🌰 Buckeye AI #1: State of AI Engineering 2025
​AI Makerspace and Haven Collective are excited to welcome you to a new monthly series for AI builders, tinkerers, and aspiring AI Engineering leaders excited to drive AI transformation through their business.
​We will hold events on the first Friday of every month throughout 2026 - join us for the kickoff on Friday, December 5 at 12:00 PM ET at Haven Collective, Upper Arlington, 2025 Riverside Dr, Upper Arlington, OH 43221.
​In our kick-off event, Dr. Greg will overview the state of AI Engineering in 2025 and focus in on two aspects of AI Engineering driving ROI for people and companies:
​What AI-assistance tools, techniques, and best practices are impacting people building AI applications (or using AI to build non-AI applications!)
​What strategic AI product management best practices are moving the needle for small and large business alike, and what the process looks like to actually do an AI transformation at scale today
​We look forward to a wide-ranging discussion with attendees as well!
​These include:
​For everyone
​State of AI Report (release date, October 9, 2025)
​On Industry Use Cases in 2025 & ROI, by AI Makerspace (September 16, 2025)
​For Builders
​Andrej Karpathy - AGI is still a decade away (October 17, 2025)
​State of LLMs in Late 2025 (release date, October 7, 2025)
​State of Vibe Coding (release date, September 18, 2025)
​🤓 Who should attend
​Anyone interested in getting up to speed on the latest in AI Engineering as an aspiring practitioner or leader
​Software engineers and data scientists who aim to become AI Engineers in 2026
​Anyone interested in keeping pace with the decade of agents ahead!
​Speaker Bios
​Dr. Greg” Loughnane is the Co-Founder & CEO of AI Makerspace, where he is an instructor for their AI Engineering Bootcamp. Since 2021, he has built and led industry-leading Machine Learning education programs. Previously, he worked as an AI product manager, a university professor teaching AI, an AI consultant and startup advisor, and an ML researcher. He loves trail running and is based in Columbus, Ohio.
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