November 2025 Meetup | Hosted at Shopify
Nov
10
Monday
5PM to 9PM EDT
Main Stage Speakers
SAM SHAHSAVANI
Co-founder at ZoningPal
Building a Real-Time Municipal Data Parser: How We Normalized 30 Years of Toronto Zoning By-Laws with AI
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Solving PDF hell and conflicting regulatory data using AI.
Python
Node.js
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
React
Addy Bhatia
SWE at Lazer Technologies
AI agents to create 3D models from scratch
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How AI agents generate 3D models using Blender code.
Ollama
LangChain
LangGraph
FastAPI
Streamlit
Ben Dryden
CEO at ZeroDraft AI Inc.
Distilling Chaos: Practical RAG Systems for Real-World Decision Workflows
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Practical RAG architecture, scaling, hybrid search, and feedback loops.
FAISS
OpenAI API
Gemini
Cerebras Cloud SDK
all-mpnet-base-v2
Zayyan Ahmed
Senior Data Product Manager / Founder at Enable / PsyAI
Predicting Human Decisions in Agentic Workflows
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Predicting human decisions in agents to lower reviewer load.
Centaur LLM
Psych 101 Dataset
Claude API
LangChain
Replit
Science Fair Presenters
Dev Shah
Student at University of Toronto
Beyond “It Feels Better”: A Reproducible Playbook for Evaluating Fine-Tuned LLMs
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Rigorous LLM evaluation playbook using synthetic data and constant benchmarks.
instructlab/merlinite-7b-lab
Mistral Mixtral
PyTorch
Hugging Face Transformers
sentence-transformers
Jessica Tang
Undergraduate Student at University of Toronto
This Is So You! – An Event Recommendation Newsletter
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Implementing vector search, embeddings, and LLMs for recommendation systems.
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
pgvector
PostGIS
Docker
Mehtab Cheema
Student at University of Toronto
JetBrains Long Code Arena
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Benchmarking LLMs for project-level code assistance.
Python
OpenAI
Hugging Face
GitHub
Runpod
Richard Wei
university student at University of Toronto
AI-Guided RISC-V Datapath Visualization
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AI-guided RISC-V datapath visualization using context-aware RAG.
Next.js
Django REST Framework
PostgreSQL
Docker
OpenAI API
Ronaldo Luo
Undergraduate student at University of Toronto
This Is So You! – An Event Recommendation Newsletter
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Building recommendation systems with embeddings and vector similarity search.
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
pgvector
PostGIS
Docker
Ginny Guo
Engineering Science Student (major in Machine Intelligence) at University of Toronto
This Is So You! – An Event Recommendation Newsletter
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Building real-world recommendation engines with vector search and LLMs.
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
pgvector
PostGIS
Docker
Jaskirat Singh
Student at Queens University
On the Impact of Black-box Deployment Strategies for Edge AI on Latency and Model Performance
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Quantization and Early Exit optimize Edge AI latency and accuracy.
ONNX Runtime
Docker
Intel Neural Compressor
CUDA
Python
Victoria Wu
Student at University of Toronto
DocStream: An Educational AI Agent
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AI interprets terminal activity for transparent, educational documentation.
Runpod
Python
Deepseek R1
JavaScript
Haneesh Raj Banisetti
Ai Engineer at Northeastern University
Multi Agent Business Insights
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How to build multi-agent systems for competitive intelligence.
GPT-4
Claude-3
Llama-2
Gemini
LangChain
