Talks

AgentCon / MCPCon: AI and Open Source Mentorship — Pending

22–23 October 2026

Boots-on-the-ground findings from a 100-person open source mentorship cohort: how AI helped contributors stay engaged, and how it made skill-gap identification harder.

Berkeley AI Hackathon: Voice AI Agent Workshop

20–21 June 2026

A hands-on workshop covering the full real-time voice AI loop: audio capture, low-latency transcription, LLM reasoning, and streaming text-to-speech.

RainbowGram: Cultivating a Remote Workspace

18 June 2026

A practical, no-overhaul-required guide to the daily habits that make a measurable difference to LGBTQ+ colleagues in a distributed team.

UCLA x OutInTech: Building a Real AI Agent

5 June 2026

A field guide to wiring together an LLM, tools, context, and triggers into a real agent that does real work — not a chatbot you prompt, but a coworker you trust.