Hi all, The call for proposals is now open for the AI Plumbers devroom at FOSDEM 2027, taking place on the 30th of January in Brussels, Belgium.
This is the devroom's third year, and this time it is co-hosted with Hugging Face.
https://fosdem.org/2027/ Important dates: 30th November 2026 Submission deadline 7th December 2026 Final schedule announcement What is AI Plumbers? The devroom brings together developers working on the essential "plumbing" of AI systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: - AI compilers and kernel frameworks - Bare-metal and edge AI - Inference frameworks and servers - Open-source agentic coding harnesses - Physical AI - Open-weights model training, fine-tuning and post-training - RISC-V based open-source AI accelerator hardware Compiler and toolchain work for AI workloads is very much in scope, so GCC and GNU toolchain developers are warmly encouraged to submit. How to submit: Submit via the FOSDEM Pretalx site: https://fosdem.org/submit Select "AI Plumbers" in the track drop-down so the proposal reaches the right organisers. FOSDEM is free to attend, with no registration required. Previous years' talks and videos: - https://archive.fosdem.org/2026/schedule/events/ - https://blog.aifoundry.org If you have any questions, feel free to reply to me directly. Best regards, Pietra Ferreira -- Pietra Ferreira (they/them) Software Toolchain Engineer Embecosm Limited 22 London Road, Southampton, England SO15 2AF Web: www.embecosm.com I respect your life-work balance, there is no need to respond to this email outside your office hours.
