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Dear CincyAI Community Member —

Warmer weather is finally here — also what’s almost here is our March meetup!

🥳 Next week is an exciting week:

🎉 Tuesday, March 4 from 3-5pm ET — CincyAI for Humans (CincyAI) March meetup will take place at the UC Digital Futures building: RSVP Today! Don’t forget about the UD Digital Futures tour beforehand!)

🗓️  Wednesday, March 5 —  💖 International Women's Day 💖

💃 8am - 11am ET — Together Digital Accelerate with AI IWD event: Sign up today! 

🦄 7pm - 11pm ET — Creativity Squared x MidwestCon #ImaginationAge Underground Pre-SXSW IWD Party: Follow this Instagram account to get in! 

✈️  Friday, March 7 — SXSW: Press Jet for the "Midwest SXSW Takeover"

🗓️  Sunday, March 9 —  🤠 SXSW 🤠

🦾 10am - 11am CT — SXSW Pitch: Robotics, Web3, Voice & Extended Reality with Chris Lee of Airtrek Robotics: Learn more 

🎓 11:30am - 12:45pm CT — Mentor Session: Helen Todd (Creativity Squared) — Sign up today! 

🦋 4-5pm CT — Featured Session: AI, Music & Creativity in the Imagination Age with Holly Herndon: Learn more 

🤤 6-8pm CT — #ImaginationAge Private Dinner (Cincy and Columbus folks are welcome to all #ImaginationAge activations!)

❤️‍🔥 8-10pm CT — #ImaginationAge Invite-Only Reception with Surprise Performance

🦄 10pm CT+ — #ImatinationAge Underground Afterparty Downtown

 👊🏾 Monday, March 10 — 🤠 SXSW 🤠 6-8pm CT #ImaginationAge Private Dinner centered around Black Excellence

🥳 Tuesday, March 11 — 4-5pm CT SXSW "Farewell, Information Age — Welcome to the Imagination Age": Learn more 

✅ Cincinnati Regional Chamber: AI Business Summit Series

We are beyond excited to announce an AI Business Summit Series with the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber! 🎉

Each session will have expert panelists and hands-on learning and include:

• 🎟 March 20: AI for Non-Profits; panelists are Jorge Perez and Jeremy Brown — Register here

• 🎟 April 17: AI for Enterprise; TQL, TCS and 84.51 are panelists! — Register here

💝 Thank You To:

Big Kitty Labs — Our sponsors help cover the costs of hosting CincyAI, a volunteer organization, including food, drink, and photography. Big Kitty Labs is sponsoring all of 2025 and we couldn’t be more honored and grateful for their support to help make CincyAI possible!

UC Digital Futures and Dr. Kelly Cohen — We’re honored to partner with and host our CincyAI meetups at the UC Digital Futures building, an interdisciplinary research facility home to globally recognized leading research in responsible AI. A special thank you to our organizing partner, Dr. Kelly Cohen. If you’re interested in learning more about how you can partner with UC Research Labs to save costs and time researching, testing, and validating your AI initiatives, visit: https://ucdigitalfutures.com.

Ellie and Laura from À Lala Carte for the amazing charcuterie cups and David Choate’s DC Productions for the fantastic photos.

Our CincyAI Volunteers — Much appreciation to Sabrina Donley, Irv Cassio, Greg Goshorn, and Tushar Kulkarni who meet on Saturdays and help make CincyAI possible.

And most importantly: THANK YOU!

We couldn’t be more excited to have you be part of the largest AI community in the region and for being part of this dynamic community where the whole is not just greater but exponential in its impact. We’re an important node to the AI ecosystem here in Cincinnati, leading the way with Responsible AI.

Thank you!

-Kendra & Helen
Your CincyAI Cohosts
📬 https://cincyai.beehiiv.com 
🤝 https://cincyai.org/
🗞 CincyAI LinkedIn Page

A few of our people who did a QuickByte:
Brent Billingsley — Artistic Journey of Loving on People
Morgan Koth — Big Kitty Labs
Kyle Maycock — UC Digital Futures
Allie Howe — secVendors Demo for AI Agents
Mariana Ianovska — AI Video Production https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVnd1LZ3wuBmdkI9c4xnGAadaXXsufThu
Steven Shaw — Black Tech Week https://blacktechweek.com/
Greg Erdman — BreezeML: AI Governance Update
Hunter Muse — Midwest Data Factory
Joe Owens — Owens63 use of Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI
Tracy Ruberg– The Circuit
Steve Brettschneider — Pinnacle Solutions Group- software developer team is loving for coding. https://codeium.com/windsurf.
John Cavanaugh — Plunk Foundation -Feb 19 & 20 global online safety webinar https://shieldthefuture.com/ 
Tool we mentioned: Google AI Studio — https://kendratech.substack.com/p/google-ai-studio-stream-realtime

I hope you had a chance to connect with these wonderful humans.

February Event Photos

Feel free to share the photos and use #CincyAI! Word of mouth definitely contributes to our growing community.

CincyAI 2025 Dates + Community News & Updates

For AI resources and events, visit our website: https://cincyai.org/ai-events-resources/

March 4
April 1
May 6
June 17
July 1
August 5
September 2
October 7
November 4
December 2

CincyAI tickets are posted monthly: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/kr-digital-agency-71921791873

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