Martin Hickey
Employers on the program
- 2024–2026IBM3 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- FOSDEM
- PyTorch Conference
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2026 | PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 | PyTorch Conference | lightning talk | Lightning Talk: KV-Cache Centric Inference: Building a State-Aware Serving Platform With Llm-d and VLLM as IBM Research We’ve spent years optimizing LLM inference around compute - faster kernels, better batching, smarter parallelism. But in production, the bottleneck increasingly…Show lessWe’ve spent years optimizing LLM inference around compute - faster kernels, better batching, smarter parallelism. But in production, the bottleneck increasingly isn’t FLOPs. It’s state. Specifically, the KV-cache: the attention state that makes the difference between a 4-second prefill and a... | |
| Feb 1, 2025 | FOSDEM 2025 | FOSDEM | speaker | Building AI Applications on Kubernetes: Leveraging Instructlab and the Bee Agent Framework as IBM Join us for an enlightening talk on building AI agents on Kubernetes! Unlike LLMs which are limited by the data they were trained on, agents use external tools…Show lessJoin us for an enlightening talk on building AI agents on Kubernetes! Unlike LLMs which are limited by the data they were trained on, agents use external tools to obtain up-to-date information, optimize workflow and create subtasks autonomously to achieve complex goals. | SlidesVideo |
| Feb 3, 2024 | FOSDEM 2024 | FOSDEM | speaker | AI for Developers: Treating Open Source AI as a Function as IBM More and more applications are being developed which consume Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is used in applications as diverse as fraud detection, medical…Show lessMore and more applications are being developed which consume Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is used in applications as diverse as fraud detection, medical detection, sales, security, and many more. | SlidesVideo |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carol Chen | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Marcus Edel | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Bruce Momjian | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Franck Pachot | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Jan-Patrick Lehr | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Javier Ramirez | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Jeremy Bennett | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Karen (Karrie) Jex | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Marc Joos | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Michele Martone | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Peter Zaitsev | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Tomas Vondra | 2 | — | 2025 |
| William Jones | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Maroon Ayoub | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Paul Schweigert | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.