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Hello, World AI

Project Concept

FestivAI is an innovative agentic AI platform designed to revolutionize traveling worldwide celebration, festivals, and event planning through intelligent automation and personalized recommendations. Our project demonstrates agentic ai deployment by integrating Google products such as Gemma, to understand natural language queries about festival preferences, logistics, and planning requirements.
The agent development showcases sophisticated decision-making capabilities, where our AI agents can autonomously coordinate multiple aspects of worldwide trip planning - from venue selection and vendor management to attendee experience optimization. Our agent deployment architecture ensures scalable, real-time responses across multiple concurrent planning sessions.

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Status: In Progress

Last saved: July 20 at 11:09 AM EDT

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Saira Garcia-Aguilar Team Lead RSVP Approved

IT Site Operations Lead at Crane CPE
Truong Dang: Responsible for implementing the core agentic framework and creation of the multi-agent AI system. Developed the intelligent decision-making algorithms and integrated Claude API for natural language processing capabilities. Chloe: Focused on API implementation and backend integration with the user interface. Built the Google Cloud infrastructure, managed database connections, and ensured seamless real-time data synchronization between agents and frontend. Saira: Led UI/UX creation and brainstormed the core concept of creating a loveable, user-centric festival planning experience. Implemented Claude integration for conversational interfaces and coordinated teammate-requested feature changes throughout development.
Passionate IT professional always eager to learn and grow. Fascinated by how AI continues to transform our world from the workplace to everyday life. I love picking up new skills like side quests 🌟
Education equity and AI enthusiastic
Recently participated a Hack for Impact AI hackathon and no experience with coding. I used a low code AI tool to showcase my idea to help in education equity track that won first place.

Truong Dang RSVP Approved

Software Engineer Intern at Westlock Controls
I'm a Computer Science senior at New Jersey Institute of Technology who will graduate in December 2025. I have a strong Math foundation built over 7 years of focused study during middle and high school in Vietnam. I had SWE experience through internships at Westlock Controls and Justworks, and I'm returning to Westlock for a 2nd internship, where I'm working on automating builds and tests. I love to code and research for fun.
ML/AI, Full-stack development, Back-end development, Infrastructure, Networking
Extracted imported Python libraries using Gemini 2.0 Flash and GPT-3.5 Turbo APIs in Golang: https://youtu.be/6WfcN37xvho A Claude-3 AI-powered assistant in Python for restaurant customer support on Amazon Bedrock using Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for storage and Action Group for table bookings: https://github.com/truongd3/ai-powered-restaurant-assistant

Uyen Nguyen RSVP Approved

Data Engineer at Deeli AI
NJIT MS Data Science student & Deeli  AI intern building AI‑driven search and automation tools.
RAG/AI agent design, distributed compute (MPI+CUDA), GPU acceleration, DevOps & Kubernetes pipelines
Building an AI research assistant with Google ADK & custom MCP server for Elasticsearch retrieval.