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.