Tenfold Campfire: Practical Skills From Real Devs

​Ontology Basics
Daniel Kopaee
Daniel will be speaking about the ways that we identify patterns in the fluid and probabilistic world and how to project them back onto the latest generation of semantic models. This session will show us how to think in parts, and call things as they are in order to create better semantics with LLM models.

Daniel is a Product Lead with Fernwood Agentic and has extensive experience and expertise in designing LLM systems.

​LLM Security
Calum Bird
Privacy has long been a business choice rather than a technical one - frontier LLMs have changed this. This talk explores the spectrum of "private" AI, the applications they enable, and whether or not your data is really being used to build the machine god.

Calum Bird is the founder of Trelant and an early adopter for LLM technologies and has consistently proven himself to be an authority in the discipline.

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Tenfold Campfire is a twice-monthly lecture series hosted at the University of Victoria. Each session features two one-hour lectures - 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of questions - on a topic drawn from their real working experience: systems they've built, problems they've solved, lessons that took a career to learn.

Campfire talks are topics proposed by and prepared by community members in order to pass along specialized knowledge and tricks of the craft.

​Come learn practical skills from real engineers solving real problems.

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This month, we'll be hosting at https://vicfrontier.ca/. Next month we'll resume at UVic