LFAI & Data

NVIDIA GTC AI Conference
2024-03-17 - 2024-03-21 | San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
The in-person GTC experience is back—live from the San Jose Convention Center. From the highly anticipated keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to over 900 inspiring sessions, 200+ exhibits, 20+ technical workshops, and tons of unique networking events, GTC delivers something for every technical level and interest area. Whether you join us in person or virtually, you’re in for an incredible experience at the conference for the era of AI.

Don’t miss this chance to connect with peers and industry experts to explore the latest technologies that are transforming every industry, from accelerated computing to generative AI and beyond.

Balancing Healthcare Innovation and Ethics: Conversational AI in Remote Patient Monitoring
2024-03-20
How can Conversational AI help transform healthcare delivery and improve patient outcomes? Join us for a webinar where we will explore the future of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and the role of voice technologies in healthcare innovation.
You will hear from Bill Paschall, a telehealth veteran and RPM pioneer from Clear Arch Health, who will talk about how RPM platforms enable real-time health data collection and analysis using wearable devices or home monitoring kits. You will also learn from Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, a physician from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who will share her experience with the “Hospital at home” program, which provides RPM as a cost-effective option for short-term treatment.
In this webinar, we will also discuss the capabilities and value of Conversational AI in RPM, such as natural language understanding, voice assistance, and biomarker analysis. We will examine how voice technologies can lower costs, increase automation, and enhance inclusivity in healthcare. Moreover, we will address the legal and ethical issues of using voice data and the importance of trust-building principles in adopting advanced technologies, as exemplified by the Open Voice TrustMark Initiative.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the latest developments in RPM and how Conversational AI is revolutionizing healthcare. Register now and discover how voice technologies can improve patient outcomes, communication, and accessibility.

Open Source Summit North America
2024-04-16 - 2024-04-18 | Seattle, WA
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. Register here.

Demystifying Generative AI
2024-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
What is Generative AI, and how can you use it? Join Jeremiah Long, Contributing Member of the LF AI & Data Generative AI Commons, Education and Outreach Committee, on April 17th, 2024 10a PST / 1p EST to learn about Generative AI Commons, get real-life examples of how you can use Generative AI in your work and personal life, and ask your Gen AI questions!

The Importance of Openness in Generative AI
2024-04-25 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Save the date for an engaging webinar hosted by the Generative AI Commons Committee: “The Importance of Openness in GenAI” Webinar, scheduled for April 25th.
Join us as we delve into crucial topics such as the significance of openness in shaping new technologies, drawing from extensive experience spanning back to the early days of the internet. Discover how openness fosters transparency and accountability in AI systems while exploring the potential risks associated with closed or proprietary approaches in contrast to open methodologies.
Additionally, get an exclusive sneak peek at the AI & Data Model Openness Framework, offering valuable insights into navigating the landscape of open AI models and data.
Don’t miss out on this insightful discussion! Register now to secure your spot.

Special Competitive Studies Project
2024-05-07 - 2024-05-08 | Washington, D.C.
On May 7th and 8th, SCSP will host its first-ever AI Expo for National Competitiveness – alongside the second Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation And National Security – at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The AI Expo is meant to serve as a forum for industry, government, and academic research entities to exhibit some of the latest technological breakthroughs — in AI, biotech, energy, networks, compute, microelectronics, manufacturing, augmented reality, and beyond — and discuss their implications for U.S. and allied competitiveness.
The Expo is free and open to the public to attend – register here to secure your spot!

OPEA Community Days
2024-05-14 - 2024-05-15 | Intel Jones Farm Conference Center, 2111 NE 25th Ave, Hillsboro, Oregon, 97124
Join us for the inaugural OPEA event!
Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) is a new sandbox project within the LF AI & Data Foundation.
OPEA’s mission is to offer validated enterprise-grade GenAI reference implementations, simplifying development and deployment thereby accelerating time-to-market and a realization of business value.
This event is intended to iterate and expand upon the technical framework, review the initial contributions, as well as initiate new working groups that will build out the efficacy of the OPEA framework.

LREC-COLING 2024
2024-05-20 08:00 - 2024-05-25 17:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
Two major international key players in the area of computational linguistics, the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), are joining forces to organize the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) to be held in Torino (Italy) on 20-25 May, 2024.
The three-day main conference (22-23-24, May) will be accompanied by a total of three days of workshops and tutorials (20-21-25, May) held in the days immediately before and after.

AI_dev
2024-06-19 - 2024-06-20 | MAISON DE LA MUTUALITÉ, 24 Rue Saint-Victor, 75005, Paris, France
Calling all AI developers, engineers + researchers: AI​.dev is now AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, and it’s coming to Paris, 19-20 June! Join us to shape the future of open source + AI innovation.

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.

🎤 The call for proposals is open – submit to speak by 5 March! View suggested topics: https://hubs.la/Q02kC63N0
✨ Register by 15 April + SAVE US$300! https://hubs.la/Q02kC5lq0. Reduced rates are available for academics and hobbyists.
🔥 Say tuned – and get hyped! Watch this space + sign up for updates on all the latest news ➡️ https://hubs.la/Q02kC5q70

ONNX Community Meetup 2024
2024-06-28
Join us for the upcoming ONNX Community Meetup, sponsored by AMD and the LF AI & Data Foundation, on June 28th at the AMD campus in San Jose and online. Can’t make it in person? Don’t worry, there will be 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 round tables to address your questions and concerns.
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!
We are looking for Presenters. If you are interested in presenting please complete this form and we will be in touch!

OPEA Community Days
2024-07-16 08:00 - 2024-07-17 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
OPEA’s mission is to offer validated enterprise-grade hashtag#GenAI reference implementations, simplifying development and deployment thereby accelerating time-to-market and a realization of business value.
OPEA Community Days is a free community event intended to iterate and expand upon the technical framework, review the initial contributions, and have working groups build out the efficacy of the hashtag#OPEA project!
This is an in-person event, however, day one will have virtual attendance available. 💻

Generative Conversational AI Interoperability
2024-08-08 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Jay Suites, Bryant Park Location (1441 Broadway, 3rd Floor), Meeting Room D, New York, New York 10018, Jay Suites, Bryant Park Location (1441 Broadway, 3rd Floor), Meeting Room D, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Dive into the future of conversational AI at the Open Voice Network’s one-day workshop in New York City! The Generative Conversational AI Interoperability workshop is designed for professionals eager to master the integration and implementation of conversational assistants using cutting-edge technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and the pioneering OVON interoperability specifications.
This workshop is perfect for developers, data scientists, product managers, and anyone interested in the field of conversational AI. A basic understanding of Python will enhance your experience, as the workshop will include hands-on coding and implementation sessions. The exact location for this event will be announced soon.
Join us for a transformative day where you’ll not only learn about the latest in AI but actually create and walk away with your own working, interoperable LLM chatbot!
📍 Where
Jay Suites, Bryant Park Location
1441 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room D
New York, New York 10018
🗓️ When
Thursday, 08/08/2024, 09:00 AM-05:00 PM (8 hour total)

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China
2024-08-21 08:00 - 2024-08-23 17:00 (Asia/Hong_Kong)
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference joins with Open Source Summit and AI_dev to gather adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Hong Kong, China from 21-23 August, 2024. Join us and immerse yourself in the heart of cloud native computing, open source innovation, and the intricate realm of generative AI and machine learning.

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
