Legare Kerrison - Speaker at Devoxx UK

Red Hat

Legare Kerrison is an Open Source Engineer and Developer Advocate on Red Hat's AI team. She focuses on open source tools for building and deploying AI. Currently, she works with projects like vLLM and Podman desktop. She aims to make technical complexity digestible. She loves matcha and the outdoors. Based in Boston.

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Daniel Oh

Red Hat

Cedric Clyburn

Red Hat

Legare Kerrison

Red Hat

Building with Open Source AI: A Crash Course

Thanks to open source, in the past year, we’ve seen a fundamental change: developers and enterprises are moving away from proprietary, closed-source models. To save costs, prioritize privacy, and allo...

Data

Mini Lab 90 min.

INTERMEDIATE

Legare Kerrison

Red Hat

Fast, Cheap, and Accurate: Optimizing LLM Inference with vLLM and Quantization

This demo-driven talk shows how to efficiently serve large language models using vLLM, focusing on optimizing latency, throughput, and memory. It compares standard and quantized models under load, exp...

DevNation Day

Conference 50 min.

INTERMEDIATE