The Latest Guest Lineup of GOSIM 2024 Europe Revealed, Gathering Global Masters in AI Open Source field
May 6th, 2024, GOSIM 2024 Europe hosted by the organization of Global Open-Source Innovation Meetup (GOSIM) will be officially held in Delft, Netherlands, Europe.
This grand event has provided a platform for experts from various fields of open source to exchange insights on the innovative development direction and best innovation practices of cutting-edge technology.
The conference consists of three parallel tracks, namely AI & Agents track, APP&WEB track, and Fediverse track, and invited a large lineup of speakers to share innovative ideas and technical achievements for developers. Before the conference, let us take a look at the grand lineup of guests.
Guest Lineup of AI & Agents Track
Jorge Bejar
Theme: Moxin: A Pure Rust Explorer for Open Source LLMs
Jorge Bejar majored in computer science and has extensive experience in software development for more than 15 years, from web development for PHP applications to game hacking with C++. In 2010, he joined WyeWorks, working on projects with Ruby, Elixir and Rust. Currently, he is collaborating on the Makepad project and other open source projects.
Jonathan Kelley
Theme: Dioxus AI driven UI
Jonathan Kelley used to be a Systems Engineer at Cloudflare building 1.1.1.1 and WARP, and later he becomes the founder of Dioxus Labs and the creator of the Rust frontend framework Dioxus.
Anni Lai
Theme: Fostering Responsible AI: Empowering Openness and Community Collaboration
Anni Lai, who is leading open-source operations at Futurewei, Chair of Generative AI Commons and the Board member of LF AI and Data, member of LF Europe’s Advisory Board, actively participates in various foundation boards that the OpenStack Foundation, LF CNCF, LF OCI, LF Edge, and the Open Metaverse Foundation.
Hydai Tai
Theme: Write Once Run Anywhere, But for GPUs
Hydai Tai, the maintainer of the WasmEdge Runtime project and an engineering leader at Second State, mentor in the Linux Foundation Mentorship program and a CNCF Ambassador, an expert on AI inference frameworks like llama.cpp, PyTorch and Tensorflow.
Xavier Tao
Theme: Dora-rs: LLM powered runtime code change in robots
Xavier Tao is a French software engineer developing practical solutions for ML/AI users and engineers through open-source projects. He has developed AI models into production for multiple industries, and now he is engaging in dora-rs robotic framework project powering robotic applications with LLM.
Yanzhi Wang
Theme: Unified Acceleration Framework of Both LLM and Generative AI Models on The Edge
Yanzhi Wang received the B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2009, and Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California in 2014, an associate professor and faculty fellow at Dept. of ECE at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. His research interests mainly center at model compression and platform-specific acceleration of deep learning applications, having published broadly in top conference and journal venues and been cited above 18,000 times.
Yijun Yu
Theme: Challenges and Opportunities in using Rust for AI
Yijun Yu is Director of ADA lab at Huawei Ireland Research Center, Dublin, Ireland and Professor of Software Engineering at The Open University, UK, whoes research focus on automated and safe programming techniques for improving the performance of both software engineers and the software artefacts that they produce. Currently he is leading the effort of Rust adoption at Huawei.
Guest Lineup of APP & WEB Track
Nico Burns
Theme: Rust Application Development White paper
Nico’s work has a focus on modularity and fostering collaboration/coordination between projects wherever possible. Building on his previous experience with UI as a full-stack web developer, he is currently working on creating an ecosystem of crates for building UI frameworks and web engines in Rust through his work on the Taffy, Blitz and Servo projects.
David Rheinsberg
Theme: Wrapping Cargo for Shipping
David has a background in Linux Kernel development, low-level Linux user-space, and particularly IPC. His recent efforts involve advocating for Rust in Linux system development, as well as supporting Rust application frameworks with operating-system abstractions.
Juan Rico
Juan is a Telecommunication Engineer holding a Master degree in ICT, with almost 20 years of experience in wireless communications, M2M, IoT and smart domains. He is currently Oniro Program Manager at Eclipse Foundation supporting the development of Oniro as the Operating System Platform for smart devices of all sizes. Additionally, he has also specialized in the management of disruptive innovation and the adoption of breakthrough technologies by the markets.
Jonathan Schwender
Theme: OpenHarmony for Next Gen Mobile
Jonathan Schwender is a software engineer at the Huawei Dresden Research Center. He has been working on projects for the Hongmeng kernel, the trusted execution environment SDK and the OpenHarmony OS. Jonathan is also opensource maintainer of Corrosion — a CMake module that integrates cargo into the CMake build system — and of libvsync — a library of efficient concurrent data structures for low-level programming.
Cassaundra Smith
Theme: Quake: Bridging the Build System Gap
Cassaundra is a programming language enthusiast and build system hacker, having previously contributed to projects like the Rust compiler and Cargo. She has also been directly involved with several efforts to improve the accessibility and learnability of the Rust language for all, and is a strong advocate for free and open source software that pushes against current technological and societal barriers.
Gregory Terzian
Theme: Modular Servo: Three Paths Forward
Having started to contribute to Servo, and learn Rust, in 2016, Gregory Terzian proceeded to implement a variety of core Web features such as: MessagePort and BroadcastChannel, safe passing of structured data, the HTTP cache, ReadableStream, as well as supporting infrastructure such as the background hang monitor. In 2019, Gregory became a reviewer, and in 2020 a member of the Technical Steering Committee. After a hiatus working on distributed systems, Gregory is now back on Servo with a focus on Web APIs and overall architecture.
Ben Wishovich
Theme: Full Stack Rust with Leptos
Ben is a full stack web developer and core contributor to Leptos, a Rust based fine-grained full stack web framework. He works with Tim McNamara at Accelerant to help people build flexible and maintainable web apps and websites.
Guest Lineup of Fediverse Track
Kevin Boos
Theme: Robrix: a Multi-platform Matrix & Fediverse Hub
Kevin obtained his PhD from Rice University with a focus on OS design, with other interests spanning the domains of I/O virtualization, device drivers, mobile VR, static analysis, and safe languages. He is currently a software architect at Futurewei and the tech lead of Project Robius, an open-source Rust framework for developing immersive, fully-featured applications in Rust that run seamlessly across multiple platforms, including mobile. He also created Theseus OS, an open-source OS written from scratch in Rust that rethinks the structure and implementation strategy of operating systems, with an emphasis on maximally leveraging language mechanisms for compile-time safety and verifiable correctness.
Matthew Hodgson
Theme: Messaging with Matrix
Matthew is project lead and co-founder of Matrix — the open source project that aims to be the secure communication layer of the open Web. He is also the CEO/CTO at Element, the company formed by the team who created Matrix in order to help fund their work on Matrix.
Quanyi Ma
Theme: Mega — Decentralized Open Source Collaboration for Source Code & LLM
Quanyi Ma, Director of Open Source Community Operations at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, with over 20 years of experience in Rust, operating systems, and cloud-native technologies. He serves as an Open Source Project Mentor at the OpenAtom Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing open-source innovation in China, and an Independent Director at the Web3 Infrastructure Foundation in Hong Kong, where he contributes his expertise to shape the future of decentralized infrastructure.
Marc Schoolderman
Marc used to work at the Digital Security department at Radboud University Nijmegen, researching the practical application of formal methods, and now he is a software engineer at Tweede golf. He has lead the project team formed by Tweede golf and Ferrous Systems to re-implement the ubiquitous “sudo” and “su” commands in Rust, under the auspices of ISRG’s Prossimo Project.
Liyang Zhu (Tom)
Theme:Palpus — An Open-Sourced Rust Matrix Server by VoceChat Team
Liyang Zhu (Tom) is a founding engineer of Privoce and recently got his Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. With a blend of academic knowledge and practical experience, he has been contributing to various open-source projects at Privoce for 4 years. He owns experience on scalable and distributed systems, and software development, especially in front-end development and cloud computing.
The above is the main guest lineup for this GOSIM conference. We look forward to meeting you all in Europe and witnessing the increasingly powerful strength of open source in promoting the AI field together.
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