Tech talks at Mozilla

Save the date! The Mozilla Meetup series continues with talks focused on modern web technologies.

Note that this event operates under the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines.

18:00 - Doors open

18:30 - Tracking (Protection) Everywhere

There are a variety of tracking vectors on the web. But how exactly does this tracking work and what mechanism do we have available to protect our privacy?

This talk takes a closer look at the many anti-tracking mechanisms Firefox uses to protect its users, and discusses the thread models behind them and the practical protection they provide.

Bio: Manuel Bucher is a software engineer on the Firefox Privacy team working on anti-tracking in Firefox

19:30: No Servers, No APIs: AI in the Browser

I’ll present how modern web technologies make it possible to run AI models directly in the browser combining WebLLM and WebAssembly to deliver powerful, privacy-preserving client-side AI experiences. For more context, here’s a related article I wrote for Mozilla AI: https://blog.mozilla.ai/3w-for-in-browser-ai-webllm-wasm-webworkers/

Bio: Barış Güler is an engineering leader working on in-browser AI systems that leverage WebLLM, WASM, and web platform features to bring AI inference and tooling into client environments. He writes about web-native AI and open-source approaches to privacy-first machine intelligence (and a Rust fan, for sure).