Welcome to the Chatbot Essentials channel. This folder contains meeting recordings and resources.
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Registration
🔐 Register for the Webinar Series
To register for the Chatbot Essentials webinar series, please visit: Free AI Webinar Series - Master AI Chat & LLMs
Follow the link to complete your registration and get access to all upcoming sessions.
Planned Sessions
📅 Webinars are held every second Thursday at 17:00 - 18:45 Central European Time (CET).
Mark your calendar and join us for in-depth discussions on chatbot essentials, best practices, and live Q&A sessions.
Webinar Structure: Each session is divided into a theory part and a hands-on exercise part. t2b provides all necessary tools and infrastructure, so you can focus entirely on learning and practicing.
Meeting Platform: All webinars take place online via Microsoft Teams. You will receive meeting links and join details upon registration.
Calendar
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| Thursday, May 21, 2026 — ▶️ Play | Introduction to LLMs: What is a Large Language Model; meaning of "G" (Generative), "P" (Pre-trained), "T" (Transformer); positive and negative consequences of each component; counter-measures to avoid potential mistakes; hard-core limitations |
| Thursday, June 4, 2026 — ▶️ Play | Prompt Engineering Exercises and Best Practices - Hands-on exercises with different prompting techniques; testing and iterating prompts; prompt chaining; few-shot learning; zero-shot learning; practical strategies for improving model outputs |
| Thursday, June 18, 2026 — ▶️ Play | What is a Chatbot? What's the difference between an LLM model and a Chatbot? A Chatbot's architecture and the most important data structure. Influencing the LLM answers with system prompt engineering. Notions of Chatbot memory. Notions of RAG. Notions of tool calling. |
| Thursday, July 2, 2026 — ▶️ Play | Tool Calling Part 1: Fundamentals - Tool calling basics; tool orchestration and planning; data dependencies and time dependencies; dependency injection patterns; how small LLMs can orchestrate complex tasks |
| Thursday, July 16, 2026 | Summer holiday break |
| Thursday, July 30, 2026 | Summer holiday break |
| Thursday, August 13, 2026 | Summer holiday break |
| Thursday, August 27, 2026 | Tool Calling Part 2: Advanced Calling - Advanced calling techniques; multiple tool calling; data dependency injection in tool parameters; notions of planning and agents orchestration |
| Thursday, September 10, 2026 | RAG Part 1: Embeddings & Search - Embeddings spaces, similarity search, quasi-orthogonality; simple RAG fundamentals; vector databases and retrieval strategies |
| Thursday, September 24, 2026 | RAG Part 2: Advanced Techniques & Knowledge Graphs - Advanced RAG techniques, reranking stages, knowledge-graph-based RAG; ontology-driven knowledge management; disambiguation and truth maintenance systems |
| Thursday, October 8, 2026 | RAG Part 3: Optimization & Cognition - Real-time RAG, tool-based RAG; cognition management; memory optimization and pruning; recall systems; quality systems for source data improvement |
| Thursday, October 22, 2026 | LLM Architecture & Model Selection - Understanding different model families and architectures; comparing performance characteristics; selecting models for specific tasks; quantization and parameter efficiency; multi-model orchestration strategies |
| Thursday, November 5, 2026 | Fine-tuning & Model Optimization - Parameter-efficient methods: LoRA, adapters, and prefix tuning; quantization and pruning techniques; evaluation metrics and benchmarking; deployment optimization; production considerations |
| Thursday, November 19, 2026 | AI Development Team Workflows - Prompt engineering, agent governance, and optimization; mixed human-AI teams; achieving advanced automation; preventing loss of control in complex use cases; practical tips and tricks for production deployments |
| Thursday, December 3, 2026 | Thalabus Deep Dive - Thalabus architecture and REST APIs; Python SDK; embedding Thalabus modules in your application; extending and customizing Thalabus; configuring business use cases; defining custom agents, prompts, and tools; connecting databases and frontends to Thalabus |
| Thursday, December 17, 2026 | Practical AI Services & Integration - Using ready-built Thalabus services: document translation, transcription, question answering, natural language to Cypher/SQL queries, speech-to-text; accessing Thalabus RAG from external applications; Thalabus query language |
| Thursday, December 31, 2026 | Advanced Use Cases & Real-World Applications - Complex reasoning systems; deep reasoning templates; connecting enterprise databases and backends; case studies and practical implementations; Q&A and community showcase |
| Thursday, January 14, 2027 | Multi-modal AI & Vision Systems - Image understanding and generation; vision-language models; audio processing and speech synthesis; multi-modal reasoning; building multi-modal applications with thalabus |
| Thursday, January 28, 2027 | Scaling & Deployment - Infrastructure for production AI; load balancing and fault tolerance; monitoring and observability; cost optimization; distributed inference and service orchestration |
📹 Meeting Recordings
- Session 1: Introduction to LLMs — ▶️ Play
- Session 2: Prompt Engineering Exercises and Best Practices — ▶️ Play
- Session 3: What is a Chatbot? — ▶️ Play
- Session 4: Tool Calling Part 1 — ▶️ Play