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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 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, 15th 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.

USEFULL LINKS

FOSDEM 2025 website
FOSDEM Code of Conduct 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

  • 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

 

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

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Justine Tunney

Contributor to Llamafile, Llama.cpp, Cosmopolitan and Redbean

Iwan

Iwan Kawrakow

Contributor to Llama.cpp, IK_Llama.cpp, IK_Llamafile

Organizers

The organizing committee for this devroom

gianluca

Gianluca Guida

Hypervisors, Operating Systems, Security, Analog Electronics, AI

jarek

Jarek Potiuk

Contributor to Apache Airflow. Member of The Apache Software Foundation

JJ

JJ Ashgar

Developer Advocate at IBM


luca

Luca Corbucci

PhD Student, KDD Lab


roman

Roman Shaposhnik

CTO & Co-Founder of Ainekko,  Co-founder of AIFoundry, VP of legal at ASF

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Sanjay Nadhavajhala

Lead AI engineer @ Acorn Labs, Rubra.ai

Tanya

Tanya Dadasheva

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

william

William Jones

AI & Machine Learning Lead at Embecosm

Volunteers

Special thank you to all the volunteers helping make this devroom possible.

Yulia Sadovnikova

 

Join our event sponsors

This event is generously sponsored by:

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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.

 

Contact Us

Please contact us if you have any questions about submitting a proposal, wish to discuss sponsoring, or are interested in volunteering in the Low-Level AI Engineering & Hacking Dev Room.

 

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