New Tech Meetup of Central PA

04/15/2026

AI Integration and Automation
Saturday, May 23, 2026 - 8:00 am to Noon.

RSVP on LinkedIn - if you are not in the LinkedIn group, please request access.

https://www.linkedin.com/events/7447705107472928768?viewAsMember=true

11/25/2025

11/25/2025

Keystone Merge coming up December 4 at Pursuit Coworking in Harrisburg.

11/05/2025

AI Day of Central PA - Speaker Profile: Ryan Bailey

Ryan Bailey is the founder and CEO of Myelai, an AI solutions company focused on delivering transparent, outcome-driven results for organizations. With a unique blend of technical innovation and real-world strategy experience, Ryan has helped companies across industries tie AI adoption to measurable business impact. His work centers on making AI attribution clear and actionable for every stakeholder.

Solving the AI Attribution Problem: Methods and Real-World Examples

How can you confidently measure the impact of AI in your business? Ryan shares Myelai's step-by-step methodology—built through client engagements—for tracking outcomes from discovery through implementation. Learn how to move beyond hype and see practical, technical frameworks for attributing AI results, featuring real examples you can apply in your own organization.

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10/29/2025

AI Day of Central PA - Speaker Profile: Scott Davis
VP of IT Services, Everound | Chairman, Cybersecurity Association of Pennsylvania

Scott Davis is a renowned cybersecurity leader and educator with over 25 years of experience spanning private industry, government, and the military. Based in Central Pennsylvania, Scott currently serves as Vice President of IT Services at Everound and Chairman of the Cybersecurity Association of Pennsylvania.
His expertise includes cybersecurity strategy, compliance, cloud security, and critical infrastructure protection. As an executive, advisor, and sought-after international speaker, Scott has helped over 200 organizations secure their operations, navigate emerging threats, and build cyber-resilient cultures.
He's also influenced policy as a legislative witness on breach notification laws and mentors the next generation of IT security professionals as an adjunct professor and community leader.

Presentation Topic

Practical Security Applications of AI
Cybersecurity expert Scott Davis cuts through the hype and explores how AI is directly improving security operations today. Learn how leading organizations deploy artificial intelligence for automated threat detection, advanced identity management, and real-time risk assessment. This session delivers clear, actionable insights for leveraging AI to strengthen defenses and reduce risk in any enterprise environment.

Scott: https://lnkd.in/eYpfdRxm

full schedule: https://lnkd.in/egswUBJU

10/23/2025

AI Day of Central PA - Speaker Profile: Ken Richard

Ken Richard is the Head of Engineering at Okaya, a startup using AI to help high-stakes professionals—like pilots, firefighters, and healthcare workers—monitor and improve mental readiness. With over a decade of experience leading software and product teams, Ken has guided organizations through digital transformations, from EdTech to live streaming to AI-driven wellness platforms. He's passionate about bridging the gap between technical innovation and human trust, and about building products that are both responsible and impactful.

Presentation Topic: AI to Improve Mental Readiness for High-Impact Careers

AI can help professionals in high-stakes roles—like pilots, firefighters, and healthcare workers—better understand and manage their mental readiness. In this talk, Ken Richard shares how his team at Okaya built and validated a custom model for mental-health insights, balancing technical design with trust, guardrails, and human oversight. The session highlights what it takes to move AI from concept to real-world use in sensitive, high-impact environments.

https://www.ntmocpa.com/speaker-ken-richard.html

10/21/2025

AI Day of Central PA - Speaker Profile: Bryan Speece

Bryan Speece is the founder of Vamp and CEO of Speece Technologies, a growing software development and integration firm. He is a Founder Institute alum with nearly two decades of industry experience. As a committed tech and startup community member, Bryan has a passion for developing innovative technology solutions.

Presentation Topic
Bryan Speece will present Vamp, a web application for conducting AI-driven research interviews. Vamp AI — built with Amazon Bedrock and OpenAI's Whisper — is guided by standardized research procedures and guardrails to conduct interviews like a PhD-level qualitative researcher. With minimal prompting, Vamp's AI can conduct an interview about virtually anything. Use Vamp for customer intelligence, employee outreach, academic research, and more.

Learn about Bryan Speece, Founder of Vamp and CEO of Speece Technologies, and his presentation on AI-driven research interviews at Central PA AI Day on November 8, 2025.

10/20/2025

Speaker Profile: Brandon Teller

AI Day of Central PA - November 8, 2025 at Pursuit Coworking

Brandon Teller is a seasoned technology founder and technical lead behind Bindr, the inclusive dating app, and ColdStart, an AI-powered content generation and LLM ranking startup. Brandon specializes in solving the "cold start" challenge for companies, using advanced AI-driven strategies to rapidly create, tailor, and optimize content for today's AI-powered discovery platforms.
With over a decade of experience scaling digital ventures, he's helped launch and grow communities from scratch, earning national recognition for innovation in AI content and user acquisition.

Presentation Topic
AI only ranks relevant content, SEO as we know it is dead
Brandon will demonstrate practical approaches for building AIO (AI-optimized) targeted content that perform well in conversational AI and search ecosystems. Drawing from ColdStart and Bindr, he'll share actionable insights on adapting your content for improved visibility, organic growth, and user engagement in the age of AI-driven discovery and the importance of being everywhere that your customers are asking for your product or services.
https://lnkd.in/eR6KQDER

10/15/2025

AI Day of Central PA - November 8 - Speaker Profile.

Jodi Frank / Founder, Culineer

Jodi Frank is the founder of Culineer, an AI-powered platform transforming how people discover and enjoy locally produced fresh food. Culineer personalizes the local food experience—helping consumers find, cook, and connect with food grown close to home - much like Spotify personalizes music, AllTrails curates hiking, and and Airbnb reshaped travel.
With deep and wide experience in sales, marketing, and business strategy across industries ranging from healthcare and consumer goods to technology and startups, Jodi brings a rare blend of business acumen and creative innovation to her work. In addition to her entrepreneurial leadership, she has taught business and marketing at HACC and Penn State University, and holds an MBA from Penn State.
Jodi's mission-driven approach to AI focuses on practical applications that amplify human connection, improve efficiency, and drive meaningful impact at the systems level.

Presentation Topics
Using AI to Reduce Development Costs
Discover how the Culineer team integrates AI tools to accelerate product development, automate communication, and efficiently deliver value to grassroots food communities.
Creating Intelligent Agents to Enhance Customer Experience
See how Culineer uses AI agents to strengthen connections between farmers and home cooks, elevating engagement and bringing the farm-to-table experience to life.

10/14/2025

AI Day of Central PA - November 8 - Speaker Profile.

Chuck Russell / Senior Partner, Collective Intelligence Inc.

Chuck R. Russell is a long-standing Central Pennsylvania tech entrepreneur, former CEO of the Technology Council of Central PA (TCCP), and a founder and Senior Partner at the local consulting firm Collective Intelligence Inc. With decades of thought leadership in collaborative, analytics, and machine learning technologies, his focus is on turning complex data processes into strategic business advantages.

Presentation Topic
Generative Development (Vibe Coding)
Chuck is presenting on "Generative Development (Vibe Coding)", which he describes as the cutting edge of AI-enhanced software creation. He specializes in the practical application of generative AI tools to accelerate the entire development cycle—from initial ideation and business modeling to generating functional code and creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) roadmap—significantly speeding up concept validation and prototyping. His presentation will address how developers and product teams can move beyond simple "vibe coding" to leverage AI assistants for powerful, structured, and agile development, a topic that aligns closely with his deep technical background in advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI.

http://erro.ai/speaker-chuck-russell.html