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Israel vLLM & llm-d Meetup 3

Thursday 5 November 2026, 09:00Venue time (Jerusalem)
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Join Us for the 3rd vLLM & llm-d Israel Meetup!

Hosted by Google, IBM, and Red Hat we're gathering the AI community for a technical morning focusing on cutting-edge inference tech. If you're an engineer, a founder, or working in the field, this one's for you.

Mark your calendar for November 5th at Google Israel Offices.What to Expect:

State-of-Inference & Roadmap: Hear from the core vLLM team and industry experts on the current state of inference and where it is going.

Technical Deep-Dives: Get into the weeds on KV cache offloading, intelligent model routing, data-center buildouts, and kernel optimization.

High-Value Networking: Connect over food and drinks with fellow engineers, founders, and leaders driving the local GenAI scene.

Agenda:

9:00 – 9:30 — Doors Open, Snacks & Drinks

9:30 – 9:40 — Welcome & Opening Remarks

Michal Malka (IBM Research) & Maya Goren Bar (Google)

9:40 – 10:10 — vLLM Keynote: What's new and what's next in vLLM

Dr. Roy Nissim, Inference Lead at Red Hat

10:10 – 10:40 — Optimizing agentic workloads with llm-d

Nili Guy, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research

10:40 – 11:10 — Advancements in Speculative Decoding

Asaf Aharnoi, Distinguish Software Engineer at Google Research

11:10 – 11:40 — Food Break 😋

11:40 - 12:00 — Maxwell: Using Code Execution Models to Optimize the AI Stack

Dr. Noam Wies, Co-Founder at AAI (doubleAI)

12:00 – 12:45 — Inside Israel’s next AI frontier research

Prof. Ilan Komargodski, Co Founder and CTO at Pearl Research Labs

Ronen Betser, Co Founder and CTO at Perfect labs

Dr. Ido Ben Shaul, Co Founder and CEO at Foundation Research

Moderator: Dr. Roy Nissim, Inference Lead at Red Hat

12:45 – 13:30 — Networking & Drinks

Important Information

Registration Deadline: Registration closes exactly 24 hours prior to the event. We cannot accommodate walk-ins, so please ensure you register on time.

Check-In: Please bring a valid photo ID to verify your registration upon arrival.

We look forward to seeing you there!By registering, attendees grant the event organizers permission to capture and share photos and information from the event

Building policies: Personal weapons are prohibited within the office premises

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