AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe 2025: Full Schedule

28-29, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
View More Details & Registration
Note: The schedule is subject to change.

The Sched app allows you to build your schedule but is not a substitute for your event registration. You must be registered for AI_dev Europe 2025 to participate in the sessions. If you have not registered but would like to join us, please go to the event registration page to purchase a registration.

This schedule is automatically displayed in Central European Summer Time, CEST (UTC +2). To see the schedule in your preferred timezone, please select from the drop-down menu to the right.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.

arrow_back View All Dates

07:30 CEST

Coat & Bag Check

Friday August 29, 2025 07:30 - 18:00 CEST

RAI Amsterdam

Friday August 29, 2025 07:30 - 18:00 CEST
RAI Amsterdam

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Welcome Coffee

Friday August 29, 2025 08:00 - 09:00 CEST

Diamond Lounge

Friday August 29, 2025 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Diamond Lounge

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Registration & Badge Pick-Up

Friday August 29, 2025 08:00 - 16:00 CEST

Diamond Lounge

Friday August 29, 2025 08:00 - 16:00 CEST
Diamond Lounge

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

08:00 CEST

Zen Zone

Friday August 29, 2025 08:00 - 16:00 CEST

D303 (Elicium Level 3)

All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. It is a physical space where attendees can go if for any reason they can’t interact with other attendees at that time where conversation and interaction are not allowed.

Friday August 29, 2025 08:00 - 16:00 CEST
D303 (Elicium Level 3)

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

09:00 CEST

Keynote: Welcome Back

Friday August 29, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 CEST

Auditorium

Friday August 29, 2025 09:00 - 09:05 CEST
Auditorium

Keynote Sessions

09:05 CEST

Keynote: Vaibhav Gupta, Co-founder & CEO, Boundary

Friday August 29, 2025 09:05 - 09:20 CEST

Auditorium

Speakers

Vaibhav Gupta

Co-founder & CEO, Boundary

Friday August 29, 2025 09:05 - 09:20 CEST
Auditorium

Keynote Sessions

09:25 CEST

Keynote Sessions to be Announced

Friday August 29, 2025 09:25 - 10:15 CEST

Auditorium

Friday August 29, 2025 09:25 - 10:15 CEST
Auditorium

Keynote Sessions

10:20 CEST

Keynote: Chang She, CEO & Co-founder, LanceDB

Friday August 29, 2025 10:20 - 10:35 CEST

Auditorium

Speakers

Chang She

LanceDB, CEO & Co-founder

Chang She is the CEO and cofounder of LanceDB, the developer-friendly, open-source database for multi-modal AI. A serial entrepreneur, Chang has been building DS/ML tooling for nearly two decades and is one of the original contributors to the pandas library. Prior to founding LanceDB... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 10:20 - 10:35 CEST
Auditorium

Keynote Sessions

10:40 CEST

Coffee Break

Friday August 29, 2025 10:40 - 11:10 CEST

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

11:10 CEST

Lightning Talk: K8s Issue #52757: Sharing GPUs Among Multiple Containers - Xiao Zhang, dynamia.ai

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:20 CEST

G104

This issue has plagued Kubernetes for nearly 8 years: K8s issue #52757. The challenge of flexibly sharing GPUs across multiple containers is particularly prominent in AI scenarios, where inference tasks are typically short-lived. As a result, resource utilization becomes a critical concern.

Speakers

Xiao Zhang

Software Engineer & CEO, dynamia.ai

Xiao Zhang is the leader of the Container team (focus on infra, AI, Multi-Cluster, Cluster - LCM, OCI). He is also an active community contributor and cloud native enthusiast. He is currently a member of Kubernetes / Kubernetes-sigs, maintainer of Karmada, kubean, HAMi, and cloudtty... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:20 CEST
G104

Lightning Talks, Inferencing and GPU Acceleration

11:10 CEST

Making AI Unconditionally Open for All - Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis, Oumi

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:35 CEST

Auditorium

Speakers

Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis

CEO, Oumi

Leadership, machine learning, NLP, LLMs, multimodality, information retrieval, scalable systems and services. Identifying new opportunities, inventing innovative solutions and bootstrapping new efforts. Improving the world with technology and creating the organizations to pursue... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:35 CEST
Auditorium

Breakout Sessions, Ethics and Responsible AI

11:10 CEST

Monitoring GenAI Applications - Prasad Mujumdar, Okahu AI

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:35 CEST

G001-002

GenAI Observability is proactive monitoring of your AI apps and cloud infra they run on to understand how to make them work better. The ever evolving landscape of genAI technologies makes it very challenging to manage. Project. Monocle is built for App developers to trace their app code in any environment without lots of custom code decoration. It’s a community driven open source project under Linux Foundation AI&Data, built on top of OpenTelemetry. It provides out of the box support of several genAI tech components. With very little to no code changes, you can generate OpenTelemetry compatible traces and spans of your genAI application. Monocle provides consistent format to describe entities like LLMs and vector stores as well as events like prompts and responses. It can be integrated with apps in personal dev/lab environment as well as cloud deployments.

Speakers

Prasad Mujumdar

CTO, Okahu AI

Prasad is founder and CTO of Okahu AI. He's leads the LF's Data&AI project Monocle. Prasad has extensive experience in data management, data governance and AI technology, in past worked in IBM, Microsoft and Cloudera at technical leadership positions.

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:35 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Eval Frameworks and LLM Ops

11:10 CEST

State of Open Video Generation Models - Sayak Paul, Hugging Face

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:35 CEST

Emerald Room

In this session, we will cover the state of open video generation models. For the past few years, the GenAI community saw an emergence in photorealistic image generation models like Flux, Imagen3, DALL-E 3. 2025 is gradually setting itself up for videos.

Speakers

Sayak Paul

Research Engineer, Hugging Face

Sayak works on image and video generation at Hugging Face. His day-to-day includes contributing to the Diffusers library, training, babysitting models, and making and breaking CIs. When he is not working, he can be found playing the guitar and binge-watching ICML tutorials.

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:35 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, Multimodality

11:10 CEST

Unlocking Insights From Multimodal PDFs Using OpenSearch and Vision-Language Models - Mingshi Liu, OpenSearch & Praveen Mohan Prasad, AWS

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:35 CEST

G105

Unlock the insights hidden within unstructured PDF documents! Many PDFs contain multimodal elements like text, tables, and images, and relying solely on text-based processing risks overlooking critical information. This session explores two powerful approaches to address this challenge: building specialized pipelines that integrate OCR and ML models for handling diverse modalities, and leveraging cutting-edge Vision-Language Models like ColPali to represent multimodal data in a unified format. Join us to discover how both methods can be applied to build an intelligent conversational search application using open-source technology, OpenSearch by leveraging it's its powerful search and ingest pipelines. The session includes a live demonstration to showcase practical implementations, empowering you to choose the approach that best fits your needs!

Speakers

Mingshi Liu

Machine Learning Engineer, OpenSearch

Mingshi Liu is a Machine Learning Engineer at OpenSearch, primarily contributing to OpenSearch, ML Commons and Search Processors. Her work focuses on developing and integrating machine learning features for search technologies and other open-source projects.

Praveen Mohan Prasad

Analytics and AI Specialist, Amazon Web Services

Praveen Mohan Prasad is a search specialist with data science expertise who actively researches and experiments on using Machine Learning to improve search relevance. Praveen advices clients to implement and operationalise strategies to improve search experience.

Friday August 29, 2025 11:10 - 11:35 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, Multimodality

11:25 CEST

Lightning Talk: Improve AI Inference (serving models) With KServe and VLLM - Maria Vittoria Passarello & Matteo Combi, Red Hat

Friday August 29, 2025 11:25 - 11:35 CEST

G104

Red Hat integrates and supports both kServe and vLLM in its MLOps Platform, OpenShift AI. In addition, Red Hat's engineers actively contribute on kServe and vLLM upstream projects everyday.

Speakers

Maria Vittoria Passarello

Solution Architect , Red Hat

Graduated in statistics at university, then started a graduate program at Red Hat. Now a solution architect specializing in Red Hat's AI platform and open source AI technologies.

Matteo Combi

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, Application Platform, Red Hat

I'm a Senior Application Platform Specialist Solution Architect.

Friday August 29, 2025 11:25 - 11:35 CEST
G104

Lightning Talks, Inferencing and GPU Acceleration

11:45 CEST

Lightning Talk: Running Intelligence at the Edge: Web AI in Action - Muskan Jain, Walmart Global Tech India

Friday August 29, 2025 11:45 - 11:55 CEST

G104

AI is evolving beyond the cloud—and into the browser. This talk explores how recent advances in Web AI are making it possible to run powerful machine learning models for language, vision, and personalization directly on the client side. Leveraging technologies like WebGPU and WebAssembly, frameworks such as ONNX.js and WebLLM are enabling real-time, private, and serverless inference right where users are. We'll demonstrate how this shift improves latency, enhances user privacy, and removes infrastructure barriers—bringing scalable, intelligent experiences to the open web. This talk will promotes open-source, privacy-first AI that reduces cloud dependency, lowers entry barriers, and encourages ethical, accessible AI development across devices.

Speakers

Muskan Jain

Software Engineer III, Walmart Global Tech India

I'm an SDE-III at Walmart Global Tech India, currently pursuing an MTech in Artificial Intelligence. While I work on platform engineering full-time, I'm deeply interested in applied AI—especially in making intelligent systems more accessible, open-source, and sustainable.

Friday August 29, 2025 11:45 - 11:55 CEST
G104

Lightning Talks, Edge and Distributed AI

11:45 CEST

Agentic GraphRAG: AI’s Logical Edge - Stephen Chin, Neo4j

Friday August 29, 2025 11:45 - 12:10 CEST

Emerald Room

AI models are getting tasked to do increasingly complex and industry specific tasks where different retrieval approaches provide distinct advantages in accuracy, explainability, and cost to execute. GraphRAG retrieval models have become a powerful tool to solve domain specific problems where answers require logical reasoning and correlation that can be aided by graph relationships and proximity algorithms. We will demonstrate how an agent architecture running on a fully open source platform and utilizing GraphRAG retrieval patterns can bridge the gap in data analysis, strategic planning, and retrieval to solve complex domain specific problems.

Speakers

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations, Neo4j

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, conference chair of the LF AI & Data Foundation, and author of numerous titles including the upcoming GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide for O'Reilly. He has given keynotes and main stage talks at innumerable AI and developer conferences... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 11:45 - 12:10 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, AI Agents

11:45 CEST

Unlocking How To Train 107B Model Across Multi-Region Heterogeneous Clusters Using K8s - Xiao Zhang, dynamia.ai

Friday August 29, 2025 11:45 - 12:10 CEST

G001-002

As large language models enter the era of hundreds of billions of parameters, the traditional single - cluster LLM training method faces three challenges. First, Difficulty building large homogeneous GPU clusters. Second, there is a physical limit to the scale of AI accelerators in a single cluster. Third, resource fragmentation leads to insufficient resources in a single cluster while there are abundant global resources. multi-domain heterogeneous training technology can effectively address these challenges.

Speakers

Xiao Zhang

Software Engineer & CEO, dynamia.ai

Friday August 29, 2025 11:45 - 12:10 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, RAG & LLM Frameworks

12:00 CEST

Lightning Talk: Emotion Estimation for Social Robotics - Samer Attrah, HAN University

Friday August 29, 2025 12:00 - 12:10 CEST

G104

In my session, I will discuss the topic of emotion estimation from facial expressions using AI and computer vision.

Speakers

Samer Attrah

Researcher and open-source contributor, HAN University of Applied Sciences

An engineer studied for a master's degree at HAN, and since my bachelor's degree, I have been working on Machine learning projects, and today doing research.

Friday August 29, 2025 12:00 - 12:10 CEST
G104

Lightning Talks, Edge and Distributed AI

12:10 CEST

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees)

Friday August 29, 2025 12:10 - 13:35 CEST

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

13:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Designing Scalable Cloud Native Agentic AI Systems With Google’s ADK SDK - Jamiu Tijani, D100Labs

Friday August 29, 2025 13:35 - 13:45 CEST

Emerald Room

This lightning talk introduces a practical and visionary approach to building scalable agentic AI systems using Google’s new ADK SDK and deploying them on Kubernetes. Attendees will learn how to design autonomous AI agents with dynamic workflows, hybrid memory (BM25 + vector), and real-time decision-making capabilities. Through a live code walkthrough, I’ll demonstrate how to rapidly build a modular agent using ADK and scale it using cloud-native infrastructure patterns. This talk is ideal for AI engineers, DevOps professionals, and open source contributors looking to bring production-grade agentic intelligence to their systems.

Speakers

Jamiu Tijani

CTO, D100Labs

Tijani Jamiu Olasunkanmi is a Cloud Engineer and AI systems architect passionate about building scalable, intelligent applications. With experience deploying containerized microservices, designing serverless pipelines, and integrating vector-based memory into real-time systems, he... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 13:35 - 13:45 CEST
Emerald Room

Lightning Talks, AI Agents

13:35 CEST

Architecting the AI Bridge: Integrating LLMs and DMN With Drools, Spring Boot, and the MCP Protocol - Tim Wuthenow & Alex Porcelli, Aletyx, Inc.

Friday August 29, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST

G001-002

As GenAI continues to gain traction, enterprise architects face a critical challenge: how to harness the flexibility of LLMs while ensuring structure, compliance, and explainability. This talk presents a modern AI architecture that bridges Symbolic AI (via DMN and rule engines) with Non-Symbolic AI (via LLMs), enabling powerful, guardrail-enabled systems built on open standards.

Speakers

Alex Porcelli

Aletyx Co-Founder, Aletyx, Inc.

Alex Porcelli is a seasoned Architect and Engineer Leader with over 25 years of professional development experience. A passionate open-source advocate, he has actively contributed to projects like Drools, jBPM, Kogito, Hibernate, and more for over 15 years. Alex spent more than a... Read More →

Tim Wuthenow

Co-Founder, Aletyx, Inc.

Enterprise AI architect with 15+ years in business automation across IBM and Red Hat. Open source contributor to Drools, jBPM, and Kogito. Specialized in integrating rule engines with AI for compliant, explainable systems. Implemented mission-critical decision services in healthcare... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, AI in Industry and Enterprise

13:35 CEST

Machine Learning on Microcontrollers; Tiny, Useful and Fun - Jon Nordby, Soundsensing

Friday August 29, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST

G105

In recent years, generative AI models have come to dominate the discourse around artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Speakers

Jon Nordby

Head of Data Science, Soundsensing

Jon is a Machine Learning Engineer specialized in IoT systems,

Friday August 29, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, Edge and Distributed AI

13:35 CEST

Technical Workshop: Testing GenAI Applications - Adrian Cole, Elastic

Friday August 29, 2025 13:35 - 14:35 CEST

G104

Generative AI applications present unique challenges, from unpredictability in responses to ensuring reliability in production.

Speakers

Adrian Cole

Principal Software Engineer, Elastic

Adrian is a software engineer working at Elastic. He’s been a routine contributor to open source for over ten years. Lately, he spends most of his time on OpenTelemetry. His past notable project work includes wazero, Zipkin, OpenFeign, and Apache jclouds.

Friday August 29, 2025 13:35 - 14:35 CEST
G104

Technical Workshops, Eval Frameworks and LLM Ops

13:50 CEST

Lightning Talk: Automating PII Detection and Pull Request Feedback With an AI-driven Application - Florian Valeye, Back Market

Friday August 29, 2025 13:50 - 14:00 CEST

Emerald Room

Discover how Back Market uses a Python GenAI application to automate the identification of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in GitHub.

Speakers

Florian Valeye

Senior Staff Engineer, Back Market

Florian Valeye is a Senior Staff Engineer at Back Market. Passionate about everything data, Florian leads data projects to help businesses make the right data-driven decisions. As an open-source enthusiast, Florian shares his knowledge with others to help them grow in their roles... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 13:50 - 14:00 CEST
Emerald Room

Lightning Talks, AI Code Generation and Developer Tools

14:10 CEST

Lightning Talk: Ramalama - The Project That Brings AI and Containers Together While Making AI Boring - Alexon Oliveira, Red Hat

Friday August 29, 2025 14:10 - 14:20 CEST

Emerald Room

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, deploying AI models consistently and securely remains a significant challenge. Ramalama addresses this by merging the robustness of containerization with the intricacies of AI workloads. By default, Ramalama runs AI models in isolated environments, enhancing security and ensuring consistent performance across various platforms. This session will delve into Ramalama's architecture, demonstrating how it simplifies AI deployments, abstracts underlying complexities, and promotes scalability. Attendees will gain insights into integrating Ramalama into their workflows, making AI deployment a straightforward and 'boring' - yet highly efficient - process.

Speakers

Alexon Oliveira

Principal Technical Account Manager, Red Hat

Alexon works as a Principal Technical Account Manager at Red Hat focusing on Infrastructure and Management, Integration and Automation, Cloud Computing, Storage, and AI Solutions. He also contributes to produce and enhance documentation, knowledge-base articles, blog posts, presentations... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 14:10 - 14:20 CEST
Emerald Room

Lightning Talks, AI Community and Ecosystem

14:10 CEST

Benchmarking GenAI Like a Pro: Scaling Experiments, Predicting Performance, and Keeping Your Sanity - Michael Johnston, IBM

Friday August 29, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST

G001-002

Generative AI is moving fast—and if you're responsible for deploying or tuning these models, you're probably feeling the heat. New LLMs, hardware, and training methods are landing constantly. How do you make sense of it all? How do you actually know what’s performant, what’s cost-effective, and what breaks the moment your stack changes?

Speakers

Michael Johnston

Research Scientist & Manager, Next Generation Systems Team, IBM Research Ireland

Michael Johnston is Research Scientist and Manager of the Next Generation Systems team at IBM Research Ireland. His background is in High Performance Computing, application design, and computational biophysics and biochemistry. He has worked closely with the Hartree Centre, IBM’s collaboration with the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), on a range of projects. This included the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Telescope, aimed at studying the universe in unprecedented detail, and Oasis — a tool for estimating the cost of catastrophes... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Eval Frameworks and LLM Ops

14:10 CEST

Why Wasm Is the Best Runtime for Open LLMs - Miley Fu, Second State

Friday August 29, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST

G105

Running open models like LLaMA, Whisper, etc has traditionally required heavyweight runtimes, containerization, or cloud resources. However, as LLMs are increasingly deployed in edge environments, desktop apps, and dev boards, there's a growing need for lighter, more portable execution environments.

Speakers

Miley Fu

Founding Member, Second State

Miley is the co-chair and keynote speaker for KubeCon+Open Source Summit and AI Dev 2024. With over 6 years of experience working on WasmEdge runtime in CNCF sandbox as a founding member, she talks at KubeCon, KCD Shenzhen, CloudDay Italy, DevRelCon, Open Source Summit Japan, AWS... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, Open Models

14:25 CEST

Lightning Talks: Mozilla.ai Blueprints - Empowering Devs To Build With Open-Source AI - Stefan French, Mozilla.ai

Friday August 29, 2025 14:25 - 14:35 CEST

Emerald Room

In this presentation, we would like to introduce our open-source AI project: ‍Mozilla.ai Blueprints.

Speakers

Stefan French

Product Manager, Mozilla.ai

Stefan is the Blueprints Product Manager at Mozilla.ai, where he is committed to making open-source AI the default for developers. He previously spent over 5 years as a data science consultant across various industries (Government, Finance).

Friday August 29, 2025 14:25 - 14:35 CEST
Emerald Room

Lightning Talks, AI Community and Ecosystem

14:45 CEST

Building AI Workflows: From Local Experiments To Serving Users - Oleg Šelajev, Docker

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST

G001-002

Everyone can throw together an LLM, some MCP tools, and a chat interface, and get an AI assistant we could only dream of a few years back. Add some “business logic” prompts, and you get an AI workflow; hopefully a helpful one.

Speakers

Oleg Šelajev

Devrel engineer, Docker

Oleg Šelajev is a developer advocate at Docker working mainly on developer productivity, Testcontainers, improving how we set up local development environments and tests, and building applications with AI parts. Developer. Author. Speaker. Java Champion. Docker captain.

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, AI Agents

14:45 CEST

Building Better Systems: The Power of Open-Source POI Data in Spatial Computing - Vikram Gundeti, Foursquare

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST

Auditorium

We’ll explore the benefits of open-source technology, based on our experience of open-sourcing a layer of our proprietary places dataset and geospatial tools like Kepler.gl. We’ll share lessons learned and demonstrate how building and maintaining an accurate global Points of Interest (POI) database is a mission critical layer to advanced Spatial Computing. This is critical for technologies like autonomous vehicles, augmented reality, and mapping systems that require precise, context-aware location data for seamless user experiences.

Speakers

Vikram Gundeti

Chief Technology Officer, Foursquare

Vikram Gundeti serves as a Chief Technology Officer at Foursquare. He has extensive experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining large scale distributed systems across various problem domains such as e-commerce, communications, application platforms, customer engagement... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST
Auditorium

Breakout Sessions, Open Models

14:45 CEST

From Radar Echoes To Real-Time Recognition: Deep Learning on Another Planet -An Open Source Workflow - Viktor Somogyi, Netwerk / ELTE / ESA

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST

G104

What happens when you combine real radar images of Venus, a bunch of volcanoes, and deep learning? In this talk, I’ll walk you through a fully open-source machine learning pipeline that turns extraterrestrial data into structured scientific insights. Our goal is to automatically recognize geological formations like craters, ridges, or volcanoes on radar imagery — a bit like Google Maps, but for another planet.

Speakers

Viktor Somogyi

Lead Developer | Machine Learning Specialist // External Researcher AI & Data Science Division, Netwerk / HUN-REN / ESA

Viktor Somogyi is a Machine Learning Specialist and Lead Developer at Netwerk Media, with over a decade of experience in AI-driven software projects. He currently works as an external researcher on a European Space Agency–funded planetary science project led by HUN-REN, using deep... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST
G104

Breakout Sessions, AI in Industry and Enterprise

14:45 CEST

Privacy First: Building LLM-Powered Web Apps With Client Side WASM - Shivay Lamba, Couchbase

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST

G105

It’s no secret that for a long time machine learning has been mostly a Python game, but the recent surge in popularity of Gen AI has brought many new developers into the field. With JavaScript being the most widely-used programming language, it’s no surprise that this has included many web developers.

Speakers

Shivay Lamba

Developer Relations Engineer, Couchbase

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, Edge and Distributed AI

14:45 CEST

Who Let the Bots Out? A Guide to Evaluating AI Agents - Josh Reini, Snowflake

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST

Emerald Room

In this talk, I will present a systematic, open source framework for evaluating Gen AI agents—LLM-based systems that manage complex, multi-step tasks—by dissecting their performance into three critical dimensions.

Speakers

Josh Reini

Developer Advocate, Snowflake

Josh is a developer advocate for Snowflake, previously at TruEra (recently acquired by Snowflake). He is also a maintainer of open-source TruLens, a library to systematically track and evaluate LLM based applications.

Friday August 29, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, Eval Frameworks and LLM Ops

15:10 CEST

Coffee Break

Friday August 29, 2025 15:10 - 15:35 CEST

Special Events / Exhibits / Breaks

15:35 CEST

AI/ML Networking Challenges: The Fast and the Finnicky! - Lerna Ekmekcioglu, Clockwork Systems

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:00 CEST

G001-002

Race cars are engineered for peak performance, designed to push the limits of speed while maintaining control and stability. Similarly, AI/ML jobs need a high-speed, reliable network fabric to deliver results efficiently. Just like a race car depends on a well-maintained race track to perform at its best, AI/ML jobs rely on network fabrics—such as RoCE and InfiniBand—to ensure fast, reliable communications.

Speakers

Lerna Ekmekcioglu

Sr Solutions Engineer , Clockwork Systems

Lerna is a Sr Solutions Eng at Clockwork Systems where she helps customers meet their performance goals with software solutions built on Clockwork.io’s foundational research. Prior to this, she was a Sr Solutions Architect at AWS for 3 yrs. Lerna spent 17 yrs as an infrastructure... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:00 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Other

15:35 CEST

Panel Discussion: Sovereign AI: Building Bridges in a Fragmented Landscape - Anna Hermansen, Hilary Carter, Cailean Osborne & Adrienn Lawson, The Linux Foundation; Anni Lai, Futurewei

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:00 CEST

Auditorium

The term “Sovereign AI" has sparked discussion around the future of AI and the role of open source in this trend. Cities, nation-states, and private and public organizations are interested in “sovereign" AI infrastructure as a way to build localized, relevant, and privacy-preserving solutions. LF Research, LF AI & Data, and Futurewei have partnered on a research study to explore this phenomenon, its motivations, challenges, and implications, and the role of open source in this context. In this session, we will discuss the key findings from the study’s webinar series and industry survey, reviewing the insights captured from technology leaders, practitioners, and decision-makers across companies, government agencies, and institutions actively working with AI. The panelists will present study results showing how and why organizations are implementing Responsible AI across different regions, standards and protocols needed to connect sovereign AI systems, and practical ways open source technologies are helping bridge separate AI ecosystems. We will also share concrete evidence on how organizations balance technological sovereignty with ongoing global collaboration.

Speakers

Cailean Osborne

Senior Researcher, Linux Foundation

Cailean is a Senior Researcher at the Linux Foundation, who has a PhD in Social Data Science from the University of Oxford and 7+ years experience in (open source) AI research, policy, and business development. Previously, Cailean worked as the International Policy Lead at the UK... Read More →

Anni Lai

Chair of Generative AI Commons, LF AI & Data, Futurewei

Anni currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Generative AI Commons under LF AI & Data and is also a member LF Europe Advisory Board.

Hilary Carter

SVP Research, The Linux Foundation

Hilary Carter is a writer, researcher, and team leader, producing engaging, decision-useful insights that broaden the understanding of open source and emerging technologies and their impact on business, government, and society. She has contributed to books and numerous research reports... Read More →

Anna Hermansen

Researcher and Ecosystem Manager, The Linux Foundation

Anna is the Ecosystem Manager for LF Research where she supports end-to-end management of the department's research projects. She has conducted qualitative and systematic review research on the integration of technologies to better support health data sharing. Her interests lie at... Read More →

Adrienn Lawson

Director of Quantitative Research, Linux Foundation

ADRIENN LAWSON serves as Director of Quantitative Research at the Linux Foundation, where she leads data-driven initiatives to understand open source ecosystems. With expertise in social data science from the University of Oxford and a background spanning academic and governmental... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:00 CEST
Auditorium

Breakout Sessions, Sustainability, Ethics and Responsible AI

15:35 CEST

Revolutionizing Cross-Platform AI in Containers: The Future With WebGPU - Aditya Soni, Forrester Research & Anshika Tiwari, AWS

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:00 CEST

Emerald Room

This talk explores groundbreaking methods for enhancing cross-platform AI workloads within container ecosystems. The focus will be on integrating the WebGPU standard into containers, enabling them to utilize host GPUs and other AI accelerators through a flexible API. This approach eliminates the need for creating container images specific to individual GPU vendors and their proprietary drivers.

Speakers

Aditya Soni

SRE/DevOps, CNCF Ambassador, Forrester Research

Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Searce, and is currently positioned at Forrester Research as a DevOps Engineer II. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He is a CNCF Ambassador... Read More →

Anshika Tiwari

CSA - Cloud Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Anshika is a passionate DevOps/SRE Engineer who is always eager to learn & implement cloud-native solutions, she has contributed to streamlining deployment processes and enhancing system reliability. She is eager to share her experiences and insights at conferences, contributing to... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:00 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, Edge and Distributed AI

15:35 CEST

Vector Search Made Simple: Getting Started With OpenSearch for AI Applications - Dotan Horovits, OpenSearch

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:00 CEST

G105

OpenSearch has evolved from search to a powerful vector database solution. This talk will begin by explaining the transition from traditional lexical search to vector-based similarity search, and how OpenSearch combines both approaches in one complete package.

Speakers

Dotan Horovits

Sr. Developer Advocate, OpenSearch

Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as a CNCF Ambassador, and host of the popular OpenObservability Talks podcast.

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:00 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, Data Management and Processing

15:35 CEST

Technical Workshop: Sarcastically Speaking: Unlocking Multi-modal Sentiment Analysis With NLP and Facial Expressions - David vonThenen, DigitalOcean

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:35 CEST

G104

Sentiment analysis is easy—until sarcasm enters the chat. Traditional natural language processing models often stumble when trying to decode sarcastic nuances, missing crucial contextual cues and delivering misleading results. To tackle this, we will explore a multi-modal approach that integrates facial expression analysis with textual inputs, dramatically improving accuracy in sentiment detection, particularly for sarcasm. By combining transformer-based NLP models and facial landmark detection, we create a richer, context-aware understanding of sentiment.

Speakers

David vonThenen

AI/ML Engineer, DigitalOcean

David is a Senior AI/ML Engineer who is dedicated to empowering developers to build, scale, and deploy AI/ML models in production. He brings deep expertise in building and training models for applications like NLP, data visualization, and real-time analytics. His mission is to help... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 15:35 - 16:35 CEST
G104

Technical Workshops, Multimodality

16:10 CEST

Declarative Device Virtualization: Orchestrating GPUs & Hardware in Cloud Native Environments - Samrat Priyadarshi, Google

Friday August 29, 2025 16:10 - 16:35 CEST

G001-002

This session explores how declarative pipelines revolutionize GPU and hardware virtualization within Kubernetes. We'll address the challenges of managing specialized hardware resources in cloud-native applications and demonstrate how to orchestrate virtualized devices with ease. Attendees will learn to define device configurations using YAML, deploy virtualized GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators into Kubernetes clusters, and automate complex hardware interactions. We'll cover practical examples of using declarative pipelines for AI/ML workloads, edge computing, and high-performance computing (HPC). This talk empowers developers and operators to unlock the full potential of hardware resources, building scalable, resilient, and adaptable device virtualization solutions, specifically focusing on GPU management and optimization.

Speakers

Samrat Priyadarshi

Cloud Engineer, Google

Samrat is a Cloud Engineer at Google with 8 years of experience in Cloud Computing focussing mainly on Kubernetes and related landscapes. He has delivered multiple international and national conferences including Open Source Summit, Japan, 2024. He has a Youtube channel with more... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 16:10 - 16:35 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Scalability and Cloud-Native AI

16:10 CEST

Defining Open Source AI: Can the “Judgement of Solomon” Help the Open Source Community Find Success? - Jeffrey Borek, IBM

Friday August 29, 2025 16:10 - 16:35 CEST

Auditorium

When faced with a difficult challenge sometimes it helps to look back at lessons from ancient history to guide your thinking. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is working to create a definition for Open Source AI (OSAID), aiming to apply open source principles to artificial intelligence development, but clearly the 1.0 version is a work-in-progress. Can it find success? How may policy-makers react? Join this session to hear about the latest efforts to define open source AI and what's likely in store for 2025.

Speakers

Jeff Borek

WW Sr. Program Director, IBM

Working across IBM Research to build a scalable and consistent AI software supply chain security framework, while continuing to lead the consumption compliance Open Source Program Office (OSPO), including policy, execution and guidance. Working with IBM Government & Regulatory Affairs... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 16:10 - 16:35 CEST
Auditorium

Breakout Sessions, AI Community and Ecosystem

16:10 CEST

InfiniEdge AI: Bringing Open-Source Generative AI To the Edge - Tina Tsou, TikTok

Friday August 29, 2025 16:10 - 16:35 CEST

G105

Generative AI has made headlines with large models powering everything from chatbots to image synthesis—but these advancements usually rely on heavyweight cloud infrastructure. InfiniEdge AI is an open-source edge AI framework (under LF Edge) that enables those same powerful generative models to run on edge devices and distributed edge clouds. This talk will explore how InfiniEdge AI brings generative AI capabilities closer to users, enabling real-time responses, improved privacy (since data stays on device), and reduced latency even in offline or bandwidth-constrained environments. We’ll dive into the architecture of InfiniEdge AI and show how it optimizes large language models (LLMs) and other generative models through techniques like model compression and efficient inferencing on resource-constrained hardware. Attendees will see demos of edge-based AI (e.g., running a mini GPT-style assistant on a phone) and learn how open-source collaboration is accelerating GenAI innovation beyond the data center.

Speakers

Tina Tsou

Director, External Tech Influence, TikTok

Tina Tsou is a seasoned software engineer and open source advocate at TikTok. With over a decade of experience designing scalable systems, she is passionate about empowering communities to collaborate and drive technological innovation through inclusive, community-led practices.

Friday August 29, 2025 16:10 - 16:35 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, AI Agents

16:10 CEST

Ryoma: Building Open Source AI Agents for Enterprise Data Analysis - Hao Xu, JP Morgan & Chase & Fang Feng, Lyra Health

Friday August 29, 2025 16:10 - 16:35 CEST

Emerald Room

Ryoma democratizes enterprise-grade data analysis by providing an open, extensible AI agent framework that integrates seamlessly with modern data stacks. By enabling natural language querying and intelligent workflows, it empowers organizations of all sizes to build powerful data assistants without heavy engineering overhead. Its adoption by companies like JPMorgan, PayPal, and TikTok showcases its real-world impact, while its open-source nature fosters community innovation, standardization, and collaboration across the AI and data ecosystem.

Speakers

Fang Feng

Lead AI Engineer, Lyra Health

Fang Feng (she/her) is the Lead AI Engineer at Lyra Health, where she develops advanced AI solutions to address pressing challenges in mental and behavioral healthcare. Previously, she worked as the director of Risk Management at Mulligan Funding and senior Machine Learning Engineer... Read More →

Hao Xu

Lead Software Engineer, JP Morgan & Chase

I currently serve as a Staff software engineer at Apple, having previously held a position on the ML Platform team at JP Morgan and Affirm, and a TAC committee in LF AI & Data foundation. My specialization lies in developing machine learning infrastructure, strong in advanced tools... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 16:10 - 16:35 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, AI Agents

16:45 CEST

AI Showdown: Open Source Tools for LLM Face-Offs - Jigyasa Grover, Independent & Rishabh Misra, Attentive

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST

G001-002

In this session, we will explore how open-source tools like LLM Comparator can revolutionize the way we evaluate and compare LLMs. LLM Comparator, an interactive tool with a companion Python library, enables developers to scale and simplify the process of side-by-side model evaluation. We'll cover how this open-source solution enhances transparency, fosters collaboration, and accelerates model optimization within the AI community.

Speakers

Jigyasa Grover

AI Lead, Data Scientist & ML Engineer • 10x AI & Open Source Award Winner • Google Developer Expert • 'Sculpting Data for ML' Book Author

Jigyasa Grover, a 10-time AI award winner and author of book, Sculpting Data For ML, has expertise in ML engineering at Twitter, Facebook, and Faire. A Google Developer Expert and Women Techmaker Ambassador, she was featured at at Google I/O 2024 on Gemini 1.5 Pro. As a World Economic... Read More →

Rishabh Misra

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Attentive

Author of the book "Sculpting Data for ML", I am a Staff ML Engineer & Researcher recognized by the US Government for outstanding contribution to ML research. I have extensively published and reviewed research at top AI conferences in NLP (LLMs / GenAI), Deep Learning, and Applied... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Eval Frameworks and LLM Ops

16:45 CEST

Organize AI Chaos With Platform Engineering - Sebastien Blanc, Port

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST

G105

Okay, so Platform Engineering blew up around the same time AI did, right?

Speakers

Sébastien Blanc

Developer Relations Engineer, Port

Sébastien Blanc, leading Developer Retation's at Port, is a Passion-Driven-Developer with one primary goal : share his passion by giving talks that are pragmatic, fun and focused on live coding.

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, AI in Industry and Enterprise

16:45 CEST

The Self-Healing Pipeline: How Dagger + LLMs Are Making Traditional CI/CD Obsolete - Vikram Vaswani, None

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST

Auditorium

CI/CD pipelines are stuck in the past - static, fragile, and demanding constant upkeep. But what if your pipeline could think for itself? Imagine a system that diagnoses failures, suggests fixes, and continuously evolves with your codebase!

Speakers

Vikram Vaswani

Consultant

Vikram Vaswani is an open source consultant with 22+ years of software engineering experience. He is the author of seven books on software and database programming for The McGraw-Hill Companies. In addition to his technical expertise, he is well-versed in product lifecycle management... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST
Auditorium

Breakout Sessions, AI Agents

16:45 CEST

Unlocking Networking AI Innovation: Introducing Essedum - Ranny Haiby, The Linux Foundation

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST

G104

In today's increasingly complex and dynamic network environments, traditional monitoring and management approaches often fall short. Artificial intelligence offers immense potential to revolutionize network operations, security, and optimization. This session will introduce Essedum, an open-source framework designed specifically to empower developers and network engineers to build intelligent AI applications for network analysis, automation, and prediction.

Speakers

Ranny Haiby

CTO Networking, Edge and Access, The Linux Foundation

Ranny is in charge of driving technical innovation and creating opportunities for synergies among open source projects, and identifying emerging trends and projects.

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST
G104

Breakout Sessions, AI Code Generation and Developer Tools

16:45 CEST

When Kubernetes Meets MLflow: Orchestrating MLOps Processes the Cloud Native Way - Diego Braga, Krateo

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST

Emerald Room

In this talk, we’ll explore how to leverage Kubernetes as an orchestration layer for MLOps workflows powered by MLflow. We’ll show how to combine the flexibility of cloud-native control with the modular capabilities of MLflow to build scalable, reproducible, and secure pipelines. From container management to experiment tracking and model deployment, we’ll walk through a practical strategy to build a modern MLOps environment that balances autonomy with governance. Real-world examples and field-tested best practices are included.

Speakers

Diego Braga

Chief Technology Officer, Krateo

Diego Braga is CTO at Krateo PlatformOps. Diego has spent the last 10 years building open-source architectures for customers, from embedded devices to large-scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and on emerging patterns... Read More →

Friday August 29, 2025 16:45 - 17:10 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, Eval Frameworks and LLM Ops