Priyanka Vergadia
Sai Kumar Bysani
Zayne Turner
Austin Kronz
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The Free AI Builders Crash Course

A free live series covering AI Builders, AI engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers end to end: From building LLM from scratch to tools and function calling, agentic patterns, retrieval, evals, security, governance, and production. Every concept live. For Builders, Engineers, data scientists, and technical leads moving into AI work, anyone who has to take an AI system past the prototype stage

Aug 26 – Sep 21, 2026
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Wed Aug 26·10:00 PM UTC

The AI Toolkit for Data Scientists

You'll save hours every week, iterate faster on real projects, and stay ahead as the bar for "data scientist" quietly rises. You'll start seeing your daily work differently; spotting where AI can take over, backed by real examples from two people actually doing this

You'll learn from

Priyanka Vergadia

AI & Cloud leader @Microsoft @Google | Visual Storyteller | TED Speaker

Sai Kumar Bysani

AI engineer working in Healthcare

Thu Sep 3·5:30 PM UTC

Build Your Own LLM From Scratch (Actually Understand AI)

Every company's throwing money at LLMs right now, but most teams still can't tell you why the model did what it did. Build one from scratch and that changes. You stop treating it like a black box and start knowing exactly what to tweak, why, and when so you're actually solving business problems instead of crossing your fingers and hoping the output looks right

You'll learn from

Priyanka Vergadia

AI & Cloud leader ex-Google | Visual Storyteller | TED Speaker

Thu Sep 10·7:00 PM UTC

Graph Engineering Explained Visually and Practically

Most people use Claude for one-off chats and basic agents. That's maybe 10% of what it can do. The other 90% is loops and graphs, and almost nobody talks about them. This session breaks down what that actually means, visually, so you leave with something you can use right away.

You'll learn from

Priyanka Vergadia

Top 0.1% AI & Cloud Leader | Visual Storyteller | TED Speaker

Fri Sep 11·6:00 PM UTC

7 Factor Framework for Production-Ready AI Agents

A real AI agent takes actions. It moves money, updates records, cancels orders, changes systems a business depends on. That's what makes agents powerful, and almost no one teaches how to do it safely. This session, with Workato, the platform to govern and scale enterprise AI, covers an engineering methodology built on real production expertise. You'll leave able to judge whether any agent is ready to be trusted with real work.

You'll learn from

Priyanka Vergadia

Top 0.1% AI & Cloud Leader | Visual Storyteller | TED Speaker

Zayne Turner

VP Developer Relations, Workato

Mon Sep 14·6:00 PM UTC

Architect the Enterprise Context Layer for AI Agents

Companies are shipping AI agents that don't know anything about how the business actually runs, so the agents guess. This session covers what context means for AI, the three walls that show up once you try to scale agents past a demo, and how to build a context layer so agents work off real business knowledge instead of making things up.

You'll learn from

Priyanka Vergadia

Top 0.1% AI & Cloud Leader | Visual Storyteller | TED Speaker

Austin Kronz

Field CDAO @Atlan

Tue Sep 15·7:00 PM UTC

FREE Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Interview Prep

FDE roles are among the hottest AI jobs right now $1M+ packages at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, but also the easiest to prep for wrong. Most candidates walk in ready for a typical SWE loop: LeetCode, system design, the usual. FDE interviews test something different can you build AI systems for the real world, scope messy customer problems, and make judgment calls under ambiguity. Miss that, and even strong engineers fail.

You'll learn from

Priyanka Vergadia

Top 0.1% AI & Cloud Leader | Visual Storyteller | TED Speaker

Bhargav Patel

AI Forward Deployed Engineer at Google

Mon Sep 21·6:00 PM UTC

Securing AI Agents: The 1Password Playbook

Most teams don't know how many AI agents are running in their org. They're in browsers, IDEs, and on developer laptops, usually authenticating with an API key someone pasted in months ago and forgot. If that key leaks, the attacker gets whatever the agent gets. And when something goes wrong, there's often no record of which agent did it or who authorized it. Let's unpack that in this session with 1Password.

You'll learn from

Priyanka Vergadia

Top 0.1% AI & Cloud Leader | Visual Storyteller | TED Speaker

Mariane Bekker

Mariane Bekker is the Director of Developer Relations at 1Password

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