AI for Developers

Course Format and Delivery

Delivery Method: LiveOnline
Schedule: Full day

All sessions are delivered live by an expert instructor in a fully interactive online environment.

*20% off for group bookings when booking 3 or more attendees from the same organization on the same course dates in the same transaction.

 

About this course

This hands-on workshop teaches developers how to build modern AI-driven applications using local LLMs, intelligent agents, and standardized tool protocols. Participants learn to move beyond simple prompting to architect AI systems that integrate reasoning, retrieval, and external data sources. The course emphasizes real-world implementation through step-by-step labs in GitHub Codespaces, requiring no local installs.

 

What you will learn

By the end of the workshop, attendees will have created functional AI agents that use Ollama for local model execution, FastMCP for standardized tool communication, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for context-grounded responses—all deployable to a cloud environment.

Facilitated By

B.Laster
Brent Laster
Facilitator

Brent Laster is a global trainer, author, speaker, and founder/president of Tech Skills Transformations LLC. He helps enterprise teams adopt modern software practices in AI engineering, AI-assisted development, DevOps, automation, and secure software delivery. He is the author of Learning GitHub Copilot, Learning GitHub Actions, Professional Git, and Jenkins 2: Up and Running,  as well as multiple online and live training programs for companies such as O'Reilly.   In addition to AI expertise, Brent brings more than 25 years of experience in software development, management and technical leadership, DevOps, release engineering, and open-source technologies.  He regularly presents and conducts workshops at industry conferences and for private clients.

 

Questions about this Course?

Phone: 1-800-373-7028
Email: info-us@softed.com

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