AI Builders Monthly Amsterdam
While innovation seems to accelerate faster every day, you can find the AI Builders snug as a bug on GitHub, in the eye of the storm. Tucked away between Dam Square and Central Station Amsterdam, some 100 of us gather every first Thursday of the month at Startdock Prins Hendrikkade 21.
Let's build AI Optimism Together!
Event Agenda 7 Nov.
5:00 - 6:15 PM: Walk-in & Pizza 6:15 - 6:30 PM: Event opening
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6:30 - 6:50 PM: Social Technology Lab - AI for the commons
The story of Social Technology Lab, founded by four close friends united by a shared belief. Having known each other for years, they recognize AI's immense potential but feel that use cases with true positive impact remain underexplored. Their mission is to change this by creating a lab to experiment with cutting-edge tech for the public good. They aim to inspire fellow builders by sharing their projects, revealing their journey, and showcasing their future direction. https://socialtechnologylab.com/
Deepdive
6:55 - 7:25 PM: Unstract, No-code ETL for LLM structured extraction pipelines (remote)
Unstract provides LLM Whisperer, one of the world's best PDF parsing APIs, capable of extracting handwritten documents, checkboxes, images, tables, and more exactly as they are.
With this clean unstructured data at hand, why not explore their flagship product, Unstract? Building data processing ETL pipelines has never been easier. AI Builders aren't just getting technical insights from behind the scenes—if you're building a product, you'll even get access to their premium tiers (worth 5K+ annually) through us!
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7:15 - 7:35 PM: Thoughtful-Oasis, navigating complex dataspaces
Providing LLMs with effective ways to navigate large dataspaces of real-world objects presents numerous challenges. Semantic embeddings struggle to capture non-semantic relations of real-world objects and obscure their true meaning through learned (unexplainable) dimensions. Knowledge graphs, while useful, are difficult to scale, maintain, and populate, inherently limiting flexibility.
Thoughtful-Oasis aims to combine the best of all worlds in its LLM-first Data Navigation Framework. By using domain-specific embedding vectors with explainable dimensions, both LLMs and humans can navigate millions of real-world objects through parameters relevant to the domain at hand.
https://thoughtful-oasis.com/
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7:40 - 8:00 PM: ImproVive - Virtual Humans for Training and Storytelling
ImproVive will demonstrate their technology for creating lifelike virtual characters. They use game development software, language models, and information retrieval to build interactive digital humans for training and storytelling purposes. Their system combines voice recognition, text-to-speech, and 3D character models to enable natural conversations. The presentation will explain how their platform generates dynamic dialogue, recognizes the user's position in virtual environments, and allows for quick adjustments without coding. If you're interested in using interactive digital characters for applications like info displays, education or healthcare you should not miss this one! https://improvive.com/
:: FAQ ::.
• Can I Speak, Demo, Volunteer or Sponsor?
Probably, let's chat.
• I'm not technical. Can I come?
You don't have to be a code ninja, but understanding the basic concepts of programming, LLMs and DevOps is nice to have (unless you're an investor, in that case a bag of cash will do just fine).
• Why do I need to pay?
Two reasons:
1). We want to know how many people will show up, so that we can order the right amount of food and drinks for all of you. All beer and pizza is included.
2). Sponsor money doesn't cover all of our costs (yet).
3). We are non-profit with the community in heart, as soon as we can make ends meet we'll drop the price even further.
That said, money should never be the reason you don't join AI builders. If you are in need of a sponsored or discounted ticket please reach out.
Any other questions, press inquiries or sponsor intensions? Message or call Fausto -> +31 6 14 26 94 17
• Why go to AI Meetups?
Networking Opportunities: Meet with 100+ technical experts and pioneers in the Gen AI space and a larger community of 3000+ in Europe
Gain practical insights: We focus on demo's and slides with diagrams, code & more.
Impeccable vibes: We're an informal community, so enough fun and shenanigans.