​Build Club x Meta: Inside the Llama Lab🦙💥

​Are you building with AI — or dreaming about it?
Whether you’re experimenting with LLMs, shipping AI products, or exploring how AI can shape your next big idea, this session is for you.

​We’re teaming up with Meta to bring together founders, engineers, and student builders who are in the arena — learning, testing things, and pushing what’s possible with AI.

​🧠 Event Schedule (Tentative)

​1:00 – 1:30 PM — Registration and Networking (Build Club Team)
1:30 – 1:45 PM — Opening Remarks by Jerry Bongco, Country Director at Meta PH
1:45 – 2:30 PM — (Remote) Keynote: Business AI and Llama LLM by Riandy, GenAI Partner Engineer at Meta
2:30 – 3:30 PM — Fireside Chat
3:30 – 4:00 PM — Icebreaker Activity
4:00 – 7:00 PM — Hands-on Live Workshop: Meta LLM and Business AI with Pats Laurel, Machine Learning Engineer at Thinking Machines

​🔥 Fireside Chat

​Join an exclusive conversation with Filipino builders deploying AI at scale:

• ​Joshua Arvin Lat - AWS Machine Learning Hero & CTO - NuWorks Interactive Labs

• ​Neil Riego – Lead Software Engineer at Control Flow Labs

• ​Juan Miguel Mendoza – Senior Software Engineer at Globe Telecom

• ​Myk Ogbinar  – Data and Analytics Head at San Miguel Corporation (Moderator)

​💡 Why You Should Join:

• ​Learn how Meta’s Llama LLM powers real-world business and product applications.

• ​Hear stories from Filipino builders who are deploying AI at scale — from startups to enterprises.

• ​Experience an immersive, hands-on AI workshop led by experts from Meta and Thinking Machines.

• ​Connect with fellow engineers, founders, and student innovators building for the AI era.

• ​Walk away with new ideas, deeper insights, and the motivation to start building something meaningful.

​​⚙️ Before Registering:

• ​​To get the most out of this session, you must have all the following pre-requisites:

  • ​​Intermediate-level fluency with Python

  • ​​Some experience with calling and chaining LLM APIs

  • ​​Understanding of what AI Tokens are - context windows, token limits, and how they affect prompts and latency

  • ​​Familiarity with using AI-native dev tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, etc.

• ​​BYOD Policy – This event will observe a bring your own device policy.

• ​​You are required to register and create an account on https://campus.buildclub.ai/ for your registration to be accepted.

• ​​​​Please only register if you can stay for the entire duration of this event.

• ​NO WALK-IN attendees shall be accepted.

​​🤖 About Build Club

​​​​Build Club is one of the fastest-growing communities for AI builders. We are home to over 4,000 founders and builders from around the world. Here's what we offer:

• ​​​​Opportunity to demo products and get feedback from the global AI builder community and VCs

• ​​​​Perks from leading companies like Nvidia, AWS, Stripe, Vercel, and more

• ​​​​Network and connect with top founders working on AI from around the world

• ​​​​Frequent Hackathons with Prize pools and rewards

​​​​🔗 Follow along at Build Club's LinkedIn and Twitter

​​🌐 Learn more at https://www.buildclub.ai/

​🦙 About Meta

​Meta is building the next generation of open-source AI — empowering developers, researchers, and entrepreneurs to create responsibly and at scale.

​Through tools like Llama, Meta provides access to state-of-the-art language models that enable innovation across industries, from research to real-world applications.

​🔗 Follow Meta’s work at https://ai.meta.com
🔗 Learn more about Llama at https://llama.meta.com