Baithak AI Club
First AI Club in the Tri-Valley
Join us for our AI meet-up, where curious minds come together to explore, discuss and shape the future of Artificial intelligence.
Agenda for 10/3 (Friday)
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Agas Somasundaram and Jai Raju will welcome everyone and guide quick introductions to set the tone for collaboration.
AI in Action:
a. ⏰ 4:45 PM – Fine-Tuning LLMs and SLMs
👤 Speaker: Arun Krishna – Senior Engineering & Technology Leader (ex-AWS, Verizon, Comcast, Cisco) | Startup Advisor | AI/ML & Generative AI Specialist
📘 Session Summary: Arun will dive into the practical side of fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) and the rising importance of Small Language Models (SLMs). He’ll share when to fine-tune vs. prompt-engineer, trade-offs between scale and efficiency, and how enterprises adapt models for real-world AI applications.
b. ⏰ 5:30 PM – Founder’s AI Journey & Product Showcase
👤 Speaker: Amar Kanagaraj, Founder & CEO of Protecto.ai
📘 Session Summary: Amar will share his entrepreneurial journey and lessons from building AI products, followed by a demo of Protecto.ai.
💡 About Protecto.ai: A platform that helps enterprises deploy AI securely by preventing sensitive data leaks in LLM workflows. With context-based access control (C-BAC), context-preserving masking, and compliance support (GDPR, HIPAA), Protecto enables safe, scalable, and trustworthy AI adoption.
3. Open Discussion & Q&A
Group discussion and idea-sharing session