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Monday, July 6, 2026

July meetup: AI agents and LLMs

Improving Vancouver · 116 West 6th Avenue, Suite 300, Vancouver

This month we have two talks on AI agents and large language models:

  • What Happens When Your Agent Has to Wait for a Human, by Melanie Warrick: how durable execution with Temporal keeps an agent’s state alive through crashes and long waits, with a short live demo.
  • A Practical Introduction to Generative AI and Large Language Models, by Daniel Chen: how LLMs actually work and how to use them effectively in Python-based data science workflows.

Come for the talks, stay for the community, and the pizza 🍕. A big thank you to Improving Vancouver for hosting us and providing pizza for the evening!

Read the full details in the meetup announcement on our blog.

Speakers

Melanie Warrick
AI Engineer doing DevRel at Temporal and co-founding Fight Health Insurance

Melanie Warrick is co-founding Fight Health Insurance and doing DevRel at Temporal, with over a decade of experience building in AI.

Daniel Chen
University of British Columbia, Lecturer

Daniel Chen is a Data Science Lecturer in the Statistics Department at the University of British Columbia.

Talks

What Happens When Your Agent Has to Wait for a Human
A Practical Introduction to Generative AI and Large Language Models