• Successfully advocated in the Commonwealth against the proposed digital goods sales tax.

• Educated 300+ tech community members about the latest AI advancements at the NVTC Impact AI Summit.

• Gathered 700+ professionals to celebrate this year’s CFO Award winners.

• Hosted and connected 200+ interns from nearly 50 member companies at our 3rd annual Summer Intern Networking Reception. See photos here.

• Deloitte's Technology Fast500 awards honor North America's most innovative companies.

• Join the ranks of Google, eBay and Tesla—previous winners that have transformed how we live, work and play.

• This May, NVTC’s 6th annual Impact AI Summit showcased this.

• This year’s theme was “Realizing the Value of AI: Strategies, Challenges, and Opportunities” to help organizations shape the future of their AI initiatives.

• He underscored Northern Virginia's capacity to spearhead AI adoption, leveraging our track record as a thriving tech innovation hub.

• Robbins encouraged everyone to learn about and embrace AI, update tech systems, and use AI to make a big impact on industries by using data in new, profound ways.

• The Fairfax campus will be home to the Landolt NASA Space Mission, a “first-of-its-kind project” for a university in our region.

• The mission will involve the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Colorado-based satellite company Blue Canyon Technologies.

• It will allow scientists to calibrate telescopes and accurately measure the brightness of stars ranging from those nearby to the distant explosions of supernova in far-off galaxies.

• The mission will help address several challenges in astrophysics including the speed and acceleration of the universe expansion.

• Build the Life You Want, by Arthur Brooks

• Green Lights, by Matthew McConaughey (The audio version is great fun because Matthew has a incredible poetic voice.)

• Table for Two, by Amor Towles (my favorite fiction author right now)

• Just the Good Stuff, by Jim VandeHei (The entire NVTC staff is currently reading this.)

• Walk Ride Paddle, by U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), which chronicles Kaine’s adventurous journey through Virginia's wilderness, while reflecting on his political career and personal growth during pivotal national events. He celebrates Virginia's natural landscapes and waterways through stories of hiking, biking and kayaking, promoting environmental conservation and outdoor enjoyment.🌄

• Mark your calendar now and watch your inbox for announcements about ticket sales.

• This just in: Cyber50 nominations now open! Nominate a cyber company or professional today.

1. Understand the challenges we’re up against. We can only win if we know our opponent. In this case, we’re often battling chronic stress, fatigue and a lack of purpose that comes from our rapidly changing and evolving business environment.

2. Know the rules of engagement. The business world changes fast, and it can be dizzying to keep up. Give yourself, and your team, a fighting chance by ensuring everyone is playing by the same set of rules and in alignment with what success looks like for your team and organization.

3. Commit the resources needed to succeed. If you want to win at work and in life, you need the energy and capacity to make it happen. To maintain the energy required for sustainable high performance, you also need a toolset for recovery.

• Empowering women to pursue STEM careers resonates deeply with NVTC's mission.

• Dad uses Perplexity.ai to assist with composing emails to the Board members of volunteer organizations he serves on.

• I use ChatGPT-4.0 to answer complex questions, seeking concise summaries or interpretations.

What do LLM and GPT stand for?

• Generative means the model is designed to generate text, producing human-like responses based on input it receives.

• Pre-trained means the model is pre-trained on a vast amount of text data from the internet. This pre-training phase allows it to learn grammar, facts, reasoning abilities and some level of world knowledge. Afterward, the model is fine-tuned for specific tasks with additional training.

• Transformer refers to the model’s architecture. Transformers are a type of neural network architecture introduced in a 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need" by Vaswani et al. They handle sequential data and are the foundation for state-of-the-art language models, including GPT.

• Attend the NVTC Member Orientation this summer.