The 47th Kwaai Weekly Public Meeting on June 21st was led by Reza Rassool and Debbie Codinach. Reza began by introducing the guest speaker, Eve Maler, a digital identity futurist and strategist. Eve discussed her work on XML, SAML, and the importance of interoperability, data portability, and digital self-determination. She emphasized the role of user-centric identity in enhancing privacy and human autonomy. Eve shared insights on user-managed access, digital agents, and the potential of decentralized identity and zero-knowledge proofs.

Sam Johnston and Roman provided an architecture update, focusing on network scaling and community training and inference. Balaji Lakshmanan discussed the progress on the front-end implementation for the professor and student sides of the MVP for education. Reza Rassool shared updates on the beta program, highlighting the involvement of various colleges and institutions and the deployment of personal AI use cases.

The research team, including Ryan, Diego, Daryle, and Brian, provided updates on their projects. Diego Galeano reported on drug side effect identification research, achieving significant improvements in prediction performance. Brian Ragazzi discussed distributed AI and the development of a decentralized, privacy-preserving infrastructure for personal AI.

The meeting concluded with introductions from new members, who shared their backgrounds and interest in the Kwaai community. Attendees were encouraged to join the Idea Exchange Hackathon for further collaboration and brainstorming.

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ATTENDEES

- Abdulrahman Babatunde
- Afshin Beheshti
- Anil Augustine
- Austin Dumas
- AZ ZaidI
- Balaji Lakshmanan
- Barrett Booth
- Brian Ragazzi
- Cam Geer
- Daniel Wilson
- Darren Warner
- Daryle Serrant
- Debbie Codinach
- Dhilen Mistry
- Diego Galeano
- Dolapo Kester
- Eve Maler
- gautam tabin
- Hank Spraggins
- Jacqui Whiteway
- Jade Young
- jaymes hines
- Joel Brass
- John Lenac
- Johnson Hsiung
- Jon Lawrence
- Jordan Schwartz
- Karen
- Maira Khwaja
- Mark Vega
- Matthew Small
- Michael Grossman
- Raul Pineda
- Rene Matthews
- Reza Rassool
- Ryan Steubs
- Sam Johnston (samj)
- Shad Nygren
- Steve Vitka
- Sunity Sharma
- Ted Cohen
- Thomas Box
- Y A
- Zachary Schenkler
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