Downloadables: Ai and Tech
Terms Defined:
Ai (Artificial Intelligence): A tool that collects data and uses this data to communicate and perform tasks. Intentionally spelled as “Ai” on this site.
Tech (Technology): Using machines and knowledge to solve problems.
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Kelly Tutors has attended many events on Ai and Technology. Topics have included automated driving vehicles with Ai, Ai film festivals, automated robots with farming, battery storage, energy sources, and lots more!!
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Ai + Tech: BLOG TLDR’s
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Top 8 Great Takeaways From Ai & Tech Events:
Ai + Tech: Full Length Blogs
TLDR: Author attends her second Open Claw AI meetup and barely pays attention to the technical demos because she spontaneously invents the perfect name for her edtech app, buys the domain for $6.79, and spends the rest of the event excitedly securing trademark advice and booking calls with mentors.
TLDR: Author arrives at what she thought was a leadership conference at a baseball stadium only to discover it is a highly technical Valkey/Redis data infrastructure summit with speakers from Apple, Google, Snap, and Netflix whose heavy accents and niche content left her hilariously lost.
TLDR: Author joins a Google-hosted virtual event for startup founders to learn about cloud credit tiers ($2K-$25K+) and AI Studio tools, hoping to qualify for the startup program to fund building her edtech platform.
TLDR: Author attends a basic AI tools talk for founders then gets intensive one-on-one startup coaching from a mentor who helps her draft three rounds of her edtech pitch, but the session is marred by repeated boundary violations and unwanted physical advances she documents candidly.
TLDR: Author attends a Flexport webinar on the AI infrastructure supercycle driving $3-5 trillion in data center buildout, learning how fragile million-dollar GPU racks require white-glove air freight logistics with shock-free trucking, multi-corridor routing, and 24/7 dedicated teams.
TLDR: Kelly attends a Nobel laureate's lecture on macroscopic quantum mechanics, covering tunneling, qubits, and superposition, and candidly admits most of it went over her head despite her enthusiasm for learning.
TLDR: A lively panel discussion on AI's impact on jobs and skills featuring VCs and a Google Cloud rep, where the author not only learns about workforce trends but also makes a valuable funding connection.
TLDR: An intellectually stimulating university talk exploring how AI becomes a "public problem" through charismatic individuals, error inventories, and journalistic practice, examining how failures reveal power dynamics and how "stance words" shape narratives.
TLDR: A French cultural event at Seattle's town hall that started slow with an awkward atmosphere, but was rescued by a visiting Paris-based professor who gave a brilliant talk connecting the Enlightenment to AI, arguing that organizing knowledge is a political act and that AI can either restore intellectual dependency or foster courage.
TLDR: Seattle's first OpenClaw AI meetup featuring demos of agentic AI deployments including a dairy farm intelligence system, team memory management tools, AI patent scanning, and discussions about giving AI agents persistent identities and virtual pets.
TLDR: A full-day corporate security tech conference covering AI data security, quantum computing threats (Q-Day 2029), post-quantum cryptography migration, and cybersecurity preparedness, followed by a West Coast Swing dance event in the evening.
TLDR: Author attends a virtual workshop on AI agents hoping to learn how to build one, but discovers the product (MuleRun) is actually a workflow automation tool -- not an agent builder -- and provides candid feedback about confusing marketing and event naming.
TLDR: The author attends a startup funding event featuring speakers on capital access, company culture, and acquisitions, including an inspiring blind PhD speaker advocating for accessibility in tech entrepreneurship.
TLDR: A disappointing AI workshop marketed as hands-on agentic AI building turned out to be lecture-only with no actual agent creation, leaving Kelly frustrated by the gap between marketing promises and delivery.
TLDR: Kelly attends an OpenAI workshop for small businesses and is frustrated that the content is extremely basic, noting that even the 70-year-olds in attendance already know how to use ChatGPT, while the mayor reads a ChatGPT-generated speech at the event.
TLDR: A university panel on how big-tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon use internal rituals -- dogfooding, design sprints, OKRs, hackathons, and pizza-team sizing -- to force behavior at scale, with the author offering a skeptical, culture-critical commentary on corporate control systems.
TLDR: The author attends a virtual White House office-hours session for an AI education competition, gathering advice on proposal formatting, rubric strategy, and submission logistics as she finalizes her AI-for-youth education proposal before the deadline.
TLDR: A frustrated rant about spending 12+ hours over four days dealing with six Xfinity customer service agents who ghosted, overcharged, shut off her phone, and broke every promise -- a case study in how terrible corporate customer service has become.
TLDR: Kelly attends two AI events in one evening -- a women-in-tech founder panel on fundraising and product-market fit, followed by a career-focused talk on upskilling with AI, domain expertise, and managing your own career trajectory in the age of automation.
TLDR: Kelly signs the White House AI Education pledge and critiques the lack of oversight in AI-generated youth content imagery, shares her own edutainment projects (fairytale rewrites, AI literacy songs), and documents how AI chatbots dismissed her pattern-recognition concerns before admitting their training biases.
TLDR: A triple-event day covering an underwhelming kelp innovation showcase, a Seattle port cruise tour learning about shipping logistics and tariff impacts on agriculture, and an impressive drone company demo showcasing SWAT and law enforcement drone technology.
TLDR: Author attends an AI ethics event at a local university covering tech, education, and healthcare, then scooters to a harvest gala's "commoners section" at a cool Seattle building, enjoying food and a fireplace but skipping detailed notes due to time pressure.