Talks
Conference talks, workshops, podcasts, and livestreams on open models, inference, fine-tuning, agents, RAG, and vector search. If you'd like me to speak at your event, reach out on LinkedIn or X.
2026
Parth Sareen & Zain Hasan: Evaluating Open Models on Production Traffic
Serving Kimi K3 at scale: An inference deep dive with Together AI
Together evaluations: Compare model outputs with Zain Hasan
Together evaluations: Classify model outputs with Zain Hasan
Together evaluations: score model outputs with Zain Hasan
Running open models in production: A live walkthrough of our new inference platform - Together AI
Everything you need to know about Kimi K3: A conversation with Moonshot AI and Together AI
How to deploy & scale open models in production – Together AI Inference Demo
Building with DeepSeek-V4: long-context agents and efficient inference - Together AI
2025
Introduction to Agents - Industry Engagement Series # 2
How advanced tool calling transforms agentic use cases: A conversation with Moonshot AI
Panel 1: Designing Intelligent Agents | Future of Data and AI | Agentic AI Conference
GPT-OSS: Deep Dive + Live Q&A with OpenAI's Dominik Kundel
LLM-as-a-Judge Evals: Comparing Kimi, Qwen, and GLM
How to build a Recommendation System with Vector Search and Graph References KGC 2023
A new course on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is live!
End to end coding agent examples
Code Execution for Coding Agents
Retrieval and Context in coding agents
Function Calling in Coding Agents
How to build a coding agent from scratch
Learning Together Episode 1: Matryoshka Principles for Adaptive Intelligence
Finetuning 3.0 – How to finetune models on Together AI
ColPali's Vision-Powered RAG for Enterprise Documents | PyData Global 2024
DeepSeek-R1: How It Works, Simplified!
Inside Vector Database Quantization: Product, Binary, and Scalar | S2 E23
Kernels: High Performance Building Blocks for AI
Fine-tuning Large Language Models
2024
A Deep Dive Into The RedPajama Datasets
Scaling Vector Database Usage Without Breaking the Bank - Quantization and Adaptive Retrieval
How to Build Multimodal Document RAG with Llama 3.2 Vision and ColQwen2
Building Scalable Multimodal Search Applications with Python
Vector search without breaking the bank: Quantization and Adaptive Retrieval
RAG Insights w/ Sebastian Witalec & Zain Hasan (Weaviate)
#011 Mastering Vector Databases, Product & Binary Quantization, Multi-Vector Search
Learn Advanced RAG Tricks with Zain
Using Vector Databases for Multimodal Search and Retrieval Augmented Generation
Make Your RAG Workflow "WOW" with Weaviate and Generative Feedback Loops
Powering Vector Search with Real-Time Data
LLM Bootcamp - Day 2 Highlights
Vector Quantization: The Vector Clubhouse Episode 2
Using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in Production | Weaviate x Merantix AI Campus
Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation Techniques
Better Chatbots with Advanced RAG Techniques
Using Vector Databases for Multimodal Embeddings and Search - NDC London 2024
How I Built a Super-Doctor Using Advanced RAG
Vector embedding models for AI
Building Chatbots with Retrieval-Augmented Generation Techniques | Conf42 LLMs 2024
Building Multi-Modal Search and RAG with Vector Databases | LLMOps
Matryoshka Embeddings - Weaviate Podcast #89
2023
Getting Unstuck From 1 LLM with Pulze AI and Multimodal RAG with Weaviate | Multimodal Weekly 25
Building Multi-Modal Search with Vector Databases
Semantic Search: A Deep Dive Into Vector Databases
Using Vector DBs to Scale Multimodal Embeddings, Retrieval & Generation
OSDI Meetup London - Vector Databases and Data Matching with AI
AI Meetup (London 20230906): LLMs and Vector Databases
Going Beyond Vector Search and RAG - Semantic Kernel Community
Using Weaviate with the Semantic Kernel pt.1 | Semantic Kernel Community
Vector Search - A gentle introduction
ControlNet for Interior Design & Weaviate Vector Database for Multimodal AI
Computer Vision Applications at Scale with Vector Databases
A gentle introduction to Vector Databases | Conf42 Machine Learning 2023
Using Weaviate for building Generative AI apps
Sam Bean, Zain Hasan, and John Trengrove on You.com and Spark - Weaviate Podcast #32