Talks
Slides, notes, and companion guides for talks and workshops I have given.
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.