AI.dev & Cassandra Summit: Schedule

1:00pm PST

Training Workshop: Bring Along Your Use Case - Sponsored by AxonOps (Pre-registration Required) San Jose Marriott, Salons I/II (located on the 2nd Floor)

5:00pm PST

Community Networking Reception, Sponsored by AxonOps (Pre-registration Required) San Jose Marriott, Salons I/II (located on the 2nd Floor)

7:30am PST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Prefunction (Concourse Exhibit Level) Registration & Badge Pick-up Lower Level Foyer (Lower Lobby Level)

9:00am PST

Keynote: State of Open GenAI - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

9:15am PST

Keynote: Unlocking Corporate Data with Retrieval-Augmented Generation - Jerry Liu, Co-founder & CEO, LlamaIndex Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

9:30am PST

Keynote: Enterprise Value with Generative AI - Gourab De, Vice President, Customer Success and Machine Learning, Weights and Biases Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

9:40am PST

Keynote: Data = AI: Leading the Future of Gen AI with Apache Cassandra - Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO, DataStax Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

10:00am PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) In Person Networking Meetings Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) Sponsor Showcase Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level)

10:30am PST

Lightning Talk: AI Penetration Testing - Blake Turrentine, HotWAN LL21D (Lower Lobby Level) The Future is Fine-Tuned: Deploying Task-specific LLMs - Devvret Rishi, Predibase LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) How Use of Generative AI Affects Both Open Source Developers and their Downstream Consumers - Roman Shaposhnik, Apache Software Foundation LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Reducing Hallucinations and Evaluating LLMs for Production - Divyansh Chaurasia, Deepchecks LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Embracing Multi-Cloud Cassandra at Walmart - Andrew Weaver & Patrick Lee, Walmart LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) Anti-Patterns with Apache Cassandra - Praveen Kuruvadi & Nikolai Kolesnikov, Amazon Web Services LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Building a Global CyberGrid on Cassandra - Charles D. Herring, WitFoo LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Enabling Advanced AI Queries with Apache Cassandra and Amazon Bedrock - Kirsten Hunter, Datastax LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Panel Discussion: The Impact of AI Regulation on Open Innovation in AI - Ben Brooks, Stability AI; Amanda Brock, OpenUK; Peter Cihon, GitHub LL21A (Lower Lobby Level)

10:45am PST

Lightning Talk: Turning the Internet Into 3D: 3D Content with NeRF and Gaussian Splatting - Barkley Dai, Luma AI LL21D (Lower Lobby Level)

11:10am PST

Human-Centered AI: What I've Learned From Building Two LLM-Powered Products This Year - Margaret Jennings, Kindo LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) A New Stack for the Gen AI Era - Alan Ho, DataStax LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Scaling Kubernetes Clusters for Generative Models: Managing GPU Resources for AI Applications - Jack Min Ong, Jina AI LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Apache Cassandra Analytics: A Recipe to Move Petabytes of Data - Dinesh A. Joshi, Apple, Inc. LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Operatoration Testing of Cluster - Pushkala Pattabhiraman, DataStax Inc LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) Sponsored Session: Cassandra One-Stop Operations with AxonOps - Hayato Shimizu & Johnny Miller, AxonOps LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Memtable Pluggability and Alternate Memtables (CEP-11 and CEP-19) - Branimir Lambov, DataStax & Shylaja Kokoori, Intel LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Workshop: Log Processing with Apache NiFi and Apache Kafka - Sophia Izokun, IBM LL21D (Lower Lobby Level)

11:50am PST

NeMo: Open Source Toolkit for Conversational AI - Elena Rastorgueva, NVIDIA LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) A Deep Dive Into Retrieval-Augmented Generation with LlamaIndex - Laurie Voss, LlamaIndex LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Securing LLMs in Kubernetes: Best Practices - Meenakshi Kaushik & Jayanth Srinivasa, Cisco LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Complex Event Processing Made Easy with Cassandra and Quine Streaming Graph - Ethan Bell, thatDot & Aaron Ploetz, DataStax LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) How Uber Uses Cassandra to Power Core Applications at Scale? - Jaydeepkumar Chovatia & Gopal Mor, Uber Technologies Inc. LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Importance of Transactional Metadata (Or How We’re Improving Upon Gossip) - Alex Petrov, Apple, Inc LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) OpenTelemetry and Apache Cassandra - Yuki Morishita, DataStax LL21E (Lower Lobby Level)

12:20pm PST

In Person Networking Meetings Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) Lunch Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) Women & Non-Binary Lunch Market Terrace - Floor 2 (Concourse Exhibit Level)

1:30pm PST

Keynote: Building AI with Open Source and Hugging Face - Jeff Boudier, Product & Growth, Hugging Face Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

1:45pm PST

Keynote: Introducing Apache Cassandra® 5! - Patrick McFadin, VP, Apache Cassandra and Developer Relations, DataStax; Scott Andreas, Engineering Manager, Apple, Inc. & Ekaterina Dimitrova, Apache Cassandra Committer... Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

2:00pm PST

Keynote : The Open Source AI Alliance - Anthony J. Annunziata, Director, AI Open Innovation, IBM Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

2:15pm PST

Keynote: Learnings from Studying 800 Generative AI Open Source Repos - Chip Huyen, Co-founder, Claypot AI Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

2:25pm PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) In Person Networking Meetings Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level)

3:00pm PST

Panel Discussion: Why a Universal Definition of 'Open Source AI' is Essential for Humanity - Roman Shaposhnik, Apache Software Foundation; Tanya Dadasheva, Ainekko, Co.; Nithya Ruff, Amazon; Sal Kimmich, Gadfly... LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Crafting Superior ML Pipelines with SapientML - Kosaku Kimura, Fujitsu LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) Beyond Transformers - Intro to RWKV Architecture & The World Tokenizer - Eugene Cheah & Harrison Vanderbyl, Recursal AI LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) End-to-End MLOps with MLflow and Kubeflow - Nick Chase, CloudGeometry LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Compaction for All! Unified Compaction Strategy in Cassandra 5.0 (CEP-26) - Lorina Poland, DataStax LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Scale Your Application to Infinity - Denson Pokta, Intuit LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Apache Cassandra Sidecar: The Companion for Use Cases in Cassandra - Francisco Guerrero Hernandez & Saranya Krishnakumar, Apple, Inc LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Sponsored Session: Cassandra on Steroids - Alex Berkoff, Azul LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) Workshop: Empowering Collaboration: AI Developer Experience - Your Bridge from Model to Production - Cedric Clyburn, Red Hat LL21D (Lower Lobby Level)

3:40pm PST

Empowering Open-Source Generative AI by Integrating the Wikidata Knowledge Graph - Jonathan Fraine & Lydia Pintscher, Wikimedia Deutschland LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) The Evolution of ONNX: Driving Interoperability in AI Through Open Standards - Sai Kishan Pampana, Intel Corporation & Ramakrishnan Sivakumar, AMD LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) Tricks Learned from Scaling WhisperSpeech Models to 80k+ Hours of Speech - Jakub Cłapa, Collabora LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Simplify End-To-End MLOps with PostgresML - Montana Low, PostgresML LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Bringing Apache Cassandra Closer to Kubernetes - Jake Luciani, DataStax LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) 70 TB Servers – How and Why We Use Cassandra - Nathan Jackels, Open Systems International LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Designing Modern Data Platforms with Apache Cassandra and Beyond - Rahul Singh & Allison Nokes, Anant Corporation LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) The State of the Cassandra Development Community - Joshua A McKenzie, Apple, Inc. LL21C (Lower Lobby Level)

4:20pm PST

The Future of Open Source AI & The Generative AI Commons - Matt White, Generative AI Commons LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Executorch: Enabling and Accelerating PyTorch Models on Edge Devices - Chen Lai, Meta LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) The Copyright Office is Wrong About AI-Assisted Works - Van Lindberg, OSPOCO LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Open Source DataOps and MLOps Strategies - Lisa Cao, SystemsNull LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Securing Multi-Cluster Cassandra and GenAI Deployments - Jiong Liu, Wiz LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) How Netflix Delivers Key-Value and Time-Series Storage at Any Scale - Joseph Lynch & Vidhya Arvind, Netflix LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) SmartThings First 8 Years with Cassandra - Jeff Beck & Colleen Velo, SmartThings LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) The What and Why of Cassandra Datamodelling at Scale - Chandi Datta & Sunil Dabre, Verizon LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Workshop: Define "Open AI" - Mer Joyce, Do Big Good & Ruth Suehle, SAS LL21D (Lower Lobby Level)

5:00pm PST

Breakdown New Data Silos in Generative AI - Junping Du, Datastrato LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Leveraging SRE and Observability Techniques for the Wild World of Building on LLMs - Christine Yen, Honeycomb LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Improving Bad Partition Handling in Apache Cassandra - Jordan West & Cheng Wang, Netflix LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) Migrating Workloads from Mainframes to Cassandra - Problems, Experience and Learnings - Seshu Guddanti & Venkat Mopuri, U.S. Bank LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Sponsored Session: How is Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Architected to Deliver Performance at Any Scale? - Rashmi Krishnaiah Setty & Rohan Gupta, Amazon Web Services LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Storage Attached Indexes for Cassandra (CEP-7) - Piotr Kołaczkowski, DataStax LL21C (Lower Lobby Level)

5:30pm PST

Attendee Reception & Booth Crawl Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) In Person Networking Meetings Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level)

6:45am PST

5K Run Convention Center Entrance on San Carlos Street

7:30am PST

Continental Breakfast Grand Ballroom Prefunction (Concourse Exhibit Level) Registration & Badge Pick-up Lower Level Foyer (Lower Lobby Level)

9:00am PST

Keynote: How LLMs Have Changed the Way Organizations Do AI - Robert Nishihara, Co-founder & CEO, Anyscale Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

9:15am PST

Keynote: Accelerating AI/ML Development with Open Source Software - Brian Granger, Senior Principal Technologist, AI Platforms, AWS Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

9:35am PST

Keynote: Build Accelerated LLM Applications with Open Source Tools from NVIDIA - Ankit Patel, Sr. Director of Developer Marketing, NVIDIA Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

9:50am PST

Keynote: Enabling AI with Cloud Native - Jorge Castro, Developer Relations, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

10:00am PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) In Person Networking Meetings Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) Sponsor Showcase Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level)

10:30am PST

Lightning Talk: FastTrackML: Experiment Tracking at Hyper Scale - Dave Gantenbein, G-Research LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) Chatbot Arena: An Open Crowdsourced Platform for Human Feedback on LLMs - Wei-Lin Chiang, UC Berkeley / LMSYS LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Load Management for AI Models - Managing OpenAI Rate Limits with Request Prioritization - Harjot Gill, FluxNinja LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Safeguarding Generative AI Applications: Navigating Security Challenges and Best Practices - Neta Haiby, Microsoft LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Sponsored Session: AI-Powered Semantic Search with Cassandra: Today and Tomorrow - Murilo Miranda & Bassam Chahine, NetApp LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Database Native Support for CDC Streaming Pipeline - Neha Maheshwari & Vinit Gupta, Amazon LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Introduction to NoSQLBench - Jonathan Shook, DataStax LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Apache Cassandra: What’s New and What’s Next - Scott Andreas, Apple, Inc. LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) Workshop: Prompt Engineering with Watsonx - Rafael Vasquez, IBM LL21D (Lower Lobby Level)

10:40am PST

Lightning Talk: GPU.x - Dynamic GPU Fraction and Sharing on ML Mainstream Framework - Tiejun Chen, VMware LL20A (Lower Lobby Level)

10:50am PST

Lightning Talk: Grounding LLM to Avoid Hallucinations Using Vector Search - Venkata Karthik Penikalapati, Salesforce LL20A (Lower Lobby Level)

11:10am PST

How to Adopt Emerging Federated Learning Technologies - Myungjin Lee, Cisco Research LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Democratization of ML Pipelines and Bringing ML Workflows to Heterogeneous Cloud Native ML Platforms - Yihong Wang & Tommy Li, IBM LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Responsibility in Depth: Layering Licensing, Regulation, and More - Luis Villa, Tidelift, Inc. LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Building a ChatGPT Data Pipeline with RisingWave Stream Processor and Cassandra Vector Search - Mary Grygleski, DataStax & Karin Wolok, Project Elevate LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Sponsored Session: Intel and Open Source: Bringing AI Everywhere - Arun Gupta, Intel LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Fast and Flexible JSON Retrieval in Cassandra Using SAI - Aaron Morton, DataStax LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) Popular Apache Cassandra Problems and How to Fix 'Em - Michael Semb Wever, Apache Software Foundation LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Workshop: GenOps: Building a MLOps Platform to Support GenAI Workloads with Open-Source and Kubeflow - Farshad Ghodsian, Sourced Group LL20A (Lower Lobby Level)

11:50am PST

OpenFL: Building Better AI Models with Private Data - Niroop Ammbashankar, Intel LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) When AI Became ML, and then AI Again: Tracing the Evolution of Terms and Technologies - Marcus Eagan, Weaviate LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Algorithmic Challenges. An Educational Framework for AI & Ethics Literacy - Aldo Pisano, University of Calabria LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Bring Cassandra to the GenAI Crowd: Meet the Low-Friction CassIO Library - Stefano Lottini, DataStax LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Testing in Production – Mirroring CQL Traffic to a Shadow Cassandra Deployment - Piotr Kołaczkowski & Jakub Żytka, DataStax LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Observability and Debuggability in Cassandra - David Paulk, Datadog LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) How Cassandra 4.X Help in Cutting Cost Mission - Robert Czupiol, MeWe - The Next-Gen Social Network LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Get Hands On With Amazon Keyspaces (For Apache Cassandra): A Workshop For Serverless Developers [Pre-Registration Required] LL21D (Lower Lobby Level)

12:20pm PST

In Person Networking Meetings Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) Lunch Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level)

12:45pm PST

Lunch & Learn VC Panel: Fundraising for Your GenAI Startup in the Current Environment - Avi Bharadwaj, Intel Capital; Erica Brescia, Redpoint Ventures; Jocelyn Goldfein, Zetta Venture Partners; Shomik Ghosh, Boldstart... LL20A (Lower Lobby Level)

1:30pm PST

Keynote: Teaching LLMs New Knowledge - Sharon Zhou, Co-founder & CEO, Lamini Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

1:45pm PST

Keynote: Next-Gen AI Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation - Victor Dibia, Principal Research Software Engineer, Microsoft Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

1:55pm PST

Keynote: Scaling Open Source Large Language Models - Charles Srisuwananukorn, Founding VP of Engineering, Together Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

2:10pm PST

Keynote: What's New in AI - Eve Phillips, Director of Product Management, Google Grand Ballroom BC (Concourse Exhibit Level)

2:20pm PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level) In Person Networking Meetings Sponsor Showcase (Grand Ballroom A) (Concourse Exhibit Level)

2:50pm PST

Unveil the Magic Without Hoodini: Transform Your Machine Learning Pipelines with Apache Hudi - Nadine Farah, Onehouse LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) The Case for Open Source in Autonomous AI Systems in the Edge - Tina Tsou, Arm & Sujata Tibrewala, ByteDance LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Enable Generative AI Everywhere with Ubiquitous Hardware and Open Software - Guobing Chen, Intel LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Beyond Parquet and ORC: Upgrading Data Infrastructure for Multi-modal AI with Lance Columnar Format - Chang She, LanceDB LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Using Generative AI to Develop Open Source Code - Practical Guidance for Managing Legal, Copyright, & Licensing Risks - Joanna Lee, Cloud Native Computing Foundation LL21D (Lower Lobby Level) Sponsored Session: Building a Production Open Source RAG Application using LlamaIndex and Cassandra - Patrick McFadin, DataStax & Yi Ding, LlamaIndex LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Unleash the Power of Apache Cassandra: Scalable Recommendation Systems, Real-time Fraud Detection - Himanshu Jindal & Ekta Sachan, Amazon Web Services LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Scraping Your Cassandra Metrics - the Right Way, and the Dirty Way - Hayato Shimizu, AxonOps LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) OLAP on Your Cassandra Data with Arrow, Flight SQL, ADBC, and DuckDB - Philip Moore, Voltron Data LL20B (Lower Lobby Level)

3:30pm PST

Enter the Brave New World of GenAI with Vector Search - Mary Grygleski, DataStax LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) AutoGen: A Multi-Agent AI Framework - Victor Dibia & Chi Wang, Microsoft LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Streamlining RAG Applications with Pinecone's OSS Framework: Canopy - Audrey Lorberfeld, Pinecone LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Consume and Serve Using Caikit and ModelMesh - Rafael Vasquez & Christian Kadner, IBM LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) What Is It Like to Be an LLM? - Matt Butcher, Fermyon LL21D (Lower Lobby Level) Operating Cassandra in Kubernetes with Temporal - Christian Mauduit & Steven Seidman, Datadog LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) Guerilla Tactics for Building Scalable E-Commerce Services with Apache Cassandra, Apache Pulsar, and Vector Search - Aaron Ploetz, DataStax LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Migrating Applications Between Cassandra Clusters with No Downtime - Jeremy Hanna & Wei Deng, DataStax LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Navigating Green Waters: A Journey with Cassandra - Praveen Viswanath & Timothy Tran, Alpha Ori Technologies LL21E (Lower Lobby Level)

4:10pm PST

Milvus Vector Database: Unlocking the Future of Open Source Vector Databases - Frank Liu, Zilliz LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) The Power of RAG at Scale: A Year of Explosive Growth and Observability Challenges - Ricardo Aravena & Joshua Reini, TruEra LL21A (Lower Lobby Level) Insights from The State of AI Report 2023 - Corina Gurau, Air Street Capital LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Building Ethical AI: The Power of Open Source and Education - Ofer Hermoni, PieEye LL21B (Lower Lobby Level) Enhancing Apache Cassandra Drivers with Vector Support - Bret McGuire, DataStax LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Cassandra on ACID: This Changes Everything - Patrick McFadin, DataStax LL20B (Lower Lobby Level) Cassandra Performance Tuning Like You've Been Doing It for Ten Years - Jon Haddad, Rustyrazorblade Consulting LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Deciphering Cassandra’s Prophecy: Preventing the Fall of Your Application - Isaac Reath & Lindsey Zurovchak, Bloomberg LP LL21C (Lower Lobby Level) Workshop: LLMs Fine Tuning and Inferencing Using ONNX Runtime - Abhishek Jindal, Sunghoon Choi & Kshama Pawar, Microsoft LL21D (Lower Lobby Level)

4:50pm PST

Retrieval Augmentation and Semantic Search at Scale - Ash Vardanian, Unum Cloud LL20A (Lower Lobby Level) Building a Custom AI Chatbot with Spring Boot, React, and LangChain4j - Marcus Hellberg, Vaadin LL20D (Lower Lobby Level) Leveraging Cassandra to Provide Generative AI That Powers Enterprise Analytics - Alan Ho, DataStax LL21E (Lower Lobby Level) Making Cassandra Easier for AI Developers - Jeffrey Carpenter, DataStax LL20C (Lower Lobby Level) Reducing Client Latency and Timeouts When Running Cassandra on Public Cloud - German Eichberger, Microsoft On-Demand Stories of Cassandra in Adobe Audience Manager - Serban Teodorescu & Stefan Gusa, Adobe LL21C (Lower Lobby Level)

5:00pm PST

GenAI Collective x Linux Foundation - Open Source Social (Pre-registration Required) Grand Ballroom C (Concourse Exhibit Level)