Talks & Workshops

Available in Spanish and English — for universities, conferences, companies, and community events.

Interested in any of these? hola@pauvasquezh.com — I reply within 2–3 business days and can adapt any format to your audience and context.

Featured talks

How I won 3rd place at Anthropic's hackathon: behind the scenes of Maieutic

Developers · data scientists · tech community

Talk · 45 min + Q&A

The honest account behind Maieutic, the project that earned third place in Anthropic's global "Built with Opus 4.7" hackathon. I share the technical and pedagogical decisions made in 6 days, the paths I discarded, the prompts that made the difference, and what I learned about building AI products when time is the scarcest resource.

How to assess when students use AI: from fear to redesign

Teachers · academic leadership teams

Talk · 60 min (or 3h Workshop)

AI detectors don't work. Banning use doesn't either. I propose a practical framework for redesigning assessments in the LLM era, with concrete examples from courses that have shifted the needle: rubrics that incorporate AI use as a criterion, oral exams, portfolios, and projects that assume access to the tool.

Learning with AI, not from AI: LLMs as Socratic companions

Academics · education researchers · teaching innovation teams

Talk · 45 min

A conceptual framework I'm exploring in my doctoral research, illustrated through Maieutic. I argue that most current AI use in education replicates a banking model of information transfer — and that an alternative exists: using LLMs as Socratic interlocutors that return questions instead of answers.

For students & educational communities

How to use AI to learn better (without letting AI learn for you)

Undergraduate students · upper secondary students

Talk · 45 min + 15 min Q&A

Not a talk about "using ChatGPT well." A talk about the difference between being efficient and learning — two things that often contradict each other. Live demos show how the same question, asked three different ways, produces three very different learning outcomes.

Does AI think? An honest conversation for teenagers

Secondary school students

Talk · 45 min

No jargon, no paternalism, no alarmism. A direct conversation about what a language model is and isn't, why it sometimes gets things confidently wrong, and what that means for how they study, decide, and relate to information.

From the classroom to an international hackathon

Undergraduate students · CS and Innovation programs

Talk · 30–45 min

The story of how a project that started as a research question ended up competing — and winning — in a global Anthropic hackathon. Designed for students who feel "these things aren't for them."

Your career isn't linear: data science, research, teaching and startups

Undergraduate students · professional mentoring

Talk · 30–45 min

BCI → Uber Eats → UDD → PhD in AI. A narrative talk about the leaps, pauses, and decisions that didn't seem to make sense at the time but, looking back, formed a coherent path.

Workshops

Your first Claude project in a weekend

Undergraduate students · induction weeks

Workshop · 1 day (hackathon format)

Each participant arrives with an idea and leaves with a working prototype built with Claude. No prior AI experience required. Inspired by my own experience building Maieutic in 6 days.

From research question to prototype in a week

Academics and researchers who study AI but don't build it

Workshop · half day (3–4h)

For researchers accustomed to seeing AI as an object of study, not a tool. Participants leave with a navigable prototype and a validation plan for real users.

Building representation

Women building AI: why we need your perspective

Schools · STEM programs · diversity initiatives

Talk · 45 min

A talk that blends personal history, evidence, and a concrete invitation. I share my path from student to AI researcher, and why the composition of who builds these technologies matters far more than it appears.

Keynote

From hackathon to product: what a weekend with Opus 4.7 taught me about building in 2026

Technology · innovation · higher education conferences

Keynote · 30–45 min

A keynote about what changed — and what didn't — in how products are built when LLMs moved from novelty to infrastructure. I use Maieutic as a thread to discuss speed, judgment, and why the bottleneck in 2026 isn't the technology but the questions we decide to ask it.

Past talks

  1. Characterizing Transportation using Social Media: Differences in Mode and Gender · NetMob 2019 ·Oxford, United Kingdom · 2019
  2. Characterizing Transportation using Social Media: Differences in Mode and Gender · 11th ACM Conference on Web Science ·Boston, MA, United States · 2019
  3. Gender Differences in Transport Perception: Evidence from Social Media · Transport GenderLab Seminar, Inter-American Development Bank ·Washington D.C., United States · 2019
  4. Gender Differences in Transport Perception: Evidence from Social Media · NetSciX 2019 ·Santiago, Chile · 2019
  5. Tell Me Which Emoji You Use and I'll Tell You How You Feel: Public Perception Analysis through Emojis · StarsConf 2018 ·Santiago, Chile · 2018
  6. Women in Movement: Analysis of Women's Transport Perception through Social Media Discourse · National Urban Planning Conference ·Santiago, Chile · 2018
  7. Mochi: Subjective Travel Experience through Psycholinguistics and Emojis · UrbanBeers 2.0 ·Santiago, Chile · 2018