September Meetup | September 30, 2025
Sep
30
Tuesday
6PM to 9PM PDT
Main Stage Speakers
Joe Golden
Founder / CEO at Paper2Audio.com
An obscure Chinese PDF content extraction model for max accuracy and min cost
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Low-cost, high-accuracy PDF extraction using an unknown model and sglang.
GPT-4
Claude 3
Llama 2
LangChain
OpenAI API
Nicoleta Mocanu
Founder at ChrysalisX™
Offline AI Tutor on Android: Gemma 3n + MediaPipe GenAI with Local RAG+CAG implementation
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Implementing private, offline LLMs using RAG on Android.
Android
MediaPipe GenAI
Gemma 3n
GeckoEmbeddingModel
Markwon
Eugene Yan
Principle Applied Scientist at Amazon
How to Train an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs
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Training LLMs to recommend and explain products using IDs.
GPT-4
LangChain
PyTorch
Gemini 2.5
NVIDIA H100
Joseph Casebeer
Founder CEO at Takamori Robot
Democratizing AI and Robotics using affordable Robotics Kits
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Designing affordable, modular robotics kits for AI learning and research.
H.I.R.O. robotics kit
Flipper Zero
Takamori Robot
Laptop
Phone
John Alioto
Startup Evangelist at Google
GCP Tools Demo by Google's Strategic Missions & Partnerships - Startups & AI Lead
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Learn Google AI Studio and Vertex AI via a startup demo.
AI Studio
Vertex AI
Google ADK
Ivan Schneider
Programmer-Writer at Model Citizen Developer
Building Working Code Live: Documentation-First AI Development
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Structured specifications generate better AI code, tests, and documentation.
Claude Code with Task
Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Opus
Python
pytest
Science Fair Presenters
Adam Weiler
Founder at DogFood Labs
The Lazy Builder's Marketing Machine or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Slop
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Webhooks and AI turn meeting transcripts into social posts.
OpenAI API
DALL-E
Claude Code w BMAD
React
Express
Priyanka Sahni
Product Lead at Amazon
AI assistant for new mom's dealing with Postpartum Depression
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Strategy for launching consumer AI tools addressing maternal health.
GPT-4
LangChain
Streamlit
Python
OpenAI API
Scott Wofford
Co-founder at Luthien
Who Watches The Watchbots?
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Preventing AI assistants from ignoring instructions and screwing up.
Docker
FastAPI
LiteLLM
Ollama
OpenAI API
Rich Lappenbusch
Senior Prinicipal at Supermicro
AI Factory Total Cost of Ownership modeling
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Modeling the long-term cost of deploying AI infrastructure.
Microsoft Excel
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model
Varun Kumar
Product at Tiktok
Personal AI Search Assistant
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Integrating Graph, OpenAI, and caching for optimized Q&A.
GPT-4
LangChain
Transformers
Python
OpenAI API
Gangadhar Payyavula
CEO at Cognet AI
Graph Memory in Agent Environments — a Live Walkthrough
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Graph memory patterns for durable agent environments and orchestration.
RocksDB
Tantivy
ChromaDB
Atlas
React
Ishan Anand
VP Product at Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai
AI Prompt Templates You Can Share and Take Anywhere
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Turning AI prompt chains into portable, executable HTML files.
GPT-4
LangChain
Streamlit
Python
OpenAI API
Patrick Mccanna
Security Weirdo at Independent
Making Memories with Well Crafted Prompts
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Using AI agents to troubleshoot systems and prevent code regressions.
GPT-4
Claude-3
Llama-2
LangChain
OpenAI API
