Welcome to the AI meetup in Boston, in collaboration with Docker, Vespa and Reveal. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agents, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda:
* 5:30pm~6:20pm: Checkin, Food and Networking
* 6:20pm~6:30pm: Welcome/community update
* 6:30pm~8:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 8:00pm: Open discussion & Mixer

Tech Talk: Securing Coding Agents: Sandboxes, Guardrails, and Real-World Attacks
Speaker: Michael Irwin (Docker)
Abstract: While most coding agents have "sandboxes" and "permissions", did you know that they are easily bypassed? And it's rare that a day goes by without hearing how Claude or Codex or Copilot or insert new agent here has leaked credentials or deleted a filesystem. So, how do we fix this? In this talk, we'll talk about the various ways in which things can go wrong and how Docker's been building tooling to combat these issues. At the end of the day, Docker wants to help developers get the full power of agents, but provide the proper guardrails and observability. We'll dive into Docker Sandboxes, the MCP Toolkit, and get a sneak peek of upcoming features. There will be lots of demos (both good and bad!) of blocking various attacks, ranging from filesystem deletion, to API token leaks, and various prompt injections. It should be a lot of fun!

Tech Talk: Multimodal Intelligence for Life Sciences: From Data Silos to Real-Time Insight
Speaker: Kristian Aune (Vespa) | Gloria Gao (Reveal)
Abstract: In this session, experts from Reveal HealthTech and Vespa.ai will demonstrate how multimodal AI can transform life sciences search and reason over complex data ecosystems. The demonstration fuses structured data, complex documents, unstructured text, and brain scans into a single searchable intelligence layer.
We will also discuss how this architecture supports the entire pharmaceutical value chain—including clinical research, marketing, medical affairs, and competitive intelligence and get into the basics of foundational and retrieval intelligence.
Kristian Aune of Vespa.ai will present on how current retrieval systems in sectors such as e-commerce effectively integrate vector search, ranking, and multimodal retrieval.
The session will highlight key lessons that the lifesciences, biotech, and medical fields can draw from these existing models. If you’re building AI systems where precision matters as much as capability, this session is for you.

Speakers/Topics:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules.
If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ AI developers in Boston and 500K+ worldwide.

Venue:
Microsoft New England – 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142
Conf Room NERD/1250 Abigail Adams

Community Partners:
Contact us if you are interested in partnership.
- Microsoft: Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Every day, the innovative technology we create here takes that mission to new and exciting places and impacts the lives of millions of people around the world.

Local and Global AI Community on Discord
Join us on discord for local and global AI tech community:
- Events chat: chat and connect with speakers and global and local attendees;
- Learning AI: events, learning materials, study groups;
- Startups: innovation, projects collaborations, founders/co-founders;
- Jobs and Careers: job openings, post resumes, hiring managers