Keynote speakers in Brussels, verified
15 international keynote speakers who demonstrably spoke at one of 2 tech events in Brussels, Belgium — most recently on stage first, every talk linked to the public agenda that proves the appearance.
Most recently on stage in Brussels
- Cedric Clyburn June 2026 AI research, Data engineering, Generative AI, LLM, Machine learning
- Carol Chen June 2026 Generative AI, LLM, Machine learning
- Dorin Geman January 2026 AI infrastructure, LLM, MLOps
- Eric Curtin January 2026 AI infrastructure, LLM, MLOps 2 talks here
- Piotr Tarasiewicz January 2026 AI infrastructure, LLM, MLOps
- Roman Shaposhnik January 2026 AI infrastructure
- Ruben Ortlam January 2026 AI infrastructure, LLM, Machine learning
- Tanya Dadasheva January 2026 AI infrastructure
- Tushar Sharma January 2026 AI infrastructure, AI research
- Xuan-Son Nguyen January 2026 AI infrastructure, LLM 2 talks here
- Jon Nordby August 2025 AI infrastructure, Computer vision, Data engineering, Machine learning
- Arnaud Le Hors February 2025 AI industry applications, AI policy, Responsible AI
- Joe Olson February 2025 Data engineering, LLM, MLOps
- Mateusz Charytoniuk February 2025 AI infrastructure, LLM, MLOps
- Max de Bayser February 2025 AI infrastructure, Generative AI, LLM
The 2 conferences behind this list
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FOSDEM 2026 — January 2026, Brussels , run by FOSDEM vzw. 8 of the speakers on this page came from its agenda.
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FOSDEM 2025 — February 2025, Brussels , run by FOSDEM vzw. 9 of the speakers on this page came from its agenda.
FOSDEM 2026
Brussels, Belgium · January 2026 · 8 speakers
- Xuan-Son Nguyen
- “Multimodal support in llama.cpp - Achievements and Future Directions”·FOSDEM 2026·source · archive.fosdem.org
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- Ruben Ortlam
- “Vulkan API for Machine Learning? Competing with CUDA and ROCm in llama.cpp”·FOSDEM 2026·source · archive.fosdem.org
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- Tushar Sharma
- “The Hidden Cost of Intelligence: The Energy Footprint of AI from Code to GPU Kernels”·FOSDEM 2026·source · archive.fosdem.org
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- Piotr Tarasiewicz
- Eric Curtin
- “Taming the LLM Zoo with Docker Model Runner: Inference with OCI Artifacts, llama.cpp, and vLLM”·FOSDEM 2026·source · archive.fosdem.org
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- Dorin Geman
- “Taming the LLM Zoo with Docker Model Runner: Inference with OCI Artifacts, llama.cpp, and vLLM”·FOSDEM 2026·source · archive.fosdem.org
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- Roman Shaposhnik
- Tanya Dadasheva
FOSDEM 2025
Brussels, Belgium · February 2025 · 9 speakers
- Xuan-Son Nguyen
- Eric Curtin
- Max de Bayser
- Carol Chen — Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, having led several upstream communities including In
- “Synthetic Data: The Secret Ingredient in Better Language Models”·FOSDEM 2025·source · archive.fosdem.org
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- Cedric Clyburn — Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software d
- “Synthetic Data: The Secret Ingredient in Better Language Models”·FOSDEM 2025·source · archive.fosdem.org
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- Jon Nordby — Jon is a Machine Learning Engineer specialized in IoT systems.
- “Milliwatt sized Machine Learning on microcontrollers with emlearn”·FOSDEM 2025·source · archive.fosdem.org
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- Arnaud Le Hors
- Joe Olson
- Mateusz Charytoniuk
What this list does not tell you
- Where anyone is based. Brussels is the city of the event, never of the person. We hold no address, and nobody here is being described as local.
- How to reach them. No contact details are held. The agenda link is the route.
- Everyone who qualifies. This is a seed, not a census: absence is not evidence that someone has not spoken in Brussels.
- Anything about talks still to come. Only past, published sessions are recorded — there is no upcoming schedule here.
Questions about booking a speaker in Brussels
- How many AI speakers have spoken in Brussels?
- 15, across 2 conferences we hold agendas for. That is the number with a checkable record, not an estimate, and it grows when we index another Brussels conference, not when more people sign up.
- Which conferences do they come from?
- FOSDEM 2026, FOSDEM 2025. Each one links to its own page, and from there to the conference's published agenda.
- How do you know they actually spoke?
- Because the conference published it. 17 of the 17 talk records on this page carry the session title exactly as the agenda printed it. Nobody self-reported and nobody paid to be here.
- Are these speakers based in Brussels?
- Not necessarily, and we do not claim it. The city belongs to the event, not the person. This page answers who has taken a stage in Brussels, which is the question that matters when you are booking one there.
- What do they speak about?
- Most represented on this page: AI infrastructure, LLM, MLOps, Machine learning, Generative AI, Data engineering. Topics come from the talks themselves, not from a profile someone filled in.
- Are these international keynote speakers?
- Yes. The speakers listed here took keynote and practitioner stages at major international technology and AI conferences in Brussels (FOSDEM 2026, FOSDEM 2025). Each listing proves their stage appearance with a direct link to the published conference agenda.
- Can I get their contact details or fee?
- No. We hold neither. Every entry links to the agenda page it came from, and that link is the route. It is also the honest limit of what a directory built from public agendas can tell you.
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