These are the slides from talks, workshops and pitches I’ve given over the years. Some come with a longer write-up of the day, which is linked where there is one. The decks themselves live at slides.aldrinjenson.com.

This isn’t every talk I’ve given. There were more over the years whose slides I no longer have, or that didn’t have slides at all. These are the ones I kept.

Talks

• Turning Ideas into Reality with GenAI
  ICGAIFE 2.0, the Kerala government's International Conclave on GenAI and the Future of Education · Dec 2024
  Lessons from building real projects with AI, and how anyone can turn an idea into something real with today's GenAI tools.
• Introduction to Generative AI
  GDSC Kerala WoW, Kochi · May 2024
  A beginner-friendly tour of what generative AI is and what you can do with it.
• Introduction to FOSS, and Why You Should Care
  MEC.Conf 2023, Model Engineering College · Oct 2023
  An hour on free and open source software, the four freedoms, and how to get started. Read the write-up.
• Stable Diffusion 101: Getting Started with Open Source AI Image Generation
  FOSS United Kochi · Aug 2023
  How open source image generation works, and how to run it yourself.
• MineDojo: Building Embodied Agents with Internet-Scale Knowledge
  Paper presentation, Model Engineering College · Mar 2023
  A research paper on building AI agents in Minecraft. Very technical, so I balanced the math with memes and analogies. Read the write-up.

Workshops

• Introduction to LLMs
  FOSSMeet '24, NIT Calicut · Mar 2024
  A six-hour, hands-on workshop on Large Language Models, with Kurian Benoy and Nithin Sabu. Read the write-up.
• Let's Git It
  FOSS MEC
  A Git workshop with Gokulnath M. Prabhu, including a custom workflow for making your first pull request.
• Firebase 101
  Google Developer Student Club, MEC
  A session on Firebase with Adithya.
• Agile Workshop
  IEDC tech team, MEC
  Agile methodologies for a student tech team, made with help from Arti Bhatia.

Tech talks

• Agentic Workflows
  Apr 2024
  LLM agents, multi-agent workflows, and the research behind why they work.
• Ollama Experiments
  Mar 2024
  Getting every drop of GPU power out of a machine by running Ollama instances in parallel.
• Software Freedom
  A PechaKucha (20 slides, 20 seconds each) on software freedom, explained with a masala dosa.
• Talisman 101
  Talisman, an open source pre-commit hook that stops secrets from being committed to Git.

Pitches and hackathons

• Re-thread Inc.
  Hult Prize 2023
  A used-clothes marketplace to fight fast fashion.
• Memoraide
  Mar 2023
  A mobile app for people with memory issues, built with Nayana Vinod, Gokulnath and Sharat Jacob. Code on GitHub.
• AquaHarvest
  BeachHack 5
  A platform to help new fish farmers get started. Won 2nd prize.
• Anomaly Detection System
  A pitch for a general-purpose system to detect anomalies in surveillance networks.
• Oregano
  Hult Prize MEC
  Software to help organic farmers sell directly to wholesalers. Top 3 on campus.