Weekly Tech Events: November 4 thru November 11, 2024

Small Business Saturday is just around the corner! Are you ready to stand out from the crowd and make the most of this key shopping day? Join us for an interactive workshop where you'll learn how to harness the power of ChatGPT to create compelling marketing content and develop a successful strategy for Small Business Saturday.

Location — CodeCrew HQ @ 460 S. Highland Street Memphis, TN 38111 
Note — $25 sign-up fee.

"Multidisciplinary Research: From Biomarker Discovery to Sensor Development for Noninvasive Health Monitoring and Other Applications" with Mangilal Agarwal

November 4, 2024
3pm- 4:30pm CDT

Canine can detect a wide-range of medical conditions by smelling volatile organic compounds. Dr. Agarwal's lab aims to identify the specific chemicals that dogs detect and, in parallel, develop hand-held sensing systems that can achieve the same high sensitivity and specificity..

Location — FedEx Institute of Technology (FIT), Methodist Presentation Theatre @ University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38111

Machine Learning/Data Sciences/R 

November 5, 2024
7pm - 8pm CDT

There has been a lot of hype surrounding AI, particularly in machine learning (ML), ChatGPT, and even quantum computing. I’m interested in hearing about your personal experiences with job searching in AI, ML, and ChatGPT.

Location — Virtual Event
Organizer — Walter Heger

This is a fantastic opportunity for local tech professionals to connect over a delicious meal in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Location —Swanky's Taco Shop @ 4770 Poplar Ave # 102 · Memphis, TN
Organizer — Robert Crocker

Dennis Kennetz is giving a thrilling talk title “A Gentle Introduction to GPU Programming with PyTorch”.

Description: GPUs are powering all the hype around AI we’ve been seeing these past few years. What makes them the technology for the job? At this talk, I’ll touch on the difference between GPUs and CPUs, why GPUs are the workhorses behind AI, and introduce PyTorch - a Python framework for super easy access to getting code running on a GPU. Maybe we’ll even train a model while we’re at it.

Bio: Dennis is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer currently working for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on the AI Incubations team. He has worked in High Performance Computing since 2016, spanning Computational Chemistry, Genomics, and now Large Language Models.

Location — University of Memphis Research Park (UMRF) @ 460 S Highland St, Memphis, TN 38111
Organizer — George Spake & Bryce Sharp
Notes: Event & Food sponsored by Vaco Memphis. Parking is available in the parking lot behind the building.

Memphis Python User Group

November 11, 2024
6pm - 8pm CDT

FastApi is a fun and exciting HTTP service API framework (written in Python, of course) with lots of really cool features. Let's walk through a real app built using full-stack-fastapi-template and talk about the fastAPI framework, alembic, pydantic, sqlModel, openApi, typescript, tailwind, and other stuff. George Spake is the speaker.

Location — Microsoft Corporation @ 6750 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38138
Organizer — Douglas Starnes & Brad Montgomery
Note — This is in-person and Virtual