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 - Reduce your memory footprint
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: Reduce your memory footprint
Speaker: Steven Liu, HuggingFace
Abstract: Modern transformer models have billions of parameters which can make it challenging to load and run these models for inference on consumer GPUs. At Hugging Face, we want to empower more developers by making these large models runnable by anyone. This talk takes a look at some of the memory-reducing features such as quantization, sharding, and offloading in Transformers and Diffusers that can help you fit large models on your hardware.

​​​​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:
From Highway 101, take 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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