Meta Llama Hackathon: Toronto

🗓️ Saturday, November 23rd - Sunday, November 24th
📍 Toronto, Ontario

​​Welcome to the official Meta Llama Hackathon: Toronto! Hosted by Meta in collaboration with Cerebral Valley.

We're bringing together 150 of Canada's best AI developers to build using Llama.

​Hackers will receive hands-on support directly from Meta Researchers and the Meta team.

​Project themes include economic growth and productivity, education, language and culture, Indigenous reconciliation, healthcare and government services and delivery. 

Prizes include XGO Mini 2 Quadruped Robot Dog, a Unitree Go2, Meta Ray Bans, and more.

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Llama Impact Hackathon: Austin

🗓️ Saturday, November 23rd - Sunday, November 24th
📍 Austin, TX

We’re excited to welcome you to the official Meta Llama Hackathon Austin, hosted by Meta in collaboration with AITX and Cerebral Valley!

​​​​This is a unique opportunity to bring together Austin's growing AI community to build new AI applications using Meta's Llama models, alongside many of the best developers across Austin's tech ecosystem. Meta's team will be in attendance, and hackers will receive hands-on support from the Meta team.

​​​Winning teams will receive cash prizes as well as additional prizes to kickstart their Llama 3 projects. This event qualifies participants to submit their projects to the Llama Impact Grant program.

​Our speakers and judges will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... so stay tuned!

​​​​Once approved, you will receive a series of Hackathon Guides to your email with additional information on judging, compute and projects.

​You're also invited to Meta and AITX's reception Nov 22 at Meta's downtown Austin office. Join us for appetizers, drinks, demos, and a panel discussion about the value of open-source AI.

Please note: This is a fully in-person event - remote teams are not allowed. By registering you agree to Cerebral Valley TOS.

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AI Hack Night at Google

🗓️ Monday, November 18th
📍 Sunnyvale, CA

​Join us for another incredibly fun Hack Night at Google!

​​Here's what you can roughly expect:

​​​​🏆 Evening of Fun:

• ​Lightning Talks (Weaviate, Neo4j, Denodo, Google, Flox)

• ​​​​Demo Challenge: Showcase your creativity by combining Quickstarts or technologies.

• ​​​Quickstart Challenges

• ​Social / Networking Challenges

​We have prizes for each of the mini challenges above and more!

​​​​🎮 Network and Meet: We'll start off the evening with some Networking. A great way to start the night and build up the energy!

​​​​🎁 Challenges and Prizes Prizes: Participate in our various challenges for even more chances to win exciting rewards throughout the event.

​​​​Event Schedule:

• ​​​​4:30 PM: Doors Open & Open Networking

• ​​​​5:30 PM: Lightning Talks

• ​6:00 PM: Hacking & Building

• ​​​​8:00 PM: Demo presentations begin

• ​​​​8:20 PM: Prizes and conclusion.

​​​​Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect, compete, and have a blast with fellow developers. Register now to secure your spot!

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Data for AI Presents: The Open Source Afterparty w/ Elastic, Neo4j, Airbyte, Datastrato, & MORE!

🗓️ Tuesday, November 19th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join us for an exciting evening of insights, networking, and innovation as we explore the cutting-edge world of data infrastructure, graph databases, integration systems, and machine learning! Whether you're a founder, engineer, executive, or innovator, this event is designed for those who are passionate about the future of AI and the data that drives it.

We are partnering with the Data Bytes community to bring you an amazing roster of speakers, with fantastic teams working on cutting edge technology in Data & AI.

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AI Tinkerers - November 2024 Meetup - Securing Agentic Systems

🗓️ Thursday, November 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for the AI Tinkerers San Francisco November Meetup, hosted and sponsored by Okta at their office in SF.

As a reminder to the community, AI Tinkerers is not a pitch forum or a demo day. There are plenty of other meetups well suited to that. AI Tinkerers is akin to the Homebrew Computer Club of today’s technology. We want your messy side projects, works-in-progress, and experiments that are on the cutting edge.

One theme that has emerged recently is Agentic systems. One of the big unanswered questions in Agentic systems is how are we going to secure these systems?

Join us at November’s AI Tinkerers - SF monthly meetup where we’ll be diving deep into the messy reality of securing agentic AI systems. As our autonomous agents grow more capable of acting independently, making decisions, and interacting with real-world systems, we face unprecedented security challenges. How do we prevent a rogue agent from escalating its own permissions? What happens when collaborative agents start sharing capabilities without human oversight? Some people say that since OAuth was designed for humans and AIs behave like humans, we’ll be okay. Others disagree. What happens when an agent needs to delegate temporary permissions to another agent? How do we handle permission scope expansion as agents learn new capabilities? These are the thorny questions we need to tackle.

Bring your experimental authentication protocols, your half-baked security frameworks, and your wildest ideas about agent-to-agent trust mechanisms, your examples of current generation agent framework security exploits and more. Whether you’re building something that works (sort of) or have spectacularly failed at solving these challenges, we want to see it.

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Humanloop Launch

🗓️ Thursday, November 21st
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Meet the Humanloop team and connect with fellow AI builders, VCs and founders, to celebrate our launch.

We'll have a special panel to share learnings from Vanta and Filevine on building production-ready AI products.

​Drinks and food will be served. +1s welcome.

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GenAI Master Class: From Prototypes To Production Series – Pt 2: Evaluate and Productionize AI Systems

🗓️ Tuesday, November 26th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​Every company sees the potential of GenAI, but most teams hit a wall when turning it into scalable, production-ready applications. This series of master classes will equip you with the practical skills to build and deploy GenAI solutions that deliver real impact.

​In this immersive program, you’ll:

• ​Build a GenAI app in class: Get hands-on experience designing and implementing a working GenAI solution from start to finish.

• ​Master RAG: Learn how to integrate retrieval with generation to build AI systems that dynamically pull from vast knowledge bases, delivering more accurate, contextually relevant, and up-to-date responses. In this section, you'll explore retrieval strategies, optimize how your models fetch and generate data, and fine-tune the balance between retrieval and generation for maximum performance in real-world applications.

• ​Build intelligent agents: Develop autonomous systems that don’t just generate outputs but actively make decisions, adapt to changing data, and perform tasks in real-time. These agents can automate complex workflows, handle unpredictable environments, and continuously learn, allowing you to build smarter, more responsive applications that drive efficiency and innovation in your business.

• ​Scale and Productionize AI Systems: Master techniques for building scalable, secure, and robust AI systems. Covering topics like red teaming, hallucination prevention, guardrails, evaluations, performance tuning, and data pipelines at scale.

​Who Should Attend:

• ​Technical Teams: Deep dive into GenAI architectures, RAG, and the latest AI frameworks.

• ​Technical Executives: Learn to identify high-impact GenAI use cases and build a roadmap for integrating AI to drive innovation.

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