Flower
Summit 2023
The Flower community comes together at the third Flower Summit on May 30 and May 31 2023. Watch experts in the field of federated learning and find out how Flower accelerates the development of systems in both research and production.
Explore the two-day schedule
Research day (30 May 2023)
Time (UK) | Speaker | Talk | Affiliation |
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Tutorials | Online only | ||
10:00 | Charles Beauville | What is Federated Learning? Getting Started with Flower | Flower |
10:45 | Charles Beauville | Common Beginner Questions | Flower |
Start Research Day | |||
13:00 | Nicholas Lane | Welcome to Flower Summit 2023 | Flower |
13:15 | Daniel J. Beutel | Flower Research Update | Flower |
13:30 | Tian Li | Open Problems of Learning in Federated Settings | CMU |
14:00 | Break | ||
14:20 | Nicholas Lane | Flower Announcement: LLMs for Flower | Flower |
14:35 | Francesco Pase | FedPM: Sparse Random Networks for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning | University of Padova |
14:50 | Stefanos Laskaridis | FedorAS: Federated Architecture Search under system heterogeneity | Brave |
15:05 | Yuandou Wang, Zahra Tabatabaei | Federated Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval | UVA, Tryris Software |
15:20 | Break | ||
16:00 | Nicholas Lane | Flower Announcement: Next Gen Secure Aggregation for Flower | Flower |
16:15 | Dave Buckley | Lessons learned from running a privacy tech challenge | Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation |
16:35 | Sasi Murakonda | Privacy-preserving federated analytics for financial crime detection | Privitar/ UCL |
16:55 | Leandro Collier, Xavier Lessage | Secure federated learning applied to medical imaging with fully homomorphic encryption | CETIC |
17:10 | Break | ||
17:30 | Titouan Parcollet | Federated Self-Supervised Speech Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges | SpeechBrain |
18:00 | Dennis Grinwald | Enabling privacy-aware and carbon-aware machine learning, using Flower | Technical University of Berlin & BIFOLD |
18:15 | Elijah ben Izzy | Hamilton: A Novel Paradigm for Feature Engineering in Python (and how it is a natural companion to federated learning!) | DAGWorks,Inc |
18:30 | Javier Fernandez | Researchers Love These Tricks [Tutorial, Hybrid] | Flower |
18:45 | Nicholas Lane | End day 1 | Flower |
19:30 | Flower Community | After-Hours Reception |
Industry day (31 May 2023)
Time (UK) | Speaker | Talk | Affiliation |
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Tutorials | In-Person only (Seminar Room FW26) | ||
10:00 | Daniel Nata Nugraha | Federating iOS | Flower |
10:30 | Adam Narożniak | Flower Hands-on Tutorial | Flower |
Start Industry Day | |||
13:00 | Nicholas Lane | Welcome to Flower Summit 2023 | Flower |
13:10 | Daniel J. Beutel | Flower Industry Update | Flower |
13:25 | Katherine Jarmul | Deploying Distributed Learning: Real-World Challenges and Opportunities from the Field | thoughtworks |
14:00 | Break | ||
14:20 | Nicholas Lane | Announcement: Dandelion | Flower |
14:25 | Stefanos Laskaridis, Lorenzo Minto | Dandelion: Privacy-Preserving Cross-Device FL in Brave Browser | Brave |
14:40 | Xunzheng Zhang | Federated Feature Selection for Horizontal Federated Learning in IoT Networks | University of Bristol |
14:55 | Anne Mareike Schlinkert, Leonhard Kunczik | Federated Learning meets the shop floor in Siemens PCB production facilities | Katulu |
15:15 | Robert Norvill | FLAME (Federated Learning for Anti-Money Laundering Enhancement) preventing International Financial Crime | Banking Circle |
15:25 | Break | ||
16:05 | Nicholas Lane | Tool support aims of Flower | Flower |
16:15 | Ryan McConville | Federated Learning with Weights & Biases | Weights & Biases |
16:30 | SeMo Yang, KangYoon Lee | FedOps: Federated Learning Lifecycle Operations Management | Gachon University |
16:45 | Patrick Foley | Federated Learning Standards: A collaborative approach to improving research reproducibility and building an interoperable future | Intel |
17:20 | Break | ||
17:35 | Dr. Sven Trieflinger | Nettle - Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning based on Flower and Carbyne Stack | Robert Bosch GmbH |
17:50 | Michał Daniłowski | Large-scale distributed deployments of federated learning using OpenStack | Sano |
18:05 | Juan Marcelo Parra Ullauri | Designing a Privacy-Preserving Kubernetes Operator for Federated Learning | University of Bristol |
18:20 | Chancellor Johnstone | Exploration of Federated Learning in the United States Air Force with Flower | United States Air Force |
18:35 | Charles Beauville | Industry Proof-of-Concept FL in 10 mins [Tutorial, Hybrid] | Flower |
18:50 | Nicholas Lane | End day 2 | Flower |
Federating iOS
Tutorial, In-Person only. Seminar Room FW26.
Flower Hands-On Tutorial
Tutorial, In-Person only. Seminar Room FW26
Industry Proof-of-Concept FL in 10 mins
Tutorial, Hybrid
Details
How to attend Flower Summit 2023 in-person
Location:
University of Cambridge
William Gates Building
Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2)
Date:
30 May 2023 (research day) 1.00pm - 8.00pm (UK time)
31 May 2023 (industry day) 1.00pm - 8.00pm (UK time)
Travel Recommendation:
- 🚆 Train from St Pancras International/King’s Cross to Cambridge
- ✈️ Plane + 🚗 Car/Bus/Train
from Stansted Airport ~ 40 minutes drive
from LHR ~ 2.5 hours drive
🅿️ There is very limited parking nearby; please try to arrive by public transportation or park at Madingley Road Park and Ride.
Accommodation:
Check for available options here: Visit Cambridge