Road to HACK: Fine-Tune Your Own AI Model | Hands-On Workshop

Join us for an exciting hands-on workshop where you'll transform large language models into tailored domain experts right on your own hardware! 🤖✨

🚨 Workshop Overview:
Large language models are remarkable, but they can be generic and often require cloud resources. What if you could leverage a small open-source model and enhance its capabilities? That's precisely what we aim to achieve in this session!

🌟 Meet Your Instructor:
Luca Massaron, a data scientist, bestselling AI author, 3x Kaggle Grandmaster, and Google Developer Expert, will guide you through a comprehensive fine-tuning pipeline:

1. Evaluate a base model 📊
2. Generate synthetic training data 🎲
3. Fine-tune with QLoRA 🔧
4. Measure improvements 📈
   All on consumer-grade hardware!

🔍 What You'll Learn:

• Conduct baseline evaluations of pre-trained models
• Create synthetic datasets from real sources
• Perform supervised fine-tuning with QLoRA (parameter-efficient, memory-friendly)
• Execute post-training evaluations to gauge knowledge gains
• Bonus: Fine-tune for classification tasks like sentiment analysis!

💻 What to Bring:
A laptop! The workshop utilizes Google Colab (free T4 GPU tier), so no fancy hardware is necessary — just a browser and a Google account. If you have an NVIDIA GPU (16GB+ VRAM) or an Apple Silicon Mac (16GB+ unified memory), you can run everything locally too!

🌍 Don't Miss Out:
This event is part of the Road to HACK series, the official warm-up for GDG AI HACK 2026! On May 8–10, 160 selected participants will compete in a 24-hour AI hackathon in Milan, focusing on on-device AI, vision AI, and EdTech. Fine-tuning is a key skill that will serve you well in the hack!

🗓️ Applications for GDG AI HACK 2026 are open until April 17 → gdgaihack.com

📍 Location:
4 Via Federico Confalonieri, meetup2, Milano

🎟️ Join us for this transformative workshop!
Get your ticket here!