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

28-29, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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11:15 CEST

Reverse Engineering Using LLMs - Vutukuri Sreenivas, Stackup

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 CEST

G105

Speakers

Vutukuri Sreenivas

Community Evangalist, Stackup

Vutukuri Sreenivas is a tech enthusiast buzzing with excitement about how innovation shapes our world. A final-year B.Tech student at Presidency University, Bangalore, he’s diving into DevOps and cloud-native tech, exploring tools like Kubernetes. Sreenivas mentors coders at Google... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, AI Code Generation and Developer Tools

11:15 CEST

Securing AI Pipelines: Real-World Attacks on Kubernetes-Based AI Infrastructure - Abhinav Sharma, KodeKloud

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 CEST

G001-002

When an ML engineer deploys a Stable Diffusion model to Kubernetes, they unwittingly create an attack surface unlike anything traditional security teams have encountered. I discovered this firsthand after our "perfectly secured" AI cluster was compromised.

Speakers

Abhinav Sharma

Site Reliability Engineer, KodeKloud

I am Site Reliability Engineer at KodeKloud . I am an Open source contributor, evaluating and contributed in various open source tools and projects, such as, Microsoft's Open source libraries, OpenCV, SUSE, etc. I was also a Google Summer of Code contributor 2022 and a GitHub Extern... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Scalability and Cloud-Native AI

11:15 CEST

Sponsored Session: Vibing with Data -- Multi-Agent Data Modeling and Construction - Andreas Kollegger, Neo4j

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 CEST

Auditorium

Vibe coding is an amazing force multiplier. What about code's sidekick, data? Working with data could be like that too! We'll walk through a multi-agent system for data analysis, schema creation and knowledge graph construction.

We'll see how to:
- generate a schema from a pile of files, then import them
- generate a schema for a domain, then synthesize the data
- attach hints for later retrieval

Speakers

Andreas Kollegger

Senior Developer Advocate, Neo4j

Andreas is a technological humanist. Starting at NASA, Andreas designed systems from scratch to support science missions. Then in Zambia, he built medical informatics systems to apply technology for social good. Now with Neo4j, he is democratizing graph databases to validate and extend... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 CEST
Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

11:15 CEST

Trust but Verify: Lessons Learned Building an SRE AI Agent - Sebastian Stadil, Scalr

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 CEST

G104

The allure of AI automating complex infrastructure management on AWS, Azure, and GCP is strong. Promises of self-healing systems, predictive scaling, and optimized resource utilization abound. However, the core principles of Site Reliability Engineering – prioritizing stability, reliability, and predictability – clash with the "black box" nature and potential unpredictability of AI. This session dives into the SRE perspective, exploring the inherent risks of letting current AI models directly manage production Kubernetes clusters and cloud resources. We'll outline the non-negotiable safeguards, controls, and observability required before SREs can cautiously embrace AI, moving from hype to hardened reality. Learn practical approaches like GitOps integration, policy enforcement, human-in-the-loop validation, and robust monitoring needed to bridge the gap between AI's potential and production safety.

Speakers

Sebastian Stadil

Cofounder, Scalr

Scalr founder

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:15 - 11:40 CEST
G104

Breakout Sessions, AI Agents

11:50 CEST

AGENTS OF S.E.A.L.E.D: AI Agentic Cybersecurity Framework - Krishnendu Dasgupta, AXONVERTEX AI

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST

G104

Speakers

Krishnendu Dasgupta

Founder, Independent AI Researcher, AXONVERTEX AI

Krishnendu Dasgupta is an engineer with 14+ years in applied Machine Learning . His interests span across healthcare, generative AI, and decentralized AI. He is currently applying AI innovation in clinical trials, graph ML, NLP, and privacy-preserving AI. A Stanford Code in Place... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST
G104

Breakout Sessions, AI Agents

11:50 CEST

Beyond Prompts: Building Intelligent Applications With Genkit and the Model Context Protocol - Peter Friese, Google

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST

Emerald Room

LLMs have democratized AI, making it more accessible for everyone. But today’s chat bots still feel very disconnected. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use AI to tap into your personal knowledge and data, and use it to drive the tools you already know and love? Imagine using a chat bot to create your next pitch deck, or generating bespoke 3D scenes for your next home decoration project using inexpensive tools like Blender. In this talk, I'll show you how this is possible with tools like Genkit and MPC, the Model Context Protocol.

Speakers

Peter Friese

Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Peter is a Staff Developer Advocate on the Firebase at Google, helping developers build amazing experiences and high quality apps using Firebase and AI.

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, AI Agents

11:50 CEST

Unlocking Scalable Distributed Training With Arrow Data Cache on Kubernetes - Ricardo Aravena, Snowflake & Andrey Velichkevich, Apple

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST

G001-002

As the scale of AI models and training datasets grows, so does the complexity of efficiently feeding data into GPU-accelerated training workloads. Traditional I/O stacks are becoming a bottleneck—especially in cloud native environments—where elasticity and performance must go hand in hand. This talk introduces an open-source, Arrow-based data cache for distributed training workloads on Kubernetes and tabular datasets stored as Apache Iceberg tables.

Speakers

Ricardo Aravena

Software Engineer, Snowflake

Ricardo is making daily impactful contributions as an AI Infrastructure Lead at Snowflake. He's passionate about open source in various roles, such as co-chairing the CNCF TAG-Runtime and leading the Cloud Native AI Working Group. With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry... Read More →

Andrey Velichkevich

Software Engineer, Apple

Andrey Velichkevich is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple and is a key contributor to the Kubeflow open-source project. He is a member of Kubeflow Steering Committee and a co-chair of Kubeflow AutoML and Training WG. Additionally, Andrey is an active member of the CNCF WG AI. He... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Scalability and Cloud-Native AI

11:50 CEST

Vision Language Models : An Introduction - Satya Mallick, OpenCV

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST

G105

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as powerful tools capable of understanding and interpreting both visual imagery and natural language. In this talk, we’ll dive into VLMs and how they work without getting bogged down in tech jargon.

Speakers

Satya Mallick

CEO, OpenCV

Dr. Satya Mallick is the CEO of OpenCV.org - the non-profit that maintains the largest computer vision library in the world. He is the founder of Big Vision LLC, a computer vision and AI consulting company. Previously, Dr. Mallick co-founded Sight Commerce Inc., where he led the team... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, Multimodality

13:35 CEST

EVE: An Open Source Earth Science LLM for Researchers, Policymakers, and the Public - Àlex R. Atrio, Vijayasri Iyer & Antonio Lopez, Pi School

Thursday August 28, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST

G104

EVE (Earth Virtual Expert) is an open-source domain-specific large language model designed to democratize access to Earth Observation (EO) and Earth Science (ES) knowledge. Backed by the European Space Agency and developed by Pi School and Imperative Space, EVE bridges AI and EO through domain-adaptive pre-training, instruction tuning, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation. It supports multiple user groups—from scientists and students to journalists and decision-makers—by enabling factual, source-grounded, and explainable interactions with EO content. This talk outlines EVE’s training pipeline, data compliance approach, performance benchmarks, and open-source contributions, including models, datasets, and legal compliance guides. We'll also share lessons from human evaluations, infrastructure challenges, and our roadmap toward an EO digital assistant.

Speakers

Àlex R. Atrio

Senior Deep Learning Scientist, Pi School

Àlex R. Atrio is a Senior Deep Learning Scientist at Pi School in Rome, leading development on EVE, an open-source LLM for Earth Observation and Earth Science in collaboration with ESA’s Φ-lab. He holds a PhD in Machine Translation from EPFL/HEIG-VD and has a background in NLP... Read More →

Antonio Lopez

Deep Learning Scientist, Pi School

Antonio Lopez is a passionate developer with a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Bologna, specializing in Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

Vijayasri Iyer

Machine Learning Scientist, Pi School Srl

Vijayasri Iyer is a Machine Learning Scientist at Pi School, where she has led multiple international teams in developing Generative AI solutions. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in IT, Master’s in AI and certifications in Technology Policy and AI Safety.

Thursday August 28, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST
G104

Breakout Sessions, Open Models

13:35 CEST

From Hours To Milliseconds: Scaling AI Inference 10x With Serverless on Kubernetes - Anmol Krishan Sachdeva & Paras Mamgain, Google

Thursday August 28, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST

G001-002

Imagine deploying a complex AI model for real-time inference, but facing latency that slows down your application. We've all been there. This talk isn't just about theoretical serverless benefits; it's about real-world performance gains. We'll show you how we slashed inference latency from several seconds to under 100 milliseconds, achieving a 10x improvement in throughput, by harnessing the power of serverless on Kubernetes.

Speakers

Paras Mamgain

Software Engineer, Google

Paras has been an active speaker sharing his technical expertise at Google tech conferences, Linux Foundations Open source summit in Japan and North America. Paras is a highly skilled backend developer with a passion for information retrieval and a knack for translating complex technical... Read More →

Anmol Krishan Sachdeva

Sr. Hybrid Cloud Architect, Google

Anmol is a seasoned International Tech Speaker (delivered 75+ talks), a Distinguished Guest Lecturer, an active conference organizer, and has published several notable papers. He works at Google and focuses on Emerging Technologies.

Thursday August 28, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Inferencing and GPU Acceleration

13:35 CEST

Sponsored Session: DeepSeek-R1: Game Changing Power of AI Reasoning Models - Ozgun Erdogan, Ubicloud

Thursday August 28, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST

Auditorium

The frontier in AI models is shifting from general purpose LLMs (like GPT-4o) to advanced reasoning models. Models like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 can now think through the question; and they excel in math and coding benchmarks.

This talk first describes how these models are taught to reason on hard questions. We then talk about DeepSeek-R1, a state of the art open source model. We conclude by examining DeepSeek's desirable properties and why it took the world by storm.

Speakers

Ozgun Erdogan

Founder & Co-CEO, Ubicloud

I'm the co-founder at Ubicloud, an open source alternative to AWS.Previously, I was a partner at Microsoft, leading PostgreSQL engineering teams. I came to Microsoft through its acquisition of Citus Data. I was the cofounder and CTO at Citus, and I learned a lot about doing startups... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST
Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

13:35 CEST

What's Coming Next After OSAID V.1 - Stefano Maffulli, Open Source Initiative

Thursday August 28, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST

G105

In October 2024 the Open Source Initiative (OSI) unveiled the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) v.1, concluding a multi-year, world-wide community effort.

Speakers

Stefano Maffulli

Executive Director, Open Source Initiative

Stefano joined OSI in 2021 after decades of open source advocacy, both as a contributor and leader. He co-founded and led the Italian chapter of FSFE from 2001 to 2007, structured the developer community of the OpenStack Foundation and subsequently led open source marketing teams... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 13:35 - 14:00 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, AI Community and Ecosystem

14:10 CEST

Fast Inference, Furious Scaling: Leveraging VLLM With KServe - Rafael Vasquez, IBM

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST

G001-002

In this talk, we will introduce two open-source projects vLLM and KServe and explain how they can be integrated to leverage better performance and scalability for LLMs in production. The session will include a demo showcasing their integration.

Speakers

Rafael Vasquez

Open Source Software Developer, IBM

Rafael Vasquez is a software developer on the Open Technology team at IBM. He previously completed an MASc. working on self-driving car research and transitioned from a data scientist role in the retail field to his current role where he continues to grow his passion for MLOps and... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Scalability and Cloud-Native AI

14:10 CEST

LLM-generated Code and Open Source License Compliance: How Big Is the Problem? - Oscar Enrique Goñi, UNICEN

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST

G105

Recent research has raised concerns about LLM-generated code exhibiting significant similarity to their training data, raising potential legal issues with incompatible software licenses. While Xu et al. established a benchmark for evaluating this phenomenon through their LiCoEVAL benchmark, showing small but significant portions of LLM outputs containing "notably similar" code to existing open-source implementations, these findings were limited by the scope of their reference dataset.

Speakers

Oscar Enrique Goñi

Proffessor - Researcher, UNICEN

Oscar Enrique Goñi is a systems engineer who graduated from the National University of the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Exact Sciences (Argentina, 2009), and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of La Plata (Argentina, 2015). Since... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, Sustainability, Ethics and Responsible AI

14:10 CEST

Sponsored Session: Beyond Code Completion: The Shift of AI Programming from Pair to Peer - Nicky Pike, Coder

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST

Auditorium

Software development is seeing a shift in how humans and AI interact. What began as simple code completion and suggestion within the IDE has become so much more. We're now seeing AI agents function like pair programming partners, similar to junior developers who can take on GitHub issues but still need guidance and review. At Coder, we've been testing AI agents within our Cloud Development Environments by letting them tackle actual development tasks. In this talk, I'll show you where AI pairing partners excel (documentation, quick prototyping) and where they still struggle. I'll also explore what's coming next: the shift toward "peer programming" where AI becomes a more trusted partner with greater autonomy. You'll see real examples of productivity gains we've measured, learn how to provide isolated environments for safe AI interaction, and walk away with practical steps to start leveraging AI's evolution from helpful assistant to development partner. Whether you're just experimenting with code assistance or ready to deploy AI agents at scale, this session will help you navigate this rapidly changing technology.

Speakers

Nicky Pike

DevRel Lead, Coder

Nicky Pike is a Developer Relations lead at Coder after spending 20+ years making developers' lives easier at some of tech's biggest names. From launching Xbox Live to rebuilding how CVS Health develops software, he's helped shape developer productivity and team experiences at Microsoft... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST
Auditorium

Breakout Sessions

14:10 CEST

Turning Emissions Data Into Climate Actions With CityCatalyst - Mirco Rudolph, OpenEarth Foundation

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST

G104

Cities are responsible for over 70% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet only 5% have GHG inventories in place. CityCatalyst is an open-source platform created to close this gap by helping cities build GHG inventories aligned with the international GPC Protocol and receive AI-powered recommendations for mitigation and adaptation actions based on their urban profile, climate risks, and emissions data.

Speakers

Mirco Rudolph

AI Engineer, OpenEarth Foundation

Mirco Rudolph is an AI Applications Engineer at the OpenEarth Foundation, contributing to CityCatalyst, an open-source platform that helps cities build Greenhouse Gas inventories and prioritize climate actions using ML models and LLMs. With a diverse interdisciplinary background in... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:10 - 14:35 CEST
G104

Breakout Sessions, Sustainability, Ethics and Responsible AI

14:45 CEST

Docling: Get Your Documents Ready for Gen AI - Michele Dolfi & Peter Staar, IBM Research

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST

Emerald Room

Docling, an open source package, is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for document parsing and export in the Python community. Earning close to 30,000 GitHub in less than one year and now part of the Linux AI & Data Foundation. Docling is redefining document AI with its ease and speed of use. In this session, we’ll introduce Docling and its features, including how:

Speakers

Michele Dolfi

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research

Dr. Michele Dolfi is a technical lead in the AI for Knowledge group at IBM Research, focusing on knowledge engineering and understanding. Michele is one of the researchers who created the Deep Search platform and the Docling open source project. His expertise spans from artificial... Read More →

Peter Staar

Research Manager, IBM Research

Phd in theoretical physics, interested in AI, high performance computing and document processing. Chair of the technical steering committee of Docling.

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, Data Management and Processing

14:45 CEST

RamaLama: Making Working With AI Models Cloud Native and Boring - Eric Curtin, Red Hat

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST

G001-002

Managing and deploying AI models can often require extensive system configuration and complex software dependencies. RamaLama, a new open-source tool, aims to make working with AI models straightforward by leveraging container technology, making the process "boring"—predictable, reliable, and easy to manage. RamaLama integrates with container engines like Podman and Docker to deploy AI models within containers, eliminating the need for manual configuration and ensuring optimal setup for both CPU and GPU systems.

Speakers

Eric Curtin

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working on AI and Automotive. Upstream maintainer of RamaLama, llama.cpp inotify-tools, ostree, etc.

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Inferencing and GPU Acceleration

14:45 CEST

Scaling Test-time Inference Compute - Jayita Bhattacharyya, Deloitte

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST

G105

Enabling LLMs to improve their outputs by using more test-time computation is a critical step towards building generally self-improving agents that can operate on open-ended natural language. The scaling of inference-time computation in LLMs, with a focus on answering the question: if an LLM is allowed to use a fixed but non-trivial amount of inference-time compute, how much can it improve its performance on a challenging prompt? Answering this question has implications not only on the achievable performance of LLMs, but also on the future of LLM pretraining and how one should tradeoff inference-time and pre-training compute. Despite its importance, little research attempted to understand the scaling behaviors of various test-time inference methods.

Speakers

Jayita Bhattacharyya

Data Scientist, Deloitte

Passionate about AI/ML space and keen to adopt new technologies for solving real-world problems. The work focus these days is on generative AI. Along with the team, we help customers incorporate AI into software engineering.

Thursday August 28, 2025 14:45 - 15:10 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, Inferencing and GPU Acceleration

15:40 CEST

AI-Powered Search in Modern E-Commerce - Stanko Kuveljic, SmartCat.io

Thursday August 28, 2025 15:40 - 16:05 CEST

Emerald Room

In the competitive world of e-commerce, relevant search results directly impact business outcomes. This presentation explores:

Speakers

Stanko Kuveljic

Head of Machine Learning Engineering, SmartCat.io

Machine Learning Engineering Leader with 8+ years of experience architecting production ML systems across e-commerce, hospitality, and online betting. Expert in semantic search, recommendation engines, AI agents, and MLOps. Scaled ML team in company while maintaining hands-on involvement... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 15:40 - 16:05 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, AI in Industry and Enterprise

15:40 CEST

From Cold Start To Warp Speed: Triton Kernel Caching With OCI Container Images - Maryam Tahhan & Alessandro Sangiorgi, Red Hat

Thursday August 28, 2025 15:40 - 16:05 CEST

G001-002

Model startup latency is a persistent bottleneck for modern inference workloads, particularly when using custom kernels written in Triton that are Just In Time (JIT) compiled. In this talk, we’ll present a novel approach to speeding up model boot times by wrapping Triton kernel caches in OCI container images.

Speakers

Maryam Tahhan

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Maryam is a Principal Engineer on the Emerging Tech team in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat. Her research is focused on Networking and Sustainability. She's contributed to and led several OpenSource projects. She has been working on AF_XDP and preparing it for cloud native use cases... Read More →

Alessandro Sangiorgi

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Alessandro Sangiorgi is a Software Engineer in the Emerging Technologies Group within the Office of the CTO at Red Hat. He has extensive experience across Cloud, Distributed Systems, AI, and Networking products and technologies.

Thursday August 28, 2025 15:40 - 16:05 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Scalability and Cloud-Native AI

16:15 CEST

Building a Conversational Knowledge Base - Kerim Satirli, Independent & Tu Nguyen, HashiCorp

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:15 - 16:40 CEST

Emerald Room

As software engineers, we love to build good, maintainable code that works and doesn't panic. Or at least, that's what we aspire to.

Speakers

Kerim Satirli

Senior Developer Advocate, HashiCorp

Kerim is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp and a Microsoft MVP for DevOps practices.

Tu Nguyen

Staff Education Engineer, HashiCorp

I am a technical leader with a passion for technology and education. I currently help people learn HashiCorp products. Previously, I built engaging, interactive tutorials for Terraform and Packer, and managed the Consul Education team. I also advise DreamsForSchools in designing computer... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:15 - 16:40 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, Open Models

16:15 CEST

RAG at Scale: Logging, Traceability, and the Architecture for Control - Alison Cossette, Neo4j

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:15 - 16:40 CEST

G104

RAG pipelines are everywhere—but most are barely holding together. As GenAI moves from demos to production, the cracks are showing: silent failures, hallucinations, and a total lack of insight into what your AI is actually doing.

Speakers

Alison Cossette

Developer Relations, Neo4j

Alison Cossette is a Developer Advocate at Neo4j, specializing in Graph Data Science. She blends deep technical expertise with a passion for responsible AI, advocating for transparency and ethical practices in GenAI. A podcast host and educator, she bridges data science and real-world... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:15 - 16:40 CEST
G104

Breakout Sessions, RAG & LLM Frameworks

16:15 CEST

Streamlining AI Pipelines With Elyra: From Development To Inference With KServe & VLLM - Ritesh Shah, Red Hat

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:15 - 16:40 CEST

G001-002

This session will explore how Elyra, an open source project that extends the JupyterLab user interface to simplify the development of data science and AI models, empowers data scientists and ML engineers to build, automate, and optimize end-to-end AI/ML pipelines with ease. We’ll demonstrate how Elyra’s visual pipeline editor simplifies workflow orchestration while integrating seamlessly with Kubeflow, other MLOps tools.

Speakers

Ritesh Shah

Senior Principal Architect, Red Hat

Ritesh Shah is a Senior Principal Architect with Red Hat and focuses on creating and using next-generation platforms, including AI/ML workloads as well as application modernisation and deployment.

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:15 - 16:40 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, AI Code Generation and Developer Tools

16:50 CEST

Breaking RAG Systems: Exploiting Vulnerabilities & Hardening Your GenAI Applications - Abhinav Sharma, KodeKloud

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 CEST

G104

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems are quickly becoming the backbone of enterprise GenAI applications, but they introduce unique security risks that most teams overlook. In this hands-on session, I'll demonstrate real vulnerabilities I've discovered in production RAG systems and show you exactly how to fix them. We'll start by breaking things - I'll perform live attacks including:

Speakers

Abhinav Sharma

Site Reliability Engineer, KodeKloud

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 CEST
G104

Breakout Sessions, RAG & LLM Frameworks

16:50 CEST

How We Built Our First MCP Server: Lessons From the Trenches at Hud - May Walter, Hud

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 CEST

Emerald Room

Building a protocol-based server from scratch is never just about code—it’s about discovery, mistakes, iteration, and ultimately, crafting something meaningful from raw ideas. In this talk, we’ll share the behind-the-scenes story of how we at Hud built our first MCP (Message-Client-Protocol) server—what MCP is (and what it’s not), why we needed it, and how we got from an idea to a working production system.

Speakers

May Walter

Co-Founder & CTO, Hud

May Walter is a software engineer, researcher, entrepreneur and serial CTO. She is currently co-founder and CTO of Hud, a startup company still in stealth. Before Hud she was a founding team member and CTO at Santa, and prior to that CTO at Bond (acquired by REEF Technology), where... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 CEST
Emerald Room

Breakout Sessions, AI Code Generation and Developer Tools

16:50 CEST

Scalable LLM Inference on Kubernetes With NVIDIA NIMS, LangChain, Milvus and FluxCD - Riccardo Freschi, AWS

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 CEST

G001-002

Join us for a deep dive into architecting and implementing a scalable LLM inference service on Amazon EKS as the foundation for workload orchestrating, while incorporating NVIDIA NIMS for optimal GPU utilization, LangChain for flexible LLM operations, Milvus for efficient vector storage, FluxCD for GitOps-driven deployments, Karpenter for horizontal scaling and Prometheus and Grafana for Observability.

Speakers

Riccardo Freschi

Sr. Solution Architect, AWS

Riccardo Freschi is a Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS, focusing on Application Modernization. He works closely with partners and customers, to help them transform their IT landscapes in their journey to the AWS Cloud, by refactoring existing applications and building new ones, cloud... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, Inferencing and GPU Acceleration

16:50 CEST

Tiny Models Big Ideas : Quantization for Smarter Inference - Nikunj Goyal, Adobe & Aditi Gupta, Disney Hotstar

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 CEST

G105

With the rise of on-device intelligence, the push to run LLMs on edge hardware — phones, Raspberry Pis, even microcontrollers — is accelerating. At the heart of this revolution is quantization: the art of shrinking models without shrinking their intelligence.

Speakers

Aditi Gupta

Software Engineer , Disney Hotstar

I'm Aditi Gupta, a Software Developer Engineer. Graduated from Asia's largest tech university for women, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University,I've been deeply immersed in cloud-native technologies and AI/ML advancements. Skilled in containerisation, micro-service architecture... Read More →

Nikunj Goyal

Member of Technical Staff II, Adobe

Hi, I am Nikunj Goyal, working as a developer at Adobe and a Maths major from IIT Roorkee. I am working with AI and Machine Learning for some time mainly with Generative AI and graph based methods. I am a core part of Text-to-vector generation team at my org and previously worked... Read More →

Thursday August 28, 2025 16:50 - 17:15 CEST
G105

Breakout Sessions, 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

11:45 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

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 11:45 - 12:10 CEST
G001-002

Breakout Sessions, RAG & LLM Frameworks

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

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

14:45 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

15:35 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

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