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What we've explored together
A look at the latest sessions. Every month, a new topic — AI agents, MCP, GPT from scratch, sandboxing, RAG, recent papers…
Graph/RAG & NeSy AI : du doc brut au raisonnement
Julien Brodier — Talium
From raw documents to reasoning: a full pipeline covering extraction (OCR, VLMs), entity recognition (NER), knowledge graph construction (RDF vs Neo4j), GraphRAG querying strategies, and neuro-symbolic reasoning — combining the flexibility of LLMs with the rigor of symbolic AI.
Donner sa langue au « chat »
Mathieu Cordebard — web developer & WebRTC architect
A subjective, non-specialist take on how AIs work and what they change: how these models learn, what they cost (data, energy), and how they reshape the way we create, work, and think.
DUST : Deploying AI Agents Day-to-Day
Léandre Le Bizec — Solutions Engineer at Dust
Online session (English). How teams ship AI agents day-to-day across support, ops, finance, and engineering. Live demo: building an agent from scratch, plugged into existing tools and data, followed by Q&A.
AI For Chemistry — Build an LLM with agents for Chemistry
Teodora Djikic-Stojsic, Emil Sayilov & Anjila Ben Frej — Research Engineers, iCube
English session. Intro to medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, then a chemistry-specialised LLM: structured reasoning, analogue-series datasets, and an agentic layer with tool-calling to assist molecule research.
Créez des agents IA avec Google ADK
Sonny Mupfuni — AI engineer & PyTorch ambassador
Building AI agents with the Google Agent Development Kit. Survey of use cases: customer service, finance, supply chain, software development, cybersecurity.
IA Agentique : augmenter la confiance pour diminuer la surveillance
Raphael Antoine — healthcare interoperability expert
Real-world reflections after a year of daily AI agent use. Concrete takeaways, no dogma: where trust is earned, where supervision stays essential.
MCP Servers et Agents IA
A hands-on look at the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it connects AI agents to real data, services, and applications. How an agent talks to an MCP server to perform concrete actions.
Sandboxing pour Agents IA — du conteneur Docker à la MicroVM Firecracker
Your AI agent runs code, spawns shells, hits the network. How do you isolate what it shouldn't do? A tour of isolation boundaries: Docker, gVisor, Firecracker MicroVMs.
Introduction and Hands-on: AI Agents with Gemini SDK
Follow-up to the agents session (Jeremy Howard / Claudette). This time we apply the concepts with the Google Gemini SDK: 30 min intro to AI agents, then live coding.
Build an AI Agent — with code
English-speaking session. We follow the “How to Solve It with Code” course by Jeremy Howard and Johno Whitaker, reproducing the code live to understand how an AI agent works.
Build an LLM from Scratch
We follow Sebastian Raschka's “Build an LLM from Scratch” series. Bring your laptop: we build a large language model step by step, together.
Hands-on Session — Building GPT from Scratch! Part 2
Continuation of the interactive session following Andrej Karpathy's video. We pick up where we left off and keep building GPT.
Hands-on Session — Building GPT from Scratch!
Interactive session following Andrej Karpathy's iconic video: we build GPT from scratch, in Python, together.
Quantum Machine Learning / AlphaFold2 protein structure prediction
Bogdan Penkovsky (Alysophil) — plus AlphaFold2 talk
Double session: Quantum Machine Learning, myths and realities (by Alysophil R&D), followed by a presentation on protein structure prediction with AlphaFold2.
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A short email before each meetup. Nothing else.
Working on something AI-related?Come share it.
Engineer, researcher or student — a talk, a live coding session, a real-world experience report, a paper reading. We love first-timers.
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The community
AI is reshaping how we reason, create, and decide.
Our sessions span the full spectrum — from machine learning to autonomous agents, from computer vision to symbolic reasoning, from GenAI to ethics. We welcome all speakers: engineers, researchers, students, curious minds.Beginners and experts alike.
Practitioner talks
Engineers, researchers, students share what they're building.
Paper readings
We read and dissect together the papers that matter.
Live coding
Building an agent, an LLM, a pipeline — live, together.
Field experience reports
What works, what breaks, what we'd do differently.
Open discussions
Conversations after every talk. No question is too beginner.
The full AI spectrum
ML, DL, GenAI, agents, NLP, vision, XAI, ethics, symbolic reasoning.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need before joining
What is IA Strasbourg?
A non-profit community running monthly AI meetups in Strasbourg: talks, paper readings, live coding and field reports on machine learning, deep learning, generative AI and autonomous agents.
Do I need to be an expert to attend?
No. Meetups are open to everyone — engineers, researchers, students or the simply curious. Beginners and experts are equally welcome.
Is it free?
Yes, all meetups are free. Registration (via Meetup) is only requested for venue access.
Where and when do meetups take place?
About twice a month in Strasbourg — often at the Digital Village. Some sessions are also available online.
What language are the sessions in?
French and English, depending on the speakers. Each session's language is shown on the event.
How can I give a talk?
Engineers, researchers and students can present a talk, a live coding session or a field report. Contact us from the site or the Meetup page — first-timers are encouraged.