I was interviewed for a German article on it-daily about efficient AI development in industry, the role of open source, and using Generative AI to create systems and data for smaller models. Thanks Silvia for the feature!

https://www.it-daily.net/it-management/ki/souverane-ki-systeme

What a great meetup! Thanks to everyone who came by yesterday for an evening of real-world AI and bullshit-free strategies for building LLM applications.

Recap and highlights: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7340659326027489281/

Thanks engagement from @ines at #PyDataLondon and help from Rachel-Lee Nabors, we are launching #FeministAi #Meetup in #London, please come and join our next event on 9th July and follow our event calendar on Luma. Links in the comment.

I'm back from a busy four days in London! 💜 I had a great time at #PyData London and you can read my recap and highlights here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7337737641745924096/

#NLP expert Ines is back to speak at #PyData London. Make sure you join the #FeministAI party after her talk.

@ines

Hi Berlin people! Hugo is in town and we're celebrating by hosting a meetup together 🎉 This one is all about creating and building with AI, and we'll also open the floor for lightning talks showcasing your projects and cool things people have built. If you're around, come hang out with us!

📆 June 16, 18:00
📍 Native Instruments HQ (Kreuzberg)
🎟️ Registration & details: https://lu.ma/d53y9p2u?tk=D4fPo8

Awesome new episode with a bunch of fun and smart people:

Episode #504: Developer Trends in 2025

Featuring @foosel, @ines, @calvinhp, @richcampbell and @mkennedy #python

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/504/developer-trends-in-2025

We also wrote a recap with more details, results and photos 💛

If you want to host your own party, see our open-source event kits. Feminist AI LAN Parties are open and decentralized so everyone can take the concept, implement it on their own and spread the message.

https://feministai.party/events/2025-04-23

THE FEMINIST AI ZINE IS HERE 🎉 This was so much fun to make and thanks again to everyone who contributed. Here are 17 spreads full of art, creativity and oldschool DIY vibes that we created together at @pyconde.

https://speakerdeck.com/feministai/zine-pycon-de-and-pydata-2025

Here are the slides for my talk "Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text": https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/conquering-pdfs-document-understanding-beyond-plain-text

Another great @pyconde is over and I'm exhausted but happy, and feel very inspired! ⚡

Here are my personal highlights: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7321822781216624640/

In Darmstadt for @pyconde! 🐍✨

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about conquering PDFs and document understanding beyond plain text, and Thursday I'm joining the fireside chat panel on enterprise AI and open source. And I'll be around for the Feminist AI LAN Party open hours to hack LLMs. See you there!

Feminist AI is coming to @pyconde! If you're around, you can drop by at any time during the open hours and join us for workshops on hacking LLMs and data development, or contribute to our DIY PyCon zine ⚡

Details & open hours: https://feministai.party/events/2025-04-23

Part 5 covers what's next, once you've given a successful presentation, and collects tips for how to share your slides with the world. Featuring ideas for social media and Speaker Deck, my favourite platform for sharing slides!

https://ines.io/blog/beautiful-slides-talks-part-5-sharing-presentations/

Part 4 dives deeper into the little details and examples of visual design elements and touches you can use to implement your talk's aesthetic.

https://ines.io/blog/beautiful-slides-talks-part-4-design-elements/

Wrapping up my series on how to make beautiful slides for your talks and just published part 4 and 5!

🎨 Part 1: Design tips for beginners
✨ Part 2: All about aesthetics
🛠️ Part 3: Technical content
🧩 Part 4: Design elements and inspiration
💌 Part 5: Sharing your presentation

https://ines.io

I'm also joining the latest episode of @mkennedy's @talkpython podcast later today where we look at developer trends from the Stack Overflow Survey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VZEJ8FstEQ

Enjoying my train ride on the way to Münster for data:unplugged!

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about real-world use cases of AI, how to navigate black-box models and why open source means that nobody can monopolize AI (unless we let them) ✊

I will be around all day, so if you're attending, come and say hi!

My friend Hugo launched a new course on Building LLM Applications for Data Scientists and Software Engineers! I'll be joining for a guest lecture on human-in-the-loop development and distillation workflows.

You'll learn how to build GenAI-powered software reliably & from first principles (love this!), and how to avoid the prototype plateau & go all the way to production.

You can get 10% off with my link + lots of perks, including Prodigy to build fully custom models ✨

https://maven.com/hugo-stefan/building-llm-apps-ds-and-swe-from-first-principles?promoCode=inesfriends

Announcing a new event initiative: Feminist AI LAN Party! Katharine and I did a pilot event last year and we're now taking it to @pyconde.

We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own event, including:

💣 hacking LLMs
📑 data development
✂️ zine making

https://feministai.party