Moxin: A Pure Rust Explorer for Open Source LLMs

Graduated with a computer science degree and with more than 15 years of experience in the software development field, Jorge Bejar started as web developer writing PHP applications. He has later spent a few years hacking games for different platforms with C++. Around 2010, he joined WyeWorks and he has been working on projects using Ruby, Elixir and Rust. He's currently an active collaborator in the Makepad project. He has also been collaborating with different open source projects. He lives with his wife and two kids - 3 and 8 years old - in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Dioxus AI Driven UI

Jonathan Kelley is the founder of Dioxus Labs and the creator of the Rust frontend framework Dioxus. Dioxus Labs is a San Francisco-based startup backed by YCombinator with over 20,000 stars on GitHub across popular projects like Dioxus, Taffy, and Blitz. Before starting Dioxus, Jonathan worked as a Systems Engineer at Cloudflare and interned at NASA Langley Research Center.

Fostering Responsible AI: Empowering Openness and Community Collaboration

Anni currently serves as the elected Chair of Generative AI Commons and the elected Board member under LF AI and Data. Additionally, she contributes her expertise to LF Europe’s Advisory Board, focusing on Open Source and AI-related policy issues. Anni's dedication to the open-source community extends to her previous roles on various foundation boards, including the OpenStack Foundation, LF CNCF, LF OCI, LF Edge, and the Open Metaverse Foundation. In these capacities, she played a vital role in incubating and growing open-source projects and ecosystems in Cloud Native, Edge Computing, AI, and Metaverse. With a rich professional background spanning esteemed organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and Futurewei, Anni has accumulated extensive experience in product management, marketing, technology evangelism, developer relations, partner strategy, and enterprise business development. Her commitment to driving innovation through open collaboration has been a cornerstone of her career. Anni firmly believes in the power of open innovation to create exceptional technologies. Throughout her career, she has had the privilege of traveling to over 30 countries across five continents, sharing her expertise as a technology evangelist, consultant, strategist, and executive. Anni holds both a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and currently resides in Silicon Valley, USA, where she leads open-source operations at Futurewei.

LLM for Coding, the State and Initiative

Chief Consultant at CSDN/Boolan, specializing in technical consulting for AI-assisted software development. With extensive experience in artificial intelligence, agile development, software design, and software development methodologies, Wei Lu is currently dedicated to enhancing the integration of large language models in software development and transforming technical education methods. He has previously served as an SAP architect, possessing substantial expertise in cloud architecture and SaaS. As an entrepreneur, He has developed a mobile publishing system based on smartphones in China and worked on progressive inquiry-based learning methods and the development of AI-supported tools in Finland.

The End of the Paper Internet

Steven Pemberton is a researcher at CWI, the Dutch national research centre for mathematics and computing science. At university his tutor was Dick Grimsdale, who built the world's first transistorised computer and whose tutor was Alan Turing, making Pemberton a grand-tutee of Turing. Pemberton co-designed the programming language that Python was based on, he was the first user of the European open internet in 1988, he organised workshops at the very first Web Conference in 1994, and was involved with W3C from the very beginning, chairing the first workshop on stylesheets, chairing the HTML working group, co-designing CSS, HTML, XHTML, RDFa, XForms and several others. He currently chairs two groups at W3C, and is co-organiser of an annual conference on declarative technologies. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award in 2022. In 2023 he became an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Write Once Run Anywhere, But for GPUs

Hydai Tai is the maintainer of the WasmEdge Runtime project and an engineering leader at Second State. He is a prolific mentor in the Linux Foundation Mentorship program and a CNCF Ambassador. He also contributes to many high profile open source projects within and beyond the CNCF. He is an expert on AI inference frameworks such as llama.cpp, PyTorch and Tensorflow.

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. Xavier is currently fully invested in the dora-rs robotic framework project with the aim of enabling LLM powered robotic applications. Previously, he has developed AI models into production for multiple industries

OminiX – Unified Acceleration Framework for Both LLM and SD GenAI Models on the

Yanzhi Wang is currently an associate professor and faculty fellow at Dept. of ECE at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He received the B.S. degree from Tsinghua University in 2009, and Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California in 2014. His research interests focus on model compression and platform-specific acceleration of deep learning applications. His work has been published broadly in top conference and journal venues (e.g., DAC, ICCAD, ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, HPCA, PLDI, ICS, PACT, ISSCC, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, IJCAI, ECCV, ICDM, ACM MM, FPGA, LCTES, CCS, VLDB, PACT, ICDCS, RTAS, Infocom, C-ACM, JSSC, TComputer, TCAS-I, TCAD, TCAS-I, JSAC, TNNLS, etc.), and has been cited above 18,000 times. He has received six Best Paper and Top Paper Awards, and one Communications of the ACM cover featured article. He has another 13 Best Paper Nominations and four Popular Paper Awards. He has received the U.S. Army Young Investigator Program Award (YIP), IEEE TC-SDM Early Career Award, APSIPA Distinguished Leader Award, Massachusetts Acorn Innovation Award, Martin Essigmann Excellence in Teaching Award, Massachusetts Acorn Innovation Award, Ming Hsieh Scholar Award, and other research awards from Google, MathWorks, etc. He has received 26 federal grants from NSF, DARPA, IARPA, ARO, ARFL/AFOSR, Dept. of Homeland Security, etc.. He has participated in a total of $40M funds with personal share $8.5M. 14 of his academic descendants become tenure track faculty at Univ. of Connecticut, Clemson University, Chongqing University, University of Georgia, Villanova University University of Texas San Antonio, and Cleveland State University.

Rust Application Development White paper

Nico 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 (building on his previous experience with UI as a full-stack web developer). His work has a focus on modularity and fostering collaboration/coordination between projects wherever possible.

The End of the Paper Internet

Steven Pemberton is a researcher at CWI, the Dutch national research centre for mathematics and computing science. At university his tutor was Dick Grimsdale, who built the world's first transistorised computer and whose tutor was Alan Turing, making Pemberton a grand-tutee of Turing. Pemberton co-designed the programming language that Python was based on, he was the first user of the European open internet in 1988, he organised workshops at the very first Web Conference in 1994, and was involved with W3C from the very beginning, chairing the first workshop on stylesheets, chairing the HTML working group, co-designing CSS, HTML, XHTML, RDFa, XForms and several others. He currently chairs two groups at W3C, and is co-organiser of an annual conference on declarative technologies. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, including the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award in 2022. In 2023 he became an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

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.

The Oniro Platform

Juan is a Telecommunication Engineer and Master in ICT with almost 20 years of experience in wireless communications, M2M, IoT and smart domains. He has also specialized in the management of disruptive innovation and the adoption of breakthrough technologies by the markets. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Full Stack Rust with Leptos

I'm Ben(benwis), a full stack web developer and core contributor to Leptos, a Rust based fine-grained full stack web framework. For my day job, I work with Tim McNamara at Accelerant to help people build flexible and maintainable web apps and websites, handling anything the web can throw at us. I'm also an avid cook, middling runner, and overall nerd.