Join the "Low Level AI Engineering & Hacking" Dev Room
This DevRoom is a celebration of Open Source Low-level AI projects of all types and sizes – the “plumbing” of the AI industry
We're looking for presenters!
We invite project contributors to present their features, architecture, design, real-world use cases, and integrations. We also encourage end users to share how open-source low-level AI projects are helping them solve their everyday challenges. Ultimately, we hope that this DevRoom will be a chance to identify collaboration opportunities between projects, and to discuss building opinionated AI stacks.
Topics we have in mind include:
- open source AI inference engines
- advances in specialized hardware acceleration (ASICS, RISC-V based accelerators, etc.)
- advanced topics in model quantization
- tools and technologies from HPC and computational science such as
- matmul kernels in various libraries (BLAS, cuBLAS, Auto-TVM)
- distributed computing for AI
- data preparation frameworks and how they map to DataEngineering practices
- GPGPU computing and accelerators (Vulkan, Kompute, ...)
- large-scale performance analysis and debugging
- discussion topics related to the use of free and open source software in the low-level AI engineering community
- governance of upstream-downstream relationships (llama.cpp and its downstream consumers, balkanization of llama.cpp/ggml landscape, ...)
Speaker's Guidelines
- Please submit your talk proposals at https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp
- FOSDEM is using a self-hosted Pretalx installation for managing talk submissions. You will need to create an account, if you don’t already have one.
- In the Submission notes, confirm that you will attend FOSDEM in person if your talk is accepted. We’re unable to fund travel or lodging for speakers, so make sure you have the means to attend.
- Select the "Low level AI engineering and hacking" track for your proposal.
- All presentations will be recorded and shared under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA or CC-BY). By submitting, you agree to these terms.”
- The Pretalx system will be open for applications from November, 1st, 2024 and closed on December 1st, 2024. The submission deadline is managed by the FOSDEM team and not by the devroom managers, which means that after that deadline nothing will be accepted. This is non-negotiable
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 ASF
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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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.