Welcome to the AI meetup in Denver, in collaboration with Matillion and Comet. 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:
* 5:30~6:00pm: Checkin, Food/drink and Networking
* 6:00~6:15pm: Welcome/community update
* 6:15~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 7:30pm: Open discussion and Mixer

Tech Talk: A Simple Recipe for LLM Observability
Speakers: Claire Longo (Lead AI Researcher at Comet)
Abstract: Developing LLM-based applications for production requires a new approach to monitoring. Unlike traditional software, these probabilistic systems can hallucinate, drift, or degrade in unpredictable ways. The best way to learn AI concepts is by tinkering hands-on. So I built an LLM-powered recipe generator to help with my home cooking, and set up an end-to-end monitoring strategy to keep it on budget and behaving as expected. In this talk, I’ll walk through how I configured traces in this project using Comet’s open-source tool Opik to track cost and quality. I’ll also show how I built custom business metrics with LLM-as-a-Judge to capture issues specific to the recipe generator, and I’ll show the same approach can be adapted to your own use case when out-of-the-box metrics fall short. With a few adaptable code snippets and a simple framework, you’ll leave knowing how to add robust observability to your own LLM apps, making it easier to detect, debug, and improve systems at scale.

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:
Matillion, 675 15th St. Denver CO, 80202 Floor 21

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 3,000+ AI developers in Denver 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