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All Things Open AI 2025 — Event Recap

March 17March 18, 2025

Monday, March 17

Check-In and Onsite Registration Opens
12:00 PM9:30 PM
AIOS AI SuperUser Bootcamp
Mark Hinkle1:00 PM8:30 PMWorkshop
GenAI RAG Workshop
John Willis1:00 PM8:30 PMWorkshop
Lunch – Day 1
4:00 PM5:00 PM
Build GCP certification tutor with Gemini, LangChain and Vector Search
Rishab Kumar4:15 PM4:45 PMGuest Lectures
Hallucinations, Prompt Manipulations, and Mitigating Risk: Putting Guardrails around your LLM-Powered Applications
Don Shin4:15 PM4:45 PMGuest Lectures
You Don’t Need an AI Strategy, But You Do Need to Be Strategic About AI
Jessica Hall4:15 PM4:45 PMGuest Lectures
Break
4:45 PM5:00 PM
Cooking with Granite : Granite AI Models Workshop
BJ Hargrave5:00 PM7:00 PMWorkshop
Break
7:00 PM7:30 PM
Testing GenAI Applications
Adrian Cole7:30 PM8:30 PMWorkshop
Break
8:30 PM8:45 PM
Leveraging Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Protein Function Prediction
Tia Pope8:45 PM9:30 PMIgnite Talks
AI-Assisted Grant/RFP Writing Workflow: Scale Funding Efforts Without Scaling Costs
Will Mendoza8:45 PM9:30 PMIgnite Talks
Codename Goose: An Open Source Local AI Agent Built on MCP
Angie Jones8:45 PM9:30 PMIgnite Talks
Practical Generative AI Observability: Metrics and Tools for Real-Time Monitoring
Tony Shan8:45 PM9:30 PMIgnite Talks
Responsible AI Considerations for Language Models
Sophia Rowland8:45 PM9:30 PMIgnite Talks
Day 1 Networking Social
10:00 PM12:00 AM

Tuesday, March 18

Check-In and Onsite Registration Opens
12:00 PM9:15 PM
Artificial Intelligence Needs Community Intelligence
Sriram Raghavan12:45 PM2:10 PMKeynote
Welcome Keynote
12:45 PM2:10 PMKeynote
The Death of the Browser
Rachel-Lee Nabors12:45 PM2:10 PMKeynote
Don’t just talk to AI, do more with AI: how to improve productivity with AI agents
Sheng Liang12:45 PM2:10 PMKeynote
Open-Source GenAI vs. Enterprise GenAI: Navigating the Future of AI Innovation
Dr. Ruth Akintunde12:45 PM2:10 PMKeynote
DON’T PANIC: AI IS COMING – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI
Mark Hinkle12:45 PM2:10 PMKeynote
Break
2:15 PM2:30 PM
Prioritizing and Evaluating GenAI Use Cases
Ben Heller2:30 PM3:00 PMAI Users
Let’s Talk About LLM Evaluations
John Willis2:30 PM3:00 PMAI Engineers
​​Fine-Tuning Large Language Models with Declarative ML Orchestration
Shivay Lamba2:30 PM3:00 PMAI Builders
Break
3:00 PM3:15 PM
Let’s Create a GitHub Copilot Extension!
Nick Taylor3:15 PM3:45 PMAI Engineers
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 PM3:45 PMAI Users
The Future is Non-Deterministic
Michael Donovan3:15 PM3:45 PMAI Builders
Lunch – Day 2
3:45 PM5:30 PM
How I created Bookshelf : An Open Source AI-Powered Personal Knowledge Base
Ash Tewari4:15 PM5:15 PMIgnite Talks
Beyond Single-Source RAG: Cross-Stack AI Assistants
Kevin Blanco4:15 PM5:15 PMIgnite Talks
AI-assisted Open Source Issue Management
Arundeep Nagaraj4:15 PM5:15 PMIgnite Talks
Safeguarding Innovation: Navigating Patent Challenges in the Expanding AI Landscape
Keith Bergelt4:15 PM5:15 PMIgnite Talks
AI Observability
Wade Moore4:15 PM5:15 PMIgnite Talks
Understanding Vector Databases
Jessica Garson4:15 PM5:15 PMIgnite Talks
Coding with AI, Revolution or Evolution
Brandon Mathis4:15 PM5:15 PMIgnite Talks
Break
5:15 PM5:30 PM
Rolling out Enterprise AI: Tools, Insights, and Team Empowerment
Calvin Hendryx-Parker5:30 PM6:00 PMAI Builders
AI Governance: Mitigating Risks in the Enterprise
Melissa Nysewander5:30 PM6:00 PMAI Users
Accelerating GenAI Business Value
5:30 PM6:00 PMAI Engineers
Break
6:00 PM6:15 PM
Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for RAG: A Smarter Approach to Contextual AI Applications
David vonThenen6:15 PM6:45 PMAI Builders
Search in the AI era: how semantic search and agentic AI are revolutionizing information discovery
Jon Reifschneider6:15 PM6:45 PMAI Users
Sneaky Ways to Integrate GenAI for Real-World Impact
Ben Ilegbodu6:15 PM6:45 PMAI Engineers
Break
6:45 PM7:00 PM
Building AI Agents and Assistants for DevOps Workflows
Lee Faus7:00 PM7:30 PMAI Builders
Gen AI: AI Agents – Making LLMs work together in an organized way
Brent Laster7:00 PM7:30 PMAI Engineers
Unleashing the Power of LLMs: Revolutionizing Drug Safety and Business Automation with Multi-Agent AI
Venkateswara Rao Chalamalasetti7:00 PM7:30 PMAI Users
Break
7:30 PM7:45 PM
Hacking AI – How to Survive the AI Uprising
Gant Laborde7:45 PM8:15 PMAI Users
Unleashing the Power of Vector Databases for AI-Driven Applications
Venkat Venkatakrishnan7:45 PM8:15 PMAI Builders
Scaling Large Models with Model & Data Parallelism: Techniques, Tradeoffs, and Best Practices
Shashank Kapadia7:45 PM8:15 PMAI Engineers
Break
8:15 PM8:30 PM
Scaling Success: Transforming PoC into Large-Scale Impact through Iteration
Dhivya Nagasubramanian8:30 PM9:00 PMAI Engineers
A Developer’s Adventures in AI Wonderland
Burr Sutter8:30 PM9:00 PMAI Builders
Security and AI: The Strategic Imperative
Katherine Druckman8:30 PM9:00 PMAI Users
Break
9:00 PM9:15 PM
Closing Keynotes
9:15 PM9:30 PMKeynote
Send Off Social
9:30 PM11:30 PM