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+# Bio
+
+Reese is DIY technology enthusiast with a passion for projects that make things
+easy. He's been working in development since 2017 with experience in risk,
+compliance, scripting automation, full stack web development, container
+infrastructure, homelab server hardware, ESP Home and home automation. Reese
+has a passion for mentoring, but even more of a passion for sharing the new
+tech he found last week with anyone who will listen. Reese wants tech to be
+fun and approachable for anyone at any skill level.
+
+## Credentials
+
+Reese has spoken at multiple company conferences about building websites and
+automating with Python. He's taught multi-day intro-to-python classes both
+online and in person. He has 8 years of industry experience, 3 of which have
+been spent growing the development team at a Nimbis Services. Reese has,
+professionally and personally, written and distributed Python pip packages,
+designed and hosted websites, built and deployed a version control system, led
+AI development teams, taught Python classes, mentored high school students in
+tech, annoyed his friends with discord bots, and automated his bathroom fans.
+He's accustomed to speaking in front of large and small audiences and relishes
+the opportunity to share his excitement with a crowd.
+
+## Abstract
+
+This talk will walk through the process of putting your local LLM to good* use.
+Through the medium of a Discord bot, we will explore how to leverage llama.cpp
+to give your friends the ability to create custom bots with custom
+personalities, have those personalities talk with each other, generate images,
+edit images, and set yourself up to leverage tool calling so your bots can
+interact with the real world.
+
+We will cover the state of hosting offline LLMs and discuss some strategies for
+hosting them safely with Podman, Bifrost, and Caddy. We will also discuss the
+current state of LLM hardware and give some realistic examples with AMD, Intel,
+Nvidia, and CPU based solutions. We will not be using cloud examples, as this
+talk will focus on avoiding cloud solutions in general. We will poke fun at
+leveraging Discord as our example if our goal is to self-host.
+
+Ultimately, I want this talk's participants to leave with some functional code
+and good ideas to get them thinking about ways they can integrate LLMs into
+their communities while maintaining control and privacy (and avoiding a hefty
+bill). This talk will emphasize audience participation to generate ideas for a
+prebuilt demo of the custom bot service, but will not build anything live
+during the presentation.