Upcoming Events
Building Apps with AI: One Year of Real-World Lessons ❌ Canceled
🗓️ Wednesday, August 19, 2026, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
📍 Gravity IT Resources · Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 · United States
Building Apps with AI: One Year of Real-World Lessons
How AI enabled the creation of GatherLogic.com
AI has evolved from an interesting coding assistant into an essential software development tool. But what is it really like to build a production application with AI every day?
This session shares one year of practical lessons learned using ChatGPT, Windsurf, Cursor, and Claude Code to design, develop, and launch GatherLogic.com, a SaaS platform for managing communities, groups, and events. Rather than showcasing AI-generated demos or isolated code examples, we'll examine how AI performs throughout the software development lifecycle and what actually works in production.
We'll explore where AI dramatically accelerates development, where it still falls short, and how to collaborate effectively with AI on software architecture, debugging, refactoring, API integration, testing, and documentation. Along the way, we'll compare the strengths of today's leading AI development tools and discuss when each is most effective.
The techniques presented are intentionally programming-language agnostic. Whether you develop in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust, PHP, or another language, you'll see software engineering practices and AI collaboration patterns that apply across languages and technology stacks.
You'll leave with practical techniques, realistic expectations, and reusable development patterns that will help you integrate AI more effectively into your own software projects. Most importantly, you'll discover that successful AI-assisted development still depends on sound engineering judgment—and learning to collaborate effectively with AI can help you build better software, faster.
Schedule:
6:30PM-7:00PM EST Networking /w food and refreshments
7:00PM-8:00PM EST Presentation
8:00PM-8:30PM EST Q&A Discussion
Parking:
Free parking is available in the garage (excluding the reserved parking spots, painted yellow for distinction) and in the outside parking lot directly in front of the building's entrance.
Gravity IT Resources is graciously hosting this event in their Fort Lauderdale office. Thank you, Gravity, for your support.
This a joint presentation with the Miami Java User Group
Past Events
Meet Kiro: The AI IDE for prototype to production
🗓️ Thursday, March 26, 2026, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
📍 DOCK by The LAB Miami · Miami, FL 33127 · United States
Join us for an exclusive in-person session where we'll explore Kiro: an AI-powered developer platform designed to help you turn ideas and specs into real, working code in minutes.
Kiro doesn't just autocomplete your code, it understands your project specs, context, and intent and then helps you design, generate, and refine your applications intelligently.
You'll see a live walkthrough and demo showing how Kiro's AI agents helps you scale and uplevel your work while keeping you in the driver's seat.
Why attend?
- Discover how Kiro integrates with your favorite languages and frameworks
- Learn how AI agents can support your entire dev workflow from specs to deployment
- Get inspired to embrace AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC)
- Network with other AWS and AI enthusiasts in the Miami tech community
Languages supported: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java.
Schedule:
6:30PM-7:00PM EST Networking
7:00PM EST Presentation with Q&A
Thanks to the LAB Miami for providing the event space.
👉 Metered parking is on a first-come, first-served basis; you must pay via app (like PayByPhone). The safest option is the Wynwood Garage at 311 NW 26th St, just a short 2-minute walk from The Dock.
This is a joint presentation with the Miami AWS User Group and Miami Java User Group.