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This is an in-person event! Registration is required in order to get in.
Topic: Sonoma AI Meetups for remote tech workers, to build a North Bay AI community, collaboratively learn, share ideas, and network with others who are automating AI Agents.
4:00 - Doors open/Checkin 4:25 - Welcome 4:30–4:55 PM — Teaching Claude and Codex to Think in GPU: Agentic Skills for CUDA-X Data Science 5:00–5:25 PM — Building Your Personal AI Operating System 5:30–6:30 PM — Breakout Sessions 6:30-7:00 PM – Networking
Tech Talk with Demo #1: Teaching Claude and Codex to Think in GPU: Agentic Skills for CUDA-X Data Science Speaker: Allison Ding https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-ding/ Description: Agentic skills turn a generic AI assistant into a domain-aware agent that selects the right tool, generates validated code, and catches its own failure modes. This talk shows how to use NVIDIA's CUDA-X data science skills with Claude, Codex, and OpenClaw to generate correct, GPU-accelerated code without deep CUDA-X expertise — and pulls back the curtain on how they work: trigger conditions, library selection rules, documentation grounding, and runtime validation that prevents silent CPU fallback. The second half is a live demo: install the skills from NVIDIA's GitHub catalog with a single CLI command, then watch agents accelerate a pandas pipeline with cuDF, train a classifier with cuML, and build a nearest-neighbor index with cuVS — each prompt routed to the right GPU path automatically.
Tech Talk with Demo #2: Building Your Personal AI Operating System Speaker: Russell Horton https://www.linkedin.com/in/linguistics/ Description: We've had personal computers now for about a half a century. But for most people, the personal software revolution is only just beginning. In this talk, we'll explore how you can use Mind, an open-source tool from Imbue, to build your own library of useful and delightful software, in an interconnected environment that you control and own: your personal operating system. When the programs you run are exactly what you designed, and the data they operate over is completely yours, that's when computing gets truly personal.
BREAKOUT ROOM 1 — Intro to LLMs & Agents + Open Q&A · Learn the basics and bring your questions · No signup required · Instructor: Lucas Young https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-young-9546a7111/
BREAKOUT ROOM 2 — Lightning Pitches Present your AI project, idea, or demo in 9-minutes. 6 presenter spots · Signup required https://tinyurl.com/3bwhpyp8
BREAKOUT ROOM 3 — AI Expert Office Hours Reserve 15 minutes of 1:1 help with an AI expert to get unstuck · Office Hour Experts include Allison Ding (NVIDIA), Russell Horton (GitHub Next), and others · Signup required https://tinyurl.com/3un2j43a · Office Hour Topics include: • AI agents & applications • Full-stack data science • Fine-tuning LLMs
Where: This is an in-person event. Registration using this form is required to get into the event.
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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
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
