workshop

Open Source Private Generative AI

Use cases and practical application

Crane Hall

workshop
17:0040 mins07/11/2025

This hands-on workshop offers a practical deep dive into Sakura, a modular, on-premise platform for deploying and orchestrating Generative AI models in full privacy.

What You’ll Learn
The workshop is structured to give participants both conceptual understanding and real-world skills in running private GenAI solutions. Attendees will:

  • Understand the Architecture of Sakura: Learn how Sakura integrates LLMs, a model hub, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal capabilities, and agents in a cohesive framework.
  • Integrate and Orchestrate Language Models: Learn how to discover, pull, and run various LLMs (e.g., LLaMA, Phi-3, Mistral) within Sakura using the model hub.
  • Create and Interact with Personas: Use Sakura’s framework to build digital personas with persistent memory, embeddings, and prompt chains. Practice injecting memory traces and customizing behavioral parameters for simulation or UX testing.
  • Explore Use Cases: Engage with practical examples of Sakura’s power in:
    • Code generation and documentation assistance
    • Natural language data queries
    • Visual question answering and image captioning
    • Voice-to-text conversations with AI agents
    • Lightweight deployment on edge devices

What You’ll Do
Through guided labs, participants will:

  • Explore how to run local LLMs securely without cloud dependencies
  • Connect via Web to models via Sakura’s orchestration layer
  • Implement a simple chatbot
  • Simulate a customer persona and analyze interaction data