Welcome to Tech Omaha!

Register on Meetup and Join us as we reimagine software development through the power of AI-driven agentic workflows! Agentic workflows are AI driven processes where autonomous AI agents make decisions, take actions and coordinate tasks with minimal human intervention.

Discover how using these workflows, AI is transforming every phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)—from UX/UI design to project management, platform engineering, and software development.

Our speaker, Scott Poulin, VP Technology, Improving, is a leader in technology and AI.

He’ll dive into:

AI-Powered UX/UI Design – How UIzard enables rapid prototyping and user experience refinement.

Smarter Project Management – How Qlerify leverages predictive analytics to forecast resource needs and detect bottlenecks.

Automated Cloud Architecture – How Brainboard accelerates and fortifies platform engineering.

AI-Enhanced Coding – How Windsurf automates tasks, streamlines workflows, and ensures cleaner codebases.

We'll also cover key considerations such as AI biases, data privacy, and model transparency, plus practical integration strategies for seamlessly adopting these tools into existing workflows.

Whether you're a developer, business leader, or AI enthusiast, this is a must-attend session filled with actionable insights and cutting-edge AI applications!

RSVP now and be part of the conversation!

Thank you to our host and sponsor, Improving, for providing the venue, food and beverages.

### Agenda:

🔹 5:00 – 5:30 PM | Social & Networking
🔹 5:30 – 5:35 PM | Announcements
🔹 5:35 – 5:45 PM | AI News, Tips, & Tools
🔹 5:45 – 6:45 PM | Featured Speaker

We WILL be meeting at DJs this month!

This month we are IN PERSON meetup.

Join us at 6 PM for social activities (some come even earlier) and 6:30 for the main presentation.

For Apr 2025:

"Branch Prediction: How 20% of your CPU Became a Security Risk"

Modern CPUs dedicate 20% of their silicon to branch prediction as much space as the L1 cache. Why? Modern CPUs operate like an assembly line and a mispredicted branch grinds the entire factory to a halt. So to increase CPU performance, engineers created sophisticated prediction systems that try to keep the line running smoothly. But this additional complexity comes with a trade-off: there are fundamental security flaws with these techniques that remain unresolved to this day.In this talk, we'll explore how branch prediction works, why it's worth so much die space, and how this critical performance feature became one of the most significant security vulnerabilities in CPU history.

Speaker: Tim Mastny (@timmastny)

Tim Mastny is a software engineer working in data engineering and infrastructure. Outside of work, he writes about hardware, systems programming, and data science on his blog and has contributed to multiple open source projects. Previously at NASA, Boeing, and Hudl, he is now building the first modern financial infrastructure in Africa at Wave.