AI Agents from Scratch: A Beginner's LLM Workshop

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Unlock the power of AI agents—even if you’re just starting out. In this hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop, you'll go from understanding how Large Language Models (LLMs) work to building a real AI agent using Python, LangChain, and LangGraph.
Whether you're a developer, startup founder, or tech enthusiast, this is your gateway into intelligent systems that retrieve, reason, and act.
What You'll Learn
- LLM & Python Essentials
- A crash course on Python and how it underpins modern AI development.
- Natural Language Processing & Transformers
- Understand how machines process language using Transformer architectures and attention mechanisms.
- Prompt Engineering for Beginners
- Learn how to guide LLMs effectively through structured prompting strategies.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Learn how to connect your LLM to private or external knowledge sources using embeddings and vector databases—still a foundational skill!
- Introduction to LangChain
- Use LangChain to combine LLMs, retrievers, prompts, tools, memory, and output parsers into flexible pipelines.
- Workflow Automation with LangGraph
- Discover how LangGraph enables multi-step, conditional agent flows and multi-agent collaboration by turning LLM workflows into state machines.
Live Demo: Your First AI Agent
Follow along as we build an AI agent that retrieves, reasons, and responds using LangChain and LangGraph.
Agenda:
(PDT) 9:00 am - 9:05 am Arrival and socializing and Opening
(PDT) 9:05 am - 11:00 am "AI Agents from Scratch: A Beginner's LLM Workshop"
(PDT) 11:00 am - 11:10 am Q&A
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Speaker

Yasin Ceran is passionate about all things data and holds a vast experience in data analysis, mathematical modeling and Apache Spark, and in SQL, Python and R. He is currently an associate professor at KAIST, South Korea, as well as teaching at San Jose State University at the heart of Silicon Valley. Yasin has worked rigorously on an array of data related projects encompassing data mining, statistics, modeling, and is dedicated to sharing his experience and expertise with learners.

AI Agents from Scratch: A Beginner's LLM Workshop