Louis-François Bouchard

Louis-François Bouchard

Louis-François Bouchard

Co-founder and CTO · Towards AI

Bio

Louis-François Bouchard is the co-founder of Towards AI, where he builds and teaches a practical toolkit for shipping reliable LLM products. He co-authored Building LLMs for Production, a hands-on guide to prompting, fine-tuning, retrieval augmented generation, and evaluation. Through Towards AI Academy, he has launched multiple in-depth courses for AI engineers, designed to turn developers into AI professionals who can transform prototypes into scalable, customer-ready systems. He also runs the What’s AI YouTube channel and newsletter, translating new research and best practices into clear engineering playbooks for 70K+ subscribers and tens of thousands of readers. Today, he partners with founders and organizations on AI strategy, training design, and production workflows that raise accuracy, reduce risk, and make generative AI useful for paying customers, and he speaks at events such as AIE, Uphill Conf.

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Louis-François Bouchard is a prolific AI educator and co-founder/CTO of Towards AI (creator of the "What's AI" channel) who translates cutting-edge research into practical engineering guidance through his YouTube workshops, weekly blog, and book "Building LLMs for Production." Attending his session offers direct access to hands-on production insights on context engineering, AI agents, and LLM deployment from someone actively building and teaching these systems.

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