Ben Reason
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January 24, 2025
Hands-On LLM Engineering
We’ll then dive into the models themselves, comparing their performance with different tasks, from writing code to graduate-level reasoning. We’ll examine how to select the right LLM to apply to the ...
January 27, 2025
Managing your manager
You need to figure out your manager's communication preferences in actual situations to better predict their responses to your requests. By the end of this live online course, you’ll understand: That ...
February 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2025
Essential Math for Data Science in 4 Weeks—with Interactivity
By the end of this live, hands-on 4-part series, you’ll understand: Week 1: Probability How probability works and what it means to measure randomness How multiple events can affect the probability ...
Bio
Ben is a co-founder of live|work and over the past eight years has directed his passion for social impact projects into delivering successful change for the public sector. Ben graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in fine arts, following this in 2000 with a master's in responsibility and business practice from the University of Bath. He has a background in design and innovation in network enabled services with Razorfish and Oyster Partners, working with Orange, Vodafone, Nokia, Sony, Experian, and Oracle.
Ben has provided strategic guidance and project delivery management on a range of high-profile public sector projects for organizations such as the National Health Service Innovation Institute, The Design Council, the BBC, the Home Office, Vodafone, Experian, and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He has written articles for the NHS's In View magazine and has been featured in the International Herald Tribune. In 2009 he was voted one of the top 20 most influential designers in IKON magazine. His academic connections include SAID Business School Oxford, Cranfield Business School, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Köln Institute of Design, and Royal College of Art.