Alexis Fortin-Côté
Alexis Fortin-Côté, an engineer with a PhD in robotics, crafts AI solutions at Vooban to streamline processes and make the most out of client data. He focuses on devising strategies and solutions that help businesses seamlessly integrate AI, maximize the value of their data, and automate their operations.
Sessions Montréal 2026
LLM from Scratch, No Slide, Just Code
Session en Anglais - Avancé
Large Language Models are everywhere, but how they actually work “under the hood” often remains a mystery. In this live-coding talk, we’ll skip the slides and build an LLM step by step, not just a toy model, but a state-of-the-art one. Along the way we’ll dive into tokenization, transformer architecture, small-scale training, and inference, showing how these components come together to power today’s most advanced models.
You Like FastAPI, You Like Pydantic, You'll Love Pydantic AI
Session en Anglais - Intermédiaire
FastAPI and Pydantic revolutionized API building in Python with strong typing, validation, and auto-docs. But generative AI often breaks that structure, messy JSON, brittle parsing, endless debugging. Pydantic AI brings the same rigor to AI agents: typed, validated, model-agnostic, observable. This talk shows how it works and how to use it to build reliable, structured AI Agent.
