Sonoma AI with Wine

​This is an in-person event! Registration required in order to get in.

​Topic: Sonoma AI (and wine) Meetups for remote tech workers

​What we’ll do:
Have some food and wine. Hear three exciting talks about developing with AI platforms, tools, unstructured data, and generative AI.

​4:00 - 4:25 - Welcome/Networking/Checkin
4:30 - 4:55 - John Tan, Founder, Corkvision - AI that Speaks Winery: Designing for Adoption
5:00 - 5:25 - Steven Liu, Technical Writer, HuggingFace - Welcome to the Hugging-Verse
5:30 - 5:55 - Russell Horton, Staff Researcher, GitHub Next - MeCP: Contextualizing Your Personal Agent
6:00 - 7:00 - Networking

​​​​Tech Talk 1: AI that Speaks Winery: Designing for Adoption
Speaker: John Tan, Corkvision
Abstract: Most conversations around AI focus on what's technically possible. At CorkVision, we focus on what’s adoptable. In this session John will share how his team is designing Corky, an AI assistant purpose-built for wineries, with adoption in mind: accessible UX, winery-native context, and trust-driven AI. CorkVision aims to embed AI into everyday workflows for winery Managers, tasting room staff, and marketers. This talk is a candid look at what it takes to build AI that works for the wine industry.

​​​​Tech Talk 2: Welcome to the Hugging-Verse
Speaker: Steven Liu, HuggingFace
Abstract: Hugging Face is commonly known as the "GitHub of machine learning". If you've used Hugging Face, you've probably been on the "Hub", a community-based platform for hosting models, datasets, and Spaces. However, there is more to Hugging Face than a platform to store and distribute machine learning artifacts. To enable collaborative machine learning (ML), there is a whole ecosystem of libraries related to practically all aspects of ML, free courses for learning ML, and HuggingFace's own research projects to help other researchers build on top of our work. This talk will give you a whirlwind tour of what Hugging Face offers beyond the Hub and how to get started if you're new.

​​​​Tech Talk 3: MeCP: Contextualizing Your Personal Agent
Speaker: Russell Horton, GitHub
Abstract: What if your AI agent didn’t just follow instructions—but actually understood your work, helped you grow, and made your output better? A great AI agent deeply understands your professional world. In this talk, Russell will introduce you to the agent he's been building—a true collaborator that represents "me" across diverse contexts, offers insights, and actively supports day-to-day work. Together, he and his agent will demonstrate their unique partnership.

​Who Should attend:
Anyone interested in talking and learning about developing Generative AI Apps.

​Where:
This is an in-person event. Registration is required to get into the event. Registration in advance will close 2 days before the event.

Showcasing wines by Brion Wise Vintners.

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Driving Directions:
Highway 101 to Highway 12 West

Hotels:
Staying overnight instead of a long round trip drive? All of these ~15min drive, except Bodega Bay is a little longer.

• ​DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Sonoma Wine Country
  a hub for the Sonoma airporter bus; quiet; lots of golfing!

• ​Hotel Centro Sonoma Wine Country, Tapestry by Hilton
  pricing is typically quite good; newly constructed

• ​Hotel La Rose, Santa Rosa
  funky little historical place; great deli downstairs; in the hip-ish 4th Street district

• ​Courtyard Santa Rosa
  reliably good; friends from SF tend to stay here

• ​Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country
  similar to Courtyard above

• ​Lodge at Bodega Bay
  beautiful views; 25 minute drive from Sebastopol

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