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Upcoming events
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State of AI : Context Engineering with Microsoft and Anthropic
·OnlineOnlineContext is becoming a defining layer of modern AI systems and is shaping how models reason, respond, and integrate into real products. This event explores how context engineering is influencing the current state of AI and the way teams are thinking about building more capable and reliable systems.
Join us for a conversation with experts from Microsoft and Anthropic as we examine emerging approaches to structuring context, lessons from real-world AI development, and the considerations guiding what comes next.
Featuring insights from
Harald Kirschner, Principal Product Manager for GitHub Copilot and VS Code at Microsoft
Ado Kukic, Community Manager at Anthropic
Brandon Mathis, Engineering Lead, This Dot Labs
Tracy Lee, CEO, This Dot LabsIf you are interested in attending, please RSVP using this link!
10 attendees
Engineering with AI: Tools & Workflows for Next Gen Development Workshop
·OnlineOnlineJoin this immersive workshop to learn how modern engineering teams are integrating AI into everyday workflows. Through hands-on sessions, you’ll explore proven frameworks and practical AI playbooks that make code reviews faster, documentation smoother, and planning more strategic.
You’ll leave with battle-tested frameworks, real experience, and a concrete plan to bring AI tools and automation into your daily dev process.
This is a ticketed event. Seats are limited! Learn more here!
Use code MODERNWEB at checkout for $50 tickets!
6 attendees
Triangle Devs Talks @ Bandwidth HQ
Bandwidth, 2230 Bandmate Wy, Raleigh, NC, US⚠️ RSVP FOR THIS MEETUP HERE ⚠️
At this Triangle Devs meetup, we’ll kick things off with a talk on React Native by Mazen Chami from Infinite Red. Following the presentation, join us for a fireside chat on AI featuring Alex Malic, Head of the Model Manager Team at SAS, and Carlos Santana, Solutions Architect at AWS.
Doors at 6:30pm - talks start at 7pm
Join us on March 12th for pizza, networking and talking tech!
React Native: 2015 & Beyond
Presented By: Mazen Chami
From a scrappy Facebook experiment to powering AI apps, 4 million weekly downloads, and a 1.0 on the horizon. Buckle up for a high-speed tour through a decade of React Native: the Bridge era, the New Architecture revolution, the explosive 2025 that changed everything, and where this rocket ship is headed next.Fireside Chat: AI in Software Engineering 2026
Join us in an open-format discussion with Alex Malic, Head of the Model Manager Team at SAS, and Carlos Santana, Solutions Architect at AWS. In this panel-style fireside chat, we will share how AI is being utilized by tech industry experts. Our panelist will share first hand accounts of working with AI and how businesses are tackling this game-changing new tech.Submit your questions for the fireside chat here:
https://forms.gle/oLaAu7RQt7RAGpnP8About Mazen
Mazen Chami is a Staff Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in React Native. Mazen is the host of React Native Live and co-host of the React Native Radio podcast and an expert in Ignite and open source development. In his free time, Mazen loves to play soccer and enjoys time outdoors with his wife and 2 kids.About Alex
Alex Malich is an engineering leader with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling platform, DevOps, and cloud-native systems across startups and enterprise environments. By day, he works in SAS R&D on Model Manager, where he focuses on modernization, resilient architecture, and making AI adoption practical and measurable, including Agentic AI and MCP-based tooling.By night, Alex wears a different kind of helmet as a volunteer firefighter, bringing the same calm, systems-thinking mindset from production incidents to real-world emergencies. He is the founder of Triangle Tech Talks, a community built around sharing ideas, lessons learned, and honest conversations about technology. He is also the co-founder and co-host of the AI on Fire podcast, where AI, engineering, and reality checks meet.
Alex is especially passionate about modern AI architecture, exploring how LLMs, agents, and platforms can work together in ways that are reliable, scalable, and grounded in real engineering constraints.About Carlos:
Carlos Santana is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS leading Container solutions in the Worldwide Application Modernization GTM team. With a strong background in distributed systems, open source, devops, containers, gitops, kubernetes, agentic. He is a CNCF Ambassador and organizer of the CNCF Kubernetes BookClub. Follow him on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/csantanapr1 attendee
State of React Native
·OnlineOnlineExplore how React Native continues to evolve as a leading framework for building high-quality cross-platform applications.
We’re bringing together mobile engineers, technical leaders, product teams, and community contributors to share real-world use cases, best practices, and the latest advancements in the React Native ecosystem. Join us to discuss what’s new, what’s next, and how teams are building faster, more scalable mobile experiences.
Featuring
Gant Laborde, CIO and Founder, Infinite Red
Mazen Chami, Staff Software Engineer, Infinite Red
Tracy Lee, CEO, This Dot Labs4 attendees
Past events
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