Philadelphia AI Hack Night is a monthly meetup held on the last Monday of each month from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM. This casual environment is perfect for sharing knowledge, collaborating on projects, and building together.
The traditional scientific ecosystem faces challenges such as funding inequities, lack of transparency, and barriers to collaboration. Our initiative aims to address these issues by creating a community event that fosters collaboration and innovation, making scientific progress in AI more accessible and equitable.
We have already hosted 3 AI Hack Night events and now see over 20 attendees at our events. The road map for AI Hack Night in Philadelphia is to continue to host the event monthly, search for a larger event space (currently we max at 30), and partner with sponsors to help continue to grow our event. And by grow we mean get progressively larger venues and more/better food for hackers. If our event is successful then we plan to put together a "AI Hack Night Playbook" for other AI community organizers to use which would be published in our Github.