Mastra Workshops — Mar 2025 till Feb 2025
Past sessions from the Mastra team and expert guests on building and deploying AI agents.
March 13, 2025
60 minutesBuild Production-Ready RAG Applications with Mastra
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become essential for building AI applications that can effectively leverage your data. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to build sophisticated RAG systems that go beyond basic implementations. Learn the proven techniques that make RAG systems reliable and effective, including optimal chunking strategies, modern retrieval methods, and hybrid search approaches that combine the best of semantic and keyword search. Join [Mastra.ai](http://Mastra.ai) to understand the architectural decisions that can make or break your RAG application's performance. You'll get hands-on experience implementing: * Evaluating when RAG is needed vs. when context windows suffice * Advanced document chunking strategies for different content types * Sophisticated semantic search and embedding techniques * Hybrid retrieval systems combining keyword and semantic search * Re-ranking strategies to improve result relevance * Performance optimization techniques for production environments This workshop is ideal for developers and AI engineers who want to build more sophisticated RAG applications. Participants should have familiarity with JavaScript and understand fundamental RAG concepts. Come prepared with a code editor—you'll leave with working implementations of advanced RAG components that you can integrate into your projects. Move beyond basic RAG implementations and learn how to build systems that can handle real-world complexity. Join us for this practical session where you'll implement production-ready RAG solutions using proven architectural patterns.
March 6, 2025
60 minutesBuild and deploy your first agent with Mastra
2025 might be the year of AI agents but this session is your chance to actually build and deploy an agent yourself. AI agents are autonomous systems that can perceive their environments, make decisions, and independently take actions to achieve specific goals. With today’s tools and frameworks, it’s never been easier to build them, and [Mastra.ai](http://Mastra.ai) co-founder Shane Thomas will show you how to do it in less than an hour. Use agents to build things like a personalized travel agent that puts together vacations for you. Or use multiple-agents to simulate a ‘team’ of writers and editors that seamlessly collaborate on content. This event is open to all devs and aspiring AI engineers, regardless of background, so feel free to share the invite link. It’s recommended that you have a code editor and node v20+ installed prior to the session. You should be comfortable with basic JavaScript and the command line. This isn’t a talk; it’s a live workshop where you’ll walk away having built and deployed your first AI agent.
February 27, 2025
60 minutesMaster AI Evaluation: Build and Run Evals with Mastra
2025 is seeing explosive growth in AI applications, but how do you know if they're actually performing well? This hands-on workshop will teach you how to build and run comprehensive evaluation frameworks for your AI systems. Evaluating AI systems is crucial for ensuring reliability, safety, and performance at scale. Join [Mastra.ai](http://Mastra.ai) to learn practical strategies for implementing evals that give you confidence in your AI deployments. You'll learn how to use to assess your AI application and AI Agent capabilities, detect potential issues, and maintain high standards of quality. Get hands-on experience with essential eval strategies including: * Implementing LLM-as-judge evaluation frameworks * Setting up automated evaluation pipelines * Creating targeted test cases for your specific use cases * Monitoring and analyzing eval results through AI ops This workshop is perfect for anyone building an AI Agent or AI application. Basic familiarity with JavaScript is recommended, and participants should have a code editor ready. You'll walk away with working eval implementations and practical knowledge you can immediately apply to your AI projects. Don't just deploy AI—deploy it with confidence. Join us for this practical, hands-on session where you'll build real evaluation frameworks that you can start using right away.
February 13, 2025
60 minutesBuild and deploy your first agent with Mastra
2025 might be the year of AI agents but this session is your chance to actually build and deploy an agent yourself. AI agents are autonomous systems that can perceive their environments, make decisions, and independently take actions to achieve specific goals. With today’s tools and frameworks, it’s never been easier to build them, and [Mastra.ai](http://Mastra.ai) co-founder Shane Thomas will show you how to do it in less than an hour. Use agents to build things like a personalized travel agent that puts together vacations for you. Or use multiple-agents to simulate a ‘team’ of writers and editors that seamlessly collaborate on content. This event is open to all devs and aspiring AI engineers, regardless of background, so feel free to share the invite link. It’s recommended that you have a code editor and node v20+ installed prior to the session. You should be comfortable with basic JavaScript and the command line. This isn’t a talk; it’s a live workshop where you’ll walk away having built and deployed your first AI agent.