LFAI & Data

OpenLineage Meetup
2024-09-12 21:00 - 2024-09-13 00:00 (America/New_York) | 8 California St, San Francisco, CA, 8 California St, San Francisco, California, 94111
Data engineers and pipeline managers know that producing data lineage – end-to-end pipeline metadata instrumented at runtime or parsed at design time – is a heavy lift without a shared standard for lineage metadata. It requires duplication of effort across pipeline tooling, and deployment of new tools can break existing lineage workflows. Getting useful lineage can seem like a sisyphean task.
Enter OpenLineage, an increasingly adopted open standard for lineage metadata collection. It defines a generic model of run, job, and dataset entities identified using consistent naming strategies. The core lineage model is extensible by defining specific facets to enrich those entities.
Join us at the SF Astronomer offices on September 12th at 6:00 pm PT to learn more about the OpenLineage spec and integrations. You’ll meet other members of the ecosystem, learn about the project’s goals and fundamental design, and participate in a robust discussion about the future of the project.
Speakers and topics TBA.

OSS EU
2024-09-16 08:00 - 2024-09-18 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Austria Center, Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1 Austria, 1220 Wien, Austria
Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open source code and community contributors.
Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.

TAC Talks: Egeria
2024-10-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Join Mandy Chessell as she explores how Egeria, a graduate-stage project of LF AI & Data, enables seamless data management and governance across platforms without reformatting or vendor lock-in. With open APIs, event formats, and integration logic, Egeria empowers organizations to share data effortlessly.
📅 Don’t miss out! On October 15 at 9AM PST, dive into Egeria’s capabilities and discover how it’s revolutionizing enterprise data management.
🎥 Live on LF AI & Data LinkedIn & YouTube channels. Hosted by Vini Jaiswal.
RSVP on LinkedIn

AI_dev Japan
2024-10-28 09:00 - 2024-10-29 17:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
AI_dev is a nexus for developers delving into the intricate realm of open source generative AI and machine learning. At the heart of this event is the belief that open source is the engine of innovation in AI. By uniting the brightest developers from around the world, we aim to ignite discussions, foster collaborations, and shape the trajectory of open source AI.

TAC Talks: Milvus
2024-11-05 12:00 - 12:45 (America/New_York)
Join us Tuesday, November 5, for the next episode of TAC Talks featuring Milvus, an LF AI & Data graduate-stage project!
Milvus is engineered to enhance embedding similarity searches and streamline AI applications. Its capability to make unstructured data searches more accessible offers a seamless user experience, whether deployed on-prem or in the cloud.
Tim Spann, Principal Developer Advocate at Zilliz, will walk us through the Milvus architecture. We’ll dive deep into the code, explore the user interface, and learn how Milvus can be integrated into your technology stack.
🗓 Tuesday, November 5
🕗 9 AM PT / 12PM ET
🗣 Hosted by Vini Jaiswal, Chair of LF AI & Data TAC

Zero to Hero: OAuth Providers with OSS UC
2024-11-07 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York)
Curious about connecting OAuth providers to Unity Catalog? 🤔
Join us for our next Zero to Hero episode on November 7 at 8:30 AM PT with Victoria Bukta & Joseph Mocker! We’ll explore the ins and outs of OAuth. 🚀 From basic concepts to setup, we’ll guide you through everything you need to know.
You don’t want to miss this session if you’re new to OAuth or looking to integrate it into your systems. Register now!

Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow: Adopting the Streaming-First Mindset
2024-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Changing perspectives is never easy, especially for data engineers transitioning from a batch-oriented approach to a streaming-first mindset.
Are you ready to embrace this shift and unlock new possibilities with your data? In this webinar, Scott Haines (Nike) & Denny Lee (Databricks) will teach you how to navigate these dynamic waters. Discover how adopting a streaming-first mindset can help you take charge of your data and utilize it in new and powerful ways.

Content Creation with Gen AI
2024-11-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join us on Wednesday, November 13th at 4pm EST / 1pm PST for a Generative AI webinar and workshop hosted by Jeremiah Long, Executive Director of Wedge and a Linux Foundation Generative AI Commons Education and Outreach member. We will show you how to use generative AI to creative AI images, text-to-video, generative copy, and sounds to create media and content.
We’ll take it from the beginning, come up with an idea, storyboard it, and ultimately create the finished piece of media. We will explore animated characters, custom layouts, sizes for social media, and how to add finishing touches. This webinar is perfect for anyone who creates content, from beginners to advanced. We’ll start from scratch, brainstorming ideas, storyboarding, and finally putting together your masterpiece. We’ll explore creating animated characters, customizing layouts, and getting the perfect size for social media. Plus, we'll show you how to add those finishing touches that make all the difference.
This webinar is perfect for anyone who creates content, whether you are just starting out or you are a seasoned pro. We’ll use both popular consumer products and free open-source tools, so you don’t need to be an AI expert to join us. And the best part? We are using freemium and free tools, so it is accessible to everyone.
After the presentation, we’ll send out a resource guide so you can keep learning and creating. We’ll host an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session after the workshop, so you can ask any questions you have about generative AI content creation.

LF Member Summit: LF AI & Data Day
2024-11-18 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Are you heading to LF Member Summit in Napa, CA? Join us on Monday, November 18 from 1-4PM for LF AI & Data Day! 🙌
Dive into the latest updates from LF AI & Data, including:
✅ Generative AI Commons (Anni Lai)
✅ Technical Advisory Committee (Vini Jaiswal)
✅ Model Openness Framework (Arnaud Le Hors)
✅ Outreach Committee (Richard Sikang Bian)
Plus, don’t miss out on a dynamic panel discussion followed by a Q&A session
This session is open to ALL LF Member Summit attendees—no registration required!

OPEA Demopalooza: GenAI RAG Workflows in Action
2024-11-21 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Register today for OPEA’s November Demopalooza to see OPEA in action and kick-start your next GenAI project.

Ask the Authors - Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide
2024-11-26 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for the first session of our new series, Ask the Authors! This interactive series offers a unique opportunity to meet the minds behind Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide and get your questions answered live.
🗓 Tuesday, November 26 at 9AM PT
🎤 Denny Lee, Prashanth Babu, R. Tyler Croy, Tristen Wentling, & Scott Haines
💻 LIVE on LinkedIn & YouTube
If you’re looking to enhance the performance of your data lake, tackle complex data challenges, or simply learn more about Delta Lake’s capabilities, this event is for you. Learn how Delta Lake provides an optimized storage layer that enhances streaming and batch data operations’ reliability, security, and performance.
PLUS, we’re giving away 5 copies of Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide!

Build Interoperable Conversational Assistants with Open Voice Specifications and Software
2025-01-16 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
There are millions of chatbots and voice bots (conversational assistants) in the world, hosted on mobile phones, smart speakers and websites. They are hosted by many kinds of organizations – including governments, businesses, and non-profits. Today, each conversational assistant is independent of the others, even within an organization, and each one has its own expertise. What if they could collaborate, working together and sharing information? This would reduce implementation complexity, duplication of effort, and friction for users.
The Open Voice Network Interoperability Initiative of the LFAI and Data Foundation is working on enabling just these capabilities. Its goal is to make it possible for different voice and conversational AI systems, based on LLM’s or other NLP technologies, to work together through the use of a standard open-source set of easy-to-use messages.The messages enable any conversational assistant that follows the standards to freely interoperate with other standards-using assistants to connect, communicate, and transfer content and control across assistants, platforms, and language models. Please join us for a workshop that will show developers how to use our specifications to create ecosystems of collaborating assistants, including both new assistants as well as legacy assistants.
This workshop will describe the messaging protocol and then introduce the Open Voice Interoperability Initiative implementations of the protocol. We start by reviewing the open source Interoperability Sandbox implementation. The Sandbox includes a web interface client as well as an assortment of interoperable assistants available for experimentation. We will also introduce BeaconForge, an open source assistant server, that can be modified to build interoperable assistants based on LLM models. Attendees will get a chance to build their own assistant during the workshop.

The Linux Foundation Member Summit
2025-03-18 - 2025-03-20 | Silverado Resort, 1600 Atlas Peak Rd, Napa, CA, 94558, United States
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations.
An annual gathering for Linux Foundation members that fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation, and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.

OPEA Virtual Week: Gen AI Streamlined
2025-04-14 08:00 - 2025-04-18 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join the OPEA project community for “OPEA: GenAI Streamlined.” This virtual event will focus on practical insights with actionable technical details to help you drive your GenAI solutions in an efficient and cost-effective way. The agendas include:

State of OPEA Keynote
OPEA in 2025: A look ahead
ArangoDB GraphRAG Techniques on OPEA
Building and Deploying AI Agents with OPEA
Powered by OPEA: Moving from OpenAI to Open Source with OPEA
InfiniEdge and OPEA
AI Eval on OPEA or AI Security on OPEA
OPEA on AWS and Azure
OPEA Community Call to Action

To ensure developers across the globe can attend these events, we’re hosting an event in a different time zone during the week.
See the event website for details, agendas, and registration info: https://opea.dev/event/opea-genai-streamlined/#GenAI

ONNX Community Meet-Up
2025-06-09 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
ONNX Community Meetup 2025: June 9th, 2025
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (PST) – Intel Santa Clara + streaming online
RSVP HERE to attend
About this event
Join us for the upcoming ONNX Community Meetup, sponsored by Intel and the LF AI & Data Foundation, on June 9th at the Intel campus in Santa Clara and online. Can’t make it in person? Don’t worry, we’ll have a livestream available.
This event promises updates on the ONNX Community, engaging partner and user stories, and ample opportunities for networking within the community.
The main conference track will feature lightning talks, highlighting the innovative applications of ONNX across the ecosystem. To cap off the day, we’ll host special topic panel discussions to address your questions and concerns. Check back for a full agenda soon.
Whether you’re utilizing ONNX in your services and applications, developing software or hardware that supports ONNX, or contributing to the ONNX project itself, this meetup is for you! It’s a fantastic chance to connect with fellow ONNX enthusiasts, learn from industry leaders, and become a part of this vibrant and expanding community. We look forward to seeing you there!
Where
In-person:
Intel, Campus
SC12 Auditorium
3600 Juliette Lane
Santa Clara, 95054
Online:
Access the virtual event stream at this link
Agenda

7:30 AM – 8:15 AM: Registration & Coffee

8:15 AM – 8:30 AM: Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: ONNX Steering Committee Update (Mayank Kaushik)
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Special Interest Group (SIG) & Working Group (WG) Updates and ONNX 2.0 (Rama)
I0:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Host Talk (Saurabh Tangri)

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break & Networking

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Technical Deep Dives

“How can ONNX serve OpenVino best?” – Yamini Nimmagadda and Mayuresh M Varerkar
“Working with Large Models in ONNX IR” – Justin Chu
“Olive: toolkit to lower a pretrained model into a production ready ONNX model” – Devang Patel

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Partner Spotlight: Real-World ONNX Deployments

“Optimizing ONNX models for high inference performance with Nsight DL Designer” – Timothee Brenet
“Deploying ONNX models on-device using AI Hub” – Bhushan Sonawane
“AMD Quark – Model Optimization Framework for ONNX and Pytorch Ecosystems ” – Spandan AMD Quark 20 min

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Community Lightning Talks

“Demonstrating ONNX in Apache Solr search applications via Apache OpenNLP” Jeff Zemerick (Remote)
“Inference Optimization with Model Builder and ONNX Runtime GenAI” – Kunal Vaishnavi
“SOTA: The First Full Deep Learning Framework Entirely Powered by ONNX Runtime” – Youssef Menjour

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Afternoon Break & Networking

3:15 PM – 3:45 AM: Special Interest Group (SIG) & Working Group (WG) Updates and ONNX 2.0 contd… (Rama)
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM: Panel Discussion: Interoperability and Standardization in AI (Krishna Sivakumar)

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM: Closing Session & Community Feedback (Saurabh Tangri)

Host
Saurabh Tangri, Principal Engineer, Intel
Saurabh, a Senior AI Systems Architect at Intel Corporation, brings over twenty years of experience specializing in the hardware/software co-design of transformative AI acceleration technologies. At Intel, Saurabh leads as the principal architect, spearheading numerous innovative AI technologies for CPU, GPU and NPU. Under his leadership, his team has achieved breakthrough performance enhancements for the Copilot powered experiences, Windows AI platform and Microsoft Azure.
A staunch advocate for sustainable and responsible AI, Saurabh actively contributes to the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) standard and various Industry initiatives at the intersection of GenAI and Trusted AI+ML Security.

Japan Regional User Group (RUG) Meet-Up
2025-06-20 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
LF AI & Data Foundationの日本コミュニティである、Japan Regional User Group (通称 Japan RUG）の発足を記念し、日本の市場でOSSのAI技術に関心を持つ方々が集う会を開催します。
（参加登録無料）
June 20, 2025 – 2:00 – 5:00pm
Fujitsu Yokohama Hub (富士通 Yokohama Hub), 神奈川県横浜市西区高島1-1-2 横浜三井ビルディング, 横浜市, 220-0011Fujitsu Yokohama Hub, Yokohama Mitsui Building, 1-1-2 Takashima, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, 220-0011 Japan
Register here to attend: https://community.linuxfoundation.org/events/details/lfhq-lf-ai-data-foundation-presents-japan-regional-user-group-rug-meet-up/ .

Open Source Summit NA: LF AI & Data Mini Summit
2025-06-26 | Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
The LF AI & Data community will be onsite in Denver, June 23-26, for Open Source Summit North America, including the LF AI & Data co-located Mini Summit.
Community activity at Open Source Summit NA:

LF AI & Data will host a tabletop booth in the main expo hall of Open Source Summit. Stop by anytime the expo hall is open, to learn about our sub projects and meet community members.
Offsite event: Open Source in AI in Denver – Monday, June 23, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Several sessions will feature LF &Data discussions, including:

Monday, June 23

Leveraging the OPEA Platform and GraphRAG Architectures To Drive Cloud-Native AI Adoption

Stephen Chin, Neo4j & Rachel Roumeliotis, Intel

The Generative AI Commons: Unlocking Potential Through Collaboration and Transparency

Arnaud Le Hors, IBM

Tutorial: From Planning To Production-Ready RAG With OPEA

Andreas Kollegger, Neo4j; Ezequiel Lanza & Katherine Druckman, Intel

Beaconforge.org, Open Agentic AI for Hallucination Mitigation

Diego Gosmar, Voiceinteroperability.ai, LF AI and Data

Tuesday, June 24
The Responsible Generative AI Framework Pathways: Where Do We Go From Here?

Oita Coleman, Open Voice TrustMark Initiative

Wednesday, June 25
AI Pipelines With OPEA: Best Practices for Cloud Native ML Operations

Ezequiel Lanza, Intel & Melissa McKay, JFrog

And more! View full event agenda here.
LF AI & Data Mini Summit

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025
Time: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO
Pre-registration required as part of your OSS North America registration

About the the Mini Summit
Join us at the LF AI & Data Mini Summit, a co-located event at Open Source Summit North America, bringing together leaders, developers, researchers, and enthusiasts from across the open-source AI and data landscape.
This half-day summit will highlight the latest developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven technologies through community-led sessions, project showcases, and open discussions. Whether you’re focused on model development, data governance, or deployment at scale, you’ll gain valuable insights from real-world use cases and hands-on expertise.
What to Expect

Expert Talks – Hear from project maintainers, contributors, and industry leaders on the cutting edge of AI and data
Project Showcases – Discover how LF AI & Data projects are solving real-world challenges and advancing the state of open innovation.
Community Collaboration – Connect with fellow attendees and contributors to explore ideas, share feedback, and spark new collaborations.

How to Register
Pre-registration is required. To register for the LF AI & Data Mini Summit, add it to your Open Source Summit North America registration. Can’t make it onsite? Watch the live stream of the LF AI & Data Mini Summit on TikTok here!
Agenda:

Time
Session Title
Speaker(s)

1:30 – 1:35
Welcome / Opening Remarks
Stven Chin, VP of DevRel at Neo4j and LF AI & Data Content Chair

1:35 – 2:00
LF AI & Data State of the Union
Todd Moore, Interin ED of LF AI & Data, and SVP Community Operations, the Linux Foundation

2:00 – 2:20
OPEA + InfiniEdgeAI Integration
Tina Tsou, InfiniEdgeAI TSC Chair, and Director, External Tech Influence, TikTok; + Alex Sin, Intel

2:20 – 2:45
Panel: AI Open Source Across the LF
Ezequiel Lanza, LF AI & Data TAC Chair/Board member and Open Source AI Evangelist, Intel; Riccardo

2:45 – 3:00
BREAK

3:00 – 3:20
Orchestrating Guardrails in Generative AI Workflows
Evaline Ju, Senior Software Engineer, IBM

3:20 – 3:40
AI Fairness on the Frontlines: Tik Tok & ServiceNow
Din Ji, TikTok; Xing Liu, Tik Tok; Jim Van Over, Service Now

3:40 – 4:00
Simplifying Generative AI App Development: Standardization Matters
Katherine Druckman, Open Source Security Evangelist, Intel Corporation; Shirley Bailes, Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy, Intel Corporation

4:00 – 5:00
PROJECT LIGHTNING TALKS

4:00 – 4:20
OPEA
Arun Gupta, Intel Corporation

4:10 – 4:20
GenAI Commons
Arnaud Le Hors, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), Open Technologies, IBM

4:20 – 4:30
Docling
Peter Staar

4:30 – 4:40
BeeAI
Teryl Taylor, IBM Research

4:40 – 4:50
Data Prep Kit
Santosh Borse, Senior Engineer, watsonx Data Engineering, IBM Research

4:50 – 5:00
TBD
TBD

Meet-Up: LF AI & Data Day Singapore 2025 – “Agent for SWE (Software Engineering)”
2025-07-11 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Event Date & Location:
Date: 11 July 2025
Time: 9 AM to 5 PM
Location: F25-06, F25-07 & F25-27, TikTok,
1 Raffles Quay South Tower, Singapore 048583
The LF AI & Data Meet-Up Day in Singapore 2025 is a one-day event bringing together the global open source AI community. We invite developers, AI practitioners, open source contributors, and tech companies interested in AI agents to join us for a day of knowledge sharing and community collaboration. This year’s theme is “Agent for SWE (Software Engineering)”, focusing on the rise of AI agents in software development and engineering.
REGISTER TO ATTEND: https://lu.ma/LFSG
Event Agenda:

Time and #
Length
Speaker
Speaker’s Title
Topic
Bio

9:00-9:15 am
Arrival

#0.1
9:15-9:17 am
2 mins
Mike Collier
Executive Director of LF AI & Data
Welcome video
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markcollier

#0.2
9:17 – 9:20 am
3 mins
@Wu Jianbo
Engineering Manager, TikTok
Welcome speech and announce the LF Training and Certification Discount
This content is only supported in a Feishu Docs
Jianbo is currently working on multiple AI projects facing internal developers, including: using AI to test TikTok Application, build AI Code Agents to push for migrations in a large-scale codebase, and much more.

#1
9:20 – 9:50 am
30 mins
Dr. Leo Li
AI Infra Architect, Oracle
High-performance AI infra for AI and More
Dr. Leo Li
AI Infra Architect
Full stack experience in AI infrastrucute networking from chip desgin to AI native solutions.

#2
9:50 – 10:20 am
30 mins
Tom Qin
Co-founder of Edgenesis and Co-Chair of the LF Edge InfiniEdge AI TSC
Driving Real-World Robots with Kubernetes-Native Digital Twins
Co-Founder and Chief SRE at Edgenesis, TSC Co-chair of LF Edge Project InfiniEdge AI
Experienced software engineer with a proven track record at Veriflow Systems. Co-founder and Chief SRE at Edgenesis, designing Shifu (a Kubernetes-native IoT framework) and leading the engineering team. Passionate about technology and innovation.

#3
10:20 – 10:30 am
10 mins
Bhargav Sagiraju
AI Researcher, National University of Singapore
MCP Agents for data analysis and cross platform data insights
an AI Researcher at the National University of Singapore and my current research spans AI, Blockchain and Agent Frameworks. I am also involved in building an AI-powered Platform called CognideX which allows users to monetize their personal social media data and allows SMEs to generate efficient marketing campaigns from aggregated and anonymized social media data using RAG powered AI Agents.

10:30-10:45 am
Coffee break

#4
10:45 – 11:05 am
20 mins
Sam Chen
Founder & CEO, OpenCSG
Agentic AI: Accelerating Enterprise Enablement and Competitive Advantage
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-chen-b936727a?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

#5
11:05 – 11:35 am
20 mins
Tatsuya Kurosaka
Specialist, Hitachi
Securing Model Context Protocol with Keycloak: AuthN/AuthZ for MCP Servers
He is a specialist at Hitachi, Ltd. He has developed storage plug-in for container platform such as Kubernetes and OpenShift. He also has considered the introduction of Keycloak for AuthN/AuthZ for various projects. As a OSS Specialist, he has delivered talks at events like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.

#6
11:35 am – 12:05 pm
30 mins
Junping Du
CEO and co-founder, Datastrato
Advancing Toward an Intelligent and Agentic Data Architecture with Gravitino
Junping Du is the CEO and co-founder of Datastrato. He is a recognized leader in open-source data infrastructure and a co-creator of Apache Gravitino, a foundational component for next-generation data and AI infrastructure. Junping has extensive experience in big data and cloud computing, having held senior technical leadership, director, and general manager positions at VMware, Hortonworks (now Cloudera), Tencent Cloud, and other Global 2000 companies. He is also a significant contributor to the Apache Hadoop project and an active member of the Apache Software Foundation. Previously, Junping served as Chairperson of the LF AI & Data Foundation, guiding the growth of open-source AI initiatives.

#7
12:05 – 12:30 pm
20 – 30 mins
Bruce Yang
Co-founder, Sapiens AI
Conversational agent for next-gen collaborative workspace
Bruce Yang is the co-founder of Sapiens AI, a Singapore-based startup building Agnes, a contextual AI workspace for Southeast Asia. He is a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore and previously held product leadership roles at Microsoft and LinkedIn. Bruce also founded a consumer tech company in SV and a enterprise tech company in China that reached over one million users and $10M in annual revenue. His work bridges cutting-edge AI research with real-world product execution, focusing on building human-centric, locally adapted AI systems. Bruce is passionate about empowering Southeast Asia through homegrown innovation, digital infrastructure, and applied AI.

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch Break

1:00 – 1:10 pm
10 mins
Adrian Cole
Principal Software Engineer, Tetrate
Lunch lightning talk: LF AI BeeAI, testing GenAI applications
Adrian is a software engineer working at Tetrate. He’s been a routine contributor to open source for over ten years. Lately, he spends most of his time on Envoy AI Gateway. His past notable project work includes OpenTelemetry, wazero, Zipkin, OpenFeign, and Apache jclouds.

#8
1:30 – 1:55 pm
25 mins
Sureshkumar Vivek Kalyan
Founder, Cartograph
RAG, Agents, RL
Vivek designs, builds and evaluates machine learning products that help people make sense of data. He is passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge ML research and real-world applications that people actually use.

#9 (remote)
1:55 – 2:20 pm
25 mins
Florian Zhidong Fan
Ant Group TuGraph Open Source Lead & Evangelist, and maintainer of TuGraph/GeaFlow/Chat2Graph/DB-GPT/OSGraph
Chat2Graph: Symbolism Enhanced Graph Agent System Architecture
Florian Zhidong Fan, Ant Group TuGraph Open Source Lead & Evangelist, and maintainer of TuGraph/GeaFlow/Chat2Graph/DB-GPT/OSGraph. He has worked for Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, and Ant Group, focusing on “Graph+AI” technology including Big Data, Databases, Graph Computing, Knowledge Graph, and AI Agents.

Yaya Xia
Ant Group Open Source Program Manager
Yaya is an active open source contributor, during her PhD program, her research focus was around open source community health analytics and ecosystem sustainability.

#10
2:20 – 2:40 pm
20 mins
Vivian Hu
Product Manager, Second State
RustCoder: Let Your LLM Code Rust Like a Pro
Vivian is a Product Manager at Second State and a founding member of WasmEdge. As a CNCF Ambassador and co-organizer of RustChinaConf, she is deeply involved in the cloud native and WebAssembly communities, driving innovation and developer engagement.

#11
2:40 – 3:00 pm
20 mins
Lang Feng
First-year PhD student, College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University
Toward Long-Horizon LLM Agent Training: From Structured Credit Assignment to Scalable RL Framework
Lang Feng is a first-year PhD student in the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University, working with Prof. Bo An. His research focuses on reinforcement learning (RL), large language models (LLMs), LLM post-training, and LLM-based agents. He is the first author of the GiGPO algorithm and the verl-agent framework, and is currently exploring how RL can be effectively applied to train AI agents in more complex, multi-turn environments. Beyond foundational research, he is also exploring the real-world applications of LLMs, including their deployment for Android control tasks.

3:00 – 3:15 pm
Coffee break

#12
3:15 – 3:40 pm
25 mins
David Liu
Founder, Notellect
Data Agent in the Era of the Super Individual
David Liu is the founder of Notellect, an AI-powered data analysis platform designed to give professionals a personal data brain. With over a decade of experience in technology and entrepreneurship, David previously served as CTO of Metabytes and held engineering leadership roles at Gojek and Garena. He specializes in building tools that bridge the gap between complex data systems and everyday users, empowering individuals to work smarter with data.

#13
3:40 – 4:10 pm
30 mins
@Qian Liu
Researcher, TikTok
Can Language Models Optimize Code Performance on Real-World Repositories?
Qian Liu is currently a Researcher at TikTok in Singapore. His main research interests focus on natural language processing, primarily including code generation and reasoning. He has published papers at top-tier conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, and ICML. He participated in StarCoder 1/2, both well-known open-source code generation models in the community, which have garnered over 2.3K likes on HuggingFace. He was nominated for the Baidu Scholarship in 2020 and was honored to be selected as one of the KAUST Rising Stars in AI 2024, and received the Beijing Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award in 2023.

#14
4:10 – 4:40 pm
30 mins
Haichen Zhang
AI Product Architect, AMD
Scalable AI Agent Deployment with MCPs on AMD GPU
Haichen is the Senior Product Manager for AMD’s AI Product Marketing team, where he leads initiatives to accelerate training and inference for large language models, recommender systems, and natural language processing (NLP) workloads tailored to internet-scale applications. Prior to AMD, he served as a Machine Learning Architect at NVIDIA, bringing years of deep technical expertise to the forefront of AI innovation.

#15
4:40 – 5:10 pm
30 mins
Henry Wang
Singapore Internet Governance Forum and AI Data governance
Discussion about AI & Data governance
Cofounder, Singapore Internet Governance

Una Wang
Founder and CEO of LingoAI,
Founding Member of Singapore Internet Governance Forum
She holds a Data Privacy and Technology certification from Harvard University and has extensive experience in smart product design and virtual reality technology development. She is especially passionate about inclusive AI and championing AI for the Global Majority, ensuring that underrepresented communities have both voice and value in the future of intelligent systems.

#100
5:10 – 5:15 pm
5 mins
@Wu Jianbo
Engineering Manager, TikTok
Achkowledgement and wrap up
Jianbo is currently working on multiple AI projects facing internal developers, including: using AI to test TikTok Application, build AI Code Agents to push for migrations in a large-scale codebase, and much more.

5:15 – 5:30 pm
Departure

Community and Inclusion
LF AI & Data Day Singapore is a community-driven, inclusive gathering. We strongly encourage people of all backgrounds and experience levels to submit proposals – whether you’re a seasoned open source maintainer or a first-time speaker, your perspective is valuable. Our goal is to foster a welcoming atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable sharing and learning.

Diversity & Inclusion: We are committed to diversity in our speaker lineup and audience. We especially welcome submissions from underrepresented groups in tech. If you’re a new speaker, don’t be intimidated – we’re happy to provide guidance or feedback on your proposal.
Knowledge Sharing: This event is about learning and collaboration, not product pitches. Focus your proposal on insights, best practices, challenges, and innovations that can help others in the community. (Talks that are overly promotional or not aligned with open source values are less likely to be accepted.)
Code of Conduct: All speakers and attendees are expected to abide by the Linux Foundation’s Code of Conduct, which ensures a harassment-free and respectful experience for everyone. We are dedicated to providing a positive environment for communication and open exchange of ideas.

By participating in LF AI & Data Day Singapore, you’ll be contributing to the growth of the global open source AI community. It’s a great opportunity to showcase your work, meet like-minded professionals, and inspire others. Let’s come together to advance the state of AI agents in software engineering!
Join Us in Singapore on July 11, 2025!
We look forward to receiving your exciting proposals. Together, let’s make LF AI & Data’s Meet-Up Day in Singapore 2025 a memorable day of AI innovation, community bonding, and shared learning. Mark your calendars for July 11, and help us shape an agenda that drives the conversation forward in “Agent for SWE (Software Engineering)”.
Stay tuned for updates on the event venue, agenda, and the CFP submission link on the official LF AI & Data website. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the organizers at tina.tsou@tiktok.com Tina Tsou.
Let’s build the future of AI agents in software engineering – submit your proposal today and see you in Singapore!
Event Hosts

Linux Foundation AI & Data, https://lfaidata.foundation/
TikTok, https://www.tiktok.com/
Epic Connector, https://www.linkedin.com/company/epic-connector/

Program Committee

Andreas Spanner: aspanner@redhat.com
Junping Du: jp@datastrato.com
Tina Tsou: tina.tsou@tiktok.com

OPEA Virtual Event - Agentic AI with OPEA
2025-07-23 08:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Date & Time: July 23 @ 8:00 am PDT
Agentic AI is the hottest topic in GenAI today! Join this event if you want to find out what an AI agent is, how they gain knowledge to complete tasks, and why they are important today.​ See why AI Agents have so much potential over traditional RAG using the Comprehensive RAG (C-RAG) benchmark and learn how to build, customize, and deploy a hierarchical multi-agent system for QnA applications with OPEA.
Detailed session info coming shortly!
Register now!

LF AI Meetup - Research Triangle Park, NC
2025-08-14 16:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Event Date & Location:

Date & Time: August 14, 4:30–6:30 PM Eastern Time
Location: Frontier RTP, 800 Park Offices Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Cost: Free to attend. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided courtesy of Frontier RTP. Optional snacks and food available.

Join us at a special meetup with the RTP area’s members of the LF AI & Data Foundation — a premier open-source foundation fostering collaboration and providing trusted AI & Data infrastructure, uniting developers, organizations, and users.
You’ll have the opportunity to meet fellow LF AI & Data Foundation members, discover the latest open-source projects and initiatives, and explore ways to contribute to the future of responsible AI development. Most importantly, you’ll have plenty of time to connect, network and build relationships with fellow professionals in the AI and data science community. This meetup is part of Frontier RTP’s Out of Office (OOO) weekly networking event and is free to attend.
Networking Session 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
• Enjoy music by DJ JDmL (provided by Frontier RTP)
• Complimentary drinks provided by Fullsteam Brewery and RTP Uncorked
Introduction to LF AI & Data 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
• Presentation by Brad Topol, Governing Board Chairperson, IBM
Pizza and Lightning Talks 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
• If you are interested to present your LF AI & Data project for a 10-minute slot, let us know by emailing to oita.coleman@gmail.com and spzala@us.ibm.com

Sign up here

AI_dev Europe
2025-08-28 - 2025-08-29 | Amsterdam, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands
📣 Save the date – August 28 + 29!

AI_dev event is a nexus for developers delving into the intricate realm of open source generative AI and machine learning. At the heart of this event is the belief that open source is the engine of innovation in AI. By uniting the brightest developers from around the world, we aim to ignite discussions, foster collaborations, and shape the trajectory of open source AI.

Explore the event agenda and see what’s ahead.

🎤 Don’t miss LF AI & Data community sessions!
Many of our project contributors are speaking. Add their talks to your AI_dev schedule:

AI_Dev Japan
2025-12-08 - 2025-12-10 | Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo
📣 Save the date – December 8-10! AI_dev is a nexus for developers delving into the intricate realm of open source generative AI and machine learning. At the heart of this event is the belief that open source is the engine of innovation in AI. By uniting the brightest developers from around the world, we aim to ignite discussions, foster collaborations, and shape the trajectory of open source AI.
