David vonThenen
@davidvonthenen.com
AI/ML Leader | Keynote Speaker | OSS Engineer & Developer Advocate | Agentic AI, Deep Learning, Production AI | Python, Go, C++
Info: https://linktr.ee/davidvonthenen
Info: https://linktr.ee/davidvonthenen
I'll be presenting at @devoxxgreece.bsky.social 🎉
Session 1: "The Sound of Your Secrets" will discuss acoustic side-channel attacks/defenses.
Session 2: "How Model Quantization Fuels the Next Wave of Agentic AI" will discuss efficient AI systems and models.
Info: devoxx.gr/
Session 1: "The Sound of Your Secrets" will discuss acoustic side-channel attacks/defenses.
Session 2: "How Model Quantization Fuels the Next Wave of Agentic AI" will discuss efficient AI systems and models.
Info: devoxx.gr/
January 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I'll be presenting at @devoxxgreece.bsky.social 🎉
Session 1: "The Sound of Your Secrets" will discuss acoustic side-channel attacks/defenses.
Session 2: "How Model Quantization Fuels the Next Wave of Agentic AI" will discuss efficient AI systems and models.
Info: devoxx.gr/
Session 1: "The Sound of Your Secrets" will discuss acoustic side-channel attacks/defenses.
Session 2: "How Model Quantization Fuels the Next Wave of Agentic AI" will discuss efficient AI systems and models.
Info: devoxx.gr/
I guess you can say I was pretty active with speaking sessions at conferences in 2025 🤣
January 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I guess you can say I was pretty active with speaking sessions at conferences in 2025 🤣
Hybrid RAG breaks the black box 🔍🚀 Combining Graphs or BM25, and vectors turns retrieval into something explainable, governable, and production-ready for real enterprise AI 🤖✨ Want agents you can trust?
Read the full breakdown here 👉 bit.ly/4pz0D3b
#HybridRAG
Read the full breakdown here 👉 bit.ly/4pz0D3b
#HybridRAG
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Hybrid RAG breaks the black box 🔍🚀 Combining Graphs or BM25, and vectors turns retrieval into something explainable, governable, and production-ready for real enterprise AI 🤖✨ Want agents you can trust?
Read the full breakdown here 👉 bit.ly/4pz0D3b
#HybridRAG
Read the full breakdown here 👉 bit.ly/4pz0D3b
#HybridRAG
Got two talks accepted at SCaLE 23x! 🐧
1. A Practical Guide to Training a Small Language Model
2. The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend
One of the best conferences of the year! See you there!
Register: bit.ly/4aMlprJ 🚀
1. A Practical Guide to Training a Small Language Model
2. The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend
One of the best conferences of the year! See you there!
Register: bit.ly/4aMlprJ 🚀
January 5, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Got two talks accepted at SCaLE 23x! 🐧
1. A Practical Guide to Training a Small Language Model
2. The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend
One of the best conferences of the year! See you there!
Register: bit.ly/4aMlprJ 🚀
1. A Practical Guide to Training a Small Language Model
2. The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend
One of the best conferences of the year! See you there!
Register: bit.ly/4aMlprJ 🚀
Got my ChatGPT year in review... I know ChatGPT is the ultimate hype man, but it's good to see it thinks I am chasing difficult problems and trying to bring that information/material to others. See you in 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Got my ChatGPT year in review... I know ChatGPT is the ultimate hype man, but it's good to see it thinks I am chasing difficult problems and trying to bring that information/material to others. See you in 2026!
One of my favorite moments at my KubeCon NA session a few weeks back 🤣
You can find the recording for my session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooting with MCP, RAG, and k8sgpt, here:
bit.ly/48d52m8
You can find the recording for my session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooting with MCP, RAG, and k8sgpt, here:
bit.ly/48d52m8
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
One of my favorite moments at my KubeCon NA session a few weeks back 🤣
You can find the recording for my session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooting with MCP, RAG, and k8sgpt, here:
bit.ly/48d52m8
You can find the recording for my session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips: Advanced Troubleshooting with MCP, RAG, and k8sgpt, here:
bit.ly/48d52m8
Huge thanks to everyone who joined my Tbilisi Data Science Meetup session! 🙌 The recording is now live on the TDS YouTube channel 🎥 bit.ly/448P9e1
Special shoutout to Giorgi Didberidze for the awesome talk on Data Pipelines for RAG. Reach out anytime!
Special shoutout to Giorgi Didberidze for the awesome talk on Data Pipelines for RAG. Reach out anytime!
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Huge thanks to everyone who joined my Tbilisi Data Science Meetup session! 🙌 The recording is now live on the TDS YouTube channel 🎥 bit.ly/448P9e1
Special shoutout to Giorgi Didberidze for the awesome talk on Data Pipelines for RAG. Reach out anytime!
Special shoutout to Giorgi Didberidze for the awesome talk on Data Pipelines for RAG. Reach out anytime!
The recording for our #KubeCon session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips Troubleshooting w/ MCP, RAG, and K8sgpt, is live! 🎉
I built a k8s troubleshooting AI Agent using a runbook via RAG, link to recording: bit.ly/48d52m8
Teaser video is below 👇
I built a k8s troubleshooting AI Agent using a runbook via RAG, link to recording: bit.ly/48d52m8
Teaser video is below 👇
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The recording for our #KubeCon session, Your Kubernetes Playbook at Your Fingertips Troubleshooting w/ MCP, RAG, and K8sgpt, is live! 🎉
I built a k8s troubleshooting AI Agent using a runbook via RAG, link to recording: bit.ly/48d52m8
Teaser video is below 👇
I built a k8s troubleshooting AI Agent using a runbook via RAG, link to recording: bit.ly/48d52m8
Teaser video is below 👇
Happy 🦃 Day to everyone in the US! Enjoy the food & naps... you've earned it.
Next week: Tbilisi Data Science Meetup discussing MCP + A2A and data 🇬🇪 with 3 demos +& take-home code!
📅 Wed, Dec 3 at 8:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET
Register 👉 bit.ly/4a6Z47x
Next week: Tbilisi Data Science Meetup discussing MCP + A2A and data 🇬🇪 with 3 demos +& take-home code!
📅 Wed, Dec 3 at 8:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET
Register 👉 bit.ly/4a6Z47x
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy 🦃 Day to everyone in the US! Enjoy the food & naps... you've earned it.
Next week: Tbilisi Data Science Meetup discussing MCP + A2A and data 🇬🇪 with 3 demos +& take-home code!
📅 Wed, Dec 3 at 8:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET
Register 👉 bit.ly/4a6Z47x
Next week: Tbilisi Data Science Meetup discussing MCP + A2A and data 🇬🇪 with 3 demos +& take-home code!
📅 Wed, Dec 3 at 8:30 AM PT / 5:30 PM CET / 8:30 PM GET
Register 👉 bit.ly/4a6Z47x
NEW BLOG!
GraphRAG proved that structure = reliability in AI 🧠⚙️ But not every team wants the complexity of a full graph setup. DocumentRAG (BM25-based) hits the sweet spot... explainable, grounded, and lightweight. Learn why structure still wins 👇 bit.ly/48kWHvC
GraphRAG proved that structure = reliability in AI 🧠⚙️ But not every team wants the complexity of a full graph setup. DocumentRAG (BM25-based) hits the sweet spot... explainable, grounded, and lightweight. Learn why structure still wins 👇 bit.ly/48kWHvC
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
NEW BLOG!
GraphRAG proved that structure = reliability in AI 🧠⚙️ But not every team wants the complexity of a full graph setup. DocumentRAG (BM25-based) hits the sweet spot... explainable, grounded, and lightweight. Learn why structure still wins 👇 bit.ly/48kWHvC
GraphRAG proved that structure = reliability in AI 🧠⚙️ But not every team wants the complexity of a full graph setup. DocumentRAG (BM25-based) hits the sweet spot... explainable, grounded, and lightweight. Learn why structure still wins 👇 bit.ly/48kWHvC
Last week, I delivered "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Multi-Agents Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search" at Devoxx Morocco 🇲🇦. It was my first time in Morocco, what an experience!
Check out my blog post, which contains resources from the talk 🔗 bit.ly/4r9qAY9 ✨
Check out my blog post, which contains resources from the talk 🔗 bit.ly/4r9qAY9 ✨
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Last week, I delivered "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Multi-Agents Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search" at Devoxx Morocco 🇲🇦. It was my first time in Morocco, what an experience!
Check out my blog post, which contains resources from the talk 🔗 bit.ly/4r9qAY9 ✨
Check out my blog post, which contains resources from the talk 🔗 bit.ly/4r9qAY9 ✨
Back at #KubeCon after almost 5 years, and spoke with Yash Sharma on the intersection of AI + k8s 😄 It sparked a great number of discussions after our session, and it was incredible 🤓
Recording out in a few weeks, but here are session resources: bit.ly/3WVrGcm 🚀
Recording out in a few weeks, but here are session resources: bit.ly/3WVrGcm 🚀
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Back at #KubeCon after almost 5 years, and spoke with Yash Sharma on the intersection of AI + k8s 😄 It sparked a great number of discussions after our session, and it was incredible 🤓
Recording out in a few weeks, but here are session resources: bit.ly/3WVrGcm 🚀
Recording out in a few weeks, but here are session resources: bit.ly/3WVrGcm 🚀
We are definitely not in an AI bubble. When AI and sandwiches collide.
Not going to lie, they make amazing sandwiches though.
Not going to lie, they make amazing sandwiches though.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are definitely not in an AI bubble. When AI and sandwiches collide.
Not going to lie, they make amazing sandwiches though.
Not going to lie, they make amazing sandwiches though.
@socallinuxexpo.bsky.social isn't just a conference... It's a community. 💡 Join the next generation of open-source innovators at the SCaLE: The Next Generation (TNG) info session this Sat, Nov 8 @ 9 AM! 🚀 Empower the future of tech!
Register 👉 bit.ly/scale-youth-info
#SCaLE23x
Register 👉 bit.ly/scale-youth-info
#SCaLE23x
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@socallinuxexpo.bsky.social isn't just a conference... It's a community. 💡 Join the next generation of open-source innovators at the SCaLE: The Next Generation (TNG) info session this Sat, Nov 8 @ 9 AM! 🚀 Empower the future of tech!
Register 👉 bit.ly/scale-youth-info
#SCaLE23x
Register 👉 bit.ly/scale-youth-info
#SCaLE23x
1 week to go until Devoxx Morocco 🇲🇦! Excited to share "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Multi-Agents Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search."
📅 Fri, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM
📍 L’oranger Conference Room
🔗 bit.ly/45YCb2t
Demo below: When you blindly trust vector RAG...
📅 Fri, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM
📍 L’oranger Conference Room
🔗 bit.ly/45YCb2t
Demo below: When you blindly trust vector RAG...
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
1 week to go until Devoxx Morocco 🇲🇦! Excited to share "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Multi-Agents Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search."
📅 Fri, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM
📍 L’oranger Conference Room
🔗 bit.ly/45YCb2t
Demo below: When you blindly trust vector RAG...
📅 Fri, Nov 14 at 9:00 AM
📍 L’oranger Conference Room
🔗 bit.ly/45YCb2t
Demo below: When you blindly trust vector RAG...
We’re 1️⃣ week away from #KubeCon NA! Excited to team up with Yash Sharma to share how MCP + RAG supercharge k8sgpt for smarter Kubernetes troubleshooting ⚙️
📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST
📍 Bldg B | Lvl 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1
👉 bit.ly/4ln39Xt
📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST
📍 Bldg B | Lvl 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1
👉 bit.ly/4ln39Xt
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We’re 1️⃣ week away from #KubeCon NA! Excited to team up with Yash Sharma to share how MCP + RAG supercharge k8sgpt for smarter Kubernetes troubleshooting ⚙️
📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST
📍 Bldg B | Lvl 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1
👉 bit.ly/4ln39Xt
📅 Wed, Nov 12 | 🕚 11:00 AM EST
📍 Bldg B | Lvl 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1
👉 bit.ly/4ln39Xt
Opening keynote at @odsc.bsky.social with Harrison Chase (of LangChain) talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are about to explode... I love coding, but "no code" multi-agent systems are coming.
Mutil-agents are about to explode... I love coding, but "no code" multi-agent systems are coming.
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Opening keynote at @odsc.bsky.social with Harrison Chase (of LangChain) talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are about to explode... I love coding, but "no code" multi-agent systems are coming.
Mutil-agents are about to explode... I love coding, but "no code" multi-agent systems are coming.
Opening keynote at @_odsc with @hwchase17 talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
October 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Opening keynote at @_odsc with @hwchase17 talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Opening keynote at @_odsc with @hwchase17talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Opening keynote at @_odsc with @hwchase17talking about deep agents. The LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem continues to grow with exciting announcements this morning.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
Mutil-agents are amount to explode... I love coding, but "no code" mutil-agents are coming.
🎤 My @odsc.bsky.social session is today, Wed, Oct 29 at 3:30 PM!
We’re unpacking how MCP and Agent2Agent are reshaping RAG & intelligent search (packed with live demos). 🤖
Info: bit.ly/42AU5HK
Come join the session and see what's next.
🎬 Check out the teaser clip below!
We’re unpacking how MCP and Agent2Agent are reshaping RAG & intelligent search (packed with live demos). 🤖
Info: bit.ly/42AU5HK
Come join the session and see what's next.
🎬 Check out the teaser clip below!
October 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🎤 My @odsc.bsky.social session is today, Wed, Oct 29 at 3:30 PM!
We’re unpacking how MCP and Agent2Agent are reshaping RAG & intelligent search (packed with live demos). 🤖
Info: bit.ly/42AU5HK
Come join the session and see what's next.
🎬 Check out the teaser clip below!
We’re unpacking how MCP and Agent2Agent are reshaping RAG & intelligent search (packed with live demos). 🤖
Info: bit.ly/42AU5HK
Come join the session and see what's next.
🎬 Check out the teaser clip below!
Happy Friday! Just finished my latest training certificate. I am super proud because it's my first sales focused certification. Check it out!
October 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Happy Friday! Just finished my latest training certificate. I am super proud because it's my first sales focused certification. Check it out!
🚀 Less than 1 week until @odsc.bsky.social AI! Excited to share my workshop: "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Agent2Agent Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search."
Join me Wed, Oct 29th at 3:30 PM for a look at the next wave of intelligent search. 🔍
More info 👉 bit.ly/42AU5HK
Join me Wed, Oct 29th at 3:30 PM for a look at the next wave of intelligent search. 🔍
More info 👉 bit.ly/42AU5HK
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🚀 Less than 1 week until @odsc.bsky.social AI! Excited to share my workshop: "Rethinking RAG: How MCP and Agent2Agent Will Transform the Future of Intelligent Search."
Join me Wed, Oct 29th at 3:30 PM for a look at the next wave of intelligent search. 🔍
More info 👉 bit.ly/42AU5HK
Join me Wed, Oct 29th at 3:30 PM for a look at the next wave of intelligent search. 🔍
More info 👉 bit.ly/42AU5HK
Less than a week until #AIFORWARD (an @allthingsai.bsky.social event) in Charlotte! Excited to close out the event with "Trust, But Verify: A Practical Path to the 5% of AI Pilots That Make It To Production." 🎤✨
Oh, and I might have a FREE pass or two.. More info 👉 bit.ly/3WkmEps
Oh, and I might have a FREE pass or two.. More info 👉 bit.ly/3WkmEps
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Less than a week until #AIFORWARD (an @allthingsai.bsky.social event) in Charlotte! Excited to close out the event with "Trust, But Verify: A Practical Path to the 5% of AI Pilots That Make It To Production." 🎤✨
Oh, and I might have a FREE pass or two.. More info 👉 bit.ly/3WkmEps
Oh, and I might have a FREE pass or two.. More info 👉 bit.ly/3WkmEps
Excited to share that I'll be speaking at #AIFORWARD in Charlotte, NC! 🎉
My session, "Trust, But Verify: A Practical Path to the 5% of AI Pilots That Make It To Production", is happening Tuesday, Oct 28, at 4:00 PM ET.
More info 👉 bit.ly/42JZsVb
My session, "Trust, But Verify: A Practical Path to the 5% of AI Pilots That Make It To Production", is happening Tuesday, Oct 28, at 4:00 PM ET.
More info 👉 bit.ly/42JZsVb
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Excited to share that I'll be speaking at #AIFORWARD in Charlotte, NC! 🎉
My session, "Trust, But Verify: A Practical Path to the 5% of AI Pilots That Make It To Production", is happening Tuesday, Oct 28, at 4:00 PM ET.
More info 👉 bit.ly/42JZsVb
My session, "Trust, But Verify: A Practical Path to the 5% of AI Pilots That Make It To Production", is happening Tuesday, Oct 28, at 4:00 PM ET.
More info 👉 bit.ly/42JZsVb
AI is breaking free from the data center! 💥 IoT + Edge are driving a new wave of efficient AI: smaller, faster, and everywhere. 🌍
New blog discussing AI at the Edge:
bit.ly/4mSCFOl
🔗 My @allthingsopen.bsky.social session discussing AI on IoT/Edge:
bit.ly/435LY6b
New blog discussing AI at the Edge:
bit.ly/4mSCFOl
🔗 My @allthingsopen.bsky.social session discussing AI on IoT/Edge:
bit.ly/435LY6b
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
AI is breaking free from the data center! 💥 IoT + Edge are driving a new wave of efficient AI: smaller, faster, and everywhere. 🌍
New blog discussing AI at the Edge:
bit.ly/4mSCFOl
🔗 My @allthingsopen.bsky.social session discussing AI on IoT/Edge:
bit.ly/435LY6b
New blog discussing AI at the Edge:
bit.ly/4mSCFOl
🔗 My @allthingsopen.bsky.social session discussing AI on IoT/Edge:
bit.ly/435LY6b