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AI FDE Onramp

Hosted by Dr. Greg Loughnane, Ph.D., Matthew Sharp, and Tyler Laughlin

Tue, Sep 29, 2026

11:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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LLM Ops - Large Language Models in Production
Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris "The LLM Wizard 🪄" Alexiuk
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What you'll learn

Get your dev environment ready to go

Start with the tools and environment you’ll use throughout the FDE Certification, so you’re ready to build from day one.

See how we build with Claude Code

Walkthrough a AI-assisted development workflow and see how Claude Code changes the way you navigate, build, and iterate.

Turn your big idea into something concrete

Start with a problem at your company and narrow in on a specific user, workflow, and solution worth building.

Why this topic matters

Get ready to hit the ground running in the AI FDE Certification. Whether you’re already enrolled or exploring the program, the AI FDE Onramp will help you understand what to expect, prepare for day one, and get a head start before the cohort begins. This free, public lightning lesson is a chance to learn alongside the AIM community and experience how we approach the FDE journey.

You'll learn from

Dr. Greg Loughnane, Ph.D.

Owner/CEO, AI Makerspace

Dr. Greg Loughnane is the Owner & CEO of AI Makerspace, where he leads agentic AI training programs for mid-market & enterprise clients. Since 2023, he has built and led cohort-based courses on Maven, including The AI Engineering Bootcamp. Previously, he developed courses like Machine Learning Engineer as part of Andrew Ng's AI Fund ecosystem. Prior, he served as an AI product manager, university professor, consultant, advisor, and researcher. He loves trail running and is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Matthew Sharp

Author, LLMs in Production

"My friends call me Mr. Security."

Matt has led many successful data initiatives for both startups and large tech companies alike. He specializes in deploying, managing, and scaling machine learning and generative AI models in production, regardless of what that production setting looks like.

Local AI is a hobby of Matt's. He's been doing personal projects for a long time, from building a game in a past AI Makerspace course, to a StarCraft bot, and to creating a translation app so he could communicate with his in-laws better.

Matt is from Lehi, Utah, has a degree in Chemical Engineering from BYU.

Tyler Laughlin

Information Systems Engineer at Adobe

Tyler Laughlin is an Information Systems Engineer at Adobe with a background in business intelligence, data science, machine learning, and cloud-native application development. He has worked across analytics and engineering at Adobe and has developed hands-on expertise in Python, machine learning, LLM applications, and LLMOps. Tyler is also an active member of the AI Makerspace community, where he has participated as a learner, teaching assistant, and contributor to AI engineering projects and hackathons.

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