# Talks > A sample of talks by Melanie Warrick since 2013 on AI agents, evals, deep learning and machine learning, with recordings and slides where they exist. - Author: Nyghtowl (Melanie Warrick) - URL: https://nyghtowl.com/talks/ - Published: 2026-10-23 - Site index for agents: https://nyghtowl.com/llms.txt A sample of the talks I've given since 2013, newest first. I gave a lot of them more than once, so each talk shows up once, under the year I last gave it, with where and when. Links go to the recording or slides where they exist. There are plenty more that weren't recorded or that I haven't tracked down yet. ## 2026 - **What an Agent Needs to Remember** - Durable AI (October Edition) meetup with Temporal and Kernel, San Francisco, October 2026 - Tokyo AI (TAI), Tokyo, October 2026 - Durable AI meetup with Temporal and CodeRabbit, San Francisco, September 2026 - SF Python Meetup at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, July 2026, as "Agent Memory Is Not One Thing" - **Evaluating AI models: What I learned and what I'd do differently**, Assembling 2026, Builder Stage, San Francisco, October 2026 - Agents talk at Build Like a Frontier Lab Engineer (Bond AI), San Francisco, September 2026 - **Rust Confessional: A Durable Agentic Loop on Temporal**, with Melissa Herrera, Rust AI Begins! (Rust AI and Data Ecosystem By the Bay), San Francisco, July 2026 ([watch](https://youtu.be/_t_Rxf8Z4mU), [slides](https://github.com/temporal-community/rust-confessional/blob/main/docs/media/rust-can-fix-that-slides.pdf)) - **The Human Is an Async API: Designing Durable Human-in-the-Loop Agents** - PyLadies Vancouver, July 2026, as "What Happens When Your Agent Has to Wait for a Human" - AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, San Francisco, July 2026 ([watch](https://youtu.be/jc3kbZkuHTo)) - She Ships: AI Agents in Production (Pride Edition), San Francisco, June 2026, with a demo of the human-in-the-loop agent on Temporal - **It's Fine: Cognitive Surrender**, lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, Long Beach, May 2026 ([watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKRSvcChVTI&t=2398s)) - **AI as Your Open Source Partner**, Women in Open Source Day 2026, hosted by Snowflake, Menlo Park, March 2026 ([watch](https://youtu.be/GcACvyXsrDs), [write-up](https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2026/03/from-gatekeeping-to-gateway/)) - **When Voice Agents Roll Initiative**, lightning talk at She Ships: AI Demo Night, San Francisco, February 2026 ([watch](https://youtu.be/-mp9beFRJ1Y)) - Talk at the AI Plumbers (un)conference, a FOSDEM'26 fringe event, Brussels, February 2026 ## 2019 - **ML/AI Panel**, QCon San Francisco 2019, with Michelle Casbon (moderator), Amy Unruh, Chris Albon, June Andrews and Paige Bailey, November 2019 ([watch](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/panel-ml-tooling/)) - Board member talk, Techtonica apprenticeship launch celebration, July 2019 - **Career Path Advice**, on getting into machine learning and data science ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/career-path-advice)) - GDG Cloud London, Women Techmakers dev talks, London, June 2019, as "7 pieces of advice changing careers into machine learning" - Joint meetup of Women Who Go Paris, WiMLDS Paris, Ladies Who Code Paris and Paris Data Ladies, Paris, June 2019 - Stanford AI4ALL, June 2018 - Bay Area WiMLDS x PyLadies: Paths to Data Science, June 2018, as "7 Lessons Learned from Tech and Data Science" - Demystifying Deep Learning & AI, July 2017 - SAILORS, AI career workshop, June 2017 - **Neural Nets for Newbies** - Tufts University, computer science master's class, March 2019, as "Neural Net Fundamentals" - Japan Java Community meetup, August 2015, as "Overview of Neural Nets" - Bay Piggies, hosted at LinkedIn, May 2015 ([watch](https://youtu.be/Cu6A96TUy_o)) - PyCon 2015, Montreal, April 2015 ([watch](https://youtu.be/g-BJSl4zV_g), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/neural-nets-for-newbies)) - **Applied AI**, also given as "AI & Enterprise" and "Artificial Intelligence" - Dillard University, guest lecture, March 2019 - Berkeley Nuclear Bootcamp, keynote, August 2018 - Understanding Risk Forum 2018, Mexico City, keynote, May 2018 - AI Congress, London, keynote, January 2018 ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/ai-and-enterprise)) - Minds Mastering Machines (M3), London, keynote, October 2017 ([watch](https://youtu.be/bRPTHa0yp5U), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/artificial-intelligence)) - Lufthansa Technik, Hamburg, keynote, June 2017 ## 2018 - **Cyber Security for the Previous Generation**, keynote, Monktoberfest 2018, October 2018 ([write-up](https://nyghtowl.com/posts/2018/10/cyber-security-for-the-previous-generation/)) - **Reinforcement Learning Overview** - PyCon Russia 2018, keynote, July 2018 ([watch](https://youtu.be/pggEazy1dh0), [resources](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/pycon-dot-ru-rl-talk-resources)) - Crunch Conference, Budapest, October 2017 ([watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdAEA1DtMvM)) - With the Best (online), October 2017 ([watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXNFVRBFt0Q)) - O'Reilly AI Conference, San Francisco, September 2017 ([watch](https://youtu.be/sjD0Vrc40yc), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/reinforcement-learning)) - **Machine Learning with Google Cloud** - CERN Computing Seminar, Geneva, July 2018 ([watch](https://cds.cern.ch/record/2632310), [slides](https://indico.cern.ch/event/740298/attachments/1692270/2722990/Final_Machine_Learning_on_Google_Cloud_.pdf)) - Internet2 Global Summit 2018, May 2018, as "AI & GCP" - Harker WiSTEM Research Symposium, April 2018, as "AI & Cloud" - GDG Cloud Paris, February 2018, as "AI & AutoML" - **How to Focus and Prioritize Tech Education**, Techtonica, April 2018 ## 2017 - **Capsule Theorem**, Self Organizing Conference, San Francisco, December 2017 - **The Practice & Frontiers of AI** panel, QCon San Francisco 2017, with Shubha Nabar, Chris Moody, Reena Philip, Kevin Moore and Miju Han, November 2017 ([watch](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-practice-frontier)) - **What is AI?** - Gartner Symposium, Tokyo, November 2017 - Strata Data Conference, New York, September 2017 - Strata + Hadoop World, San Jose, March 2017 - Software Circus: Cloud Native Computing, Amsterdam, September 2016 ([watch](https://youtu.be/4rCjhGOMTug)) - Strata + Hadoop World, London, June 2016 - Data Science Summit Europe, Jerusalem, June 2016 ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/what-is-ai-jerusalem)) - AI Meetup Melbourne, February 2016 - **Machines and Humans Unite to Change the World** panel, Grace Hopper Celebration 2017, Orlando, with Lauren Neal, Shalini De Mello, Wendy Kan and Elaine Johanson, October 2017 - **Machine Learning Overview** ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/machine-learning-1)) - PyBay 2017, San Francisco, August 2017 - Dublin Java User Group, Dublin, June 2017 ([resources](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/machine-learning-resources)) ## 2016 - **Deep Learning and NLP with Spark**, with Andy Petrella - Scala Days, Berlin, June 2016 ([watch](https://youtu.be/vaiE2yGdJSg), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/deep-learning-and-natural-language-processing-with-spark-berlin)) - Strata + Hadoop World, London, June 2016 - **Deep Learning Workshop**, Data Science Summit Europe, Jerusalem, June 2016 ## 2015 - **Deep Learning** keynote, Strata + Hadoop World, Singapore, December 2015 ([watch](https://youtu.be/gh3oOV_P9w0), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/deep-learning)) - **How to Run Neural Nets on GPUs** - Strata + Hadoop World, Singapore, December 2015 ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/how-to-run-neural-nets-on-gpus-strata)) - Strange Loop, September 2015 ([watch](https://youtu.be/8mt9CK4Vb70), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/how-to-run-neural-nets-on-gpus)) - **Attention Neural Net Model Fundamentals** - MLconf, San Francisco, November 2015 ([watch](https://youtu.be/Zu5slM7Ju4c), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/attention-neural-net-model-fundamentals)) - Japanese Entrepreneur Organization meetup, October 2015, as "Getting Started with Attention Models" - **Skymind & DL4J**, Dato Data Science Summit, San Francisco, July 2015 ## 2014 - **Real World Application of Machine Learning for Social Change**, with Change.org colleagues Kristiane Skolmen and Scott Lau, Stanford HCI Seminar, October 2014 ([watch](https://youtu.be/WK9ld7mQE00)) - **How to Get Started with Machine Learning**, PyCon 2014, Montreal, April 2014 ([watch](https://youtu.be/uBorfxosVYs), [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/how-to-get-started-with-machine-learning)) - **Skimming the Surface of Deep Learning**, Zipfian Academy tech talk, February 2014 ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/skimming-the-surface-of-deep-learning)) ## 2013 - **I <3 Redis & Cron**, lightning talk, San Francisco Python Meetup, November 2013 ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/i-3-redis-and-cron)) - **Sun Finder**, a demo of my Hackbright final project, SheCodes Conference, August 2013 ([slides](https://speakerdeck.com/nyghtowl/hackbright-sun-finder-project-highlights)) - Hackbright project presentations, Girl Geek Dinner for Hackbright at Google, San Francisco, May 2013 ## Podcasts and interviews - **[Vibe Check](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl9kRkvFJrlREy2qVAyrh9cPe8MzhVdfX)**, the livestream I host at Temporal on AI tools, agentic coding, and building AI in production, including [What's AI? Nine Years Later](https://youtu.be/6sWIcVnF6iQ), a reunion with Mark Mandel and Francesc Campoy (October 2026) - **AI Coffee Hour Podcast**, episode 4, 2026 ([watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nFexFK4xSk)) - **[GCP Podcast](https://nyghtowl.com/gcp/)**, co-host with Mark Mandel in 2018, contributing to nearly 60 episodes (#102 to #159) - **What's AI with Melanie Warrick**, GCP Podcast #93, 2017 ([watch](https://youtu.be/RBGwoPuY6Ho))