A Celebration of All Things Open Source @ NeurIPS | The Toronto LLM Meetup Group x Georgian
Welcome to the 5th session of the 4th edition of the Toronto LLM Meetup Group. We are partnering up with Georgian to bring Toronto's very best to the warm jagged shores of San Diego. This time we are throwing a party during NeurIPS to close off the year.
Join us for an evening to celebrate the messy, brilliant, world-changing engine of open source. Come unwind with us after an arduous day of conferencing — expect fast talks, live demos, and unfiltered hot takes from those at the frontier of open innovation.
🎟️ Fun Things
NeurIPS Research Trend Prediction Market
Live Benchmark Building with Kaggle
Lightning Talks/5-min Demos/Impromptu Panels
AI/ML Team Trivia with Cool Prizes 🎁
✨ Special Guests
Soheil Feizi, Founder & CEO, RELAI.ai | CS Prof, UMD
Gennady Pekhimenko, Senior Director, AI Software, NVIDIA
Ryan Compton, Senior ML Engineer, Lightning AI
Anmol Jawandha, FDE Lead, You.com
Avijit Ghosh, Technical AI Policy Researcher, Hugging Face
More special guests to be announced!
👉🏻 When registering, please ensure you list your full name as shown on your ID, as a valid government-issued ID will be required to enter the venue! 👈🏻
👋 Your Hosts
The Toronto LLM Meetup Group
The Toronto LLM Meetup Group is founded by Suhas Pai, CTO and Co-Founder of Hudson Labs, and Lily Ren, Senior PM, B2B AI at Telus. The aim of this group is to facilitate deep dives into LLM research topics, harnessing the skills of Toronto's vibrant AI ecosystem and promoting intellectual rigor. To this end, for each session we assemble a team of top Toronto AI scientists and practitioners to conduct an in-depth study of an emerging topic that is expected to go mainstream 6 months from now. The team presents their findings along with jumping-off points for future research at a meetup session, held at Toronto's top AI companies. Eventually we aim to spawn off community open-source research projects this way.
Georgian is a growth-stage investor that builds software to help their portfolio companies scale faster. Georgian also organizes ML events through Transferred Learnings, Georgian's technical community of AI builders and founders. The community content is focused on Applied AI, and initiatives span a range of Applied AI activities, such as workshops, bootcamps, virtual educational sessions and in-person events.
🤝 Our Partners
ClickUp
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Special thanks to Kaggle (Google), Hudson Labs, and Lightning AI (Creators of PyTorch Lightning) for sponsoring the event!