AI infra & open-source models #2

​​We're hosting our first dstack user group event in San Francisco, bringing together CUDA and ROCm experts, AI researchers, and AI infrastructure experts interested in GPUs and open-source models. Join us for lightning talks, and focused discussions.

​​This event designed to bring together individuals deeply involved in the AI space to exchange ideas, share technical insights, and connect.

​​Schedule:

• ​​6:00pm – Arrival

• ​​6:30pm – Lightning talks and demos (Part 1)

• ​​7:15pm – Break

• ​​7:30pm – Lightning talks and demos (Part 2)

• ​​8:15pm – Networking with food & drinks

​​Each talk or demo runs for 7 minutes, followed by a 5-minute QA.

​Speakers:

• ​Michael Feil - Model performance @Baseten

• ​Yaroslav Bulatov - Principal Researcher @Together AI

• ​Zijian Hu - ML Researcher @Scale AI

• ​Shivam Sahni - AI Infra @LinkedIn

• ​Alay Shah - AI Engineer @Together AI

• ​Gregory Diamos - Member of Technical Staff @TensorWave

• ​Herman Pabla - Head of AI Solutions Engineering @Lambda

• ​Brian Lechthaler - Cloud Solutions Architect @Nebius

• ​Andrey Cheptsov - CEO @dstack

• ​More speakers to be announced this week!

​About dstack:

​dstack is an open-source alternative to K8S and Slurm, simplifying AI development across public clouds, private clouds, and datacenters with support for NVIDIA, AMD, and TPU hardware.

​Big thanks to Lambda, Edge and Tensor Ventures for supporting this event.

​Event venue:

​Open Source Campus - The No.1 Open Source Community & Co-working space in SF that has hosted over 50+ workshops, hackathons, and summits. Operated by Edge, a research & incubation lab co-founded by Transformer Co-author that focuses on advancing edge intelligence. Join the movement - learn more about their upcoming events and new co-working space.