We invite you to join us at Newburgh Creates on April 8th for the Hudson Valley's Tech Community Meetup, an open meeting for anyone in our community or is interested in technology.

We'll explore the latest AI trends and tech career development opportunities, followed by networking with everyone.

Speakers confirmed:  

• Dmitry Pavlov, AWS, will give a talk about AI in the Real World: 2026 and the Era of Agents, Models, and Healthcare. At the start of 2026, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are pouring hundreds of billions into AI infrastructure. This isn't speculation — it's a signal that AI is becoming the backbone of how every business operates. So what does it mean for the rest of us?

  This lecture walks through how AI actually works in production: from deterministic algorithms to neural networks, LLMs with vector search, and agentic AI workflows on AWS. We ground the theory in medical imaging — where AI already generates radiologist-grade MRI narratives, yet verifying that output proves harder than creating it from scratch. A gap that's quietly appearing across every profession. The infrastructure wave is here. This session helps you understand what's being built, and where you fit inside it.
  

• Mike MacIsaac, long time mainframer, and hacker of personal voice assistants, will show his Smart Boomboxes, to reveal Is it a really smart boombox, or is it a general purpose computer with amazing sound?

• Newburgh Creates founder Jason Otero will show and tell his vibe coding project, 

We welcome you to give a lightning talk, or share your professional achievements, tips and tricks. We welcome AI enthusiasts showing their AI projects and following their live development. Ongoing 2026 call for speakers is available for your submission. Feel free to add as many talks as interested. These talks will be considered for our community meetups and can lead to your speakers engagement with our DevFest this Fall.

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Local tech professionals get-together in person on a monthly basis, alternating local municipalities. All these smaller size meet ups culminate with the two-day professional developers conference, DevFest Troy on October 23-24th, 2026. We will provide more details about this event as we move forward.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.