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Speak at AICD Virtual #11 — Open & Local Models
Online · 16 February 2027 · Microsoft Teams
- Call for speakers open
- Closes in 79 days
The organizers of Online are looking for talks from people who build and use AI. Share what you have built or learned with your community.
- Deadline
- 10 January 2027
- Formats
- 2 formats, 30 min
- Languages
- English, French
Submit your talk by
10 January 2027
at 23:59, Paris time (GMT+1)
Closes in 79 days
Submit a talk
Save a draft and come back to it any time before the deadline.
Formats
Choose the one that fits your talk when you submit.
Live talk
30 minAbout 25 minutes of talk and 5 of questions, live on Microsoft Teams.
Pre-recorded talk with live Q&A
30 minWhen no live slot suits your time zone: send your recording 2 days before, then answer questions live.
Tracks
The themes this event is building its programme around.
Models on your own hardware
Laptops, edge devices and on-premises servers.
Open vs frontier models
Evaluation, cost and fine-tuning on your own tasks.
Sovereignty and privacy
Keeping data and models under your control.
Levels and languages
Levels
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Languages
- English
- French
What to send
Have these ready. You can save a draft and come back to it before you submit.
A title
5 to 120 characters.An abstract
50 to 5,000 characters: what you will talk about and what people will take home.The format
One of the formats above.A track
The one your talk fits best.The level
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced.The language
English, French.4 questions from the organizers
- Which live slot suits you? (Paris time)
- Your city and time zone
- I agree that my session is recorded and published as a replay.
- I will send my slides and a backup recording of my talk 2 days before the event.
Your speaker profile
With your name, a short bio and a photo. You can create it as you submit, or import it from Sessionize.
Guidelines from the organizers
AICD Virtual #11 — Open & Local Models is one online night: Tuesday 16 February 2027, from 20:00 to 02:00 Paris time, live on Microsoft Teams.
What we are looking for: When open-weight and on-device models beat the cloud: cost, privacy, sovereignty. Talks we would love to see: “Small models on a laptop (Ollama, llama.cpp, Foundry Local)” and “Open vs frontier models on your own tasks”. Practical talks, demos and lessons learned win over product pitches.
Audience: Developers, ML engineers, sovereignty-minded organisations.
Slots. Speakers are placed by region, so everyone speaks in their own daytime or evening:
• 20:00–22:00 Paris: Europe, Africa, Middle East
• 22:00–00:00 Paris: US East Coast, Brazil
• 00:00–02:00 Paris: US West Coast, Asia-Pacific
If no live slot suits you (India, for example), choose the pre-recorded format: you send your recording and answer questions live during the night.
Format. 30 minutes per talk, questions included. Talks are in English; French is welcome in the 20:00–22:00 block.
Dates. The call closes on Sunday 10 January 2027 at 23:59 Paris time. We inform speakers within 10 days of the close; accepted speakers then confirm within 5 days. Accepted speakers join a 30-minute briefing on Teams in the week before the night and send their slides and a backup recording 2 days before it.
Product names are welcome in your title and abstract when your talk is about that product. This is a community event: no sales pitches.
What speakers get
A global online audience, the replay of your session, and promotion on the AI Community Days channels before the night.
Good to know
You can edit or withdraw a proposal until the call closes. Each speaker can send up to 2 proposals.
Speaking with someone? Invite up to 2 co-speakers to your talk once it is saved.
How review works
From your proposal to the stage
Step 1: Send your proposal
A title, an abstract and the format you have in mind. You get a receipt by email, and you can edit it until the call closes.
Step 2: The local team reviews
The event’s organizers read and score every proposal against the same criteria.
Step 3: You hear back
Decisions go out by email to every speaker, accepted or not. Your space on the site shows where each proposal stands.
Step 4: Take the stage
Accepted? Confirm within 5 days and your talk goes on the event page, with your speaker profile.
Submit a talk
Before 10 January 2027 at 23:59, Paris time (GMT+1).
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