Fireside Chat with Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf · Co-Founder and CSO of HuggingFace
Flower AI Day is set to be a landmark for the open-source AI movement -- featuring keynotes from world-leading engineers and scientists, ground-breaking demos of brand-new Flower technology, and interactive expert-led panels. We are gathering together due to a fast evolving change in the AI landscape that will impact everything: Open-source Decentralized Super Intelligence has arrived.
Flower AI Day will explore the rapid arrival of open-source decentralized superintelligence. Core relevant sub-topics include:
on-device LLMsprivacy-preserving technologies (PETs)decentralized AIfederated learningcompliance-ready AIconfidential computeenterprise-scale fed AI deployments
Featured speakers
More speakers coming soon
Tony James
Chief Architect, Science and Space
Sara Hooker
VP Research, Head of Cohere Labs
Sudhir Upadhyay
Head of Engineering
Ce Zhang
CTO at Together AI
Joseph Spisak
Product Director, Generative AI
Timothy Chou
Lecturer/ Founder Pediatric Moonshot
Daniel J. Beutel
Co-Creator of Flower
Nicholas Lane
Co-Founder & CSO
Stay Tuned for Surprise Speakers
Preliminary Agenda
1:00 PM
☕️ Registration and Reception
Check in for badge and swag. Network over coffee.
1:30 PM
🌼 Welcome and Flower Keynote
Early preview of new Flower tech and demos including AI using federations, decentralization, privacy tech, and on-device compute.
2:00 PM
🎙️ The Road to Open-source Decentralized AGI
Talks on decentralized training that scale to frontier-quality foundation models.
2:45 PM
💬 Fireside Chat: Open Source AI -- Going All In
3:15 PM
☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking
3:45 PM
🎙️ Enterprise-scale Federated AI: A View from the Front-line
Real deployments, lessons learned, successes, and emerging patterns inside large organizations.
4:30 PM
🎙️ The Power of On-device AI and Confidential Compute for Privacy and Compliance
Speakers cover solutions to privacy, regulation and safety using local AI and/or confidential compute.
5:00 PM
☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking
5:30 PM
🎙️ Enabling Universal AI: Every Language, Every Location, Every Application Domain
Unlocking overlooked AI applications and neglected users/regions by improving training data coverage and model eval.
6:15 PM
💬 Panel: Federated AI is Here. What Happens Next?
6:45 PM
🍷 Buffet Dinner & Open Bar Reception
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Decentralized AI Hackathon 2025
SEPT. 26
Flower Labs is bringing builders, researchers, and the open-source community together at Stanford University for a full day of hands-on building, lightning talks, and demos—shaping the future of decentralized intelligence. Participation is free, but spots are limited, register today.
What to expect at Flower AI Day? Check out Flower AI Summit from early 2025.
Catch the best of Flower AI Summit 2025, March 26–27 in London — don’t miss the announcements of Flower Intelligence and COLLECTIVE-1 and talks from Mozilla, Databricks, Vana, Owkin, Hugging Face, Intel and Nvidia. Now available online.
User-Owned Foundation Models
Anna Kazlauskas · creator of Vana and CEO of Open Data Labs
FL with IP Protection of Flower Models using NVIDIA FLARE
Holger Roth · Principal FL Scientist at Nvidia
FL for Medical Image Analysis
Pramit Saha · DPhil Student at University of Oxford
Flower Federated AI: Ready to Deploy
Chong Shen Ng · Research Engineer at Flower Labs
Federated Foundation Model for Generalisable Disease Detection
Eden Ruffel · PhD Student at UCL
TAO: Fine-tuning without labels
Jonathan Frankle · Chief Scientist at Databricks