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 building the future of AI.
What we’ll do:
Meet & learn about AI tools, AI infrastructure, and AI best practices - with food + wine.
4:00 - 4:25 - Welcome/Networking/Checkin
4:30 - 4:55 - Shagun Bhatia, Senior Software Engineer, Atlassian
5:00 - 5:25 - Zayne Turner, Staff Developer Advocate, Workato
5:30 - 5:55 - Pete Warden, Founder & CEO, Moonshine AI
6:00 - 7:00 - Networking
Tech Talk 1: Your AI Pair Programmer Hates Your Tech Debt Too
Speaker: Shagun Bhatia, Atlassian
Abstract: Tech debt is a problem every engineering team knows is real, but rarely has the time or clarity to tackle systematically. It compounds silently - slowing down feature work, increasing bug rates, and making onboarding painful - until it's too expensive to ignore. In this talk, I'll walk through how we built an AI-assisted tech debt workflow at Atlassian that goes far beyond static analysis.
Tech Talk 2: It's Not the Model. It's What You Fed It.
Speaker: Zayne Turner, Workato
Abstract: When your AI agent fails, the instinct is to blame the model: try a different one, adjust the prompt, add more context. But most agent failures aren't model problems. They're design problems. This talk looks at what happens inside an agent at runtime, why naive tool design compounds failure, and three principles for improving agent performance — drawn from an open-source hotel operations system built to demonstrate the patterns at production scale.
Tech Talk 3: AI Wants to Be Local: Beating the Cloud on 30MB of RAM
Speaker: Pete Warden, Moonshine AI
Abstract: Today many people assume that cutting-edge AI requires massive data centers. But if you’ve ever used a voice interface that takes two full seconds to respond, you know the cloud is failing the user experience. In this talk, you’ll learn how rethinking transformer architectures with variable input windows and incremental streaming cache can drop latency to near-instantaneous levels and shrink RAM footprints down to less than 30MB. Discover why the future of AI isn't in the cloud, but right on your device, completely private and offline.
Who Should attend:
Anyone interested in talking and learning about developing Agentic 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.
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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 constructedHotel La Rose, Santa Rosa
funky little historical place; great deli downstairs; in the hip-ish 4th Street districtCourtyard Santa Rosa
reliably good; friends from SF tend to stay hereHyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country
similar to Courtyard aboveLodge at Bodega Bay
beautiful views; 25 minute drive from Sebastopol
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