Invite me

Book a session for your campus, hackathon or community.

I speak at inductions and fests, run hands-on GenAI workshops, mentor student communities and judge hackathons with a published rubric. Choose what you need, pick a slot, and the request reaches me on WhatsApp.

Choose a session

How it works

  1. 01

    Pick a session and a slot

    Talk, workshop, judging or mentoring — then a day and an IST time that suits your calendar.

  2. 02

    Confirm on WhatsApp

    Your details reach me on WhatsApp as a single message. I confirm within a day.

  3. 03

    Get a runnable session

    Every talk ships with a live system and a repo students can run the same evening.

Talk & workshop menu

Six sessions I can deliver tomorrow.

Full menu and logistics
Inductions, fests, first-years40–60 min

From college hackathons to production AI

A three-year roadmap — foundations in Year 1, hackathons and internships in Year 2, placements or a startup in Year 3 — built from my own path from an engineering classroom in Kanpur to shipping production AI systems.

Hackathon kick-offs, tech clubs40–60 min

What I learned winning three hackathons and losing one

Changethon at IIT Roorkee, Product Genesis at CSJMU, BYTEBATTLE by MeetKats, and STROT, which did not win — the pitch, the demo and the team decisions behind each.

CS / AI batches45–90 min

Production RAG that refuses to hallucinate

Hybrid retrieval, reranking, confidence gates and citations, taught from building RAG.NextUpgrad end to end — with a live demo.

Hands-on workshop, 30–60 students90 min – full day

Build a RAG app from scratch

Every student leaves with a retrieval app running against their own document, evaluated on a question set they wrote themselves.

Hands-on workshop90 min – half day

Fine-tune a small model on a free GPU

QLoRA end to end on hardware a student actually has, with an honest base-versus-tuned comparison — based on FineTune Studio.

Clubs, communities, individuals60–90 min

Mentorship session or office hours

Built around students' own projects and decisions rather than a fixed syllabus — the format I run for TechVerse Enclave.

Sessions delivered

  • VSICS Induction Seminar — mentor and speaker

    6 July 2025

    Dr. Virendra Swarup Institute of Computer Studies (VSICS), Kanpur

    100+ first-year students. A three-year roadmap: foundations and AI tools, then hackathons and internships, then placements or a startup.

  • AI-powered software development — mentorship session

    8 April 2025

    VSICS Kanpur, under TechVerse Enclave

    How AI enters every stage of the software lifecycle, with a showcase of the Changethon-winning project.

  • INSIGHT — The Talk Show

    29 March 2025

    Computer Application Department, VSICS Kanpur

    Debate format on nationalism and government policy; argued the against side.

Competition record

  • 1stChangethon 2025 hackathon, National Social Summit — IIT Roorkee
  • 1stProduct Genesis, Vividhotsava 2025 — CSJMU Kanpur
  • 1stBYTEBATTLE hackathon — MeetKats
  • Top 3Hackathon — IIT Kanpur

Prefer email? Write to pranjulrathour41@gmail.com with your dates, audience and format. Also written as Pranjal Rathour, Pranjul Rathore, Pranjal Rathore, Pranjul Rathor, Pranjal Rathor, Pranjul Rathaur, Pranjul Rathur, Pranjull Rathour.