K8s

Session Platform Engineering

Unleashing Kubernetes for Secure Bare-Metal Workloads

Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST

Kubernetes is great for general cloud-native workloads but struggles with low latency and high-performance computing (HPC) due to its abstraction overhead, lack of optimized scheduling, and network inefficiencies.

Speaker image - Ruslan Kharitonov

Ruslan Kharitonov

Head of Compute @Citadel, Founder @Efacity, Previously Technology Fellow and Global Head of Network and Storage Software Engineering @GoldmanSachs, 25+ Years in Software and System Engineering

Session AI/ML

Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

Tuesday Apr 8 / 10:35AM BST

While text-based RAG systems have been everywhere in the last year and a half, there is so much more than text data. Images, audio, and documents often need to be processed together to provide meaningful insights, yet most RAG implementations focus solely on text.

Speaker image - Stephen Batifol

Stephen Batifol

Developer Advocate @Zilliz, Founding Member of the MLOps Community Berlin, Previously Machine Learning Engineer @Wolt, and Data Scientist @Brevo