THE FIELD RECORD
Where the work was taught.
Every talk, workshop and lecture the lab has given, recovered from the archive with the photography that survived. Berlin to the Syrian border, Sonoma to Baghdad, Tunis to Tbilisi.
83 CHAPTERS31 COUNTRIES73 WITH PHOTOGRAPHY857 FRAMES2017 → 2026
2017
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17 January 2018 · LABBioinformatics comes to deep learning landA morning talk in a Berlin workspace on how deep learning was starting to change healthcare, six weeks before the bioinformatics hackathon.BERLIN, GERMANY →

8 February 2018 · LABBerlin Bioinformatics HackathonA lecture on Geoffrey Hinton's newly released capsule networks, then a hands-on build classifying skin lesions with transfer learning in Keras.BERLIN, GERMANY →

24 February – 3 March 2018 · LABFive plateaus, then a wishlistA five-stage deep learning course for Nokia engineers, ending with hand-built TensorFlow networks and a flip chart of in-house AI projects the room claimed for itself.ESPOO AND HELSINKI, FINLAND →

6–8 March 2018 · LABOpen Source Leadership SummitA panel at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Leadership Summit, on what open source does for deep learning and on the argument that intelligence in code puts developers out of work.FAIRMONT SONOMA MISSION INN, SONOMA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA →

16 March 2018 · IMPACTThink.it workshop, TunisA hands-on workshop with Think.it's engineers, and a public evening on AI in healthcare that filled the room.TUNIS, TUNISIA →

19–21 March 2018 · IMPACTRe:coded, Istanbul and ŞanlıurfaWorkshops with Re:coded for conflict-affected learners, from Istanbul Bilgi University to ancient Edessa.ISTANBUL & ŞANLIURFA, TURKEY →

23 March 2018 · LABMeetupai.com, HamburgAn invited talk at a community-run AI conference, and the first public airing of the lab's remote residency programme.HAMBURG, GERMANY →

20–22 April 2018 · IMPACTDeep learning for a telepathology networkdeepkapha.ai gave the deep learning session at a telemedicine meeting in Aurich, where pathologists from Cambodia, China and Afghanistan worked out what their network becomes next.AURICH, GERMANY →

18–22 May 2018 · LABUniversity of Texas, DallasA four-day programme at UT Dallas, the first deep-learning workshop the lab ever delivered.DALLAS, TEXAS →

27 May – 3 June 2018 · RESEARCHICSE, GothenburgPresenting neuroscience-inspired research at the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering.GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN →

30 May and 1 June 2018 · LABDeep learning bioinformatics at Mærsk TårnetTwo teaching days for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen, running from the perceptron to a recurrent model for blood glucose.MÆRSK TÅRNET, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN →

6–7 June 2018 · LABAI development in practice, HelsinkiEleven engineers spent two days in a Helsinki classroom, moving from the history of the perceptron to a TensorFlow model served in production.HELSINKI, FINLAND →

13–18 August 2018 · IMPACTHult Prize Foundation, LondonMentoring student startups on the year's energy theme, aimed at improving the lives of ten million people.LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM →

26–29 August 2018 · IMPACTFour Mumbai halls in four daysPyData, DataGiri at ISME Tower, the Analytics Club at IIT Bombay and a packed engineering college auditorium, four rooms in four days, all on capsule networks.MUMBAI, INDIA →

3–7 September 2018 · LABFrom MNIST to melanoma at UPCThe first week of September 2018 at UPC in Barcelona, taking a mixed cohort from MNIST to a transfer-learned skin lesion classifier.UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA, BARCELONA →

8–10 October 2018 · LABClimbing the deep learning hill in ChicagoDeep learning lectures at the University of Chicago, structured as a five-plateau climb from linear algebra to applied AI, closing on the lab's own research.CHICAGO, ILLINOIS →

12–14 October 2018 · LABDataScienceGO 2018, San DiegoThree days at DataScienceGO, closing with a main-stage session on the part of deep learning nobody puts on slides: tuning.SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA →

25 October 2018 · RESEARCHARiA and LAYGo at NAVER Labs EuropeTwo pieces of the lab's own research, the ARiA activation function and the LAYGo learning-rate controller, presented to researchers at NAVER Labs Europe.GRENOBLE, FRANCE →

1–2 November 2018 · LABTwo days of TensorFlow and PyTorch in HelsinkiA second Helsinki programme for Ari Hovi, five months after the first, taking a room of Finnish engineers from TensorFlow basics to serving models in production.HELSINKI, FINLAND →

22–25 November 2018 · LABBusiness Executive to AI LeaderAt DataHack Summit 2018 in Bengaluru, a main-stage talk on the data science skills matrix and a working session that turned the same argument into a prioritisation board.BENGALURU, INDIA →
2019
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7-12 January 2019 · LABFive days of deep learning at UT Dallas, then a Saturday for high-school studentsEight months after the first visit, the lab returned to the Department of Computer Science for a five-day bootcamp, then stayed an extra day to teach high-school students.THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, RICHARDSON, TEXAS →

22 January 2019 · IMPACTWhat an AI company actually does, explained in AssenOn a January evening in Assen, deepkapha.ai's chief operating officer sat down with a handful of secondary school pupils and walked them through the company's site, its people and its work.ASSEN, NETHERLANDS →

28 January 2019 · LABReviewing a breast cytology model with EPOS and GOPAOn 28 January 2019 deepkapha.ai took its EPOS breast cytology model to the GOPA Consulting Group offices near Frankfurt and showed what a very small dataset could honestly support.GOPA CONSULTING GROUP, BAD HOMBURG, GERMANY →

12-13 February 2019 · LABTwo days at Charité in BerlinTwo days at the dental department of Charité Medical College, a third Berlin visit in thirteen months, of which the surviving record is one hotel invoice and five photographs.CHARITÉ MEDICAL COLLEGE, DENTAL DEPARTMENT, BERLIN →

28 February 2019 · IMPACTA keynote for Knowit in Copenhagen, with no fee chargedTarry Singh flew to Copenhagen on 28 February 2019 to keynote a Knowit event, spoke to a hall of about two hundred, and billed the client nothing.COPENHAGEN, DENMARK →

14 March 2019 · LABThe Data Conference 2019: an AI transformation keynote in AthensOn 14 March 2019 Tarry Singh took the stage at the Data Conference in Athens, a netweek and Boussias event on the value of the data scientist, in front of a full auditorium.ATHENS, GREECE →

10 May 2019 · IMPACTCriminal forecasting and body cams at Hogeschool UtrechtOn 10 May 2019 Tarry Singh spoke to the Master Informatics audience at Hogeschool Utrecht about AI transformation, then gave the second half to criminal forecasting and body cameras.UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS →
5-6 June 2019 · LABTwo days in Helsinki, from TensorFlow basics to transfer learningOn 5 and 6 June 2019 deepkapha.ai ran a two-day deep learning workshop in Helsinki, taking a room from TensorFlow sessions and graphs through to transfer learning in Keras.HELSINKI, FINLAND →

10-11 June 2019 · LABAn AI maturity keynote at Fórum Inteligência Mercado, São PauloLive University booked the keynote in January and staged it in June: one hour on AI maturity, delivered at Hotel Caesar Business in Vila Olímpia for a symbolic thousand euros.VILA OLÍMPIA, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL →

15 June 2019 · LABThe case for borderless AI at GCAAI's annual meeting in BerlinOn 15 June 2019 deepkapha.ai spoke at the GCAAI annual meeting at Techcode Berlin, arguing that AI built across borders beats AI built behind national walls.TECHCODE, BERLIN →
30 July 2019 · IMPACTDemystifying Data Science, live from the NetherlandsThe New York school Metis ran its third Demystifying Data Science conference free and entirely online over two days. Tarry Singh gave the Tuesday keynote, Hilary Mason the Wednesday one.ONLINE, PRESENTED FROM THE NETHERLANDS →

21 August 2019 · IMPACTA morning of medical AI at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical CenterOn 21 August 2019 deepkapha.ai took a talk on applied medical AI into the conference hall of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, in front of clinicians, engineers and students.TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER, TEL AVIV →

6-7 September 2019 · IMPACTDeep learning lectures at Hackasuly in SulaymaniyahIn September 2019 Tarry Singh taught deep learning at Hackasuly in Sulaymaniyah, then spent the hackathon weekend at the whiteboards while Iraqi teams worked through their models.AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF IRAQ SULAIMANI, SULAYMANIYAH →

20-22 September 2019 · LABSix teams, chest X-rays and a hackathon at UT Dallasdeepkapha.ai and curae.ai ran a three-day bootcamp with the UT Dallas computer science department in September 2019: two days of teaching on CNNs and GANs, then a medical imaging hackathon.THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS →

26 October 2019 · LABA keynote on borderless AI at DSPT Day in PortoOn 26 October 2019 Tarry Singh took the DSPT Day stage in Porto and made the case for borderless AI to a packed auditorium of Portuguese data scientists.PORTO, PORTUGAL →

6 November 2019 · LABAlgorithms in front of the French and German competition authoritiesOn 6 November 2019 the Autorité de la concurrence and the Bundeskartellamt held a joint conference at the ENA in Paris, and Tarry Singh sat on the business panel.ÉCOLE NATIONALE D'ADMINISTRATION, PARIS →

13-16 November 2019 · LABTwo DataHack Summit talks and the AI Playbook workshopAnalytics Vidhya brought deepkapha.ai to Bengaluru for DataHack Summit 2019: two talks from the conference stage on 13 November, then a full day of leadership work on 16 November.BENGALURU, INDIA →

19-20 November 2019 · LABBorderless AI and three medical cases in BelgradeData Science Conference 5.0 filled a Belgrade hall on 19 November 2019, and the opening keynote spent its second half on three medical cases with numbers attached.BELGRADE, SERBIA →
2020
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5–11 January 2020 · LABSix days at UT Dallas, ending in a chatbot hackThe fourth Dallas engagement in twenty months, and the largest: a six-day programme called Real World AI Project, running from AI fundamentals to a hackday, in a hall with a laptop at almost every seat.THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, RICHARDSON, TEXAS →

23 January 2020 · LABBecoming an AI CompanySix slides at the HUB Institute in Paris argued that becoming an AI company is an operating model problem, and the same evening a four-way founding team stepped on stage.HUB INSTITUTE, PARIS →
28 February 2020 · LABA Friday in Groningen with TopXDKAI Lab took its AI transformation argument to TopX, an ICT consultancy in Groningen, on the last Friday in February 2020. Two reused decks are all that survives.GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS →

9 March 2020 · LABShake Up The WorkplaceA one-day future-of-work unconference at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, six speakers, one of them ours; what survives is the announcement card and ninety-five seconds to camera.KUNSTHAUS, ZURICH →
26-27 March 2020 · LABPython and TensorFlow 2 for Finland, the course that left only notebooksOn 26 and 27 March 2020 deepkapha.ai taught its fourth Finland course for Ari Hovi: two days of Python and TensorFlow 2 that left behind working notebooks and no photographs at all.ONLINE, FOR A COHORT IN FINLAND →
4 May 2020 · LABTwo decks, exported for IranOn 4 May 2020 the AI transformation material went to an Iranian audience as two PDFs, exported three days earlier and carrying the cover slide of a January event in Assen.ONLINE, PRESENTED FROM THE NETHERLANDS →

14 May 2020 · RESEARCHFour seconds of Jensen Huang's kitchen keynoteNVIDIA named DKAI Lab among the COVID-19 researchers using its hardware, and put the lab on screen in the GTC 2020 keynote.ONLINE, THE GTC 2020 KEYNOTE →
27 May 2020 · LABThree medical cases and no roomOn 27 May 2020 Tarry Singh spoke to Codemotion's online deep learning conference in Italy, carrying three medical case studies and an argument about what neural networks actually are.ONLINE, CODEMOTION ITALY →

19 June 2020 · RESEARCHA question in English, a query in SQLAn hour and three quarters on Zoom, spent on a model that turns a clinician's plain question into SQL against de-identified intensive care records, and a demo that ran.ONLINE, OVER ZOOM →
26 June 2020 · LABAI Transformation, Live to CameraOn 26 June 2020 Tarry Singh gave the MMC keynote as a live online session, working from a 45-slide deck exported the previous evening and leaving no photographs behind.ONLINE, PRESENTED FROM THE NETHERLANDS →

21 October 2020 · LABOne student to a desk, the rest on the linkA hybrid afternoon at Hanze University in Groningen, where student teams walked an AI data canvas from the decision through to live monitoring while the rest of the group watched on Blackboard Collaborate.HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, GRONINGEN →
23 November 2020 · LABMuscat, and a model made public the same dayA guest lecture for CCED in Muscat, given over a screen on 23 November 2020, ending on a slide that announced EarthAdaptNet was going public that same day.ONLINE, PRESENTED FROM THE NETHERLANDS TO MUSCAT, OMAN →
2021
0328 April 2021 · LABMLOps for FinlandIn April 2021 DKAI Lab and LiveAI ran a two-day MLOps workshop for a Finnish cohort. No venue, no photographs: eight decks, two live repositories and a wind farm feed.ONLINE, FOR A COHORT IN FINLAND →

13 September 2021 · RESEARCHProject Sergio at the IS4SI Summitdeepkapha took a paper on AI maturity in solar photovoltaic SMEs to the IS4SI Summit in September 2021, and the whole engagement survives as an eighteen-minute recording.ONLINE, THE IS4SI SUMMIT →

30 November 2021 · RESEARCHProject INERTIA at the SEG Digital Intelligence SeriesFor the SEG Digital Intelligence Series, DKAI Lab presented Project INERTIA: predicting the CO2 solubility of an ionic liquid with a neural network, with a full MLOps lifecycle behind it.ONLINE, THE SEG BROADCAST PLATFORM →
2024
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31 January and 2 February 2024 · LABHCAIM at Utrecht Science Park: curriculum session and student poster dayThe lab helped build this degree and teaches on it. The consortium spent 31 January 2024 working through the curriculum map in a hybrid room at Utrecht Science Park, and on 2 February its students pinned their research to the boards.HU UTRECHT, UTRECHT SCIENCE PARK →

21 February 2024 · RESEARCHHominis at Federico II: the energy cost of foundation modelsOn 21 February 2024 the PICUS Lab at Naples Federico II ran a day on Hominis, its project to bring sustainability to foundation models, with RealAI as industrial partner.UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, NAPLES, ITALY →
13 March 2024 · LABAn HCAIM webinar with fifteen people on the callOn 13 March 2024 the lab joined an HCAIM webinar over Microsoft Teams, fifteen people on the call, run from a room with one 86-inch screen.REMOTE, OVER MICROSOFT TEAMS →

19–20 April 2024 · LABFoundations to Frontiers at DSC MENA 2024On 20 April 2024 Tarry Singh took the Foundations to Frontiers talk to DSC MENA 2024 at Egypt University of Informatics, in Egypt's New Administrative Capital.EGYPT UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATICS, NEW ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL →

13–21 May 2024 · LABThe Netherlands delegation to RiseUp Summit 2024Ten Dutch companies travelled to RiseUp Summit at the Grand Egyptian Museum in May 2024; Real AI took a stand, a panel seat, then a boardroom in New Cairo.GRAND EGYPTIAN MUSEUM, GIZA, AND CAIRO, EGYPT →

29 June – 3 July 2024 · LABTwo days at the Egypt-EU Investment Conference in New CairoTarry Singh spent 29 and 30 June 2024 in the Al Manara theatre for the Egypt-EU Investment Conference, then 3 July with students and the Progressio team in Cairo.AL MANARA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER, NEW CAIRO, EGYPT →

July 2024 · IMPACTTeaching a full room at European Universities in EgyptA welcome poster, a full lecture room and three flags on the front desk: Tarry Singh taught at European Universities in Egypt, then the talk turned to partnership.EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES IN EGYPT →

19–22 July 2024 · IMPACTA packed hall in Baghdad for the D.T.I Y.O.U.T.H conferenceKAPITA invited Tarry Singh to Baghdad for D.T.I Y.O.U.T.H, the Digital Transformation Initiative summit, which drew more than eight thousand people across two days under the patronage of the Prime Minister's Office.BAGHDAD, IRAQ →

26–27 August 2024 · LABA Belgian business intelligence hackathon in AntwerpHogeschool Utrecht took its Master of Informatics cohort to Antwerp for two days on Data.be's decade of Belgian company records, judged by a jury on the second afternoon.VAN DER VALK HOTEL, ANTWERP, BELGIUM →

12 and 13 September 2024 · LABDSC DACH opens in Vienna on AI, sustainability and responsibilityThe German, Austrian and Swiss edition of the Data Science Conference ran at the Vienna Marriott on 12 and 13 September 2024, under the theme AI-powered sustainability and responsibility.VIENNA MARRIOTT HOTEL, VIENNA, AUSTRIA →

6 November 2024 · LABDesigning NextGen AI Factories at the Dutch Fiber VakdagOn 6 November 2024 the Fiber Carrier Association gathered the Dutch fibre industry in Utrecht, and DKAI Lab took the stage to argue that AI workloads will redraw the network itself.UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS →

19–22 November 2024 · LABTen years of DSC Europe, and Hominis on the main stageThe Data Science Conference marked a decade in Belgrade: a masterclass on 19 November 2024, Hominis on the main stage the next morning, and a moderated panel that afternoon.BELGRADE, SERBIA →
2025
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10 to 12 April 2025 · IMPACTDSC MENA 2025, Cairo and the New Administrative CapitalThree days in April 2025: a closed session in Cairo, a stage the following evening, and a Real AI stand on the Egypt University of Informatics campus.CAIRO AND THE NEW ADMINISTRATIVE CAPITAL, EGYPT →

17 April 2025 · IMPACTMuscat: generative models on the fourth floor at Desert SandA working session on generative models at Desert Sand Oil & Gas, Salam Square South, Muscat, on 17 April 2025, followed the next morning by a return to CCED House.SALAM SQUARE SOUTH, MUSCAT, OMAN →

5 to 6 June 2025 · IMPACTAI Factories in EuropeAt AI Summit Adria in Pula on 5 June 2025, Tarry Singh told a room of about 200 delegates that Europe's AI factory programme is real, funded, and still too slow.HOTEL HISTRIA, PULA, CROATIA →

26–27 June 2025 · LABPANORAIMA worksprint at BME, BudapestPartners in the EU PANORAIMA consortium met at BME in Budapest for a two-day worksprint on the design of a pan-European responsible AI master's programme.BUDAPEST, HUNGARY →

29 June to 4 July 2025 · LABEurope's altnets in Shenzhen, Dongguan and ShanghaiTarry Singh travelled with a Fiber Carrier Association delegation on a Huawei-hosted programme through Shenzhen, Dongguan, Hong Kong and Shanghai between 29 June and 4 July 2025.SHENZHEN AND DONGGUAN, GUANGDONG; HONG KONG; SHANGHAI →

July 2025 · LABThe agentic mesh, put to a telco boardA keynote in Dubai for a large global telco with Central Asian operations, arguing that agentic AI is an operations problem rather than a content one.DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES →

4 September 2025 · LABHuawei comes to AssenTwo months after DKAI Lab flew to Shenzhen as Huawei's guest, a small Huawei party came the other way, to Assen. One afternoon, six photographs, no programme.ASSEN, DRENTHE, NETHERLANDS →

18 September 2025 · IMPACTQuick wins and big bets in Novi BeogradDKAI Lab took The AI Advantage to a Digital Serbia Initiative room at Levi9 in Novi Beograd on 18 September 2025, and the day closed on a prioritisation grid rather than a wish list.NOVI BEOGRAD, BELGRADE, SERBIA →

14 October 2025 · IMPACTBridging the AI chasm at AI Summit PolandTarry Singh carried the Real AI workforce-readiness talk to AI Summit Poland on 14 October 2025, staged in the Legends Club inside Legia Warsaw's stadium.WARSAW, POLAND →

15 and 16 October 2025 · IMPACTDSC DACH Vienna: applied AI and data in industryThe German, Austrian and Swiss edition of the Data Science Conference ran for two days in a Vienna hotel, with sessions on LLM evaluation and AI in medical imaging.VIENNA, AUSTRIA →

5 November 2025 · IMPACTDSC NLX at the Fiber Vakdag, UtrechtOn 5 November 2025 DSC NLX co-hosted the Fiber Vakdag at Jaarbeurs Utrecht, with DKAI Lab and Real AI on the exhibition floor and a Spark track in the side rooms.JAARBEURS, UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS →

18 November 2025 · IMPACTDSC Europe 25: two days of agents in BelgradeTwo days at DSC Europe 25 in Belgrade, where the roundtable card asked whether the future of the workforce is humans and machines, and agentic AI supplied the framework.BELGRADE, SERBIA →

20 and 21 November 2025 · LABThe PANORAIMA consortium meets at Federico IIOn 20 and 21 November 2025 the PANORAIMA partners gathered in Naples, under the seal of Frederick II, to report work packages and set the 2025 tools moving.NAPLES, ITALY →

27 to 29 November 2025 · IMPACTDataFest Tbilisi 2025: the agentic economy, worked by handDKAI Lab and Real AI backed the ninth DataFest Tbilisi and ran a workshop on day two, where about thirty people filled in an AI Strategy Canvas by hand.TBILISI, GEORGIA →
2026
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19-20 January 2026 · LABPANORAIMA in DublinThe consortium took two working days in Dublin in January 2026. Real AI sat in the room as a partner, not a guest.DUBLIN, IRELAND →

11-12 June 2026 · LABThe consortium meets at Steindamm 94Two days, one office building on Steindamm, about thirty people out of a fifteen-partner consortium. Six photographs survive. They place the meeting precisely and say nothing about what it decided.STEINDAMM 94, HAMBURG, GERMANY →

3 July 2026 · LABPANORAIMA's first project reviewThe consortium behind the Human-Centred AI master's programme presented its progress to the European Commission at HU Utrecht. A Teams window on the front screen read First Project Review Meeting and counted sixteen more people dialled in.UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS →
