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Beyond the Cloud: Building Offline AI Pipelines for High-Traffic Physical Spaces

Name: Beyond the Cloud: Building Offline AI Pipelines for High-Traffic Physical Spaces
Start: 2026-09-28T14:20:00-05:00
End: 2026-09-28T14:40:00-05:00
Location: The Rand

When: Mon, Sep 28 · 2:20 – 2:40 PM
Where: The Rand, 3rd Floor

Cloud APIs promise simplicity, but live event floors demand zero latency, zero internet dependency, and rock-solid reliability. In this talk, we’ll break down how to design, optimize, and deploy a 100% local, edge-computed AI production pipeline that handles non-stop traffic without missing a beat. We’ll walk through the architecture behind a live convention photo booth that transforms attendee photos into collectible, big-head vinyl-toy figures rendered and printed in under 90 seconds. You’ll learn how open-source image-editing models preserve guest identity and skin tone, how to train custom LoRAs to lock in specific physical aesthetics, and how to orchestrate tethered hardware, ComfyUI, and coin printers into a high-throughput system. From trade show deployments in Las Vegas and Denver to zero-crash edge infrastructure, discover what it takes to bring open-source diffusion models into the physical world.

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