AI Tinkerers - Raleigh
Inaugural Meetup | September 2025
Sep
30
Tuesday
5PM EDT
Main Stage Speakers
Paula Ramos
Paula Ramos
Computer Vision and ML Advocate Lead at Voxel51
A Google-Like Search Experience for Your Photo Library with Opensource Tools
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Open-source tools for image similarity search and curation.
Ron Jailall
Ron Jailall
ML Engineer at Independent Contractor
Edge AI: exploring the capabilities of Apple’s VLM
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Quantized VLM performance: testing capabilities and resource demands.
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Danny Castro
Danny Castro
Program Manager at ServiceNow
Ice Sculptures and LLMs: More Alike Than You Think
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A guide to fine-tuning AI models and training processes.
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Marko Budisic
Marko Budisic
Principal Design Engineering Specialist at Framatome, Inc.
Local RAG for video, managing timestamp metadata propagation.
Ash Tewari
Ash Tewari
Solution Architect and Tech Lead at Applied Information Sciences
Creating an AI Helper to add speech input to any windows app!
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Integrating local AI speech input into any Windows app.