"AMD ROCm™ User Meet Up" @ Shack15

​Join us for the first "AMD ROCm™ User Meet Up" on March 13, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Shack15 in San Francisco's Ferry Building! Connect, learn, and enjoy an evening filled with tech talks, networking, food, drinks, and exciting prizes. Seats are limited. We encourage you to register in advance to secure your spot.

​What to expect:

​Panels, Demos & talks presented by

• ​​Gregory Diamos - Co-Founder @ MLCommons  

• ​​Mark Saroufim - Pytorch @ Meta / GPUmode

• ​Jeff Boudier - Product & Growth @ Hugging Face

• ​​Anush Elangovan - VP of AI SW @ AMD

• ​​Ramine Roane - VP of AI @ AMD

• ​Andy Luo - Dir Product Marketing, AI @ AMD

• ​Vikram Appia - Dir Software Development, AI @ AMD

• ​Mahdi Ghodsi - Product Application Engineer, AI @ AMD

​Meet up Agenda

​•5:00 PM Registration and Networking

​•5:30 PM Welcome by Anush Elangovan

​•5:35 PM DeepSeek inference at speed by Andy Luo, Mahdi Ghodsi

​•5:50 PM Developer talk 1 by Comfy Anonymous, cofounder of Comfy Org and the original creator of ComfyUI

​•6:00 PM Finetuning LLMs by ​Gregory Diamos

​•6:10 PM Training on AMD Instinct™ MI300 GPUs by Vikram Appia

​•6:20 PM Developer talk 2

​•6:35 PM Expert panel discussion with Mark Saroufim, Jeff Boudier, ​Ramine Roane moderated by Nick Ni

​•7:00 - 9:00 PM Dinner and Networking