$

$ teds open --section speaking

Speaking, Podcasts & Courses

A public record of conference keynotes, technical workshops, guest podcast appearances, and online courses by Harpreet Sahota. Everything is sorted temporally, newest first. Click any section below to expand.

01 / talks

Keynotes & Technical Talks

17 sessions (click to expand)
Technical Session
Voxel51

Video Understanding: Perceptron AI and FiftyOne

Exploring video-native multimodal AI and integrating cutting-edge video understanding models into computer vision workflows with Akshat Shrivastava.

Conference Keynote / Workshop
Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)

Mastering Visual AI with Vision-Language Models & Advanced Evaluation Techniques

Deep dive into inspecting datasets, utilizing VLMs for dataset enrichment, and evaluating fine-tuned models under distribution shifts.

Technical Talk
Voxel51

Curating Robotic Data Collection with Voxel51

Addressing the robot learning bottleneck: why data quality and curation matter more than raw volume when collecting embodied episodes.

Hands-on Demo
Voxel51

A Tour of Robotics Datasets: MCAP and LeRobot in Voxel51

Walkthrough of multimodal robotics datasets, authoring MCAP containers, and visualizing state/action spaces inside FiftyOne.

Workshop
Voxel51

Visualizing and Debugging Robot Learning Data with Voxel51 and Hugging Face LeRobot

Inspecting Hugging Face LeRobot dataset episodes, diagnosing sensor drift, and triaging teleoperation failures.

Flash Demo
Voxel51

Flash Demo: Agents in Action with FiftyOne

Demonstrating autonomous AI agents executing computer vision query and triage tasks inside FiftyOne.

Workshop
Voxel51

Advanced Computer Vision Data Curation and Model Evaluation Workshop

Hands-on workshop covering advanced curation metrics, embedding analysis, and error diagnosis for production vision models.

Technical Demo
Voxel51

Finding and Fixing Agricultural Data Annotations with the FiftyOne Agent

Using autonomous agents to detect labeling noise, fix mislabeled bounding boxes, and curate high-quality agricultural CV datasets.

Meetup Talk
Computer Vision Meetup

Curating Excellence: Strategies for Optimizing Visual AI Datasets

Practical strategies for data-centric AI: dataset pruning, deduplication, and hard negative mining.

Case Study
Voxel51

Exploring Tokyo’s Most Dangerous Intersection: A Multimodal AV Dataset with Voxel51

Analyzing complex autonomous vehicle edge cases across multiple camera streams and sensor modalities in urban driving environments.

Technical Talk
Voxel51

Exploring Video Datasets with FiftyOne and Vision-Language Models

Using VLMs to perform temporal search, natural-language video querying, and automatic captioning.

Workshop
Voxel51

Workshop: Document Visual AI with FiftyOne—When a Pixel is Worth a Thousand Tokens

Going beyond OCR: parsing complex tables, architectural diagrams, and unstructured layouts with vision foundation models.

Technical Talk
Voxel51

Plugins as Products: Bringing Visual AI Research into Real-World Workflows with FiftyOne

Building production-grade UI and backend plugins for computer vision teams to bridge research models into interactive tools.

Technical Demo
Voxel51

FiftyOne Computer Vision Plugins: Semantic Document Search

Building custom semantic document search plugins using vector embeddings and multimodal retrieval.

Technical Talk
Voxel51

Building Real-World Computer Vision Systems with Voxel51

Architecture patterns for computer vision pipelines: from raw data ingestion to active learning and production monitoring.

Webinar
Data Phoenix

How to Instruction Tune a Base Language Model

A practical, code-level guide to instruction-tuning base open-weight language models using PEFT and QLoRA.

Technical Webinar
Data Science Dojo

Understanding and Visualizing ResNets that Forever Revolutionized Deep Learning

First-principles breakdown of residual connections, vanishing gradients, and the architectural mechanics behind deep CNNs.

02 / podcasts

Guest Podcast Appearances

11 episodes (click to expand)
Podcast Guest
Insights x Design (Michael Green)

Ep. 28: Harpreet Sahota - AI Hacker

Discussing the role of a Hacker-in-Residence, rapid prototyping, and removing friction between AI systems and end users.

Podcast Guest
SuperDataScience (Jon Krohn)

SDS 693: YOLO-NAS: The State of the Art in Machine Vision

Deep dive into object detection architectures, Neural Architecture Search (NAS), and compute-efficient edge deployment.

Video Podcast
Monica Kay Royal Show

Exploring the Deep End of Artificial Intelligence

Navigating generative AI, career evolution in machine learning, and staying technically honest in a hype cycle.

Video Podcast
AI Stories Podcast (Neil Leiser)

From Biostatistician to DevRel at Deci AI (#42)

Career journey through biostatistics and data science into developer advocacy for deep learning tooling.

Video Podcast
Plumbers of Data Science (Andreas Kretz)

Hero Talk: Real Talk on Generative AI & LLMs (#09)

Cutting through the AI noise: what generative models actually do well, what breaks, and how data engineers should adapt.

Video Podcast
The Data Scientist Show (Daliana Liu)

From Biostatistician to the Artist of Data Science, Philosophy, and Life (#33)

Discussing the data science mindset, mentorship, personal philosophy, and building developer trust.

Podcast Guest
Curious Lion Podcast (Andrew Barry)

Ep. 58: Harpreet Sahota on the Art and Science of Data

Why data science is equal parts engineer, scientist, and philosopher, and how to build a lasting data flywheel.

Video Podcast
Ken's Nearest Neighbors (Ken Jee)

The First Data Science Philosopher? (KNN Ep. 62)

Exploring stoic philosophy, continuous learning, and how to define personal and career success in data science.

Video Podcast
Rising Laterally (Arjun & Jay)

Ep. 19: What Is The Probability Of Your Future?

Applying probability, combinatorial creativity, and intellectual rigor to personal decision-making.

Video Podcast
DATAcated (Kate Strachnyi)

Tips for Creating a Portfolio Project That Will Get You Hired

How to build inspectable, business-relevant portfolio projects that prove technical chops without fluff.

Podcast Guest
SuperDataScience (Jon Krohn)

SDS 457: Landing Your Data Science Dream Job

Career transitions from mathematics and statistics into enterprise data science, mentorship, and building public proof.

03 / courses

Courses Created

9 courses (click to expand)
Online Course1h 52m
LinkedIn Learning

Generative AI and Open Source Models: Hands-On Practice with Hugging Face Models

Hands-on practice controlling text generation with open-weight models, tokenizers, chat templates, and advanced decoding strategies.

Online Course6h 25m
LinkedIn Learning

Hands-On AI: RAG using LlamaIndex

Comprehensive deep dive into Retrieval-Augmented Generation: document ingestion, embedding indexing, query engines, and evaluation.

Online Course5h 21m
LinkedIn Learning

Prompt Engineering with LangChain

Architecting LLM applications with LangChain: prompt templates, output parsers, memory management, and structured tool calling.

University MOOC4 modules · 20h
Coursera (UC Davis)

Hands-on Data Centric Visual AI

A comprehensive, data-centric guide to developing and maintaining high-quality computer vision datasets with FiftyOne and CVAT.

Online Course4h 1m
LinkedIn Learning

Computer Vision for Data Scientists

From convolutional neural networks to state-of-the-art architectures: training image classification models and optimizing workflows.

Online Course1h
Udemy

Computer Vision with ResNet: How One Paper Changed Deep Learning Forever

Understanding the mechanics of residual networks, skip connections, and training ResNets with SuperGradients.

Online Course1h
Udemy

Computer Vision with MobileNet: Architectures for Image Classification

Depthwise separable convolutions, inverted residuals, and deploying lightweight vision models to resource-constrained edge devices.

Online Course1h
Udemy

Computer Vision with RegNet: Image Classification using SuperGradients

Understanding network design spaces, quantization trade-offs, and training RegNet models for production classification.

Certified Course3h · 3.5 CPE Credits
365 Data Science

How to Think Like a Data Scientist to Become One

Developing the senior practitioner mindset: applying the scientific method, problem framing, and building high-signal portfolios.

$ teds view --faq

Frequently Asked Questions

Direct answers regarding Harpreet Sahota's talks, guest appearances, and course curriculum.

What topics does Harpreet Sahota speak on?

Harpreet speaks on Developer Relations (DevRel) strategy for AI companies, physical AI and robotics dataset curation, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), production AI agent evaluation beyond LLM-as-a-judge, and building developer trust through inspectable proof.

What podcasts has Harpreet Sahota appeared on as a guest?

Harpreet has appeared on leading data science and AI podcasts including SuperDataScience (Episodes 457 and 693 with Jon Krohn), Ken’s Nearest Neighbors (Episode 62 with Ken Jee), The Data Scientist Show (Episode 33 with Daliana Liu), Insights x Design (Episode 28 with Michael Green), Curious Lion, AI Stories Podcast, and Plumbers of Data Science.

What online AI and data science courses has Harpreet Sahota created?

Harpreet has authored courses across LinkedIn Learning (Prompt Engineering with LangChain, Hands-On AI: RAG using LlamaIndex, Generative AI with Hugging Face Models, Computer Vision for Data Scientists), Coursera with UC Davis (Hands-on Data Centric Visual AI), 365 Data Science (How to Think Like a Data Scientist to Become One), and Udemy (Computer Vision with ResNet, MobileNet, and RegNet).

How can event organizers invite Harpreet Sahota to speak?

Organizers can request Harpreet for keynote presentations, hands-on workshops, technical panels, and podcast interviews by reaching out through the contact form at https://employabledatascientist.com/contact/?service=developer-evangelism.

$ teds contact --speaking

Invite Harpreet to Speak

Keynotes, conference workshops, technical panels, and podcast interviews on DevRel strategy for AI, physical AI, robotics, and evaluation.

Request Speaker