Upcoming llm-d Events

Stay connected with the llm-d community at meetups, conferences, and workshops. All meetings are open to the public unless noted otherwise.

October 2026

PyTorch Conference North America 2026

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📍 San Jose, CA

October 20-21, 2026 · Paid

Sessions

• Contributing to Inference OSS That Won't Stand Still: A BoF on vLLM, llm-d, and the Moving Target

  Oct 21, 2026 · 10:35 am · 📍 Community Expo

  🎤 Maroon Ayoub, Red Hat & Nili Guy, IBM
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November 2026

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

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📍 Salt Lake City, Utah

November 9-12, 2026 · Paid

Sessions

• Simplifying Distributed LLM Serving: What's New in KServe

  Nov 9, 2026 · 10:06 am · 📍 Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency BD

  🎤 Gavrish Prabhu, Nutanix
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• Scaling Across the Horizon: Dynamic Hardware Composability for Distributed LLM Inference via CoHDI

  Nov 9, 2026 · 11:24 am · 📍 Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency BD

  🎤 Hidetsugu Sugiyama, Red Hat
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• What the Docs Don't Tell You: A Telecom's Year Operating Cache-Aware LLM Inference on Kubernetes

  Nov 10, 2026 · 12:20 pm · 📍 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Ballroom H

  🎤 YoungJoon Jeong, AWS & Seol Heo, LG Uplus Corp.
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• Cache Me If You Can: LLM Inference with llm-d (with fun drawings)

  Nov 11, 2026 · 11:00 am · 📍 Hyatt Regency | Level 2 | Salt Lake Ballroom C

  🎤 Alexa Griffith, Red Hat
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• Developing Cloud-Native Infrastructure in the Age of AI

  Nov 11, 2026 · 1:20 pm · 📍 Salt Palace | Level 1 | Hall A-C, Hall 1-5

  🎤 Jing Chen & Michael Kalantar, IBM
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• CoHDI: Bridging Kubernetes and Disaggregated Memory for Memory-Aware LLM Inference

  Nov 11, 2026 · 5:00 pm · 📍 Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

  🎤 Naoki Oguchi, Fsas Technologies Inc. & Hidetsugu Sugiyama, Red Hat
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• Composing Inference on Kubernetes: Gateway, Schedule, Serve, Observe

  Nov 11, 2026 · 5:00 pm · 📍 Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

  🎤 Karena Angell, Red Hat & Sean Horgan, Google
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• Clueless About The Cost of AI Model Usage? OpenCost+llm-d = first of a kind inference cost tracking

  Nov 11, 2026 · 5:00 pm · 📍 Hyatt Regency | Level 4 | Regency BD

  🎤 Sima Nadler, IBM & Alexander Meijer, IBM
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• Simulate, Evolve, Validate, Ship: AI-Discovered Algorithms for LLM Serving Stacks

  Nov 12, 2026 · 3:30 pm · 📍 Salt Palace | Level 1 | 151

  🎤 Jing Chen & Mert Toslali, IBM
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