Rust Meetup Linz - 30th Edition

Rust Meetup Linz, No. 30!

We celebrate our 30th meetup anniversary 🥳🎉! Join us for an evening along the lines of Rust and AI.

This month, we will have two awesome guest speakers who use Rust in AI research and development. We can already announce the first one: Arnaud Gourlay is a software engineer at Qdrant and he will speak about how they use Rust to implement their vector search engine. Vector search engines are an important component of modern AI systems.

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📅 Schedule

📣 Welcome and Introduction
Rust Linz Organizers
5:30pm CET

We will start the night with the usual welcome round and some community news.

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📣 Qdrant - a Vector Search Engine in Rust by Arnaud Gourlay
5:40 pm CET

Vector search engines have recently been gaining popularity. In this session, we will be explaining what they can achieve, peek under the hood to check what is inside, and see why Rust is a good fit for the job.

ℹ️ About Arnaud
Arnaud Gourlay is a software engineer at Qdrant where he contributes to the Qdrant vector search engine. Long time OSS user and maintainer, he enjoys programming in Rust and sharing his knowledge.

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📣 Rust at Aleph Alpha
Approx. 6:20 pm CET

At Aleph Alpha we strive to create a sovereign, European AI tech stack. We use Rust to build our API. In doing so we also stumble upon Problems outside of the Domain of AI and Large Language Models. One of these sparked the Open Source `async-events` crate, which might also be helpful in your Distributed System.

ℹ️ About Markus Klein
Markus Klein is the Engineering Lead at Aleph Alpha. He spend most of his career as a C++ Developer, working in the Domains of Distributed Systems and Data Engineering. He is using Rust as his go-to Language for private Projects for eight years and is the core maintainer of several crates, with his most meaningful contribution to the Rust ecosystem probably being `odbc-api` crate. He also finds it strange to write about himself in third person.

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Do you want to deliver a talk at the Rust meetup Linz? Great! Please enter your suggested topic in Sessionize at https://sessionize.com/rust-linz/.