Victoria | What's New with Claude: the 5.5 Family
👋 A community meetup for people building with Claude.
✨ Claude has changed a lot in the last few weeks. Come see what the 5.5 family can do, share what you're working on, and meet others in Victoria using Claude, whether you're building, running a business or just looking to learn from others.
🍪 Free, community-run, no sales pitches. Light snacks provided.
🙌 Everyone is welcome. Whether you've never opened Claude or use it every day, come along. Seats are limited to 80, so we review registrations and approve based on a LinkedIn profile, a personal website or a public Claude artifact you've made. Please include one when you register.
🎨 New to Claude? Make your first artifact: at claude.ai, ask Claude to build a simple one-page intro about you, then use Share to make it public and paste the link into your registration. It's a great warm-up for the event.
🗓️ Agenda
4:00 Doors open, snacks and introductions
4:30 Welcome, plus a word on Prompt Victoria
4:35 What's new with Claude: dashboards and motion (Gabriel Velazquez)
4:50 Community demo: Where's Anu goes live: built exclusively with Claude (Anu Jolliffe)
5:00 Community demo: Sharing a student perspective on using Claude (Leah Wang)
5:10 Community demo: Creating engaging presentations with AI (Ian Slipp)
5:20 Community demo: WordPress without the WordPress: safely letting Claude power your website (Duncan Elsey)
5:30 Community demo: SEAsk, a kiosk built in 48 hours at Ocean Hackathon (Asish George)
5:40 Community demo: Jarvis, a personal voice AI agent built with Claude Code (Allen Shi)
5:50 Open conversation and networking
6:45 Wrap
📸 Photo and video
A photographer and a videographer will be at the event. If you'd rather not appear in photos or video, grab a coloured sticker for your name badge at check-in and we'll keep you out of the shots.
🎤 Call for speakers
🛠️ Built something cool you're particularly proud of? A workflow, an amazing motion piece, something creative, something useful, something with your product, or maybe just great tips and tricks. We're looking for a few short demos.
🎥 Tell us when you register. To submit, just grab a camera and record a short video of yourself walking through what you'd show, so we can review, approve and fast-track it quickly. Beginners and creatives are very welcome.
🙏 Thank you to our sponsors
🏢 Thank you to our venue sponsor, Fort Tectoria and VIATEC. Check out their Prompt Victoria AI Conference coming up on Nov 5th at promptvictoria.ca.
🧡 Thank you to our event sponsor, Antfluent, for providing the snacks.
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An independent, community-run meetup by people who love building with Claude. Not an official Anthropic event.