​Deep technical sessions. Live demos. Real conversations.

​Join Red Hat AI, UT College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies, and the AI Community in Knoxville and Oak Ridge for an evening of technical depth:

• ​Hear directly from vLLM maintainers and committers

• ​See live demos of real inference workflows

• ​Connect with students, professionals, researchers, and practitioners pushing the state of the art

​Meetup Agenda

​4:00–4:30 PM — Doors Open, Check-In

4:30–4:40 PM — Welcome and Opening Remarks

​Dr. Aysegul Cuhadar, Associate Professor for UT CECS and Dr. Monica Ihli, Principal AI Engineer

​4:40–5:10 PM — Intro to Open Source AI, vLLM, and vLLM Project Update

​Michael Goin, vLLM Maintainer and Principal Engineer, Red Hat AI

​5:10–6:10 PM — Additional Talks from the East TN Community

​More Details to Come!

​6:10–6:30 PM — Community Discussion and Q&A

​All Speakers and Community

​6:30–7:30 PM — Meet the Speakers, Networking, Pizza and Drinks Provided

​Who Should Come

• ​vLLM users and contributors

• ​ML and infra engineers working on inference and serving

• ​Platform teams running GenAI in production

• ​Students, practitioners, and anyone curious about efficient inference

​Before You Arrive

• ​Registration closes 24 hours before the event

• ​Unregistered attendees cannot be admitted

​See you in Knoxville - Oak Ridge! The inference conversation starts here.