AI infra & open-source models #3

​We're hosting an AI infra & open-source models meetup in San Francisco during Open Source AI Week, bringing together GPU experts, AI researchers, and AI infrastructure experts interested in GPUs and open-source models.

​​​Schedule:

• ​​​6:00pm – Arrival & chats

• ​​​6:15pm – Lightning talks and demos (Part 1)

• ​​​7:00pm – Break

• ​​​7:15pm – Lightning talks and demos (Part 2)

• ​​​8:00pm – Networking, food, and drinks

​Each session = max 5 min talk/demo

​​Speakers:

• ​Tunji Ruwase - Principal Engineer @ Snowflake

• ​Prashant Upase - Head of Growth Product @ Scale AI

• ​Andrey Cheptsov – Founder & CEO @ dstack

• ​Xin (Kris) Gao – AI Infra PM @ Electronic Arts

• ​Waleed Atallah – Co-Founder & CEO @ Mako

• ​Meghana Ravikumar - Senior PM @ Lambda Labs

• ​Peng Wu - ML Systems @ ByteDance

• ​⚡️10-min break⚡️

• ​Tanya Verma - Co-founder & CEO @ Tinfoil

• ​Kate Deyneka - Solo Builder, ex-Senior MLE @ Snap Inc.

• ​Tim Pietrusky - DX Engineer @ Runpod

• ​Hang Yin - Co-founder & CTO @ Phala Cloud

• ​Anna Shors - Senior Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer @ NVIDIA

• ​Prabha Ganapathy - Global Head of Gen AI Initiatives @ AWS

​Your hosts:

​dstack is an open-source container orchestrator that simplifies workload orchestration and drives GPU utilization for ML teams. It works with any GPU cloud, on-prem cluster, or accelerated hardware.

​Lambda is where AI teams find infinite scale to produce intelligence: from prototyping on on-demand compute to serving billions of users in production, we guide and equip the world's most AI-advanced organizations to securely build and deploy AI products.

​Supporters:

​Tensor is a deep tech venture fund investing in AI infra, quantum, techbio, dev tools, and future of computing.