March 14-15 / London

In person & virtual

Flower AI
Summit 2024

The world's largest Federated Learning conference

A big thank you to all who joined us, both online and in person, and a heartfelt appreciation to our wonderful speakers for being part of the Flower AI Summit 2024. If you missed any of the sessions, there is no need to worry! You will be able to access the talks shortly. In the meantime make sure to join our Slack Community!

Flower AI Summit 2024
Conference room
Flower After-hour reception
London

AI Research Day

March 14

  • Flower Ecosystem Roadmap for 2024
  • Advances in Decentralized Learning
  • Training LLMs using Sensitive Data
  • Accelerating Basic Science with FL
  • Scalable FLOps Tools
  • Large-scale Research Deployments using FL
  • Dozens of FL Research Results built on Flower
  • Daniel J. Beutel

    Daniel J. Beutel

    Co-founder & CEO

    Flower Research Update

    Daniel J. Beutel
  • Virginia Smith

    Virginia Smith

    Assistant Professor

    On Privacy and Personalization in Federated Learning

    Virginia Smith
  • Minhaj Alam

    Minhaj Alam

    Assistant Professor

    FL Diagnosis of Macular Degeneration

    Minhaj Alam
  • Adam Narożniak

    Adam Narożniak

    Data Scientist

    Flower Datasets

    Adam Narożniak
  • Hui Guan

    Hui Guan

    Assistant Professor

    Personalization and Concept Drift in FL

    Hui Guan
  • Bing Luo

    Bing Luo

    Assistant Professor

    FedCampus: A Privacy-preserving Smart Campus

    Bing Luo
  • Javier Fernandez & Yan Gao
    Javier Fernandez & Yan Gao

    Javier Fernandez & Yan Gao

    Research Scientists

    Flower Community Initiatives: From LLMs to SoR

    Javier Fernandez & Yan Gao
  • KangYoon Lee

    KangYoon Lee

    Professor

    Enhancing Federated Learning with FedOps for the FL Marketplace

    KangYoon Lee
  • Andrew Soltan

    Andrew Soltan

    Fellow in Clinical Artificial Intelligence

    Scalable and low-cost Federated Learning in the NHS: Flower and micro-computing

    Andrew Soltan
  • Judith Sáinz-Pardo

    Judith Sáinz-Pardo

    Data Science Researcher

    Federated AI in the European Open Science Cloud

    Judith Sáinz-Pardo
  • Nic Lane

    Nic Lane

    Co-founder & CSO

    Flower Surprise Annoucement

    Nic Lane
  • Borja Balle

    Borja Balle

    Researcher in Machine Learning and Differential Privacy

    Towards practical differentially private training

    Borja Balle

Poster and Demo Presentations

AI Research Day

PresentersAffiliationTitle
Daniel Jimenez
Data Science PhD Student
Sapienza University of RomeFedArtML recharged with feature + quantity skew partition and non-IID quantification methods
Massimo Villari
Full Professor
Lorenzo Carnevale
Assistant Professor
University of MessinaFedROS: The ROS Framework for Federated Learning on Mobile Edge Devices
Conor Hassan
Visiting Stats and ML Researcher
Università della Svizzera ItalianaHierarchical Bayes Approaches for Federated Learning
José Miguel Diniz
PhD Candidate - Health Data Science
Public Health Resident MDState of the Art of Health Federated Learning: Lessons from a Systematic Review
Philipp Wiesner
Research Associate
Technische Universität BerlinExploring the interplay between FL and energy systems
Haris Bin Zia
Speech & NLP Researcher
Queen Mary University of LondonFederated Learning for Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse
Yong-Gyom Kim
Researcher
Yusubov Farkhod
Researcher
Gachon UniversitySupporting FedOps for Cross Silo Scenarios
Sulfikar Shajimon
Software Engineer
Raj Mani Shukla
Assistant Professor/ Senior Lecturer
Anglia Ruskin UniversityConfidential Heartbeat: Harmonizing Diverse Dataset for Cardiovascular Prognosis with Vertical Federated Learning
Wanru Zhao
Postgraduate Student
Cambridge ML Systems LabBreaking Physical and Linguistic Borders: Multilingual Federated Prompt Tuning for Low-Resource Languages
Sergio Zaera Mata
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
HI IberiaGREEN [Collaborative intelligence for sustainable cities]
Amândio Faustino
Research Software Engineer
Janez Božič
Student and Software Developer
KAUST & University of LjubljanaCoLExT: collaborative learning experimentation testbed
Severin K. Y. Pang
Data Scientist
ei3Inverse-PID: A Mathematical Approach towards Detecting Real-World Wear & Tear
Mohsen Eslamnejad
Research Associate & Developer
University of PortsmouthFederated Learning based Robust Android Malware Detection: Label-Flipping Attacks and Defenses
Dmitry Kolobkov
Data Scientist
GENXTFederated learning for data collaboration in genomics
Francisco Pase
Lead AI Research Engineer
NEWTWENAdaptive Compression in Federated Learning via Side Information
Bing Luo
Assistant Professor
Steven He
Systems programmer
Duke Kunshan UniversityFedCampus: a Privacy-preserving Data Platform for Smart Campus with Federated Learning and Analytics
Dennis Grinwald
PhD student in Machine Learning
Technische Universität Berlin & BIFOLDSubspace Training for Federated Learning

AI Industry Day

March 15

  • Industry Use-cases built on Flower by: Amazon, Zenseact, US Airforce
  • FL Standards and Interoperability: The Flower, Intel and OpenFL partnership
  • NHS Experimental Deployment of Flower for 130,000 Patients
  • Survey of Early Commercial Adopters of Privacy-enhancing ML
  • New Federated Dataset and Benchmark for Self-driving Cars
  • Achieving Regulatory Compliance with Federated Approaches
  • Practical Homomorphic Encryption for FL by combining Flower and Zama
  • Daniel J. Beutel

    Daniel J. Beutel

    Co-founder & CEO

    Flower Industry Update

    Daniel J. Beutel
  • Tim Hospedales

    Tim Hospedales

    Head of Samsung AI

    Overlooked desiderata for real-world FL

    Tim Hospedales
  • Sherry Ding

    Sherry Ding

    Senior AI/ ML Solutions Architect

    Flower on Amazon SageMaker

    Sherry Ding
  • Nathan Gaw

    Nathan Gaw

    Assistant Professor of Data Science

    US Military Applications using Federated Learning

    Nathan Gaw
  • Charles Kerrigan & Bill Marino
    Charles Kerrigan & Bill Marino

    Charles Kerrigan & Bill Marino

    Lawyer/ PhD Student - Machine Learning

    FL under AI Regulation

    Charles Kerrigan & Bill Marino
  • David Emerson

    David Emerson

    Applied Machine Learning Scientist

    FL4Health: Private and Personal Clinical Modelling

    David Emerson
  • Roman Bredehoft

    Roman Bredehoft

    Machine Learning Engineer

    Private Inference with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and FL

    Roman Bredehoft
  • Mohammad Naseri & Pan Heng
    Mohammad Naseri & Pan Heng

    Mohammad Naseri & Pan Heng

    Research Scientists

    Flower support for Differential Privacy and Secure Aggregation

    Mohammad Naseri & Pan Heng
  • Mina Alibeigi

    Mina Alibeigi

    AI Researcher

    Federated AI for vehicles

    Mina Alibeigi
  • Calum Inverarity

    Calum Inverarity

    Senior Researcher

    The PETs Landscape

    Calum Inverarity
  • Nic Lane

    Nic Lane

    Co-founder & CSO

    Flower Pilot Program: Batch Two

    Nic Lane
  • Valerio Maggio

    Valerio Maggio

    Data Scientist Advocate

    Portable and reproducible deep learning environments with Flower and Conda

Poster and Demo Presentations

AI Industry Day

PresentersAffiliationTitle
Daniel Jimenez
Data Science PhD Student
Sapienza University of RomeFedArtML recharged with feature + quantity skew partition and non-IID quantification methods
Massimo Villari
Full Professor
Lorenzo Carnevale
Assistant Professor
University of MessinaHomomorphic Encryption for Federated Learning: A Comparison Study on Flower
Conor Hassan
Visiting Stats and ML Researcher
Università della Svizzera ItalianaHierarchical Bayes Approaches for Federated Learning
José Miguel Diniz
PhD Candidate - Health Data Science
Public Health Resident MDState of the Art of Health Federated Learning: Lessons from a Systematic Review
Philipp Wiesner
Research Associate
Technische Universität BerlinExploring the interplay between FL and energy systems
Haris Bin Zia
Speech & NLP Researcher
Queen Mary University of LondonFederated Learning for Collaborative Content Moderation in the Fediverse
Yong-Gyom Kim
Researcher
Yusubov Farkhod
Researcher
Gachon UniversitySupporting FedOps for Mobile Device Scenarios
Sulfikar Shajimon
Software Engineer
Raj Mani Shukla
Assistant Professor/ Senior Lecturer
Anglia Ruskin UniversityConfidential Heartbeat: Harmonizing Diverse Dataset for Cardiovascular Prognosis with Vertical Federated Learning
Wanru Zhao
Postgraduate Student
Cambridge ML Systems LabEnhancing Data Quality in Federated Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models
Sergio Zaera Mata
Artificial Intelligence Engineer
HI IberiaGREEN [Collaborative intelligence for sustainable cities]
Amândio Faustino
Research Software Engineer
Janez Božič
Student and Software Developer
KAUST & University of LjubljanaCoLExT: collaborative learning experimentation testbed
Severin K. Y. Pang
Data Scientist
ei3Inverse-PID: A Mathematical Approach towards Detecting Real-World Wear & Tear
Mohsen Eslamnejad
Research Associate & Developer
University of PortsmouthFederated Learning based Robust Android Malware Detection: Label-Flipping Attacks and Defenses
Dmitry Kolobkov
Data Scientist
GENXTFederated learning for data collaboration in genomics
Francisco Pase
Lead AI Research Engineer
NEWTWENAdaptive Compression in Federated Learning via Side Information
Bing Luo
Assistant Professor
Steven He
Systems programmer
Duke Kunshan UniversityFedCampus: a Privacy-preserving Data Platform for Smart Campus with Federated Learning and Analytics
Dennis Grinwald
PhD student in Machine Learning
Technische Universität Berlin & BIFOLDSubspace Training for Federated Learning