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Agenda
18:00 Networking, food, and drinks
18:30 Presentation
20:00 Beers!
Give Your LLMs a Left Brain & Raising Young Coders
2024-08-06 18:00 @ VMware Bellevue – 500 108th Ave NE, Bellevue
9 attending
**Give Your LLMs a Left Brain**
The human brain is divided into two hemispheres and each specializes in different types of tasks. Your right brain is great at imagination, intuition, art, rhythm, feelings, and dreams. While the left brain is more analytical and focused on logic, sequencing, linear thinking, and mathematics. Just like a human brain, generative AI excels at certain tasks, especially those to do with right-brain creative activities. However, in the absence of relevant and up-to-date information this produces confusing hallucinations that are not grounded in reality. In this presentation we will explore how knowledge graphs built with factual and updated information can be used to complement LLMs via graph retrieval augment generation (GraphRAG) in order to produce more reliable results.
**Speaker: Stephen Chin**
Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O'Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, swampUP, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.
**Raising Young Coders**
Even if you're not a tech whiz yourself, this session empowers you to guide your child's future in technology. Discover exciting projects and non-coding careers to ignite their passion! Learn creative projects (Squishy Circuits, Scratch coding) to ignite curiosity and overcome gender biases in tech. Discover non-coding tech careers and equip yourself to guide your child's future, regardless of your own tech background. Leave inspired to raise a tech enthusiast!
**Speaker:** **Cassandra Chin**
Cassandra Chin is a keynote speaker, book author, children's workshop instructor, and in her spare time, a college student getting a computer science degree. She has been teaching technology kids workshops at international conferences since she was 13 years old and is passionate about helping allow women, minorities, and underprivileged students to learn about technology. Her books have been featured at international events like Kubecon + CloudNativeCon and in popular technology shows like theCUBE and Techstrong TV.
**Parking**
* On the street (smaller streets like 2nd pl/st): parking is free after 6PM
* Bellevue Square: parking lot is free and it ***should be*** ok for a few hours
* Bravern Towers ***should*** validate for up to six hours if you grab a drink (entrances are from 8th or 112th)
* Griffin Lot (especially for larger vehicles): ***should be*** $7 after 5PM
* The building has a parking garage (2hrs: $14, 3hrs: $15, 4hrs: $16, gates close at 10pm)
**How to find the event**
The event is on the 15th floor of City Center Bellevue (VMware/Broadcom) next to Bellevue Transit Center. If the building doors are closed, go to the north entrance (facing towards the Transit Center), there is a "call" button on the wall left side of the door, the security guard should let you in.