Open Source AI at tech events
22 write-ups · 14 events · 2024–2026
Here I collect talks and demos about open models and open source AI tooling, including hackathons, community meetups and Red Hat Summit sessions. The themes that keep returning are running open weights yourself, how frontier and open models compare, and what sovereign or community-owned AI looks like for European and Asian teams.
2026
25 Sept 2026 · Builders & Brews: Hack Edition (Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon, Amsterdam) · Amsterdam
Builders & Brews Amsterdam: Nebius x NVIDIA AI HackathonAAIF Community Amsterdam's Builders & Brews: Hack Edition: the hackathon rules, Token Factory, Tavily, Kilo Code and a fast agent recipe before 30 October.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Open Source Building Blocks for AI Platforms (KubeCon Japan 2026)From KubeCon Japan 2026: the AI conformance framework for portability, a CNCF+in-house research platform, and dynamic resource composition in CNCF sandbox.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
RISC-V Summit Europe 2026: Open Hardware Meets AI in BolognaOn-the-ground coverage from RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna — SiFive, ETH Zurich, Qualcomm, and Luxottica on open silicon for AI and smart eyewear.
2 Jun 2026 · AI on the Amstel (June 2026): frontier models panel · Amsterdam
AI on the Amstel: DeepMind, NVIDIA & Mistral PanelRecap of the June 2026 AI on the Amstel meetup at VU Amsterdam — a panel with Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Mistral on how frontier models are built.
12 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Summit 2026 Keynote: Metal to Agents and TokensNotes from the Red Hat Summit 2026 day one keynote: open models, token economics, the metal to agents stack and an NVIDIA conversation on agent governance.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Building Digital Sovereign AI: Red Hat and MetaX at RedLi Ming Tsai and Jiaju Zhang present China's sovereign AI stack at Red Hat Summit 2026 — MetaX GPUs, Qwen/DeepSeek powering 30% of global tokens.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Pete Cheslock: From RAG to Roll-Your-Own Models in One YearPete Cheslock on the one-year enterprise AI leap from RAG pilots to self-hosted inference and model training on vLLM and llm-d at Red Hat Summit 2026.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Free Practical RHEL AI Book at Red Hat Summit 2026I am giving away copies of my latest book Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta. Meet me at the Lawn Lounge at 16:45 to grab your free copy.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Book Signing Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026Signing copies of Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta. From the Lawn Lounge to booths and hallways, here is how the book found its readers.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta: Open Source Meets AI atMy experience at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta — from platinum sponsors to late-night labs, product spotlights, and Turkish Airlines scaling 60+ AI.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Training Hub: Unified LLM Fine-Tuning at Summit 2026Red Hat AI Innovation Team unveiled Training Hub at Red Hat Summit 2026 — a unified Python API for SFT, LoRA, OSFT, and GRPO fine-tuning with MLFlow.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
llm-d Maintainer Sally O'Malley on Enterprise AI Inferencellm-d maintainer Sally O'Malley on vendor-neutral, Kubernetes-native distributed inference and what enterprise AI adoption looks like from inside the project.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Shuchi Sharma on Open Source AI's World of Infinite PossibilitiesShuchi Sharma on leading Red Hat's Open Source and AI Program Office, operationalizing open source AI at enterprise scale, and a new foundation in the works.
9 Apr 2026 · From Models to Machines: AI, World Models, and the Next Generation of Robotics · Amsterdam
AI House Amsterdam: Models, Machines, and RoboticsRecap of the Models to Machines robotics event at AI House Amsterdam. 331 attendees, ADRA president on EU robotics strategy, Manus data gloves, General.
29 Jan 2026 · MLOps Community Amsterdam: AI Strategy & Sovereignty Special · Amsterdam
MLOps Community Amsterdam: AI Sovereignty and GPT-NLThe MLOps Community Amsterdam sovereignty special at UvA: a policy panel on Europe's compute gap and TNO's talk on training GPT-NL, a Dutch LLM, from scratch.
2025
28 Aug 2025 · AI_dev Europe 2025: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit · Amsterdam
AI_dev Europe 2025 Amsterdam: CERN, Cerebras and LanceDBAI_dev Europe 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: CERN's MLOps platform, five Cerebras inference lessons, LanceDB's multimodal lakehouse and Neo4j graph agents.
23 Jul 2025 · AI on the Amstel (July 2025, hosted by Prosus) · Amsterdam
AI on the Amstel July 2025: Prosus PanelAI on the Amstel, 23 July 2025, hosted by Prosus: a panel on DeepSeek and on what AI will look like in July 2028, as shown on the slides.
19 Jun 2025 · TNW Conference 2025 · Amsterdam
TNW Conference Amsterdam 2025: AI, Startups, and Deep TechTNW Conference 2025 Amsterdam recap. Highlights from two days of AI demos, startup pitches, and deep tech talks at the NDSM wharf. Photos and key takeaways.
4 Jun 2025 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2025 · Bunnik
Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2025: ACM, InstructLabRed Hat Tech Day Netherlands, 4 June 2025: ACM Global Hub, Vault on OpenShift, AI on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, image mode for RHEL and InstructLab.
26 Feb 2025 · AI Tinkerers Amsterdam February Edition · Amsterdam
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam February 2025: Demo NightAI Tinkerers Amsterdam, February 2025: LLM evaluation with orq.ai, DeepSeek-R1 on Featherless.ai, Airweave's open-source sync engine, all as live demos.
2024
16 Oct 2024 · Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 · Utrecht
Red Hat Summit Connect Utrecht 2024: AI, Ansible, OpenShiftMy notes from Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 in the Netherlands: the ChRIS keynote, OpenShift Virtualization, an Ansible journey and supply chain security.
25 Sept 2024 · AI Tinkerers Amsterdam (September and November 2024 editions) · Amsterdam
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam 2024: Groq, Fiberplane and NebiusTwo AI Tinkerers Amsterdam demo nights from autumn 2024: Fiberplane's AI API testing, Groq-powered apps, an AI-native React compiler and Nebius AI Studio.