Meetups

Name: The FAST+ER Framework for Effective AI Prompts
Start: 2026-04-21T19:00:00-03:00
End: 2026-04-21T21:00:00-03:00
Location: VOLTA

April 2026
Vibe Coding Meetup

April 13 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ADT

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax, NS, Canada

Description: Join Volta for the next Vibe Coding Meetup with Sam Silver and guest speaker Graeme Zinck, where they'll explore AI Harness Engineering — an emerging discipline focused on building the infrastructure layer that enables AI agents to operate reliably in production environments. As AI continues to move from experimentation to real-world deployment, the challenge shifts from simply building models to ensuring they perform consistently, safely, and at scale. AI Harness Engineering addresses this gap by focusing on the systems, tooling, and practices required to support robust AI applications. Whether you’re actively building with AI or looking to better understand the evolving landscape, this session will offer valuable perspective and practical take Facilitator: Sam Silver Sam Silver is a Vibe Coding Coach and founder of Bayloch Technologies who helps businesses build applications in hours instead of weeks using AI-assisted coding. Having spent years honing AI-assisted development, he now empowers others to embrace AI as an augmentation to their capabilities. Guest Speaker: Graeme Zinck Graeme is a senior software engineer at Lazer Technologies who helps startups build and scale their products with AI. These days, he spends most of his time with Claude Code, but he loves diving into the latest tools and building. Recent projects include: teaching […]
Halifax – Agentics Foundation Meetup

April 14 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ADT

1717 Barrington Street Halifax, NS B3J 2A4 1717 Barrington Street Halifax, NS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

♾️Agentics Foundation — Halifax Launch Meetup Autonomous AI in Practice: From Curiosity to Capability Agentic AI is no longer a theory experiment or a lab curiosity. It’s becoming a practical way to build systems that plan, decide, act, and adapt, with real autonomy. This meetup marks the first Halifax gathering of the Agentics Foundation, a global, not-for-profit community dedicated to advancing agent-based artificial intelligence through open tools, education, and collaboration. Whether you’re new to the idea of autonomous agents or already experimenting with them, this session is designed to help you understand what agentic AI actually is, why it matters, and how people are using it today. What You’ll Learn What “agentic AI” really means How autonomous agents differ from chatbots, copilots, and traditional AI workflows. Real tools, real demos See practical examples using agentic frameworks and infrastructure, how agents coordinate tasks, persist memory, and execute actions in the real world. From theory to practice Where agentic systems are already being applied: automation, research, ops, trading, data pipelines, and more. How to get involved Ways to contribute to open-source projects, join global chapters, or help shape the Halifax agentic AI community from day one. Why This Meetup Matters Halifax has a […]
Women in Machine Learning/Data Science Meetup

April 20 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ADT

The PIER 1209 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Nova Scotia, Canada

WiMLDS is pleased to welcome Emily Smits, CEO of Modest Tree, to speak with the Women in Machine Learning community. Modest Tree develops immersive training and digital twin solutions that help organizations visualize complex assets, integrate real-time and enterprise data, and support operational decision-making across industrial environments. This conversation will be especially relevant for those interested in the intersection of machine learning, data science, simulation, and applied AI. Modest Tree’s work connects data, visualization, digital twins, and AI-enabled industrial innovation, including projects involving machine learning and computer vision. Join to learn, connect and make the world better. WiMLDS has a mission to support and promote women and gender minorities who are practicing, studying or are interested in machine learning and data science.
The FAST+ER Framework for Effective AI Prompts

April 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ADT

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax, NS, Canada

UX NS APRIL MEETUP Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Claude are increasingly prevalent in both professional and personal settings. However, the quality of an LLM’s output is directly influenced by the quality of its input. Weak prompts that lack essential elements will lead to unsatisfactory results. In this talk, UX NS will explore strategies for crafting effective AI prompts, then delve into Nikki Anderson’s FAST framework for product prompts, incorporating a few practical tips. Additionally, they will examine how LLMs can be trained to utilize this framework to identify and improve weak prompts. > Agenda 7:00 PM Doors open, networking time 7:15 PM Introductions from the event hosts, Nata and Ruby 7:20 PM The FAST+ER Framework for Effective AI Prompts with Charles Novabos 7:50 PM Q&A 8:15 PM Networking and wrap-up 8:45 PM Doors close > Speaker Bio Charles Novabos (he/him) is a user experience researcher with over a decade of experience in various domains, including e-commerce, hardware development, fintech and currently travel tech with WhereTo, a subsidiary of Flight Centre Travel Group. His interests lie in behavioural user research, especially usability testing and behavioural analytics. He holds two professional UX certifications and a master’s degree in human factors and ergonomics. Charles is a community […]

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