| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Opening Ceremony & Address | ||
| 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | AI, Open Source, and Importance of Collaboration | Talk #1: Update on the NVIDIA - TII Collaboration: First Wave of Results |
Dr. Adam Henryk Grzywaczewski Nvidia |
| Talk #2: How Spotify builds with and for the open source community | Dr. Mounia Lalmas Spotify | ||
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Networking and coffee break | ||
| 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM | Agentic AI | Talk #3: Reimagining Enterprise Services Through Language Models, Agent Automation Middleware, and Quality Control AI | Prof. Boualem Benatallah Dublin City University |
| Talk #4: AgentScope: A Developer-Centric Framework for Building Scalable Multi-Agent AI Systems | Dr. Kushnazarov Farruh Alibaba | ||
| Talk #5: | Dr. Jean MaillardMeta | ||
| 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch | ||
| 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | AI Governance and Evaluation | Talk #6: AI, Open Source, and the SDGs: Building a System of Systems for Global Good | Dr. Mehdi Snene United Nations |
| Talk #7: Rethinking the “evaluation” of AI–powered systems | Dr. Fabio Casati ServiceNow | ||
| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Networking and coffee break | ||
| 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Foundation Models and Machine Learning | Talk #8: Apertus: The Transparent & Sovereign Open Source Swiss LLM | Prof. Daniel Dobos SwissCom |
| Talk #9: EuroLLM: A Family of Encoders and Decoders for Europe | Prof. Pierre Colombo University Paris Sacaly | ||
| 4:45 PM - 5:30 PM | Panel discussion | ||
| 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM | GALA DINNER | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Infra and next generation AI Models | Talk #10: MaxText: Achieving Simplicity and Top-Tier Performance for LLM Training with JAX |
Newfel Harrat Google |
| Talk #11: Open-Source Data & Tools for AI Model Development | Dr. Petros Zerfos IBM | ||
| Talk #12: Toward foundation models for neuro-technologies,: real-time neural decoding with hybrid state-space models | Prof. Guillaume Lajoie MILA | ||
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Networking and coffee break | ||
| 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM | Contributions to AI in GCC | Talk #13: Using Tools and Agents to Overcome Model Boundaries | Dr. Kareem Darweesh Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) |
| Talk #14: The Triple Helix of Cultural Fit in LLMs: The Aim, The Facts, and The Complex Reality | Dr. Ahmed Abdelali HUMAIN | ||
| Talk #15: Scaling Reasoning Efficiently with Hybrid Models | Dr. Mohamed SeddikTII | ||
| 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM | Light Lunch | ||
| 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Beyond The Models | Talk #16: Why do we need a sovereign infrastructure to run Open Source LLMs? | David GurleHivenet |
| Talk #17: Transforming Metabolomics Through Machine Learning and Generative AI: From Automated Workflows to Precision Medicine Applications | Prof. Jacques Corbeil MILA | ||
| 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Networking and coffee break | ||
| 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | New Architectures | Talk #18: The Salamandra Family: Advancing Open Foundation Models through Pre-Training and Post-Training recipes. | Dr. Daniel Tamayo Mela BSCC |
| Talk #19: Falcon-H1: A Family of Hybrid-Head Language Models Redefining Efficiency and Performance | Dr. Maksim Velikanov TII | ||
| Talk #20: Why Agentic AI Is Moving Fastest in the Open | Dr. Laith Al-Saadoon AWS | ||
| 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM | Closing Remarks | ||