Programs

Clear paths to participate

Each program has a clear audience, cadence, and way in. Volunteers help run every one of them — reach out if you'd like to organize.

Applied AI Night

Builders & product-minded practitionersMonthly

Working sessions for projects, workflows, datasets, prompts, prototypes, and product questions.

Engineers & researchersMonthly

Hands-on sessions for testing model outputs, retrieval quality, failure modes, safety risks, and readiness.

Beginners & studentsMonthly

Beginner-friendly workshops on AI basics, prompting, data privacy, copyright, and evaluation.

Artists, writers, designersQuarterly

A space for creative technologists to share process and questions, with norms on attribution and consent.

Civic & nonprofit teams, small orgsMonthly

Small-group sessions for organizations considering AI adoption, policy, procurement, and governance.

Anyone learningBiweekly

Low-pressure sessions for courses, papers, notebooks, tutorials, and personal projects.

Starter tracks

Pick a track that matches your goals. You can mix and match — most members do.

Prompting, data basics, model types, privacy, copyright, evaluating claims, human review.

RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation harnesses, agents, vector databases, serving, observability, security.

Generative workflows, source material, rights and consent, interactive installations, portfolio norms.

Policy, procurement, data governance, public benefit use cases, accessibility, human review.

Workflow automation, knowledge bases, support augmentation, vendor review, reporting workflows.