Talks

Invited talks, conference presentations, and tutorials.

2026

• Working Group Session @ SOFAIR Lab Launch

  Sep 2026SOFAIR Lab Launch, LondonLondon, UKWorkshop

2025

• Photon: Federated LLM Pre-Training @ EfficientML Reading Group, TU Graz

  Jun 2025Online, EfficientML Reading Group, TU GrazGraz, AustriaTalk

• Photon: Federated LLM Pre-Training @ MLSys 2025

  May 2025MLSys 2025, Santa Clara Convention CenterSanta Clara, CA, USAResearch Presentation

2024

• Federated Pre-Training of Large Language Models

  Dec 2024Vancouver Convention CentreVancouver, BC, CanadaResearch Presentation

• Flower AMA: Pre-training 7B LLMs made easy with Flower

  Nov 2024Cambridge, UkResearch Presentation

• Federating Large Language Models from Scratch @ Alan Turing Institute

  Oct 2024Alan Turing Institute, LondonLondon, UKTalk

• FlowerLLM AMA @ Flower Labs

  Aug 2024Online, Flower LabsOnlineResearch Presentation

• Federating Large Language Models from Scratch @ Google Research

  Aug 2024Online, Google Research, SeattleSeattle, WA, USATalk

• Workshop 'AI: comprendere il futuro' @ IGSG Bologna

  Jul 2024Online, IGSG BolognaBologna, ItalyKeynote

• Worldwide Edge-SILO Federated Training of Language Models @ MobiUK '24

  Jul 2024MobiUK '24 @ University of SouthamptonSouthampton, UKTalk

• Federating Everything with Flower @ iEDGE Symposium - FOUNDATION MODELS AT THE EDGE

  Jul 2024Interncontinental Shenzhen Hotel (remote)Shenzhen, ChinaKeynote

2023

• Tutorial on Flower @ Columbia University

  Mar 2023Columbia UniversityNew York NY, USATutorial

2021

• Federated Learning @ Ammagamma

  Nov 2021AmmagammaModena, ItalyTalk