Practical AI events, updates and goals for '25!

Let's start '25 with a bang, accelerating and improving just about everything we can do using AI

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Joshua Wohle
January 03, 2025

The Largest Practical AI Community in the World!

Hey ,

I hope you had an amazing holiday period, full of beautiful moments and time to reflect on what’s happening around us. And boy, has it been busy. From the 12 days of OpenAI to Google’s Gemini 2.0 and Deep Research, the holiday season has been full of acceleration and practical tools to make us all more productive using AI.

If last year was crazy with AI productivity, we believe this year is going to take it up a notch — and we’re doing everything we can to help you stay on top of things. We’ve got a year full of events, training programs, certifications and great partnerships ahead — and hope to see you for all of it!

Want to demo or talk at one of our events, sponsor one of them, volunteer or host an event in another city? Just fill in this form, reply to this email, or check out this page with information on the community.

A few highlights from last month’s demos & talks:

Leveraging Custom AI Agents for Productivity | Mindstone Toronto

IntroductionGood evening, everyone. And I know we started a bit late, but the intention over here is that before we get on to the networking, I just wanted to a

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Production-grade research at the tip of your fingers | Mindstone London

IntroductionI wanted to give this a little bit of a Christmas vibe. So we're going to do some research on Christmas, basically what Christmas is all over the wo

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Say Yes to High Stakes Decisions and Heavy Regulations | Mindstone

IntroductionGood evening, everyone. I'm Chloe Drew. I'm here to share how you can say yes to AI even in high stakes decisions and highly regulated industries, s

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And if you want to catch up with previous meetups or meetups in other cities, all the talks are uploaded here.

Upcoming events (please sign up & spread the word):

Want to demo or talk at one of our events, sponsor one of them, volunteer or host an event in another city? Just fill in this form, reply to this email, or check out this page with information on the community.

As always, if you want to take your business (or yourself!) to the next level with AI and upskill your employees/yourself to be more productive, have a look at our AI Academy (enterprise) or AI Competency Programs (smaller teams and individuals) — or if certification is what you’re after, consider our Pearson-accredited Generative AI Foundations Program. Just reply to this email if you are interested to learn more.

AI is changing the game everywhere, but it wouldn’t be as exciting without the ability to discuss and share it with all of you. And none of that would be possible without the help of our excellent partners at Gamma!

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Thanks for being such a fantastic community. Hope to see you at an event soon!

Best,

Joshua