FOSDEM 2025 - Low-Level AI Engineering & Hacking Dev Room

Thank you for submitting your amazing abstracts. We look forward to announcing the selected topics here on December 11.

We aspire for this DevRoom to become as important to the AI community as the Linux Plumbers Conference is to the Linux community.

We are bringing together the top developers working on the essential “plumbing” of the AI industry: hardware accelerators, math kernel libraries, model quantization techniques, low-level inference, fine-tuning engines, distributed and rack-scale computing, and more. Together, we will spend the day discussing core designs and collaborating to solve governance problems.

We are looking for low-level AI core open source project maintainers and committers (such as ggml, llama.cpp and llamafile), downstream projects building on top of these (for example, ollama, ramalama and Podman AI Lab), as well as end-users of AI stacks to speak about their work and expertise.

KEY DATES AND LOGISTICS

Conference dates: 1 & 2 February 2025

AI DevRoom: Sunday February 2nd, 2025 (whole day)

Submission deadline: December 1st, 2024

Announcement of selected talks: December, 11th 2024

Where: FOSDEM 2025, ULB Campus Solbosch, Brussels, Belgium

Format: Single track, 10 - 20 minute technical session

ABOUT FOSDEM

FOSDEM is a non-commercial event organized by the community for the community. It will take place on the weekend of February 1 and 2, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium. Participation is free and open to everyone. Last year, attendance exceeded 8,000 participants.

FOSDEM is free to attend. There is no registration.

USEFUL LINKS

FOSDEM 2025 website
FOSDEM Code of Conduct

ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

AI Industry Heros

Meet some unsung heroes of the industry who “thanklessly maintain the “load-bearing” technologies powering much of the AI ecosystem

Justine Tunney

Contributor to Llamafile, Llama.cpp, Cosmopolitan and Redbean

Iwan Kawrakow

Contributor to Llama.cpp, IK_Llama.cpp, IK_Llamafile

Organizers

The organizing committee for this devroom

Gianluca Guida

Hypervisors, Operating Systems, Security, Analog Electronics, AI

Jarek Potiuk

Contributor to Apache Airflow. Member of The Apache Software Foundation

JJ Ashgar

Developer Advocate at IBM

Luca Corbucci

PhD Student, KDD Lab

Roman Shaposhnik

CTO & Co-Founder of Ainekko, Co-founder of AIFoundry,
VP of Legal at The Apache Software Foundation

Sanjay Nadhavajhala

Lead AI engineer @ Acorn Labs, Rubra.ai

Tanya Dadasheva

CEO & Co-Founder at Ainekko, Co-founder of AIFoundry

William Jones

AI & Machine Learning Lead at Embecosm

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CALL FOR SPONSORS

Contribute to this event

FOSDEM Developer Rooms are free for attendees, and speakers are not paid. Our event is dependent on the generosity of people and organizations. We're looking for contributions such as:

Funding t-shirts or stickers
Sponsoring a speaker's dinner
Catering and drinks during the event
Gifts for speakers

We will be happy to show your sponsorship here and can accommodate displays at the event, such as pop-up banners.

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