All Things Open AI 2025 — Event Recap
March 17 — March 18, 2025
Monday, March 17
Check-In and Onsite Registration Opens
12:00 PM — 9:30 PM
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AIOS AI SuperUser Bootcamp
Mark Hinkle1:00 PM — 8:30 PMWorkshop
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GenAI RAG Workshop
John Willis1:00 PM — 8:30 PMWorkshop
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Lunch – Day 1
4:00 PM — 5:00 PM
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Build GCP certification tutor with Gemini, LangChain and Vector Search
Rishab Kumar4:15 PM — 4:45 PMGuest Lectures
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Hallucinations, Prompt Manipulations, and Mitigating Risk: Putting Guardrails around your LLM-Powered Applications
Don Shin4:15 PM — 4:45 PMGuest Lectures
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You Don’t Need an AI Strategy, But You Do Need to Be Strategic About AI
Jessica Hall4:15 PM — 4:45 PMGuest Lectures
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Break
4:45 PM — 5:00 PM
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Cooking with Granite : Granite AI Models Workshop
BJ Hargrave5:00 PM — 7:00 PMWorkshop
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Break
7:00 PM — 7:30 PM
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Testing GenAI Applications
Adrian Cole7:30 PM — 8:30 PMWorkshop
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Break
8:30 PM — 8:45 PM
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Leveraging Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Protein Function Prediction
Tia Pope8:45 PM — 9:30 PMIgnite Talks
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AI-Assisted Grant/RFP Writing Workflow: Scale Funding Efforts Without Scaling Costs
Will Mendoza8:45 PM — 9:30 PMIgnite Talks
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Codename Goose: An Open Source Local AI Agent Built on MCP
Angie Jones8:45 PM — 9:30 PMIgnite Talks
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Practical Generative AI Observability: Metrics and Tools for Real-Time Monitoring
Tony Shan8:45 PM — 9:30 PMIgnite Talks
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Responsible AI Considerations for Language Models
Sophia Rowland8:45 PM — 9:30 PMIgnite Talks
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Day 1 Networking Social
10:00 PM — 12:00 AM
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Tuesday, March 18
Check-In and Onsite Registration Opens
12:00 PM — 9:15 PM
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Artificial Intelligence Needs Community Intelligence
Sriram Raghavan12:45 PM — 2:10 PMKeynote
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Welcome Keynote
12:45 PM — 2:10 PMKeynote
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The Death of the Browser
Rachel-Lee Nabors12:45 PM — 2:10 PMKeynote
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Don’t just talk to AI, do more with AI: how to improve productivity with AI agents
Sheng Liang12:45 PM — 2:10 PMKeynote
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Open-Source GenAI vs. Enterprise GenAI: Navigating the Future of AI Innovation
Dr. Ruth Akintunde12:45 PM — 2:10 PMKeynote
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DON’T PANIC: AI IS COMING – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI
Mark Hinkle12:45 PM — 2:10 PMKeynote
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Break
2:15 PM — 2:30 PM
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Prioritizing and Evaluating GenAI Use Cases
Ben Heller2:30 PM — 3:00 PMAI Users
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Let’s Talk About LLM Evaluations
John Willis2:30 PM — 3:00 PMAI Engineers
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Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Declarative ML Orchestration
Shivay Lamba2:30 PM — 3:00 PMAI Builders
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Break
3:00 PM — 3:15 PM
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Let’s Create a GitHub Copilot Extension!
Nick Taylor3:15 PM — 3:45 PMAI Engineers
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A truly community-based Open Source LLM and what it can do for your business and the open community as a whole
JJ Asghar3:15 PM — 3:45 PMAI Users
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The Future is Non-Deterministic
Michael Donovan3:15 PM — 3:45 PMAI Builders
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Lunch – Day 2
3:45 PM — 5:30 PM
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How I created Bookshelf : An Open Source AI-Powered Personal Knowledge Base
Ash Tewari4:15 PM — 5:15 PMIgnite Talks
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Beyond Single-Source RAG: Cross-Stack AI Assistants
Kevin Blanco4:15 PM — 5:15 PMIgnite Talks
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AI-assisted Open Source Issue Management
Arundeep Nagaraj4:15 PM — 5:15 PMIgnite Talks
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Safeguarding Innovation: Navigating Patent Challenges in the Expanding AI Landscape
Keith Bergelt4:15 PM — 5:15 PMIgnite Talks
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AI Observability
Wade Moore4:15 PM — 5:15 PMIgnite Talks
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Understanding Vector Databases
Jessica Garson4:15 PM — 5:15 PMIgnite Talks
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Coding with AI, Revolution or Evolution
Brandon Mathis4:15 PM — 5:15 PMIgnite Talks
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Break
5:15 PM — 5:30 PM
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Rolling out Enterprise AI: Tools, Insights, and Team Empowerment
Calvin Hendryx-Parker5:30 PM — 6:00 PMAI Builders
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AI Governance: Mitigating Risks in the Enterprise
Melissa Nysewander5:30 PM — 6:00 PMAI Users
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Accelerating GenAI Business Value
5:30 PM — 6:00 PMAI Engineers
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Break
6:00 PM — 6:15 PM
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Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for RAG: A Smarter Approach to Contextual AI Applications
David vonThenen6:15 PM — 6:45 PMAI Builders
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Search in the AI era: how semantic search and agentic AI are revolutionizing information discovery
Jon Reifschneider6:15 PM — 6:45 PMAI Users
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Sneaky Ways to Integrate GenAI for Real-World Impact
Ben Ilegbodu6:15 PM — 6:45 PMAI Engineers
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Break
6:45 PM — 7:00 PM
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Building AI Agents and Assistants for DevOps Workflows
Lee Faus7:00 PM — 7:30 PMAI Builders
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Gen AI: AI Agents – Making LLMs work together in an organized way
Brent Laster7:00 PM — 7:30 PMAI Engineers
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Unleashing the Power of LLMs: Revolutionizing Drug Safety and Business Automation with Multi-Agent AI
Venkateswara Rao Chalamalasetti7:00 PM — 7:30 PMAI Users
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Break
7:30 PM — 7:45 PM
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Hacking AI – How to Survive the AI Uprising
Gant Laborde7:45 PM — 8:15 PMAI Users
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Unleashing the Power of Vector Databases for AI-Driven Applications
Venkat Venkatakrishnan7:45 PM — 8:15 PMAI Builders
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Scaling Large Models with Model & Data Parallelism: Techniques, Tradeoffs, and Best Practices
Shashank Kapadia7:45 PM — 8:15 PMAI Engineers
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Break
8:15 PM — 8:30 PM
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Scaling Success: Transforming PoC into Large-Scale Impact through Iteration
Dhivya Nagasubramanian8:30 PM — 9:00 PMAI Engineers
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A Developer’s Adventures in AI Wonderland
Burr Sutter8:30 PM — 9:00 PMAI Builders
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Security and AI: The Strategic Imperative
Katherine Druckman8:30 PM — 9:00 PMAI Users
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Break
9:00 PM — 9:15 PM
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Closing Keynotes
9:15 PM — 9:30 PMKeynote
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Send Off Social
9:30 PM — 11:30 PM
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