Slides from my talks and workshops

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400

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.

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