Flower AI Day: Open-Source Decentralized Superintelligence
Flower AI Day is set to be a landmark for the open-source AI movement -- featuring keynotes from world-leading engineers and scientists, ground-breaking demos of brand-new Flower technology, and interactive expert-led panels. We are gathering together due to a fast evolving change in the AI landscape that will impact everything.
Open-source Decentralized Super Intelligence has arrived
Flower AI Day will explore the rapid arrival of open-source decentralized superintelligence. Complete event details are found here. Core relevant sub-topics include:
Decentralized AI
Federated Learning
Open-source AGI
Confidential Compute and Compliance-ready AI
On-device LLMs
Privacy-preserving Technologies (PETs)
Enterprise-scale Fed AI deployments
Confirmed speakers below, with more surprises to come:
Sara Hooker; VP of Research, Head of Cohere Labs, Cohere
Daniel J. Beutel; Co-Founder and CEO, Flower Labs
Joseph Spisak; Product Director, Generative AI, Meta
Ce Zhang; CTO Together, Assoc. Prof. (Uni of Chicago)
Timothy Chou; Lecturer (Stanford), Founder of Pediatric Moonshot
Tony James; Chief Architect, Science and Space (Red Hat)
Nic Lane; Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Flower Labs, Prof. (Uni of Cambridge)
Sudhir Upadhyay; Head of Engineering, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
Our program will kick off early in the afternoon of Thursday September 25. All attendees will receive event-specific swag (t-shirts and more). Together with technical sessions there will be multiple catered social and networking sessions, including an evening reception along with light food. We are delighted to have secured for this event the stunning Shack15 venue in the Ferry Building located in downtown San Francisco.
Preliminary Agenda
1:00 PM — ☕️ Registration and Reception
Check in for badge and swag. Network over coffee.
1:30 PM — 🌼 Welcome and Flower Keynote
Early preview of new Flower tech and demos including AI using federations, decentralization, privacy tech, and on-device compute.
2:00 PM — 🎙️ The Road to Open-source Decentralized AGI
Talks on decentralized training that scale to frontier-quality foundation models.
2:45 PM — Fireside Chat: Open-source AI — Going All In
3:15 PM — Refreshment Break and Networking
3:45 PM — 🎙️ Enterprise-scale Federated AI: A View from the Front-line
Real deployments, lessons learned, successes, and emerging patterns inside large organizations.
4:30 PM — 🎙️ The Power of On-device AI and Confidential Compute for Privacy and Compliance
Speakers cover solutions to privacy, regulation and safety using local AI and/or confidential compute.
5:00 PM — Refreshment Break and Networking
5:30PM — 🎙️ Enabling Universal AI: Every Language, Every Location, Every Application Domain
Unlocking overlooked AI applications and neglected users/regions by improving training data coverage and model eval.
6:15 PM — Panel: Federated AI is Here. What Happens Next?
6:45 PM — Light Dinner and After-hours Party