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FOSDEM 2027 AI Plumbers Devroom

Organized by FOSDEM

Proposals due in 20 days

Submission deadline
November 30, 2026
Event date
January 31, 2027
Format
In person
Location
ULB Campus Solbosch, Brussels, Belgium
Compensation
Not listed

About this call

The FOSDEM 2027 AI Plumbers Devroom brings together contributors and users of open-source technologies underpinning AI. It seeks in-person, English-language presentations on low-level AI hardware, compilers, runtimes, training, edge AI, agentic development tools, and related governance and community issues. Speakers may propose talks of 10, 20, or 40 minutes; the organizers also welcome short tutorials, demos, and discussions.

Topics

Open-source AI hardware and acceleratorsEdge, bare-metal, and physical AIAI compilers, kernels, inference runtimes, and serversModel quantizationOpen-weights training and fine-tuningDistributed computing and reinforcement learningOpen-source agentic coding toolsLow-level AI project governance and community

Audience

Free-software contributorsLow-level AI project maintainers and developersDownstream open-source buildersUsers of AI stacks

Session formats

10-minute talk20-minute talk40-minute talkShort tutorialDemoDiscussion

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