Oct 20 - Seattle Physical AI Workshop and Meetup

Join us for the first Grok Bot meetup in Seattle! Grok Bot Seattle is part of a Grok Bot meetup series in coming weeks. It's a workshop and a meetup in one evening: first we'll explain Grok Bot and set it up hands-on together, then builders will demo their own Grok bot setups and templates. You will: Learn what Grok Bot is and how it works in a hands-on workshop Set up and build your own bot with Grok See live demos of real Grok bot setups and templates from other builders Get credits to follow along. Bring a laptop! Who is this for? Engineers, PMs, designers, builders, founders, architects, teachers — anyone who wants to learn how to build bots with Grok is welcome. 🎫 Entry is free — bring your curiosity and good vibes! 🗓️ Event Agenda 6:00 - 6:30PM: Doors Open + Food / Drinks Part 1: Workshop 6:30 - 7:45PM: Grok Bot explained + hands-on setup workshop Part 2: Meetup 7:45 - 8:30PM: Demos: Grok bot setups and templates from the community 8:30 - 9:00PM: Open Networking Running order may change slightly as we approach the event date 🎤 Want to show your Grok bot setup? ➡️ Apply here We are looking for builders to walk through their Grok bot setups, templates and workflows. No product pitches, just show how it works. By registering or attending this event, you consent for the hosts and its affiliates to use your name, image, and likeness in any marketing related to the event. This consent includes, without limitation, an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable, non-transferable license to use any photographs or video recording on you taken while in attendance at the event. You also consent to receiving emails from the event hosts.

In October, we are welcoming two speakers Fred Patton, Senior Developer Advocate at Auth0 (Okta) | AI Governance & Ambient Agents. Jacob Matson, AI & Data Advocate at MotherDuck 1. Beyond Permissions: Adaptive Norms for Autonomous Agents We keep trying to govern autonomous agents with permissions, but humans don't simply work from permissions. They work within norms. TL;DR The talk will feature Jev, it'll be a governable AI use case where a rich audit log establishes norms, such that when an agent deviates from that, a human must approve that deviation along with additional context which help determines whether that approval is a exception / one-off, or whether it should be added to the norms so that in future cases, no approval is needed. Full description: The Living Norms demo demonstrates a different model for agent autonomy: agents act independently inside established norms and ask for human authorization only when they encounter a meaningful deviation. Approved exceptions can become bounded precedent, allowing autonomy to expand over time without weakening hard safety boundaries. Most agent deployments tend toward one of two extremes. At one end, a human approves every action. That limits risk, but it also creates a bottleneck, encourages approval fatigue, and eventually turns careful review into routine rubber-stamping. At the other end, the agent receives standing permissions and is allowed to operate on its own. That removes the bottleneck, but gives the agent broad authority regardless of whether a particular action is routine, unusual, or potentially dangerous. Living Norms explores a third approach. Permission is not treated as the same thing as autonomy. An agent may have the ability to perform an action without automatically having the authority to perform it unattended. Inside established norms, the agent can proceed. When it moves outside those norms, it asks a human for narrowly scoped authorization for that specific action. The important part is wha

Join us for an exciting talk night at City University of Seattle's Belltown Campus! Agenda: 5:30-6pm: Doors open/networking 6-6:10pm: Opening remarks 6:10-6:35pm: Talk #1 6:35-6:50pm: Intermission 6:50-7:05pm: Lightning talk 7:05-7:30pm: Talk #2 7:30pm-8pm: Networking After party to follow at Teku Tavern (552 Denny Way, Seattle, WA 98109) What we'll do: This event will feature the following presentations: Talk #1: TBD Speaker: Zach Fudge Description: TBD Lightning talk: Pip install rave Speaker: Austin Bennett Description: "An attempt to connect engineers and music concerts (or festivals)." TLDR; - (Flash round) Who am I? (it's my first talk, so my background may be helpful and I can skip this on request or make it less than 30 seconds) - (Confidentiality) Authentication in real life, and what purpose Python serves in a release process (significance of it, and significance of having something reliable) - (Integrity) PLURR, the significance of trusting the community, and how PSKs can play a role in securing future python pip packages - (Availability) A lack of competition (or a lack of creativity) detracting from giving people new experiences (connecting between raves and CI/CD) I think this is very high-level that's more about programming and raving, and less about Python but still making it about python by showing how to secure systems and rolling releases using Python and touching on pip's \`--require-hashes\`. Talk #2: The Beautiful Improbability of the Real Speaker: Matt Drury Description: Simple coinflip games are proving grounds for our intuition about the nature of random events and govern conclusions we can responsibility draw from data. In this talk we describe the Arcsine Laws, which were described evocatively by William Feller as: > unexpected [and] come as a shock to intuition and common sense. They will reveal that commonly accepted notions concerning chance fluctuations are without foundation and that the implications of the law of large numbers