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SUMMARY:Japan Regional User Group (RUG) Meet-Up
DESCRIPTION: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。 \n（参加登録無料） \nJune 20\, 2025 – 2:00 – 5:00pm \nFujitsu 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 \nRegister here to attend: https://community.linuxfoundation.org/events/details/lfhq-lf-ai-data-foundation-presents-japan-regional-user-group-rug-meet-up/ .
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/japan-regional-user-group-rug-meet-up/
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SUMMARY:Open Source Summit NA:  LF AI & Data Mini Summit
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCommunity activity at Open Source Summit NA: \n\nLF 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.\nOffsite event: Open Source in AI in Denver – Monday\, June 23\, 6:00 – 8:30 pm\nSeveral sessions will feature LF &Data discussions\, including:\n\nMonday\, June 23\n\nLeveraging the OPEA Platform and GraphRAG Architectures To Drive Cloud-Native AI Adoption \n\nStephen Chin\, Neo4j & Rachel Roumeliotis\, Intel\n\n\nThe Generative AI Commons: Unlocking Potential Through Collaboration and Transparency \n\nArnaud Le Hors\, IBM\n\n\nTutorial: From Planning To Production-Ready RAG With OPEA \n\nAndreas Kollegger\, Neo4j; Ezequiel Lanza & Katherine Druckman\, Intel\n\n\nBeaconforge.org\, Open Agentic AI for Hallucination Mitigation \n\nDiego Gosmar\, Voiceinteroperability.ai\, LF AI and Data\n\n\n\nTuesday\, June 24\nThe Responsible Generative AI Framework Pathways: Where Do We Go From Here? \n\nOita Coleman\, Open Voice TrustMark Initiative\n\n\n\nWednesday\, June 25\nAI Pipelines With OPEA: Best Practices for Cloud Native ML Operations \n\nEzequiel Lanza\, Intel & Melissa McKay\, JFrog\n\n\n\nAnd more! View full event agenda here. \nLF AI & Data Mini Summit \n\nDate: Thursday\, June 26\, 2025\nTime: 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM\nLocation: Colorado Convention Center\, Denver\, CO\nPre-registration required as part of your OSS North America registration\n\nAbout the the Mini Summit\nJoin 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. \nThis 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. \nWhat to Expect\n\nExpert Talks – Hear from project maintainers\, contributors\, and industry leaders on the cutting edge of AI and data\nProject Showcases – Discover how LF AI & Data projects are solving real-world challenges and advancing the state of open innovation.\nCommunity Collaboration – Connect with fellow attendees and contributors to explore ideas\, share feedback\, and spark new collaborations.\n\nHow to Register \nPre-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! \nAgenda: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTime\nSession Title\nSpeaker(s)\n\n\n1:30 – 1:35\nWelcome / Opening Remarks\nStven Chin\, VP of DevRel at Neo4j and LF AI & Data Content Chair\n\n\n1:35 – 2:00\nLF AI & Data State of the Union\nTodd Moore\, Interin ED of LF AI & Data\, and SVP Community Operations\, the Linux Foundation\n\n\n2:00 – 2:20\nOPEA + InfiniEdgeAI Integration\nTina Tsou\, InfiniEdgeAI TSC Chair\, and Director\, External Tech Influence\, TikTok; + Alex Sin\, Intel\n\n\n2:20 – 2:45\nPanel: AI Open Source Across the LF\nEzequiel Lanza\, LF AI & Data TAC Chair/Board member and Open Source AI Evangelist\, Intel; Riccardo \n\n\n2:45 – 3:00\nBREAK\n\n\n3:00 – 3:20\nOrchestrating Guardrails in Generative AI Workflows\nEvaline Ju\, Senior Software Engineer\, IBM \n\n\n3:20 – 3:40\nAI Fairness on the Frontlines: Tik Tok & ServiceNow\nDin Ji\, TikTok; Xing Liu\, Tik Tok; Jim Van Over\, Service Now\n\n\n3:40 – 4:00\nSimplifying Generative AI App Development: Standardization Matters\nKatherine Druckman\, Open Source Security Evangelist\, Intel Corporation; Shirley Bailes\, Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy\, Intel Corporation\n\n\n4:00 – 5:00\nPROJECT LIGHTNING TALKS\n\n\n4:00 – 4:20\nOPEA\nArun Gupta\, Intel Corporation\n\n\n4:10 – 4:20\nGenAI Commons\nArnaud Le Hors\, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)\, Open Technologies\, IBM\n\n\n4:20 – 4:30\nDocling\nPeter Staar\n\n\n4:30 – 4:40\nBeeAI\nTeryl Taylor\, IBM Research\n\n\n4:40 – 4:50\nData Prep Kit\nSantosh Borse\, Senior Engineer\, watsonx Data Engineering\, IBM Research \n\n\n4:50 – 5:00\nTBD\nTBD
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/open-source-summit-north-america-3/
LOCATION:Colorado Convention Center\, 700 14th St\, Denver\, CO\, 80202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Meet-Up: LF AI & Data Day Singapore 2025 – “Agent for SWE (Software Engineering)”
DESCRIPTION:Event Date & Location: \nDate: 11 July 2025\nTime: 9 AM to 5 PM\nLocation: F25-06\, F25-07 & F25-27\, TikTok\,\n1 Raffles Quay South Tower\, Singapore 048583 \nThe 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.  \nREGISTER TO ATTEND: https://lu.ma/LFSG \nEvent Agenda: \n\n\n\nTime and #\nLength\nSpeaker\nSpeaker’s Title\nTopic\nBio\n\n\n9:00-9:15 am\nArrival\n\n\n#0.1 \n9:15-9:17 am\n2 mins\nMike Collier\nExecutive Director of LF AI & Data\nWelcome video\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/markcollier\n\n\n#0.2 \n9:17 – 9:20 am\n3 mins\n@Wu Jianbo\nEngineering Manager\, TikTok\nWelcome speech and announce the LF Training and Certification Discount \nThis content is only supported in a Feishu Docs\nJianbo 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.\n\n\n#1 \n9:20 – 9:50 am\n30 mins\nDr. Leo Li\nAI Infra Architect\, Oracle\nHigh-performance AI infra for AI and More\nDr. Leo Li \nAI Infra Architect \nFull stack experience in AI infrastrucute networking from chip desgin to AI native solutions.\n\n\n#2 \n9:50 – 10:20 am\n30 mins\nTom Qin\nCo-founder of Edgenesis and Co-Chair of the LF Edge InfiniEdge AI TSC\nDriving Real-World Robots with Kubernetes-Native Digital Twins\nCo-Founder and Chief SRE at Edgenesis\, TSC Co-chair of LF Edge Project InfiniEdge AI \nExperienced 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.\n\n\n#3 \n10:20 – 10:30 am\n10 mins\nBhargav Sagiraju\nAI Researcher\, National University of Singapore\nMCP Agents for data analysis and cross platform data insights\nan 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.\n\n\n10:30-10:45 am\nCoffee break\n\n\n#4 \n10:45 – 11:05 am\n20 mins\nSam Chen\nFounder & CEO\, OpenCSG\nAgentic AI: Accelerating Enterprise Enablement and Competitive Advantage\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-chen-b936727a?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app\n\n\n#5 \n11:05 – 11:35 am\n20 mins\nTatsuya Kurosaka\nSpecialist\, Hitachi\nSecuring Model Context Protocol with Keycloak: AuthN/AuthZ for MCP Servers\nHe 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.\n\n\n#6 \n11:35 am – 12:05 pm\n30 mins\nJunping Du\nCEO and co-founder\, Datastrato\nAdvancing Toward an Intelligent and Agentic Data Architecture with Gravitino\nJunping 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.\n\n\n#7 \n12:05 – 12:30 pm\n20 – 30 mins\nBruce Yang\nCo-founder\, Sapiens AI\nConversational agent for next-gen collaborative workspace\nBruce 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.\n\n\n12:30 – 1:30 pm\nLunch Break\n\n\n1:00 – 1:10 pm\n10 mins\nAdrian Cole\nPrincipal Software Engineer\, Tetrate\nLunch lightning talk: LF AI BeeAI\, testing GenAI applications\nAdrian 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.\n\n\n#8 \n1:30 – 1:55 pm\n25 mins\nSureshkumar Vivek Kalyan\nFounder\, Cartograph\nRAG\, Agents\, RL\nVivek 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.\n\n\n#9 (remote) \n1:55 – 2:20 pm\n25 mins\nFlorian Zhidong Fan\nAnt Group TuGraph Open Source Lead & Evangelist\, and maintainer of TuGraph/GeaFlow/Chat2Graph/DB-GPT/OSGraph\nChat2Graph: Symbolism Enhanced Graph Agent System Architecture\nFlorian 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.\n\n\nYaya Xia\nAnt Group Open Source Program Manager\nYaya is an active open source contributor\, during her PhD program\, her research focus was around open source community health analytics and ecosystem sustainability.\n\n\n#10 \n2:20 – 2:40 pm\n20 mins\nVivian Hu\nProduct Manager\, Second State\nRustCoder: Let Your LLM Code Rust Like a Pro\nVivian 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.\n\n\n#11 \n2:40 – 3:00 pm\n20 mins\nLang Feng\nFirst-year PhD student\, College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University\nToward Long-Horizon LLM Agent Training: From Structured Credit Assignment to Scalable RL Framework\nLang 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.\n\n\n3:00 – 3:15 pm\nCoffee break\n\n\n#12 \n3:15 – 3:40 pm\n25 mins\nDavid Liu\nFounder\, Notellect\nData Agent in the Era of the Super Individual\nDavid 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.\n\n\n#13 \n3:40 – 4:10 pm\n30 mins\n@Qian Liu\nResearcher\, TikTok\nCan Language Models Optimize Code Performance on Real-World Repositories?\nQian 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.\n\n\n#14 \n4:10 – 4:40 pm\n30 mins\nHaichen Zhang\nAI Product Architect\, AMD\nScalable AI Agent Deployment with MCPs on AMD GPU\nHaichen 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.\n\n\n#15 \n4:40 – 5:10 pm\n30 mins\nHenry Wang\nSingapore Internet Governance Forum and AI Data governance\nDiscussion about AI & Data governance\nCofounder\, Singapore Internet Governance\n\n\nUna Wang\nFounder and CEO of LingoAI\, \nFounding Member of Singapore Internet Governance Forum\nShe 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.\n\n\n#100 \n5:10 – 5:15 pm\n5 mins\n@Wu Jianbo\nEngineering Manager\, TikTok\nAchkowledgement and wrap up\nJianbo 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.\n\n\n5:15 – 5:30 pm\nDeparture\n\n\n\nCommunity and Inclusion\nLF 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. \n\nDiversity & 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.\nKnowledge 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.)\nCode 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.\n\nBy 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! \nJoin Us in Singapore on July 11\, 2025!\nWe 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)”. \nStay 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. \nLet’s build the future of AI agents in software engineering – submit your proposal today and see you in Singapore! \nEvent Hosts\n\nLinux Foundation AI & Data\, https://lfaidata.foundation/\nTikTok\, https://www.tiktok.com/\nEpic Connector\, https://www.linkedin.com/company/epic-connector/ \n\nProgram Committee\n\nAndreas Spanner: aspanner@redhat.com\nJunping Du: jp@datastrato.com \nTina Tsou: tina.tsou@tiktok.com \n\n 
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/lf-ai-data-day-singapore-2025-agent-for-swe-software-engineering/
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SUMMARY:OPEA Virtual Event - Agentic AI with OPEA
DESCRIPTION:Date & Time: July 23 @ 8:00 am PDT \nAgentic 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. \nDetailed session info coming shortly! \nRegister now!
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/opea-virtual-event-agentic-ai-with-opea/
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SUMMARY:LF AI Meetup - Research Triangle Park\, NC
DESCRIPTION:Event Date & Location: \n\nDate & Time: August 14\, 4:30–6:30 PM Eastern Time\nLocation: Frontier RTP\, 800 Park Offices Drive\, Research Triangle Park\, NC 27709\nCost: Free to attend. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided courtesy of Frontier RTP. Optional snacks and food available.\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin 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. \nYou’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. \nNetworking Session 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM\n• Enjoy music by DJ JDmL (provided by Frontier RTP)\n• Complimentary drinks provided by Fullsteam Brewery and RTP Uncorked\nIntroduction to LF AI & Data 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM\n• Presentation by Brad Topol\, Governing Board Chairperson\, IBM\nPizza and Lightning Talks 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM\n• 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 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSign up here
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/lf-ai-meetup-research-triangle-park-nc/
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SUMMARY:AI_dev Europe
DESCRIPTION:📣 Save the date – August 28 + 29!\n\nAI_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.\n\nExplore the event agenda and see what’s ahead.\n\n\n🎤 Don’t miss LF AI & Data community sessions!\nMany of our project contributors are speaking. Add their talks to your AI_dev schedule:
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/ai_dev-2/
LOCATION:Amsterdam\, Netherlands\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:AI_Dev Japan
DESCRIPTION:📣 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. \n 
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/ai_dev-japan-2/
LOCATION:Tokyo\, Japan\, Tokyo
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T100000
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SUMMARY:Delta Hacks: How Delta can propel organizations to AI data readiness
DESCRIPTION:​ \n🗓️ February 11\, 2026 \n​🕑 9AM PT \nAI success starts with your data\, but building reliable data pipelines shouldn’t feel like rocket science. Join Databricks MVP Andrew Sitz as he cuts through the complexity and shows you how to build production-grade pipelines using first principles of software and data engineering. \n​In this session\, you’ll discover a fresh mental model that bridges traditional SQL thinking with modern Delta Lake and PySpark patterns. Whether you’re wrestling with data quality issues or looking to level up your pipeline architecture\, Andrew will share practical strategies that make complex problems surprisingly approachable. Walk away with a clear framework for writing cleaner\, more maintainable data pipelines\, and the confidence to tackle your toughest data challenges head-on. \nSee here for details and go here to register \n  \n 
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/delta-hacks-how-delta-can-propel-organizations-to-ai-data-readiness/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260402
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260404
DTSTAMP:20260403T151455
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SUMMARY:MCP Dev Summit North America\, Presented by Agentic AI Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Date & Time: April 2-3\, 2026\nLocation: New York Marriott Marquis\n\nMCP Dev Summit North America is the premier gathering for builders\, contributors\, and organizations advancing AI development with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This year’s summit brings together MCP co-founders\, contributors\, and developers to explore the latest innovations\, share best practices\, and showcase the next generation of AI agents built on MCP. \nMCP has quickly become a transformative framework for developers\, providing a standardized approach and blueprint for connecting LLMs with applications and tools. The MCP Dev Summit offers an immersive experience with deep technical sessions on scaling MCP\, secure orchestration\, observability\, and enterprise integration\, designed to empower the community building the future of AI agents. \nView event page here.
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/mcp-dev-summit-north-america-presented-by-agentic-ai-foundation/
LOCATION:New York Marriott Marquis\, 1535 Broadway New York\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260521T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260521T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151455
CREATED:20260331T170410Z
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SUMMARY:LF AI & Data Mini Summit\, Co-Located at Open Source Summit North America
DESCRIPTION:Event: LF AI & Data Mini Summit (co-located with Open Source Summit North America)\nFormat: Half-day workshop\nDate & Time: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM on May 21\nLocation: Minneapolis Convention Center\n\nJoin the LF AI & Data community at a co-located event during Open Source Summit North America for a half-day of technical talks and community discussions focused on open source AI and data innovation. This event brings together developers\, maintainers\, and industry leaders to share project updates\, real-world use cases\, and the latest advancements across the LF AI & Data ecosystem. Attendees will gain insights into emerging AI technologies\, open governance models\, and opportunities to collaborate with the community shaping the future of open source AI. \nHow 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. \nAgenda will be launched soon. Stay tuned!
URL:https://lfaidata.foundation/event/lf-ai-data-mini-summit-co-located-at-open-source-summit-north-america/
LOCATION:Minneapolis Convention Center\, 1301 Second Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55403\, United States
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