Our meeting for May 2025 will be on Wednesday, May 21st, starting at 6 PM Central Time. It will be an in-person meeting hosted at 18881 W Dodge Rd, Elkhorn, NE—68022.
Our sponsor will provide food and drinks 15-20 minutes before the start of the meeting. Remote attendees can join using this link.
Topic: Borrow, Build, and Beyond: Accelerating Your AI Journey with Open‑Source Projects
Want to ship an AI‑powered feature before your next sprint ends—without reinventing the transformer? Open‑source AI projects are the fastest runway you’ll find. In this session, we’ll explore real‑world, production‑ready repositories that you can clone, tweak, and deploy in hours instead of months.
Drawing on hard‑won lessons from my own deployments (yes, including the bugs I wish I’d squashed sooner).
You’ll leave with a repo list, a deployment checklist, and the confidence to turn “I should build an AI feature someday” into “I pushed to prod on Friday.” Whether you’re a solo dev, a tech lead, or a founder eyeing your next killer feature, this talk will give you the shortcuts you need to build smarter, faster, and with a lot fewer late‑night refactors.
Speaker: Alec Harrison
Alec Harrison is a Microsoft Azure MVP, a software development enthusiast passionate about test-driven development, cloud technologies, and agile methodologies. In his free time, you’ll find him learning about new Azure technologies, podcasting on Azure Cloud Talk, and running user groups!
Sponsor: Lean TECHniques
Lean TECHniques is a technology and management consultancy helping leaders and teams make technology a competitive advantage within their organizations. Lean TECHniques specializes in five key areas: Software Delivery, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Product Design & Management, and Strategy & Leadership.
We are hiring! .Net, Data, Ai, and Azure folks! Fully remote! Check out https://leantechniques.com/careers/ for more info or talk to Alec.