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Events
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Builders Group
Upcoming
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Last Tuesday of the month, every 2 months | 90 min | Zoom |
Recent event recaps
Builders Group — August 25, 2026
Presentations detailed the technical architectures, editorial modes, and privacy frameworks behind live implementations at Western University, Emory University, and the University of Calgary. Speakers demonstrated publication metadata harvesting, multi-agent compliance audits for post-award reconciliations, and zero-retention narrative CV generation. Open discussion addressed institutional licensing models, local network hosting, and automated grant review workflows.
Builders Group — June 30, 2026
Presenters demonstrated technical architectures and workflows for two operational tools: Western University's ADAPT system, which uses Power Automate and Gemini models to screen grant drafts against codified peer-review critiques, and the University of Ottawa's Copilot Studio conversational agent for routing researcher queries. Discussions addressed triage protocols for AI output, integration with IT ticketing systems, training-data limitations, and the role of AI in grant adjudication.
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