In-person meetup: AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.9.0
What's happening this month?
Banger demos and talks. From computer vision to RAG, to TTS.
Talks / Demos
Retrieval deep-dive with Zain Hasan
Zain Hasan is a Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate an open-source vector database. He is an engineer and data scientist by training, who pursued his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Toronto building artificially intelligent assistive technologies. He then founded his company developing a digital health platform that leveraged machine learning. More recently he practiced as a consultant senior data scientist in Toronto. He is passionate about open-source software, education, community, and machine learning.
Warning: Zain's superpower is seamlessly explaining complicated concepts. If you listen to Zain, you are learning. (there is no hiding from knowledge)
Marco Tundo
Marco Domenico Tundo is a Master Biomedical Engineer, Serial Entrepreneur, Chief Technical Officer and AI Consultant.
He has broad experience in founding companies including ByMar.co, Acadium.com and Closeup.ai. During the day, he advises enterprise companies in their AI endeavours. At night, Marco tinkers with the latest state-of-the-art AI models, primarily focusing on ComfyUI. He is presenting his 'Magic Mirror', a camera-based real-time Stable Diffusion experience that he unveiled at his recent wedding to his guests. He will be sharing how he built it, and the learnings he discovered along the way!
Rishab Bahal
"Whisper is OpenAI's speech to text model. Why there can be a need to fine tune it for business or general use case? How it can be fine tuned. What are various Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning techniques to fine tune them. A small overview of LORA."
Bring your projects and laptops!
We have a dedicated table for showing off and discuss with other builders during networking time.
Who are AI Tinkerers?
Our group welcomes developers of all backgrounds. If you’re passionate about the technicalities behind developing AI systems, this is a home for you. Our promise is to provide a stage for open-source AI developers to share code and the lessons they’ve learned from experimentation.
Be part of our tight-knit online community of AI developers.
Want to give a demo / talk at our event?
Organizers
Advisors
Community experts
Marc-Antoine Ruel: investor, advisor for The Browser Company, ex-Googler (V8 engine)
Xe Iaso: developer relations, blogger, ex-Fly.io, Tailscail
Recordings of previous talks
Previous meetup photos
Mike Bird from team Open Interpreter (49,000 GitHub stars) in Ottawa
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