Build Products with Generative AI 🤖 - A hands-on workshop for developers with Ahmad Awais

​This is an in person free workshop at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver by:
- ⌘ Langbase — AI LLM Developers Platform
- Lookup — Automated Documentation with AI

​ATTENTION DEVELOPERS IN VANCOUVER

​This workshop is free for anyone who plans to build an AI product, feature, or app with generative AI and LLMs.

​Note: Please bring your laptop with sufficient charge to get the most out of this event.

​📅 Save the Date: June 15th, 1:00–4:00 PM 📅

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Workshop

​Build Products with Generative AI 🤖
— A hands-on workshop for developers with Ahmad Awais

• ​Basics of AI LLM and Generative AI Models

• ​Building your first Pipe (AI LLM Assistant)

• ​Fundamentals of an API request

• ​Understand Prompt Engineering

• ​Extend any LLM's context by 10M using Memory

• ​Building portfolio as an AI Engineer / Web Developer

• ​We will also explore how to 'chat with your documents' through knowledge bases, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, and AI assistants & agents.

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Speaker

​Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader, founder and CEO ​of ⌘ Langbase.com, Ex-VP DX/DevTools, Google Developers Advisory Board founding member, Google Expert ​Dev Advocate, Microsoft MVP, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, BGB Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI, WordPress Core​ Dev, and ex CMO and VP ​of ​Engineering​​ at WGA. He has authored various open-source software tools millions of developers use worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code theme​ or projects like the​ corona-cli. Awais contributed code to NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission. “What an awesome example for developers,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft — featuring Awais’s code contribution to NASA Ingenuity Mars mission.

​​Awais ​loves to teach. Over 108K developers are learning from his courses, i.e., NodeCLI.com, VSCode.pro, &​ NextjsBeginner.com​​. He has spoken at 100+ tech conferences, including TEDx, ReactLive, Node Summit, Google Dev Summit, and Next.js Conf. ​Awais received the FOSS community leadership recognition as one of the first 12 featured GitHub Stars with a Gold GitHub Stars Award. ​He is a member of the SmashingMagazine Experts Panel; a featured & published author at CSS-Tricks, Tuts+, Scotch.io, and SitePoint. You can mostly find ​him on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais, where he tweets his #OneDevMinute developer tips.​

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Why attend?

​By the end of this talk, you'll be ready to build your own generative AI LLM web apps in less than five minutes. You'll feel confident building any AI features in your existing stack, from a simple custom chatbot like ChatGPT to a complex RAG engine with stellar developer experience. You'll feel confident shipping apps with lightning-fast iteration velocity and default high performance. Let's go!

​✨ AI x You: Learn how to leverage AI to build smarter, more efficient applications, features, and products.

​✨ Hands-on Coding: Dive into practical coding sessions where you'll get to implement AI models. These interactive workshops are designed to enhance your coding skills and provide real-world AI development experience.

​✨ Q&A Session: Gain valuable insights from Ahmad Awais's extensive industry experience. Discover best practices, tips, and tricks to help you excel in your career.

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​Who Should Attend?

• ​This is a technical workshop meant for developers.

• ​Pre-requisites include basic JavaScript/Python knowledge and understanding of how to work with APIs.

​​Space is limited. Please reserve your spot.