​Join Us for the 2nd vLLM Israel Meetup!

​Hosted by Red Hat, IBM, Nebius, and NVIDIA, we're gathering the GenAI community for a technical night focusing on cutting-edge inference tech. If you're an engineer, a founder, or working in the field, this one's for you.

​Mark your calendar for May 27th at Nebius Israel Offices.

What to Expect:

• ​State-of-Inference & Roadmap: Hear from the core vLLM team and industry experts on the current state of inference and where it is going.

• ​Technical Deep-Dives: Get into the weeds on KV cache offloading, intelligent model routing, data-center buildouts, and kernel optimization.

• ​High-Value Networking: Connect over food and drinks with fellow engineers, founders, and leaders driving the local GenAI scene.

​Agenda:

• ​17:00 – 17:30 — Doors Open, Snacks & Drinks

• ​17:30 – 17:45 — Welcome & Opening Remarks

  • ​Roy Nissim (Red Hat), Michal Malka (IBM Research), Tomer Avlakosh (Nebius), and Roman Chernin (Nebius)

• ​17:45 – 18:20 — vLLM Keynote: Community Updates and Native KV Cache Offloading in vLLM

  • ​Or Ozeri, Research Staff Member at IBM Research | vLLM Maintainer

• ​18:20 – 18:50 — Closing the Loop: vLLM in Reinforcement Learning Training Systems

  • ​Simon Karasik, Infrastructure Lead at Nebius AI R&D

• ​18:50 – 19:20 — Cloud Native AI Gateway and Intelligent Routing

  • ​Nir Rozenbaum, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat AI | llm-d & GIE maintainer, Kubernetes AI Gateway WG Chair

• ​19:20 – 19:50 — Food Break 😋

• ​19:50 – 20:30 — [Panel] Pushing the Boundaries: Optimizing Kernels for Peak Inference

  • ​Amir Klein, Senior LLM Inference Engineer at NVIDIA

  • ​Dr. Orian Leitersdorf, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Decart

  • ​Prof. Oded Schwartz, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at TensorQ

• ​20:30 – 21:00 — Networking & Drinks

​Important Information

• ​Registration Deadline: Registration closes exactly 24 hours prior to the event. We cannot accommodate walk-ins, so please ensure you register on time.

• ​Check-In: Please bring a valid photo ID to verify your registration upon arrival.

​We look forward to seeing you there!

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