About this event

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Dates - Jun 9 - Jul 23, 2026
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7-Week AI Accelerator: From Using AI to Building It

In just 7 weeks, go from using AI to building it - and accelerate your AI career. Get hands-on training in LLMs, agents, and AI engineering, culminating at ODSC AI West 2026.

11 years training the AI industry. Designed for professionals and engineers ready to go beyond tutorials.

Why Join This Accelerator?

We’ve upskilled thousands of AI engineers and data scientists. This program gives you the exact blueprint to gain fluency in LLMs, RAG, context engineering, AI agents, and production deployment.
What you will master:

• LLMs & Fine-Tuning: Architecture, evaluation, and customization.
• RAG & Context Engineering: Building memory systems for AI.
• Agentic Workflows: Designing autonomous AI assistants.
• Production Deployment: Shipping scalable AI applications.

How the Accelerator Works: The 3 Phases

Phase 1: Live Courses (Pre-Conference) - 8 courses. 7 weeks.
Eight hands-on, 2.5-hour virtual live sessions led by engineers who ship AI in production. Go from ML foundations through LLMs, RAG, and agents, culminating in building your own AI agent in the Capstone.

Phase 2: ODSC AI West Conference (Oct 27–29) -
Join thousands of AI practitioners at one of the world's largest applied AI conferences. Showcase your Capstone project, meet speakers from leading AI companies, and connect with hiring companies at the AI Expo & Startup Showcase. (Full virtual access included if you can't make it to Burlingame!)

Phase 3: Year-Round Learning - aiplus.training
Keep your edge after the accelerator ends. Get 12 months of free access to the Ai+ Training platform, including 300+ on-demand sessions, monthly workshops, new AI engineering deep dives, and career resources.

Phase 1: The AI Foundation Sprint Schedule

All sessions are 2.5 hours, virtual, and live.

• Jun 9: AI & Machine Learning Foundations
• Jun 11: Building AI with Coding Assistants
• Jun 16: Data Prep for ML and LLMs with Python
• Jun 18: AI Engineering Foundations
• Jun 25: Introduction to LLMs, Fine‑Tuning & Evaluation
• Jul 9: Building Knowledge‑Grounded LLMs with RAG
• Jul 14: Automating Workflows with Agentic AI
• Jul 23: Capstone: Build and Deploy Your Agentic AI Application

Your Instructor🚀:

Sheamus McGovern, Founder of ODSC AI, and Venture Partner/Head of AI at Cortical Ventures
Sheamus McGovern is the founder of ODSC AI (The Open Data Science Conference). He is also a software architect, data engineer, and AI expert. He started his career in finance by building stock and bond trading systems and risk assessment platforms and has worked for numerous financial institutions and quant hedge funds. Over the last decade, Sheamus has consulted with dozens of companies and startups to build leading-edge data-driven applications in finance, healthcare, eCommerce, and venture capital. He holds degrees from Northeastern University, Boston University, Harvard University, and a CQF in Quantitative Finance.

Earn Valuable Certifications

Complete the intensive, hands-on training from leading experts and walk away with an industry-recognized certification to prove your AI engineering expertise

🎟️ Ready to build the future? Don't wait - claim one of the first 100 passes and unlock 12 months of expert training.

Some useful links:
• Get free access to more talks/trainings like this at Ai+ Training platform: https://aiplus.training/
• ODSC blog: https://opendatascience.com/
• Slack Channel: https://hubs.li/Q038cQBy0
• Code of conduct: https://odsc.ai/code-of-conduct/