Does any conference have a cooler vibe than All Things Open? Just browsing the schedule, it’s hard not to get excited about the many open source sessions, speakers, and workshops taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina from October 27-29. As a platinum sponsor, we have our space suits packed, sessions primed, and demos loaded. Read on to learn about all the great content we have lined up at the show and in the booth at this year’s out-of-this-world open source event.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28
Does your chatbot struggle to understand questions, leading to irrelevant, impersonal, or incorrect responses? Does it get overwhelmed as the number of users increases, causing poor performance and customer frustration? Don’t worry. Intel AI Evangelist Paula Ramos is here to help with her talk on Building Efficient Local AI Assistant Apps on Edge and Consumer Devices (link to session coming soon).
In this session, you’ll learn how to build a state-of-the-art chatbot application optimized for mobile processors, using tools like the OpenVINO™ Toolkit and PyTorch. Paula will show you how to achieve low-latency, real-time interactions through advanced contextual awareness using retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and a streamlined multimodal pipeline. You’ll gain valuable knowledge on optimizing data compression, intelligent deployment, and overcoming deployment challenges—particularly those around quality control—all within a multi-architecture framework using models such as Whisper and Llama3.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29
Do you know what’s in your code? With the number of available open source projects seeing exponential growth, evaluating and safely consuming open source software has never been more critical, or challenging. A 2024 Synopsis report showed that 96% of the commercial code bases they sampled contained open source software, and 77% of the code within those code bases was open source. But what’s alarming is that 78% of the codebases they assessed for risk contained “high-risk vulnerabilities” and 14% of those codebases contained vulnerabilities older than 10 years.
The good news is that you can take steps to make your software more secure. Join Intel Open Source Security Evangelist Katherine Druckman for a Critical Conversation: Consuming Open Source Software Securely where she walks you through the basics of choosing and using open source tools with a security mindset.
You can also catch Katherine, along with Shirley Bailes, Intel’s director of open ecosystem developer relations and community, in a second session that’s all about Simplifying Generative AI App Development: Standardization Matters. Katherine and Shirley will talk about the common pain points you might have already encountered building LLM-based GenAI applications—especially if you’re building RAG-based applications—and share open source solutions and reference architectures made available through the Linux Foundation’s Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA).
Swing by the Booth
We hope you’ll also stop by booth #11-12 and say hello to the rest of our team. We’ll be giving away the most comfortable socks you’ve ever put on your feet along with a selection of other goodies you’ll want to grab.
You’ll also want to stay tuned for two live demos happening in the booth. We’ll be walking folks through the OPEA project and how it streamlines enterprise GenAI app development with open frameworks and standards. You can also get a look at a comprehensive ecosystem Intel is developing to ensure the secure, efficient, and accessible use of third-party components across product teams.
And you get one more chance to see Katherine in action. When she’s not in a session or leading a demo, Katherine will be interviewing guests from Google, Percona, Zilliz, the Open Source Initiative (OSI), and more for our Open at Intel podcast live from a sound booth on the show floor.
Booth Hours:
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Monday, October 28: 7:30am – 5:30pm
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Tuesday, October 29: 9:00am – 3:00pm
See you all in Raleigh!
About the Author
Nikki McDonald, Content Manager, Intel Open Ecosystem
Focused on educating and inspiring developers for over a decade, Nikki leads the strategy and execution for open source-related content at Intel. Her mission is to empower our open source community to grow their skills, stay informed, and exchange ideas. An avid reader, you’ll never find her without her Kindle. Connect with her on LinkedIn and X.