Tech Thursday @ Harrisonburg Innovation Hub
Thu, Sep 04
|Harrisonburg
This isn’t your average networking mixer, it’s a space for serious builders and tech minds to connect, share ideas, and dig into meaningful conversation!


Time & Location
Sep 04, 2025, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Harrisonburg, 25 N Liberty St, Harrisonburg, VA 22802, USA
Guests
About the event
Tech Night: AI Design and Programming
Join us for an exciting Tech Night focused on the latest in AI design and programming, featuring one of our very own members, Holmes. This event promises to be an enlightening experience for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and creativity.
Agenda
Topic: Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning - AI's Current State of the Art
Haven't had time to keep up with the technical details of AI's latest and greatest? Come get an overview of the changing paradigms of frontier LLM training: reinforcement learning and models that can "reason." We'll discuss OpenAI's o series, the groundbreaking release of DeepSeek R1, GPT-5, and where reasoning and RL seem to be headed from here.
Q&A Session: Engage with Holmes and ask your burning questions about AI.
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