500K+ worldwide.

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