The document lists various North American meetup events scheduled for September 2018 related to emerging technologies like AI, blockchain, and cloud computing. Some notable events include a workshop on building chatbots in Palo Alto on September 24th with 150 expected attendees, an AI and chatbots meetup in Santa Clara on September 18th with 100 attendees, and a blockchain conference in San Francisco on October 1st focused on enterprise adoption with 200 expected participants. The meetups cover topics such as building chatbots, blockchain applications for business, cloud infrastructure best practices, and running serverless applications on Oracle Cloud.

1. North America Meetups in September
Meetup Group Date Location Region Attendance
(expected)
Topic Presentation(s) Speakers Event Link Event Type
Palo Alto
Machine
Learning and
Deep Learning
24 September Santa Clara, CA NA 150 AI and
Chatbots
Build Your First
AI Powered
Chatbot
Joseph Huang
Marcelo Jabali
Eric Rogge
Srikanth
Subramaniam
https://
www.meetup.c
om/Palo-Alto-
Machine-
Learning-and-
Deep-Learning-
Meetup/events/
245060475/
Workshop
Bay Area ACM 24 September Santa Clara, CA NA 50 AI & Chatbots Relying on
Discourse
Analysis to
Manage
Dialogues for a
Chatbot
Boris Galitsky https://
www.meetup.c
om/SF-Bay-
ACM/events/
254128155/
Meetup
Bay Area
Machine
Learning
18 September Santa Clara NA 100 AI & Chatbots Workshop:
Build Your First
AI-Powered
Intelligent
Chatbot as
Digital Assistant
Joseph Huang
Marcelo Jabali
Eric Rogge
Srikanth
Subramaniam
https://
www.meetup.c
om/
BayAreaMachin
eLearning/
events/
254091613/
Workshop
Blockchain for
Enterprises
19 September New York, NY NA 40 Blockchain Oracle
Blockchain as a
Service for
Business
Deepak Goel https://
www.meetup.c
om/Blockchain-
for-Enterprises/
events/
254149988/
Meetup
Big Data
Science
10 September Santa Clara, CA NA 40 AI & Chatbots Workshop:
Build Your First
AI-Powered
Intelligent
Chatbot as
Digital Assistant
Joseph Huang
Marcelo Jabali
Eric Rogge
Geoff Poremba
https://
www.meetup.c
om/Big-Data-
Science/events/
rqwdbqyxmbfc/
Workshop
Bay Area Full
Stack
17 September Santa Clara, CA NA 40 AI & Chatbots Workshop:
Build Your First
AI-Powered
Intelligent
Chatbot as
Digital Assistant
Joseph Huang
Marcelo Jabali
Eric Rogge
Geoff Poremba
https://
www.meetup.c
om/
openvswitch/
events/
tmtbdqyxmbwb
/
Workshop
SF Cloud
Native
13 September San Francisco,
CA
NA 40 Infrastructure OKE,OCI Jamal Arif https://
www.meetup.c
om/openstack/
events/
254061509/
Meetup
Cloud Mafia 20 September San Francisco,
CA
NA 40 Infrastructure Best Practices
on Creating
Cloud
Infrastructure
with Oracle
Cloud
Rashim Mogha https://
www.meetup.c
om/San-
Francisco-
Cloud-Mafia/
events/
253964449/
Meetup
IoT Silicon
Valley
+
Oracle IoT
Group
19 September Santa Clara, CA NA 30 IoT Digital Twin in
Industrial IoT
with Oracle IoT
Cloud
Jai Suri https://
www.meetup.c
om/
IoTSiliconValley
/events/
253890293/
https://
www.meetup.c
om/Oracle-IoT-
Meetup/events/
254008632/
Meetup
Founder World 7 September San Francisco,
CA
NA 200 Blockchain Trust in
Blockchain
Enterprise
adoption of
Blockchain
David Haimes
Mark
Rakhmilevich
http://
founderworld.c
om/
https://
www.meetup.c
om/Founder/
events/
251635203/
Meetup
Tampa JUG 25 September Tampa, FL NA 20 Java The New Java
Release
Schedule and
What It Means
to You
Jim Clarke https://
www.meetup.c
om/Tampa-
JUG/events/
254170737/
Meetup
Lexington
Blockchain
Business
Meetup
05 September Burlington, MA NA Blockchain Blockchain for
Fintech
Giuseppe Lino
and team
https://
www.meetup.c
om/Lexington-
Blockchain-
Business-
Meetup/events/
253873592/
Meetup
Meetup Group
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2. DROOTO 5 September San
Francisco,CA
NA 30 Blockchain Enterprise
adoption of
Blockchain
Jay Chug https://
www.eventbrite.
com/e/
enterprise-
blockchain-
seminar-
tickets-4716381
3235?
aff=ebdssbdest
search
Meetup
Chatbot
Conference
19 September San Francisco,
CA
NA 100 AI & Chatbots Chatbots UX/
Design panel
Suyash Joshi
Joe Huang
Organizer- Kriti
https://
www.chatbotco
nference.com/
Conference
Serverless NYC 11 October NYC, BY NA 50 Serverless Running
Serverless on
Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure
Jesse Butler https://
www.meetup.c
om/Serverless-
NYC/events/
253437499/
Meetup
Austin DevOps 10 Sept 2018 Austin, TX NA 40 DevOps Oracle Cloud Karthik
Gaekwad
https://
www.meetup.c
om/austin-
devops/events/
253961157/
Sevrerless
Boston
18 October
2018
Burlington, MA NA 40 Serverless Running
Serverless on
Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure
Jesse Butler https://
www.meetup.c
om/Serverless-
Boston/events/
253437234/
Meetup
LA Mobile
Camp
(PhoneGap, IoT,
Wearables)
16 October
2018
Los Angeles,
CA
NA JET ORACLE JET
Mobile Apps -
VBCS
Enterprise RAD
John Brock https://
www.meetup.c
om/
laphonegap/
events/
249356817/
Meetup
GDIS -
Blockchain
Investment
1 October 2018 Santa Clara, CA NA 200 Blockchain Is there a need
for more trust in
enterprises and
how can
Blockchain
Technology
provide it?
David Haimes
Organizer- Kriti
Krishna
GDIS -
Blockchain
Investment
Conference
Date Location Region Attendance
(expected)
Topic Presentation(s) Speakers Event Link Event TypeMeetup Group
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