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Are you ready to dive into the world of everything from foundational data science to the newest frontiers of AI? This is your hub for connecting with passionate pros, leveling up your skills, and staying ahead of the curve. We’re on a mission to build a stronger, more collaborative data community.
We partner with amazing organizations to bring you dynamic, hands-on events. Think hackathons, deep-dive workshops, and expert-led lectures that go beyond the basics. Our events are all about getting your hands dirty and contributing to the open source community.
This community is for anyone who wants to learn, build, and share, including:
- Data practitioners of all kinds
- Developers who code with data (R, Python, etc.)
- Designers and creators focused on data visualization
- Decision-makers looking for new ways to innovate with open source tools
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Upcoming events
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Below the Waterline: The Hidden Engineering That Decides Agentic AI ROI
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Speaker: Nikki Rouda, Senior Director Product Marketing at DataRobot
Agent demos are everywhere. Agentic AI that delivers real enterprise ROI is not. The gap isn't the model or the framework — it's everything below the waterline.
This session examines the three foundational problems every team must solve before production ROI is possible: the developer experience of making agents enterprise-ready, agent identity and authorization for non-human actors, and the token economics to manage spend/increase utilization. None of this work is value-accretive by itself, yet each is a gating condition for the outcomes the business actually asked for.
## Useful Links
- Free access to more talks/trainings: Ai+ Training platform
- ODSC blog: https://opendatascience.com/
- Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q03SyZP80
- Code of conduct: https://odsc.ai/code-of-conduct/
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WEBINAR "Elevate Data and AI Agent Security with GitLab and Google Cloud"
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Speaker#1: Regnard Raquedan, Senior Ecosystem Solutions Architect - Global Lead at Gitlab
Speaker#2: Rajesh Agadi, Principal Architect at Google Cloud
As software supply chains grow more complex, patchwork security tools and siloed data make it harder to keep pace with modern threats. This webinar explores how teams can confidently secure data pipelines and AI agent deployment, unlocking advanced, built-in security capabilities that are tightly integrated across the DevSecOps lifecycle and optimized for BigQuery in Google Cloud.
We’ll walk through how developers can use tools that strengthen application and cloud security with capabilities like security scanning, risk visibility, and policy-driven compliance while leveraging a DevSecOps approach and cloud infrastructure, identity, and analytics.
Join this session and learn how to:
- Evolve from pipeline visibility to end-to-end risk management
- Consolidate security tooling while improving developer experience
- Automatically enforce security and compliance policies across GitLab and Google Cloud environments
- Use GitLab + Google Cloud together to secure your code, workloads, and software supply chain at scale
## Useful Links
- Free access to more talks/trainings: Ai+ Training platform
- ODSC blog: https://opendatascience.com/
- Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q03SyZP80
- Code of conduct: https://odsc.ai/code-of-conduct/
1 attendee
AI Engineering Accelerator | Summer | Virtual
·OnlineOnlineIt is PAID event. Pre-Registration is REQUIRED. RSVP here - https://luma.com/odsc-l4sd
Dates - Jun 9 - Jul 23, 2026
(meetup platform doesn't allow to put full length of the event)# 7-Week AI Accelerator: From Using AI to Building It
In just 7 weeks, go from using AI to building it - and accelerate your AI career. Get hands-on training in LLMs, agents, and AI engineering, culminating at ODSC AI West 2026.
11 years training the AI industry. Designed for professionals and engineers ready to go beyond tutorials.
## Why Join This Accelerator?
We’ve upskilled thousands of AI engineers and data scientists. This program gives you the exact blueprint to gain fluency in LLMs, RAG, context engineering, AI agents, and production deployment.
What you will master:- LLMs & Fine-Tuning: Architecture, evaluation, and customization.
- RAG & Context Engineering: Building memory systems for AI.
- Agentic Workflows: Designing autonomous AI assistants.
- Production Deployment: Shipping scalable AI applications.
## How the Accelerator Works: The 3 Phases
Phase 1: Live Courses (Pre-Conference) - 8 courses. 7 weeks.
Eight hands-on, 2.5-hour virtual live sessions led by engineers who ship AI in production. Go from ML foundations through LLMs, RAG, and agents, culminating in building your own AI agent in the Capstone.Phase 2: ODSC AI West Conference (Oct 27–29) -
Join thousands of AI practitioners at one of the world's largest applied AI conferences. Showcase your Capstone project, meet speakers from leading AI companies, and connect with hiring companies at the AI Expo & Startup Showcase. (Full virtual access included if you can't make it to Burlingame!)Phase 3: Year-Round Learning - aiplus.training
Keep your edge after the accelerator ends. Get 12 months of free access to the Ai+ Training platform, including 300+ on-demand sessions, monthly workshops, new AI engineering deep dives, and career resources.## Phase 1: The AI Foundation Sprint Schedule
All sessions are 2.5 hours, virtual, and live.
- Jun 9: AI & Machine Learning Foundations
- Jun 11: Building AI with Coding Assistants
- Jun 16: Data Prep for ML and LLMs with Python
- Jun 18: AI Engineering Foundations
- Jun 25: Introduction to LLMs, Fine‑Tuning & Evaluation
- Jul 9: Building Knowledge‑Grounded LLMs with RAG
- Jul 14: Automating Workflows with Agentic AI
- Jul 23: Capstone: Build and Deploy Your Agentic AI Application
## Your Instructor🚀:
Sheamus McGovern, Founder of ODSC AI, and Venture Partner/Head of AI at Cortical Ventures
Sheamus McGovern is the founder of ODSC AI (The Open Data Science Conference). He is also a software architect, data engineer, and AI expert. He started his career in finance by building stock and bond trading systems and risk assessment platforms and has worked for numerous financial institutions and quant hedge funds. Over the last decade, Sheamus has consulted with dozens of companies and startups to build leading-edge data-driven applications in finance, healthcare, eCommerce, and venture capital. He holds degrees from Northeastern University, Boston University, Harvard University, and a CQF in Quantitative Finance.## Earn Valuable Certifications
Complete the intensive, hands-on training from leading experts and walk away with an industry-recognized certification to prove your AI engineering expertise
🎟️ Ready to build the future? Don't wait - claim one of the first 100 passes and unlock 12 months of expert training.
Some useful links:
• Get free access to more talks/trainings like this at Ai+ Training platform: https://aiplus.training/
• ODSC blog: https://opendatascience.com/
• Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q038cQBy0
• Code of conduct: https://odsc.ai/code-of-conduct/1 attendee
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