19.01.26

The next leap in AI is not just about generating content, but about taking action. Enter the era of Autonomous AI Agents systems that can perceive goals, plan steps, use tools (APIs, code), and execute tasks with minimal human intervention. This forward-looking seminar explores the architecture of these agents, from planning modules and tool integration to memory and self-reflection. We'll examine potential impacts on knowledge work, software development, and scientific discovery, and engage in a crucial discussion on the safety, control, and ethical boundaries we must establish as we delegate increasing autonomy to machines.

Speaker: Special guest

The Next Frontier: Autonomous AI Agents and the Future of Work

10:00 am

04.12.25

Analyzes emerging frameworks: compile-time approaches, fine-grained reactivity, and full-stack architectures. Build a micro-app with an experimental framework and discuss future principles.

Speaker: Tracy Hopkins

The Future of Web Development: What Comes After React?

09:40 am

20.11.25

Engineer robots for social roles. Focus on non-verbal cues, emotion recognition from voice/face, and generating empathetic responses. Discuss ethical interaction design and long-term user adaptation.

Speaker: Guest Speaker

Companion Robots and Social Interaction

10:00 am

23.10.25

Explores latest mobile NPUs for on-device AI. Benchmark models on different chips, optimize using vendor toolkits, and design reliable offline AI features that conserve battery.

Speaker: Jacob Hayes

Edge AI on Mobile: New Processors & Frameworks

09:00 am

25.09.25

Implement privacy-preserving AI. Set up a federated learning system and enhance it with differential privacy. Discuss the trade-offs between privacy, accuracy, and system complexity.

Speaker: Guest Speaker

Privacy in AI: Federated Learning & Differential Privacy

02:00 pm

24.07.25

Build hybrid models where neural nets extract concepts and symbolic engines apply rules. Creates interpretable AI for tasks like visual QA, reducing data needs and providing explanations.

Speaker: Emily Ross

Neuro-Symbolic AI: Combining Logic and Learning

10:00 am

19.06.25

Design robots inspired by animals. Case studies include snake robots for rescue and soft grippers. Simulate bio-inspired locomotion and implement sensor-driven control for resilience.

Speaker: Daniel Wong

Biomimetic Robotics: Learning from Nature

09:00 am

22.05.25

Develop AR/metaverse experiences using phones as compute engines. Focus on shared coordinate systems, multi-user sync over 5G/6G, and tackling UX challenges like battery life.

Speaker: Fiona Kim

Wireless AR: Mobile Devices as a Metaverse Platform

11:00 am

24.04.25

A practical course on building dApps. Write/deploy smart contracts in Solidity, create a React front-end with Web3.js, and integrate decentralized storage. Covers security and gas optimization.

Speaker: Valentin Telegin

Decentralized Web (Web3) & Smart Contracts for Devs

10:00 am

25.03.25

Compares AI governance approaches in the US, EU, and China. Discuss implications for multinationals: data sovereignty, algorithmic auditing, and building regulation-aware technology.

Speaker: Guest Speaker

AI Regulation in the US and Globally: An Overview

01:30 pm

27.02.25

Integrate AI into creative workflows. Use multi-agent systems for co-designing architectures, generating mockups, and drafting docs. Assess output quality and discuss the developer's evolving role.

Speaker: Leah Ramirez

AI as a Co-author: Code, Design & Content Generation

09:00 am

30.01.25

An in-depth look at MoE systems like Mixtral. Learn how routing to expert sub-networks enables larger, efficient models. Explore training dynamics and their role in advancing general AI.

Speaker: Isabella Khan

Towards AGI: Mixture of Experts (MoE) Architectures

10:00 am

05.12.24

A hands-on workshop with ROS 2 Iron. Set up a dev environment, create nodes in C++/Python, and simulate a robot with navigation. Discuss security and real-time performance for deployment.

Speaker: Charlotte Turner

Open-Source Robotics: The ROS 2 Iron Project

09:00 am

21.11.24

Integrate analytics with on-device ML to predict user behavior. Build models for churn prediction or personalization that run locally, respecting user privacy.

Speaker: Gabriel Scott

Modern Mobile Analytics & AI Forecasting

10:00 am

24.10.24

Create smooth, native animations between DOM states. Implement page transitions and custom animations in SPAs. Focus on performance benefits and graceful degradation.

Speaker: Caleb Patel

Quantum Machine Learning: Early Experiments

02:00 pm

25.07.24

Build production-grade RAG systems. Covers advanced retrieval with vector search, chunking strategies, and integration with LLMs. Focus on evaluation, reducing hallucination, and scaling.

Speaker: Nathanial Singh

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in Production

11:00 am

20.06.24

Focuses on CV for outdoor autonomy: sensor fusion, semantic segmentation for navigation, and visual SLAM. Includes simulation training and discussion on edge deployment challenges.

Speaker: Daniel Wong

SLAM

09:00 am

23.05.24

Modern patterns for embedding WebViews in native apps. Covers communication, synchronized state, shared authentication, and optimizing performance and security.

Speaker: Kaitlyn Rodriguez

Hybrid Apps: Native + WebView in 2024

1:00 am

18.04.24

Master the new WebGPU API for explicit GPU control. Build a real-time ray tracer and a physics simulation. Explore GPGPU for accelerating ML inference in the browser.

Speaker: Richard Chen

WebGPU: Revolution in Browser Graphics & Computing

9:00 am

25.01.24

Explores efficient SLMs like Phi-2. Learn how distillation and curated data achieve high performance with fewer parameters. Hands-on fine-tuning for a specific domain and deployment on edge devices.

Speaker: Marcus Sutton

Small Language Models (SLM): Efficient LLM Alternatives

09:00 am

22.12.24

Build autonomous AI agents that plan and use tools. Construct a simple agent for research and reporting. Covers challenges like preventing loops, cost control, and security in agent-based systems.

Speaker: Rinat Khabibullin

AI agents

10:00 am

14.11.23

Build practical AR apps with ARKit/ARCore. Covers surface detection, light estimation, and object occlusion. Create a furniture placement app and explore WebAR, focusing on 3D optimization and UI design.

Speaker: Lucy Ramos

Augmented Reality (AR) in Mobile Applications

2:00 pm

17.10.23

Learn to create reliable PWAs. Implement service workers for caching and sync, use Cache API and IndexedDB, and add push notifications. Includes performance audits and deployment best practices.

Speaker: Rachel Dickson

Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and Offline Capabilities

10:00 am

19.09.23

Maps the MLOps lifecycle: data versioning with DVC, experiment tracking with MLflow, and automated deployment on Kubernetes. Focus on building a reproducible pipeline for a vision model with monitoring for drift.

Speaker: Coleen Zimmerman

MLOps: From Experiment to Scalable Pipeline

09:00 am

22.08.23

A hands-on session on implementing ethical AI. Use tools to audit datasets for bias, apply fairness constraints during training, and create explainable models. Includes designing a governance checklist for high-stakes AI.

Speaker: Dylan Kim

Responsible AI: Fairness, Accountability, Transparency

1:00 pm

18.07.23

A technical look at integrating collaborative robots into production. Topics include safety standards (ISO 10218), force sensing for assembly, human-robot interaction, and programming via demonstration.

Speaker: Samantha Carroll

Industrial Robotics and Collaborative Robots (Cobots)

09:00 am

21.06.23

A current comparison of Flutter and React Native. Examine performance, native feature access, and developer experience. Includes a live coding exercise and discussion on future trends with native frameworks.

Speaker: Stefan Ribuatich

Cross-Platform Mobile Dev: Flutter vs React Native 2023

10:00 am

24.05.23

Learn to compile Rust/C++ code to run in the browser for high performance. Build a sample application, benchmark against JS, and explore use cases like client-side AI and porting desktop apps to the web.

Speaker: Isabel Green

WebAssembly (WASM) – The New Frontier of Web Dev

11:00 am

12.04.23

Covers techniques for efficient LLM deployment: fine-tuning methods like LoRA, model quantization to reduce size, and distillation. Discusses scaling on cloud platforms and monitoring for performance issues in live environments.

Speaker: Sara Montihaj

Optimizing Large Language Models for Production

09:30 am

15.03.23

Explore practical uses of models like GPT-4V that analyze images, video, and audio together. Learn to build systems for content moderation, video editing, or healthcare diagnostics, focusing on the needed technical architecture and data pipelines.

Speaker: Abigail Foster

The Era of Multimodal AI: Beyond Text

10:00 am

24.02.23

ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. It’s difficult to say what’s wrong with the code without more context. Can you provide more information about what the code is supposed to do and what isn’t working as expected? Also, is this the entire code or just a part of it?

Speaker: Isabel Green

ChatGPT

11:00 am

18.01.23

A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape. The design may be for functional purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other purposes. In general, humanoid robots have a torso, a head, two arms, and two legs, though some humanoid robots may replicate only part of the body, for example, from the waist up.

Speaker: Samantha Carroll

Humanoid robot

1:00 pm

02.12.22

Plan, run, and track all your marketing campaigns in one place. Organize content assets by channel, type, priority, and publish date. Assign designers and editors, so everyone knows who’s doing what and when.

Speaker: Richard Chen

Hit the ground running with ready-made templates

9:00 am

22.11.22

Learn about Kubernetes networking and troubleshoot common issues including service discovery, load balancing, and network policies.

Speaker: Jamie O'Neal

Kubernetes Networking Deep Dive

02:00 pm

10.10.22

Explore serverless computing with AWS Lambda, write Lambda functions in various programming languages, and integrate them with other AWS services.

Speaker: Michaela Bennett

Serverless Computing with AWS Lambda

05:00 pm

01.09.22

Discover Rust, a fast and memory-safe programming language, and learn about basic syntax, ownership and borrowing, and error handling.

Speaker: Martin Young

Introduction to Rust Programming Language

11:00 am

02.08.22

Learn advanced React patterns including render props, higher-order components, and context API to build scalable and maintainable web applications.

Speaker: Peyton Cooper

Advanced React Patterns

10:00 am

23.07.22

Build and train machine learning models using TensorFlow 2.0, an open-source machine learning framework, and explore topics such as data preparation, model architecture, and hyperparameter tuning.

Speaker: Abigail Foster

Machine Learning with TensorFlow 2.0

9:00 am

12.06.22

Build resilient microservices using Hystrix, an open-source library for fault tolerance, and learn about circuit breakers, fallbacks, and bulkheads.

Speaker: Anthony Davis

Building Resilient Microservices with Hystrix

15:00 pm

02.05.22

Use test-driven development (TDD) to build web applications using Python and Django, covering topics such as writing unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests.

Speaker: Connor Hart

Test-Driven Development with Python and Django

9:00 am

17.04.22

Learn the fundamentals of GraphQL, a query language for APIs, including schema definition, queries and mutations, and subscriptions.

Speaker: Carlos Cruz

GraphQL Fundamentals

13:00 pm

23.03.22

Secure Kubernetes clusters from common threats with authentication and authorization, network security, and pod security policies.

Speaker: Julia Powell

Securing Kubernetes Clusters

19:00 pm

01.02.22

Build real-time web applications using WebSockets, a bi-directional communication protocol, and explore topics such as server-side and client-side implementation, scalability, and performance.

Speaker: Sara Montihaj

Building Real-Time Applications with WebSockets

15:00 pm

20.01.22

Perform data analysis and machine learning using Apache Spark, a fast and distributed computing framework, covering topics such as data processing, machine learning algorithms, and model evaluation.

Speaker: Coleen Zimmerman

Data Science with Apache Spark

01:00 pm

10.12.21

Use GitOps, a modern approach to continuous delivery and infrastructure automation, covering topics such as Git-based workflows, declarative configuration, and Kubernetes integration.

Speaker: Rachel Dickson

DevOps with GitOps

10:00 am