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Jake Brindley

Jake Brindley started Wild AI to bring people together in Minnesota to discuss and explore AI development. Whether you are just starting out or pushing the boundaries of AI and LLMs, Wild AI is a space to connect, share ideas, and build relationships within the community.

He is also a cofounder of Attentio, where his team has developed a new way to train LLMs. This approach has the potential to redefine AI training and become essential infrastructure for the future of AI development.

His focus is simple. Bring people together, push AI forward, and build technology that matters.

Peter Somerville

Peter Somerville is the Co-founder of Caparra, a Minneapolis-based startup building AI-powered tools that help software teams eliminate toil, improve code quality, and reduce tech debt -- automatically.

Peter met his Caparra co-founder Chad Rhyner 8 years ago at a fin-tech startup, and was quickly impressed with Chad's DevOps expertise. With their shared background as Midwestern natives and U.S. Marine Corps veterans, the two have stayed in touch discussing innovation in software engineering.

Peter is the "much less technical co-founder," but has surprised himself (and sometimes even impressed Chad) with his AI-assisted contributions to the Caparra codebase. When not attempting to code, Peter enjoys "Type 2 Fun" such as trail marathons, training at a Muay Thai camp in Thailand, and hiking 2,500 miles in Spain, Portugal, and France.