BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//RSVP//Portland startup events//EN X-WR-CALNAME:RSVP — Engineering the Future of Media - Seattle Community Meetup BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Engineering the Future of Media - Seattle Community Meetup DTSTART:20261119T013000Z DTEND:20261119T050000Z DTSTAMP:20261105T223401Z UID:rsvp-2037@rsvp.local DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of engineering talks\, live demos\, and networking with Qdrant\, Adobe\, Incantio\, Superoptimal\, the AI Collect ive\, Code & Coffee\, and AI House.\nAbout The Topic\nMedia is becoming ma chine-readable. Music\, audio\, and video are no longer just files to stor e and stream. They are signals that AI systems can search\, understand\, a nd help create.\nThat shift raises new engineering questions. How do you f ind a song by how it sounds instead of how it’s tagged? How do you make a huge music catalog discoverable for the people who need the right track? And how do you build generative tools for video and sound that keep creat ors in control?\nWe’re bringing together engineers\, researchers\, and b uilders working across audio search\, music\, and generative media to expl ore the systems powering the next era of content.\nExpect real architectur es\, practical demos\, honest trade-offs\, and plenty of time to meet fell ow builders. No sales pitches.\n🗓️ Event Agenda\n5:30pm — Doors ope n | Food\, drinks & networking\n6:10pm — Welcome from AI House\n6:15pm — Qdrant: Your Perfect Band: Auditory AI Discovery and Search\n6:40pm — Incantio: Finding the Right Track: AI-Powered Music Discovery\n7:05pm — Adobe: Creators in Control: Building Generative AI Tools for Video and Sound\n7:20pm — WellSaid: Samples vs. Synthesizers - AI Voice and Comme rcial Rights\n7:35pm — Community demos (3 × 5 minutes)\n7:45pm — Netw orking\, food & drinks\n🎧 Talk 1: Your Perfect Band: Auditory AI Discov ery and Search\nNeil Kanungo | Qdrant - LinkedIn\nMost music search still runs on titles\, genres and tags. But what makes you love a band lives in the sound itself: the mood\, the texture\, the voice.\nNeil will explore h ow audio embeddings and vector search let us discover music by how it soun ds\, and how those same ideas power recommendations that feel personal rat her than generic.\nHe’ll walk through how audio is turned into vectors\, how similarity search and filtering work together\, and where the enginee ring trade-offs show up between accuracy\, latency and scale.\nExpect a pr actical look at building auditory search and discovery systems\, and maybe a few new bands to add to your playlist.\n🎸 Talk 2: Finding the Right Track: AI-Powered Music Discovery for Independent Artists\nDanny Newcomb | Incantio - LinkedIn\nHalf of today’s music market is independent. Yet f inding the right track for an ad\, a film or a video can still mean diggin g through massive catalogs by hand.\nDanny\, a longtime Seattle musician t urned founder\, will share how Incantio uses AI to catalog and recommend i ndependent music to creators\, editors and music supervisors.\nHe’ll cov er what it takes to make a large catalog searchable by mood\, tempo and vo cals\, and how AI can help independent artists get discovered\, licensed a nd paid fairly.\n🎬 Talk 3: Creators in Control: Building Generative AI Tools for Video and Sound\nBryan Wang | Adobe - LinkedIn\nVideo is the mos t consumed medium in the world\, yet making it well still takes deep exper tise and hours of manual work. Generative AI is changing that fast.\nBryan will take us inside Adobe Research’s work on AI tools for video and aud io creation\, from generating soundtracks that fit a video to expanding st ories with generative video.\nHe’ll share how these ideas move from rese arch prototype to shipped product\, and the design and engineering choices that keep creators in the driver’s seat while AI handles the heavy lift ing.\n🎙️ Talk 4: Samples vs. Synthesizers - AI Voice and Commercial R ights\nBenjamin Dorr | WellSaid - LinkedIn\nWe interact with AI voices eve ry day\, from our personal devices to customer service agents. But most cr eative production today is still completed with traditional voice acting t alent or in-house recordings.\nBen will discuss the levers of commercial q uality\, scale\, and rights that drive how AI voiceover is used by creativ e professionals today\, and the reasons why WellSaid has bet on real voice actors to guarantee intellectual property rights for creators in the futu re.\n⚡ Community Demos\nThree builders from the Seattle community\, five minutes each. Short\, live and focused on something real you can build wi th music\, audio or media AI. (Lineup announced soon.)\n👋 Who Should Jo in?\nWhether you’re working on audio or music AI\, search and recommenda tions\, generative video\, creative tools\, or media infrastructure\, you ’ll find plenty to dig into.\nCome for the engineering insights. Stay fo r the food\, drinks\, and people. 🍛🍻\nSpace is limited\, register ea rly.\nWho Are We\nThe AI Collective is a global non-profit building the hu man layer for the AI era. We unite 200\,000+ leaders\, builders\, and stak eholders across 100+ forums worldwide to democratize the frontier\, build trust\, and coordinate how society navigates the rapid acceleration of tec hnological progress.\nCode & Coffee is a meetup for developers to make fri ends and grow\, active in over 30 cities. 100% volunteer-led and volunteer -run\, with 80\,000+ devs and growing.\nAI House is Seattle’s hub for AI founders\, researchers\, engineers and investors. Founded by the AI2 Incu bator and based at Pier 70 on the Seattle waterfront\, it brings together a community\, an incubator and capital to help build the next generation o f AI-first companies.\nSuperoptimal runs technical meetups and workshops f or AI engineers\, bringing practitioners together around real production s ystems. LOCATION:Seattle\, WA URL:https://seattleflow.org/event/engineering-the-future-of-media-seattle- community-meetup?utm_source=rsvpwme&utm_medium=referral END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR