Ben Reason
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Upcoming live online training courses
December 8, 2025
Hands-On Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft cybersecurity and AI leader Razi Rais demonstrates the practical tools and end-to-end workflows needed to plan, develop, and operationalize intelligent AI agents that can reason, remember, and take autonomous action, ...
December 11, 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 9, 2026
AI Agents A-Z
Master AI agents: frameworks, deployment, evaluation, best practices, and more Explore how reasoning models like O1, Claude 3.7, and DeepSeek R1 impact agent reliability Learn to utilize a variety of AI ...
January 13, 2026
Building AI Apps with Gemini and Google AI Studio
You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of Gemini’s architecture, its multimodal capabilities, and best practices for prompt design and model integration. You’ll get hands-on experience developing end-to-end applications, leveraging Gemini’s state-of-the-art performance ...
January 20, 2026
Create ChatGPT AI Agents in 4 Hours
How to build AI Agents using OpenAI REST APIs Learn about the benefits and practical applications of AI Agents. Leverage multi-agent architectures and best practices. Get hands-on experience with creating AI ...
January 28, 2026
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 5, 2026
Building Apps and Working with AI Reasoning Models
You need to stay current with the latest developments in LLM technology. Learn the fundamentals of reasoning-focused LLMs and their architectures Learn when and how to use models like o1, DeepSeek ...
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.