

"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
•5:40 PM DeepSeek inference at speed by Andy Luo, Mahdi Ghodsi
•6:05 PM Talk about new video models on ComfyUI by Yannik M
•6:15 PM Training on AMD Instinct™ GPUs by Gregory Diamos
•6:25 PM Multi-node training and finetuning by Vikram Appia
•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