Last week in Boston, the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) surprised me with their "Speaker Impact Award" to recognize the years of training I've been providing at ODSC conferences.
Thank you Sheamus McGovern (pictured) and the whole ODSC team (Alex, Alina, Anna, Deepti, Elen, Paula, Ruby) for the honor and for putting on such stellar technical conferences.
I first lectured at ODSC New York in June 2019, when I provided a half-day workshop that introduced Deep Learning. (By great chance, the now-legendary Serg Masís emceed my session!)
Since then, I've enjoyed both ODSC East (held each spring in Boston) and ODSC West (held each autumn in San Francisco) most years, delivering (typically full-day) workshops on:
Deep Learning
The mathematical foundations of Machine Learning (e.g., linear algebra, partial-derivative calculus)
Training and deploying Large Language Models (with Lightning AI and Hugging Face)
This year at ODSC East, Ed Donner and I delivered a full-day training on developing and deploying Agentic A.I. featuring the open-source tools CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, and Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP). The session was jam-packed for the entire day and received rave reviews.
If you couldn't make it to Boston last week, I have good news for you! I hired a film crew to capture our entire Agentic A.I. training and am currently having the footage professionally edited. In the coming weeks (as soon as possible!), we'll be publishing this on YouTube so that it's freely available to everyone worldwide. Watch this space :)