🚀 [Talk::Overflow #13] - Top 5 Workshops to Watch
Level Up Your AI Game: Workshop from the AI Engineer World's Fair 2025
Welcome to the 13th edition of Talk::Overflow!!
This week, we bring you a curated workshop from the AI Engineer World’s Fair 2025. These workshops offer cutting-edge insights and practical knowledge for developers and innovators looking to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
Building Multimodal AI Agents From Scratch [Apoorva Joshi, MongoDB]
Why Watch: This hands-on workshop guides you through building a multimodal AI agent capable of processing mixed-media content, from analyzing charts and diagrams to extracting insights from documents with embedded visuals. Learn to leverage MongoDB as a vector database and memory store, and Google's Gemini for multimodal reasoning. This is a practical deep dive into creating adaptive AI agents from scratch using Python, covering fundamentals, VLM-based architectures, agent workflow, data preparation pipelines, and a hands-on lab. Perfect for AI developers, data scientists, and tech enthusiasts looking to build cutting-edge LLM applications.
Reinforcement Learning, Kernels, Reasoning, Quantization & Agents [Daniel Han, Unsloth]
Why Watch: Explore why Reinforcement Learning (RL) is gaining prominence and whether it's the breakthrough LLMs need. This workshop delves into the fundamentals of RL, good reward functions, and how RL can help create intelligent agents. Ideal for those interested in the practical applications and underlying mechanics of RL and LLM optimization.
A2A & MCP Workshop: Automating Business Processes with LLMs [Damien Murphy, Bench]
Why Watch: Ever wished your webhooks could think for themselves? This workshop reveals how A2A agents can transform passive webhook endpoints into intelligent workflow processors. Learn to build systems that automatically spawn AI Agents to handle incoming webhooks, leveraging Google’s Agent-to-Agent framework and MCP. Discover how to create dynamic AI agents that respond to events, communicate with external services, and make decisions based on content analysis. This session offers a glimpse into the future of workflow automation, where webhooks trigger intelligence, not just actions.
RFT, DPO, SFT: Fine-tuning with OpenAI [Ilan Bigio, OpenAI]
Why Watch: This comprehensive workshop covers all forms of fine-tuning and prompt engineering, including SFT, DPO, RFT, optimization, and agent scaffolding. Ilan Bigio, a founding member of OpenAI’s Developer Experience team, shares his expertise in building demos, developer tools, and shaping AI products. This workshop is a must-attend for developers looking to build powerful AI applications.
Evals 101 [Doug Guthrie, Braintrust]
Why Watch: This hands-on workshop guides participants through the full AI evaluation lifecycle with Braintrust, from initial prompt testing to production monitoring. Attendees will build evaluation frameworks, practice offline and online strategies, and implement logging systems. This workshop is essential for anyone looking to master AI evaluation and ensure robust, reliable AI applications.
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