Upcoming llm-d Events

Stay connected with the llm-d community at meetups, conferences, and workshops. All meetings are open to the public unless noted otherwise.

March 2026

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026

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📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

March 23–26, 2026 · Paid

Sessions

• Panel: Routing Intelligence Vs Traffic Control: Architectural Tradeoffs for AI Inference in Gateway API

  Mon, Mar 23, 2026 · 12:45 – 13:20 CET · 📍 Hall 7 | Room B
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• Cloud Native Theater | Istio Day: Running State of the Art Inference with Istio and llm-d

  Tue, Mar 24, 2026 · 16:00 – 16:35 CET · 📍 Halls 1-5
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• Route, Serve, Adapt, Repeat: Adaptive Routing for AI Inference Workloads in Kubernetes

  Wed, Mar 25, 2026 · 11:45 – 12:15 CET · 📍 Auditorium
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• Tutorial: KV-Cache Wins You Can Feel: Building AI-Aware LLM Routing on Kubernetes

  Thu, Mar 26, 2026 · 11:00 – 12:15 CET · 📍 Elicium 1
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• Evolving KServe: The Unified Model Inference Platform for Both Predictive and Generative AI

  Thu, Mar 26, 2026 · 11:00 – 11:30 CET · 📍 E103-105
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April 2026

PyTorch Conference Europe 2026

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📍 Paris, France

April 7–8, 2026 · Paid

Sessions

• Why WideEP Inference Needs Data-Parallel-Aware Scheduling

  Tue, Apr 7, 2026 · 13:35 – 14:00 CEST · 📍 Central Room
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• The Token Slice: Implementing Preemptive Scheduling Via Chunked Decoding

  Tue, Apr 7, 2026 · 14:05 – 14:30 CEST · 📍 Central Room
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• Lightning Talk: Beyond Generic Spans: Distributed Tracing for Actionable LLM Observability

  Tue, Apr 7, 2026 · 15:45 – 15:55 CEST · 📍 Master Stage
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• Birds of A Feather: Disaggregated Tokenization: Building Toward Tokens-In-Tokens-Out LLM Inference

  Wed, Apr 8, 2026 · 10:10 – 10:35 CEST · 📍 TBA
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• Lightning Talk: KV-Cache Centric Inference: Building a State-Aware Serving Platform With llm-d and vLLM

  Wed, Apr 8, 2026 · 11:10 – 11:20 CEST · 📍 Founders Cafe
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• Lightning Talk: Not All Tokens Are Equal: Semantic KV-Cache for Agentic LLM Serving

  Wed, Apr 8, 2026 · 11:25 – 11:35 CEST · 📍 Founders Cafe
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• Lightning Talk: Inside vLLM's KV Offloading Connector: Async Memory Transfers for Higher Inference Throughput

  Wed, Apr 8, 2026 · 14:20 – 14:30 CEST · 📍 Central Room
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