Flower
AI Summit
Open-Source Federated and Agentic AI
Two days full of talks, demos, panels, and networking on open-source federated AI.
Agenda
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👋 Welcome to Flower AI Summit 2026
Javier Fernandez · Flower Labs
Flower Open-Source Community
Nicholas Lane · Flower Labs
Toward Carbon-Aware Distributed LLM Pretraining
Philipp Wiesner · TU Berlin & Exalsius
BouquetFL
Emulating Diverse Participant Hardware in Federated Learning
Arno Geimer · University of Luxembourg
Flower Confidential Compute
Patrick Foley · Flower Labs
Break & Poster/Demo Session
Flower Pilot Program
Dimitris Stripelis · Flower Labs
The FL-CHEMSAFE Initiative
Nicoleta Spinu · AI4Cosmetics
Secure Aggregation and Federated Learning
Recent Results on One-Shot Client Communication, Input Validation, and Multi-Server Settings
Harish Karthikeyan · JPMorgan AI Research
Flower and AWS: Best Practices
Ray Wang · AWS
Lunch & Poster/Demo Session
Flower Keynote
Daniel J. Beutel · CEO, Flower Labs
Break
Fireside Chat: John Dvorak (Red Hat)
John Dvorak · CTO (Public Sector), Red Hat
Introducing Lizzy by Flower
Nicholas Lane · CSO, Flower Labs
Panel: Sovereign AI and Arrival of European NeoLabs
Federated Training a 70B LLM
Jerry Watkins · Sandia
Break
Trust, Scale, and Connectivity in Federated AI Architecture
Tony James · Red Hat & Chong Shen · Flower Labs
PharosAI: Building the UK’s Largest Federated Multimodal Biomedical Dataset
Gregory Verghese · CTO, PharosAI
Flower SuperGrid
Chong Shen · Flower Labs
Break
Flower Agents
Charles Beauville · Flower Labs
Fireside Chat: Alois Krtil (ARIC)
Alois Krtil · CEO, Artificial Intelligence Center Hamburg (ARIC)
Position: Federated Foundation Model Post-Training Should Focus on Open-Source
Nikita Agrawal · University of Bayreuth
Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure
Ivan Scattergood · CTO, OctaiPipe
Federated Process Learning at the Edge
Trinh Tran · Hamburg University of Technology
🎉 Flower After-Hours Networking Reception
Featured Speakers
Alois Krtil
CEO, Artificial Intelligence Center Hamburg (ARIC)
John Dvorak
Chief Technology Officer, Red Hat (Public Sector)
Imen Grida Ben Yahia
Principal, AI Scientist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bryce Pickard
President and Chief Operating Officer, Ontario Brain Institute
Nicoleta Spînu
Founder, AI4Cosmetics
Gabriele Corso
Co-founder and CEO, Boltz
Daniel J. Beutel
Co-Founder & CEO, Flower Labs
Tony James
Chief Architect, Red Hat
Eric Boernert
Global Informatics Product Manager, Roche
Jerry Watkins
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Nicholas Lane
Co-Founder & CSO, Flower Labs
Alexandros Karargyris
Lead for Medical AI Working Group, MLCommons
Sajjad Khan
Consultant and Non-Executive Board Member, SWIFT / NHS
Taner Topal
Co-Founder & COO, Flower Labs
Micah Sheller
Federated AI Engineer, Flower Labs
Nicolas Conze
Medical Doctor in Primary Care, docport
Shiqiang Wang
Professor of Artificial Intelligence, ex-IBM, University of Exeter
Trinh Tran
Research Staff, Hamburg University of Technology
Ray Wang
Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Gregory Verghese
Co-Founder & CTO, PharosAI
Patrick Foley
Principal Engineer, Flower Labs
Javier Fernandez
Lead Research Scientist, Flower Labs
Scott Russell
Chief Product Officer, Aridhia
Minh-Tuan Nguyen
AI Engineer and Researcher,
Mohammad Naseri
Research Scientist, Flower Labs
Leonard Schenk
Senior Analyst and Engineer, SPRIN-D
Hasan Kassem
Software Engineer, MLCommons
Juan Ramón Gonzalez
Research Professor, ISGlobal
David Sarrat
Doctoral Researcher, ISGlobal
Chong Shen Ng
Research Engineer, Flower Labs
Community Speakers
Arno Geimer
PhD Student, University of Luxembourg
Anurag Upadhyay
PHD Researcher & Teaching Assistant, Leeds Trinity University
Harish Karthikeyan
Senior Research Scientist, JPMorgan AI Research
Philipp Wiesner
Research Scientist, TU Berlin & Exalsius
Nikita Agrawal
Research Associate at University of Bayreuth, University of Bayreuth
Quan Nguyen
CTO & Co-Founder, Yakady eGbR
Nisal Hemadasa
Research Associate & PhD student, Hamburg University of Technology
Madhvesh Kumar
Principal Software Engineer , Mastercard
Seán Ó Fithcheallaigh
PhD Researcher, Ulster University
Ivan Scattergood
CTO and Co-Founder, OctaiPipe
Muhammet Anıl Yağız
Founder & CEO, Singularity
Oguzhan Ersoy
Research Lead, Gensyn
Eros Fanì
Machine Learning Researcher, Gensyn
Posters
& Demos
Community Manager
Swiss AI Initiative
University of Exeter
Masters Student
University of Cambridge
Software Engineer II / Software Engineer
Therap (BD) Ltd. / Inspir8 Bangladesh
Leading Expert Speakers
Join the ranks of world-class experts who have shared their insights at previous Flower AI Summit and Flower AI Day events.
Sara Hooker
Co-Founder, CEO, Adaption
Mark Surman
President, Mozilla
Jonathan Frankle
Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
Thomas Wolf
Co-Founder, Hugging Face
Joseph Spisak
Product Director, Meta
Borja Balle
Staff Research Scientist, DeepMind
Virginia Smith
Associate Professor of ML, CMU
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