# Talks & Presentations | Bruno Gonçalves

Source: https://bgoncalves.com/talks/

> Live training on LLM engineering for O’Reilly, Packt and Maven, invited seminars, interviews and conference papers by Bruno Gonçalves.

## Talks & Presentations

Live training, invited seminars, interviews and conference papers by Bruno Gonçalves, founder at Data For Science, on LLM engineering, data science, network science and computational linguistics.

## Live Training

Bruno teaches hands-on live courses on building and evaluating LLM systems: evaluation harnesses, RAG, agents and LLMOps. He has delivered more than 170 live sessions for O’Reilly Media and Packt since 2019, and also teaches on Maven. Sessions in 2026:

- **Dec 16, 2026 · Maven workshop** [Build a Production-Grade LLM Eval Harness](https://maven.com/bruno-goncalves/eval-harness)
- **Dec 13, 2026 · Packt** [LLMs for Quant Research: Build Text Signals & Research Agents You Can Trust](https://luma.com/oiek9sja)
- **Nov 18, 2026 · Maven cohort** [Jev vs Claude: A Measured Guide](https://maven.com/bruno-goncalves/jev-vs-claude-a-measured-guide)
- **Oct 31, 2026 · Packt** [Harness Engineering: Build an AI Data Analyst You Can Actually Trust](https://luma.com/qwhit9op)
- **Sep 12, 2026 · Packt** [Live LLM Engineering Masterclass: Production Evals, RAG, Agents & LLMOps](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/production-llm-engineering-masterclass-evals-agents-rag-llmops-tickets-1994951751391)
- **Jul 11, 2026 · Packt** [Production Graph RAG: Build Explainable LLM Apps with Knowledge Graphs](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/production-graph-rag-build-explainable-llm-apps-with-knowledge-graphs-tickets-1991359219030)
- **Jul 8, 2026 · O’Reilly** [Automate the Boring Developer Stuff with LLMs](https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/automate-the-boring-developer-stuff-with-llms/0642572332747/)

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## Invited Seminars & Interviews

- **October 1, 2014 · IFISC seminar, Palma de Mallorca** [Language use through the lens of Big Data](https://ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/events/seminars/language-use-through-the-lens-of-big-data/) — how languages are used across time and space, from Twitter and Wikipedia data, with a focus on multilinguals in social networks.
- **2019 · Data Skeptic podcast** [Mapping Dialects with Twitter Data](https://www.dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2019/mapping-dialects-with-twitter-data) — interview on measuring dialect geography from geotagged social media.

## Conference Papers

Peer-reviewed conference papers with co-authors at venues including WWW (2011, 2012), ICWSM (2011), KDD (2013), ACM Hypertext (2009, 2010), WSDM (2009), IEEE SocialCom (2011), CompleNet (2017), IEEE VIS (2017) and Digital Health (2018). The full list, with abstracts, is on the [Publications page](https://bgoncalves.com/publications).

## Newsletter

Bruno writes the Data Science Briefing, a weekly newsletter on LLMs, machine learning and data science with more than 340 issues since 2019, alongside long-form tutorial series.

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