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Talks & workshops

Live demos, hands-on workshops and guest talks on building with AI. The latest was an invited demo of OmniDirector at Google's AI Day for Startups India in Bengaluru.

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Invited demo · Aug 2026

Live demo: OmniDirector, an autonomous AI creative studio

Google AI Day for Startups India 2026 · Google Ananta, Bengaluru

Invited to Google's AI Day for Startups India at the Ananta campus, where I presented OmniDirector and demoed it live to a room of founders and builders. It takes a business from an idea to a finished ad campaign, with research, creative, video, music, copy and outreach running as one multimodal pipeline.

Business Scout researches a business, its competitors and its digital presence to find creative openings
Video, imagery, music and ad copy generated together, then edited in an interactive 3D storyboard and a stem-by-stem audio mixer
Versions cut for Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts and LinkedIn, then turned into personalised pitches by an outreach engine

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3-hour technical workshop

AI for Marketing Masterclass

BITS Law, Mumbai

Hands-on technical workshop for a mixed-seniority audience on creative AI tooling, content + distribution automation, zero-code CRM pipelines, and live builds with LLM and image-gen tools.

Live walk-through: prompt engineering, content automation, zero-code CRM
Hands-on with LLMs (Claude, GPT-4) and image-gen tools
Q&A on production AI patterns and what actually works

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Guest talk · 1st-year CS

Beyond Engineering: Navigating Opportunities for Personal & Professional Growth

Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa · Alumni Interaction

Returned to my alma mater as an alumnus to talk first-year Computer Engineering students through everything beyond the syllabus — clubs, internships, hackathons, open source, networking, and personal projects — and how each one compounds into real opportunities.

Why engineering is the foundation, not the ceiling — building a multi-dimensional profile
Clubs, 6+ internships, hackathons (Smart India Hackathon), 20+ courses, and open-source contribution
Turning classwork into shipped personal projects, plus balancing it all without burning out

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Hands-on session

Intro to React & React Native

Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa · 1st-year CS

Introductory session for first-year Computer Engineering students on building apps and websites with React and React Native — from what the frameworks are, to running my own hosted projects and live apps on a phone, to why the skill pays off for hackathons and placements.

What React & React Native are, demoed with hosted sites and apps running live on a phone
Walked through real project code and how to run an app on your own device
Shared a beginner-to-pro React Native roadmap and notes covering everything we built

Intro to React & React Native (Notion)Build Apps Roadmap (Notion)