Workshops and Hackathons

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2025 (2+ events)

2025-01-25: AI for Connectivity Hackathon

This hackathon focused on open source AI tools. Organized by lablab.ai

Ran a workshop on Preparing data for LLM applications for Docling and Data Prep Kit

hackathon website   •   linkedin announcement   •   workshop resources


2025-01-23: IBM TechXchange Dev Day

My talk: Preparing data for LLM applications using Data Prep Kit

conference website   •   workshop resources   •   conf details (copy)   •   speaker details (copy)


2024 (6 events)

2024-11-14: NumHack, Online

Numhack is focused on postive social impact using AI. Organized by PyData and NumFocus

My workshop is: Build an Open Source Pipeline for your RAG Project

hackathon   •   event details (copy)   •   workshop resources   •   linkedin post


2024-11-09: Llama Impact Hackathon, San Francisco, CA

Ran a workshop on preparing data for LLMs using open source tools.

hackathon   •   workshop resources


2024-10-09: Large Language Model (LLM) Workshop, Online

This workshop focused on developing LLM applications. It covered

  • tokenizers and embeddings
  • Vector databases and vetor search
  • Using LLMs using API and running LLMs locally
  • RAG using PDFs and HTML documents

workshop announcement   •   workshop code and resources


2024-09-21: Data Prep Kit Workshop @ Mountain View, CA

Ran a hands-on workshop introducing Data Prep Kit. 60+ people attended!

See amazing testimonials about the workshop: 1, 2, 3, 4

meetup info   •   workshop resources   •   data prep kit presentation 1   •   data prep kit presentation 2   •   event brochure


2024-03-23: Mistral Hackathon, San Francisco, CA

Developing RAG applications using Mistral LLM

Gave a talk and demo on Vector Search and RAG applications of querying PDFs using Mistral LLM. Supported hackers.


2024-01-27: MongoDB Hackathon, Burlingame, CA

Vector Search + LLMs

Gave a talk about vector search applications and helped hackathon participants.

Conf Link1   •   Conf link 2 (copy)   •   Link2   •   workshop doc   •   code


2018

2018: "Data Science camp", ACM Silicon Valley

Taught hundreds of students on getting started with Data Science and Python.