Our next event will be on **Thursday April 11th from 5-8pm** at the Entrepreneur’s Sandbox. Food and drinks will be provided. For this event, we have a very special guest speaker: Simon Willison will be joining us via Zoom.
(Note, the event is in-person and will not have a zoom link for attendees).
Location:
- Entrepreneurs Sandbox, Room: Purple Box
- 643 Ilalo St. Honolulu, HI 96813
- Note: doors are locked but we’ll have someone there from 5 to about 5:30pm. Please arrive before 5:30pm.
Date:
- Thursday, April 11th
Time:
- 5-6pm reception with food + drinks at Entrepreneurs Sandbox
- 6-7pm keynote guest speaker (Simon Willison)
- 7:05 - 7:35 lightning talks from community
- 7:35-8pm wrap up / clean up
**Free Attendance, Open to Everyone**
- Please register here so we have enough food and space: https://forms.gle/96ZDojJj5DvbXJxz7
Lighting talks:
In every PyHawaii meetup, we will feature community members working with Python via Lightning Talks. Each talk will be at most 5 minutes. Submit your Lightning talk proposal here. If selected, we will contact you for more details. All topics and slides must be pre-approved.
Proposals can be announcements, showcasing a new library or product, job openings, or anything that’s “here’s what I’m working on”. The goal is to improve networking and opportunities for discovery of everything related to Python here in Honolulu.
Submit a proposal for lightning talk here: https://forms.gle/ibv11t9mJy9sP4Ht5
Speaker
Simon Willison
Simon is a tech renaissance man and is difficult to describe in one sentence. He's been a long time software engineer, YC startup founder, co-creator of many popular OSS projects including Django and Datasette. But lately, he's most famous for his vanguard position in the "AI Engineer" wave. He coined the phrase Prompt Injection and his articles are often cited by software engineers working with AI and in the media.
He will give us a quick run-through on the latest developments in LLMs and the associated tech around deploying them, like embeddings, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), etc. We'll also cover unique issues related to LLMs, like prompt engineering and security concerns like prompt injection. We'll then open it up for Q&A.
Since this is a Python meetup, we’ll also talk about Python. As a board member of the Python Software Foundation and co-creator of one of the most popular web development frameworks in the world in Django, Simon has unique insight into the language and community.