Meetupai.com, Hamburg

deepkapha.ai was invited to deliver a talk at meetupai.com, a community-driven AI conference set up by Rico Meihl and his associates. It was a pleasant community of driven and passionate students, business managers and entrepreneurs.

We shared our vision of DeepRRP, the Deep Remote Residency Program, for the first time ever in public. We also discussed the upcoming capsule networks research and shared a sneak peek at published work. The talk ended with questions on implementing and applying AI in the real world.

The room can now be named. One frame catches a host at the lectern in a navy fleece embroidered HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration, a Sennheiser handheld in his fist. Every file carries GPS at roughly 53.5494 N, 9.9904 E, which lands on Alter Wall in the old town. The hall runs two storeys, with a first-floor gallery looking down on a wooden floor, and about sixty chairs were set out in two banks either side of a centre aisle.

Timestamps run from 18:20 to 21:56. The first photograph is three people crowded over the lectern trading laptops before anything started, two ThinkPads and a tablet on one narrow shelf. The last is a group photograph on the stage steps: a dozen people, close to ten at night, several still in their coats. The room shot at 20:57 shows most of the right-hand bank full and people standing at the back by the drinks tables.

The bill was shared. One speaker worked a Hacking Health deck from the stage, the volunteer network that puts clinicians, designers, developers, patients and founders on the same problem. The slide on screen was titled Creativity lies at intersections. So the audience that saw DeepRRP for the first time had come for a mixed programme, part clinical, part machine learning.

Two banners dressed the stage and neither belonged to the meetup. A pull-up by the drinks tables read 500 Jahre WERTEorientiertes NETZWERK above the hashtag hamburg. The lectern carried a navy mark with Hamburg set underneath it and 500 Jahre picked out in red and green dots. Both read as house dressing for a five-hundred-year Hamburg anniversary, and nobody cleared them for the evening.

The crowd was young and technical, with a Joblift hoodie a few rows back placing one of the city's job-search startups in the room. Tarry stayed on. Photographs from the morning of 24 March show him with two people from the night before, the woman who had sat in the front row and the man who had both spoken from the stage and shot pictures from the aisle.