AI in 2024: Real Talk, Industry Trends, Hot Takes & Weird Flexes​

This event will be held in person and online.

Event Summary

Coming soon!

Registration and Attendance Instructions

In-person

Join us at the Austin Central Library, 710 W. César Chávez St. where you will be checked in at the front desk. Parking information can be found here.

In-person attendees, please join us from 5:15 to 6:15 for networking and food. We look forward to chatting with you face-to-face!

Virtual

Once you register via Ticketbud, you will receive the direct Zoom link on your confirmation email. You will also receive the Zoom link in a reminder email one day before the event.

About the Speaker

Paco Nathan, Managing Partner, Derwen, Inc.

Paco Nathan, Managing Partner at Derwen, Inc., and author of Latent Space, along with other books, plus popular videos and tutorials about machine learning, natural language, graph technologies, and related topics. Known as a "player/coach", with +40 years of tech industry experience, ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups. Werner Herzog is his spirit animal.

Board member for Argilla.io; Advisor for KUNGFU.AI, DataSpartan; Lead committer on PyTextRank, kglab. Formerly: Director, Community Evangelism for Apache Spark at Databricks.

Long, long ago, when the world was much younger, Paco led a media collective/indie bookstore/performance art space / large online community called FringeWare. Beginning in 1992, this was one of the first online bookstores and likely the first commercial use of a chat bot on the Internet.