When: Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Where: Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza, One Veterans Place, Silver Spring, MD
Category: Meetup · Pets welcome: Cats · Price: Free
From the organizers of the Silver Spring Cloud Meetup, this is a local tech meetup for AI builders, software engineers, cloud engineers, developers, founders, and AI practitioners in the Silver Spring / DMV area. **What to expect** Short talks plus open networking. Topics on deck for our first sessions: * Local AI models: running Qwen, Llama, and friends on your own hardware (Ollama, MLX, llama.cpp) * Agentic AI: what's actually working in production, and what isn't **Location:** Silver Sp