Conference Schedule
All times EDT
Mar 17, 2025 · 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
AIOS AI SuperUser Bootcamp
Mark Hinkle
WorkshopFletcher HallMar 17, 2025 · 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
GenAI RAG Workshop
John Willis
WorkshopCinema 1Mar 17, 2025 · 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch – Day 1
Mar 17, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
Build GCP certification tutor with Gemini, LangChain and Vector Search
Rishab Kumar
Guest LecturesFletcher HallMar 17, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
Hallucinations, Prompt Manipulations, and Mitigating Risk: Putting Guardrails around your LLM-Powered Applications
Don Shin
Guest LecturesCinema 1Mar 17, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
You Don’t Need an AI Strategy, But You Do Need to Be Strategic About AI
Jessica Hall
Guest LecturesCinema 2Mar 17, 2025 · 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM
Break
Mar 17, 2025 · 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Cooking with Granite : Granite AI Models Workshop
BJ Hargrave
WorkshopCinema 2Mar 17, 2025 · 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Break
Mar 17, 2025 · 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Testing GenAI Applications
Adrian Cole
WorkshopCinema 2Mar 17, 2025 · 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Break
Mar 17, 2025 · 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
AI-Assisted Grant/RFP Writing Workflow: Scale Funding Efforts Without Scaling Costs
Will Mendoza
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 17, 2025 · 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Codename Goose: An Open Source Local AI Agent Built on MCP
Angie Jones
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 17, 2025 · 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Leveraging Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Protein Function Prediction
Tia Pope
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 17, 2025 · 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Practical Generative AI Observability: Metrics and Tools for Real-Time Monitoring
Tony Shan
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 17, 2025 · 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Responsible AI Considerations for Language Models
Sophia Rowland
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 17, 2025 · 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Day 1 Networking Social
Mar 18, 2025 · 8:00 AM – 5:15 PM
Check-In and Onsite Registration Opens
Mar 18, 2025 · 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM
Artificial Intelligence Needs Community Intelligence
Sriram Raghavan
KeynoteFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM
Don’t just talk to AI, do more with AI: how to improve productivity with AI agents
Sheng Liang
KeynoteFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM
DON’T PANIC: AI IS COMING – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI
Mark Hinkle
KeynoteFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM
Open-Source GenAI vs. Enterprise GenAI: Navigating the Future of AI Innovation
Dr. Ruth Akintunde
KeynoteFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM
The Death of the Browser
Rachel-Lee Nabors
KeynoteFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM
Welcome Keynote
KeynoteFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Break
Mar 18, 2025 · 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Declarative ML Orchestration
Shivay Lamba
AI BuildersCinema 2Mar 18, 2025 · 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Let’s Talk About LLM Evaluations
John Willis
AI EngineersCinema 1Mar 18, 2025 · 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Prioritizing and Evaluating GenAI Use Cases
Ben Heller
AI UsersFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Break
Mar 18, 2025 · 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
A truly community-based Open Source LLM and what it can do for your business and the open community as a whole
JJ Asghar
AI UsersFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Let’s Create a GitHub Copilot Extension!
Nick Taylor
AI EngineersCinema 1Mar 18, 2025 · 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
The Future is Non-Deterministic
Michael Donovan
AI BuildersCinema 2Mar 18, 2025 · 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM
Lunch – Day 2
Mar 18, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
AI Observability
Wade Moore
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
AI-assisted Open Source Issue Management
Arundeep Nagaraj
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Beyond Single-Source RAG: Cross-Stack AI Assistants
Kevin Blanco
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Coding with AI, Revolution or Evolution
Brandon Mathis
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
How I created Bookshelf : An Open Source AI-Powered Personal Knowledge Base
Ash Tewari
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Safeguarding Innovation: Navigating Patent Challenges in the Expanding AI Landscape
Keith Bergelt
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Understanding Vector Databases
Jessica Garson
Ignite TalksFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Break
Mar 18, 2025 · 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Accelerating GenAI Business Value
AI EngineersCinema 1Mar 18, 2025 · 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
AI Governance: Mitigating Risks in the Enterprise
Melissa Nysewander
AI UsersFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Rolling out Enterprise AI: Tools, Insights, and Team Empowerment
Calvin Hendryx-Parker
AI BuildersCinema 2Mar 18, 2025 · 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Break
Mar 18, 2025 · 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for RAG: A Smarter Approach to Contextual AI Applications
David vonThenen
AI BuildersCinema 2Mar 18, 2025 · 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Search in the AI era: how semantic search and agentic AI are revolutionizing information discovery
Jon Reifschneider
AI UsersFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Sneaky Ways to Integrate GenAI for Real-World Impact
Ben Ilegbodu
AI EngineersCinema 1Mar 18, 2025 · 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Break
Mar 18, 2025 · 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Building AI Agents and Assistants for DevOps Workflows
Lee Faus
AI BuildersCinema 2Mar 18, 2025 · 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Gen AI: AI Agents – Making LLMs work together in an organized way
Brent Laster
AI EngineersCinema 1Mar 18, 2025 · 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Unleashing the Power of LLMs: Revolutionizing Drug Safety and Business Automation with Multi-Agent AI
Venkateswara Rao Chalamalasetti
AI UsersFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Break
Mar 18, 2025 · 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Hacking AI – How to Survive the AI Uprising
Gant Laborde
AI UsersFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Scaling Large Models with Model & Data Parallelism: Techniques, Tradeoffs, and Best Practices
Shashank Kapadia
AI EngineersCinema 1Mar 18, 2025 · 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Unleashing the Power of Vector Databases for AI-Driven Applications
Venkat Venkatakrishnan
AI BuildersCinema 2Mar 18, 2025 · 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Break
Mar 18, 2025 · 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
A Developer’s Adventures in AI Wonderland
Burr Sutter
AI BuildersCinema 2Mar 18, 2025 · 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Scaling Success: Transforming PoC into Large-Scale Impact through Iteration
Dhivya Nagasubramanian
AI EngineersCinema 1Mar 18, 2025 · 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Security and AI: The Strategic Imperative
Katherine Druckman
AI UsersFletcher HallMar 18, 2025 · 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Break
Mar 18, 2025 · 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Closing Keynotes
KeynoteFletcher Hall
Mar 17, 2025 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM 9:00 AM EDT | AIOS AI SuperUser Bootcamp | Mark Hinkle | Workshop | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 17, 2025 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM 9:00 AM EDT | GenAI RAG Workshop | John Willis | Workshop | Cinema 1 |
Mar 17, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM 12:00 PM EDT | Lunch – Day 1 | — | — | — |
Mar 17, 2025 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM 12:15 PM EDT | Build GCP certification tutor with Gemini, LangChain and Vector Search | Rishab Kumar | Guest Lectures | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 17, 2025 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM 12:15 PM EDT | Hallucinations, Prompt Manipulations, and Mitigating Risk: Putting Guardrails around your LLM-Powered Applications | Don Shin | Guest Lectures | Cinema 1 |
Mar 17, 2025 12:15 PM – 12:45 PM 12:15 PM EDT | You Don’t Need an AI Strategy, But You Do Need to Be Strategic About AI | Jessica Hall | Guest Lectures | Cinema 2 |
Mar 17, 2025 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM 12:45 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 17, 2025 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM 1:00 PM EDT | Cooking with Granite : Granite AI Models Workshop | BJ Hargrave | Workshop | Cinema 2 |
Mar 17, 2025 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM 3:00 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 17, 2025 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM 3:30 PM EDT | Testing GenAI Applications | Adrian Cole | Workshop | Cinema 2 |
Mar 17, 2025 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM 4:30 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 17, 2025 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 4:45 PM EDT | AI-Assisted Grant/RFP Writing Workflow: Scale Funding Efforts Without Scaling Costs | Will Mendoza | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 17, 2025 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 4:45 PM EDT | Codename Goose: An Open Source Local AI Agent Built on MCP | Angie Jones | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 17, 2025 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 4:45 PM EDT | Leveraging Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Protein Function Prediction | Tia Pope | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 17, 2025 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 4:45 PM EDT | Practical Generative AI Observability: Metrics and Tools for Real-Time Monitoring | Tony Shan | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 17, 2025 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM 4:45 PM EDT | Responsible AI Considerations for Language Models | Sophia Rowland | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 17, 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM 6:00 PM EDT | Day 1 Networking Social | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 8:00 AM – 5:15 PM 8:00 AM EDT | Check-In and Onsite Registration Opens | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM 8:45 AM EDT | Artificial Intelligence Needs Community Intelligence | Sriram Raghavan | Keynote | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM 8:45 AM EDT | Don’t just talk to AI, do more with AI: how to improve productivity with AI agents | Sheng Liang | Keynote | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM 8:45 AM EDT | DON’T PANIC: AI IS COMING – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI | Mark Hinkle | Keynote | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM 8:45 AM EDT | Open-Source GenAI vs. Enterprise GenAI: Navigating the Future of AI Innovation | Dr. Ruth Akintunde | Keynote | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM 8:45 AM EDT | The Death of the Browser | Rachel-Lee Nabors | Keynote | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM 8:45 AM EDT | Welcome Keynote | — | Keynote | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM 10:15 AM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT | Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Declarative ML Orchestration | Shivay Lamba | AI Builders | Cinema 2 |
Mar 18, 2025 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT | Let’s Talk About LLM Evaluations | John Willis | AI Engineers | Cinema 1 |
Mar 18, 2025 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 10:30 AM EDT | Prioritizing and Evaluating GenAI Use Cases | Ben Heller | AI Users | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM 11:00 AM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT | A truly community-based Open Source LLM and what it can do for your business and the open community as a whole | JJ Asghar | AI Users | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT | Let’s Create a GitHub Copilot Extension! | Nick Taylor | AI Engineers | Cinema 1 |
Mar 18, 2025 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM 11:15 AM EDT | The Future is Non-Deterministic | Michael Donovan | AI Builders | Cinema 2 |
Mar 18, 2025 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM 11:45 AM EDT | Lunch – Day 2 | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT | AI Observability | Wade Moore | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT | AI-assisted Open Source Issue Management | Arundeep Nagaraj | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT | Beyond Single-Source RAG: Cross-Stack AI Assistants | Kevin Blanco | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT | Coding with AI, Revolution or Evolution | Brandon Mathis | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT | How I created Bookshelf : An Open Source AI-Powered Personal Knowledge Base | Ash Tewari | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT | Safeguarding Innovation: Navigating Patent Challenges in the Expanding AI Landscape | Keith Bergelt | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM 12:15 PM EDT | Understanding Vector Databases | Jessica Garson | Ignite Talks | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM 1:15 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM 1:30 PM EDT | Accelerating GenAI Business Value | — | AI Engineers | Cinema 1 |
Mar 18, 2025 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM 1:30 PM EDT | AI Governance: Mitigating Risks in the Enterprise | Melissa Nysewander | AI Users | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM 1:30 PM EDT | Rolling out Enterprise AI: Tools, Insights, and Team Empowerment | Calvin Hendryx-Parker | AI Builders | Cinema 2 |
Mar 18, 2025 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM 2:00 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM 2:15 PM EDT | Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for RAG: A Smarter Approach to Contextual AI Applications | David vonThenen | AI Builders | Cinema 2 |
Mar 18, 2025 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM 2:15 PM EDT | Search in the AI era: how semantic search and agentic AI are revolutionizing information discovery | Jon Reifschneider | AI Users | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM 2:15 PM EDT | Sneaky Ways to Integrate GenAI for Real-World Impact | Ben Ilegbodu | AI Engineers | Cinema 1 |
Mar 18, 2025 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM 2:45 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM 3:00 PM EDT | Building AI Agents and Assistants for DevOps Workflows | Lee Faus | AI Builders | Cinema 2 |
Mar 18, 2025 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM 3:00 PM EDT | Gen AI: AI Agents – Making LLMs work together in an organized way | Brent Laster | AI Engineers | Cinema 1 |
Mar 18, 2025 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM 3:00 PM EDT | Unleashing the Power of LLMs: Revolutionizing Drug Safety and Business Automation with Multi-Agent AI | Venkateswara Rao Chalamalasetti | AI Users | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM 3:30 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM 3:45 PM EDT | Hacking AI – How to Survive the AI Uprising | Gant Laborde | AI Users | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM 3:45 PM EDT | Scaling Large Models with Model & Data Parallelism: Techniques, Tradeoffs, and Best Practices | Shashank Kapadia | AI Engineers | Cinema 1 |
Mar 18, 2025 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM 3:45 PM EDT | Unleashing the Power of Vector Databases for AI-Driven Applications | Venkat Venkatakrishnan | AI Builders | Cinema 2 |
Mar 18, 2025 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM 4:15 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM 4:30 PM EDT | A Developer’s Adventures in AI Wonderland | Burr Sutter | AI Builders | Cinema 2 |
Mar 18, 2025 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM 4:30 PM EDT | Scaling Success: Transforming PoC into Large-Scale Impact through Iteration | Dhivya Nagasubramanian | AI Engineers | Cinema 1 |
Mar 18, 2025 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM 4:30 PM EDT | Security and AI: The Strategic Imperative | Katherine Druckman | AI Users | Fletcher Hall |
Mar 18, 2025 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM 5:00 PM EDT | Break | — | — | — |
Mar 18, 2025 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM 5:15 PM EDT | Closing Keynotes | — | Keynote | Fletcher Hall |