Flower City AI

Wednesday December 4, 2024 - The Little Theatre

Come participate with Rochester's growth into a leading area for AI innovation, education, culture, communication, business, and research.

Don't miss this unique opportunity to network, learn, and drive innovation in your community.

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Agenda

Registration 8AM-9AM	Coffee and Networking Meet in the lobby of Theater #1, get registered, enjoy some coffee, and meet your fellow attendees.
Morning 9AM-9:30AM	Keynote: Flower City AI 2024 Max Irwin
9:35AM-10:20AM	Navigating the Future of Learning: AI’s Influence on Higher Education Katie Sabourin
	15 minute break
10:35AM-11:20AM	AI for real-time advanced sign language recognition Yami Payano & Nicholas Wilkins
11:25AM-12:10PM	Decoding Better Encodings Chad Gueli
Lunch 12:10PM-1:15PM	Lunch will be provided Along with more networking!
Afternoon 1:20PM-2:05PM	Dead Internet Theory Caelan Gold
2:10PM-2:55PM	Artificial Intelligence for Business Chrisandra Harrison
	15 minute break
3:10PM-3:55PM	The Future Has No Managers Hernan Chiosso
4:00PM-4:45PM	Towards Responsible Tech for AI Startups Valerie Carey
4:50PM-5:00PM	Closing Remarks Max Irwin
Evening 5PM-8PM	After Party In Collaboration with StartupGrind La Bola, 260 East Main St., Rochester, NY 14604

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General Admission: $40 Students: $10

This is a not-for-profit conference. 100% of ticket sales go to cover the cost of the event.

AI Training

December 3, 2024

The day before the conference, we are pleased to offer an all-day AI Training course. You'll learn how AI works, how to use it with your data, and walk away with the skills you need to use it in your products. The course will be all day, and is an intense mix of instruction and hands-on labs.

Agenda:

Vectors and Embeddings: What they are, how they work, benefits, use cases, and gotchas
Natural Language Processing: Named Entity Recognition, Question Answering, Classification, Summarization
Hybrid Search: Combining multiple search features for success
Generative AI: How it works, benefits, challenges, and risks
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG): Integrating your data with Large Language Models
Multimodal search: working with images and text interchangeably
Agents and Chaining: Using AI for complex workflows

Location: SPOT Cowork, 104 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14604

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Conference Location

The Little Theater
240 East Ave
Rochester, NY 14604

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Parking

The Little Theatre has a free parking lot off of Winthrop Street, directly behind the historic Theatre 1.

There is additional free parking further down Winthrop Street, in the lot between RDG and Redd Rochester.

On-street parking (paid) is available nearby on Winthrop Street, East Ave, Union Street, Pitkin Street, and Charlotte Street, to name a few.

Additionally, the East End Garage (paid) is just a short walk from the Theatre.

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