Sessions

Every session is live and online on Google Meet, free to attend and taught by someone who works in the field.

Upcoming

Prompt Engineering Masterclass poster

Upcoming/November 28, 2026/One day

Prompt Engineering Masterclass

Taught by Burgess Awalayah Glay, Founder, BURGTECH Solutions

A hands-on day on writing effective prompts, how large language models respond to them, and how to work with AI coding agents such as Windsurf and Antigravity.

What you will learn

  • How large language models work
  • Prompt structure and best practices
  • Zero-shot and few-shot prompting
  • Chain-of-thought prompting
  • Using AI coding agents: Windsurf and Antigravity
  • Building automated workflows with AI tools
Register for freeOnline on Google Meet. We email the link after you register.

Past sessions

Data Analysis with Python poster

Held/September 12 to October 10, 2026/Five Saturdays, live

Data Analysis with Python

Taught by Burgess Awalayah Glay, Founder, BURGTECH Solutions

A live series over five Saturdays that took participants from Python basics through data cleaning and analysis to a real-world project. Certificates went to participants based on attendance and participation.

What was covered

  • Data analytics fundamentals
  • Python programming essentials
  • Data cleaning and analysis
  • Visualising a real dataset, end to end
Read the wrap-upSee the post on Facebook
  • Bar chart of median house prices by region, built in Python during the class

    Median price by region, built in class

  • Histogram of Melbourne home prices with median and mean marked

    Distribution of home prices

  • Correlation heatmap of housing features and price

    What moves together with price

  • Sample certificate of participation, with the participant name removed

    Certificate of participation (name removed)

Cloud Computing Essentials poster

Held/February 21, 2026/One day

Cloud Computing Essentials

Taught by Naison Faray, Certified cloud engineer, MSc Computer Science

A one-day introduction to cloud computing concepts, the major platforms and a real-world deployment walkthrough.

What was covered

  • What cloud computing is and why it matters
  • AWS, Google Cloud and Azure overview
  • IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
  • Virtual machines and containers
  • Cloud storage and managed databases
  • Serverless computing and cloud security basics
See the post on Facebook
  • Slide on IaaS, PaaS and SaaS service models from the Cloud Computing Essentials session

    Service models: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

  • Glossary slide of cloud infrastructure, virtualisation and storage terms

    Key terms and glossary

MATLAB Beginner Guide poster

Held/October 8, 2025/One day

MATLAB Beginner Guide

Taught by Burgess Awalayah Glay, Founder, BURGTECH Solutions

An introduction to MATLAB for students and professionals, working through real engineering and data problems.

What was covered

  • The MATLAB environment and workspace
  • Variables, data types and arrays
  • Matrix and vector operations
  • Basic plotting and data visualisation
  • Writing scripts and functions
See the post on Facebook
  • MATLAB bar chart of average scores per student shown on a laptop

    Plotting exercise

  • MATLAB script and chart side by side on a laptop screen

    Script and chart

  • Title slide: MATLAB Basics, understanding arrays, matrices and core commands

    Opening slide

  • Agenda slide for the MATLAB Beginner Guide

    Session agenda

HTML and CSS Starter Guide poster

Held/April 26, 2025/One day

HTML and CSS Starter Guide

Taught by Burgess Awalayah Glay, Founder, BURGTECH Solutions

A first workshop in web development: structuring a page with HTML, styling it with CSS and building a complete page from scratch. No experience needed.

What was covered

  • HTML document structure and semantic elements
  • CSS selectors and the box model
  • Flexbox layout basics
  • Building a complete web page
See the post on Facebook
  • Visual Studio Code showing the Live Server extension, used to preview web pages while coding

    Previewing pages with Live Server

New sessions are announced in Insights and on Facebook.