Build with people who care

A full day for the Azerbaijani technology community in the Bay Area. One keynote, six talks, a panel, two hands-on workshops and a lightning demo hour — then an evening reception with Azerbaijani food, chai and live mugam. Built for engineers, researchers, founders and students who want peers worth giving up a Friday for. Come for the talks; leave with three people you'll actually message on Monday.

Houston, TX

What we're looking for Work you've actually done — a system you shipped, a result you got, a thing that broke and what you learned Research explained for practitioners, not for reviewers Honest founder and operator stories, including the ones that didn't work Hands-on workshop material where people leave having built something Session formats Format Length Notes Talk 18 min + 5 min Q&A The main format. Hard stop, visible timer. Workshop 60 min Parallel track, ~40 people, bring something to build Lightning demo 5 min Show the thing working. No slides required. What we won't accept Product pitches or sales decks. If the talk needs a logo slide, it's the wrong talk. Talks that are a survey of someone else's work with no position of your own Anything you can't deliver in the time given What to include in your proposal Title and a two-sentence summary a non-specialist can follow What the audience will be able to do or understand afterwards Your format (talk / workshop / demo) and a label from the list A short bio and any link to previous talks or writing — first-time speakers are welcome and we'll help you prepare Language: sessions are delivered in English. Questions can be asked in Azerbaijani. Selection: reviewed by the programme team on clarity, substance, and how well the set of talks holds together across the day. We'll come back to everyone either way. Selected speakers submit slides one week before the event.

A fully offline text-to-speech model that speaks Azerbaijani. 9.36M parameters, 24 kHz mono, 2-4x faster than real time on an ordinary laptop CPU. No server, no API key, no internet.

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