Thomas Parnell
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026IBM2 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
- PyTorch Conference
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2026 | PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 | PyTorch Conference | lightning talk | Lightning Talk: Building a PyTorch‑native VLLM Plugin for IBM Spyre - Thomas Parnell, IBM Research & Thomas Ortner, IBM Research Europe - Zurich as IBM Research IBM Spyre is an AI accelerator used across IBM Z and Power systems for agentic inference in production. Today, we serve models on Spyre using upstream vLLM…Show lessIBM Spyre is an AI accelerator used across IBM Z and Power systems for agentic inference in production. Today, we serve models on Spyre using upstream vLLM together with an out-of-tree platform plugin. While the current plugin delivers crucial functionality for our business, it re-uses relatively... | |
| Oct 22, 2025 | PyTorch Conference 2025 | PyTorch Conference | speaker | Enabling VLLM V1 on AMD GPUs With Triton as IBM Research In January 2025, vLLM announced the alpha release of V1: a major upgrade to vLLM’s core architecture. One of the key goals of V1 was to enable all vLLM’s…Show lessIn January 2025, vLLM announced the alpha release of V1: a major upgrade to vLLM’s core architecture. One of the key goals of V1 was to enable all vLLM’s inference performance optimizations (e.g., continuous batching, paged attention, chunked prefill, prefix caching, speculative decoding) to work... |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Ortner | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Alban Desmaison | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Allen Wang | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Angela Yi | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Bin Bao | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Burkhard Ringlein | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Daniel Flores | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Driss Guessous | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Edward Yang | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Elias Ellison | 2 | — | 2026 |
| George Gekov | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jane Xu | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jason Ansel | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Joe Spisak | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ke Wen | 2 | — | 2026 |
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.