Live and Virtual Events
Where AI Professionals Gather
From the Southeast's largest AI conference to free live webinars, workshops, and a 5,000+ member meetup community.
Webinars
Live Learning Sessions
Free webinars on AI strategy, tools, and implementation. Register to attend live or watch the replay.
The Path to Becoming AI-First: An Operator's Playbook
What happens when a recruiting operator — not a software engineer — decides to rebuild his company around AI? In this live lunch & learn session, James Horne, Director of Delivery at Axiom Path, shares how his team built 25+ AI automations and digital employees that now operate alongside human recruiters — screening candidates, managing workflows, and turning 21,000+ historical recruiting notes into a searchable knowledge system. James will demonstrate a live voice AI built to talk about itself and its role in Axiom Path and their AI Transformation. This session explores what it really means to become AI-first: starting with process, increasing leverage, and learning how to manage digital employees alongside human employees. This is not a coding talk. It’s an operator’s blueprint.
Securing Your Model Context Protocol Footprint
Leaders across industries are using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to put tools in the hands of their AI agents, so they can do real work and drive measurable return on AI investments. However, it’s critical that MCP be implemented with guardrails to protect against malicious actors and unintended actions. Stacklok will show you how to use its open source ToolHive MCP platform to curate a trusted MCP registry and implement auth, token exchanges and other security best practices so you can put MCP into production.
Building Agents with Granite Workshop
In this workshop, we will explore writing AI agents using IBM Granite AI models. We will touch on what are AI agents and explore some different designs for agent development. These designs are informed by the experiences of IBMers in developing agents. Our first agent will be a basic Function Calling Agent where we will build the agent from scratch to learn how agents work. We will then explore other agent designs such as Plan-and-Solve, Route-and-Solve, ToolRAG, and ReAct. The workshop agents will use LangGraph with LangChain in their implementations and use IBM Granite as the language model.
Ops & DevSecOps Guardrails for Agents
Agents writing code is one thing, but agents involved with infrastructure are something else entirely. In this final session of our lunch-and-learn series, we move from developer workflows into operations — like CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, Kubernetes clusters, observability systems — and the governance questions that follow. What does safe autonomy look like when an agent can read signals, form a hypothesis, and propose (or execute) change? This session is about guardrails before scale. We will explore how ops-focused agents actually behave in modern environments, the risk in places teams are already exposed, and baseline controls that make experimentation possible without increasing blast radius.
Automating Your Business with AI and Make.com
AI is getting a lot of attention, but most teams are still asking the same practical question: how do we use it to actually improve the way work gets done? In this session, Ricardo Govindasamy will show how businesses can combine AI and Make.com to automate real workflows, reduce manual effort, connect disconnected systems, and move work faster with less friction. This webinar is designed for builders, operators, and automation enthusiasts who want to go beyond theory and see how AI-powered workflows can create real operational value.
RoR Course: The Rebel Frame & the Illusion of Thinking
Artificial Intelligence did not begin with Silicon Valley. It began with philosophers, mathematicians, and rebels who refused to accept that intelligence was mystical. Inspired by Rebels of Reason: The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT & AI’s Heroes Who Kept the Faith by John Willis with Derek Lewis, this 8-part live course explores how AI evolved — not as a hype cycle, but as a centuries-long intellectual revolution. Over eight bi-weekly sessions, we explore how AI learned to count, formalize logic, compute, search, represent knowledge, learn from data, model uncertainty, and ultimately generate language. No heavy math or technical prerequisites are required.
Archive
Past Events
A look back at where the AIE Network community has gathered.
All Things AI 2025
The inaugural All Things AI conference drew 1,600+ attendees for two days of AI-focused sessions, workshops, and networking. The event established Durham as a hub for AI practitioners and business leaders.
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Monthly gathering of the All Things AI community (5,000+ members). Featured talks on AI agents in production and hands-on prompt engineering workshop.
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