Copenhagen Local AI Meetup

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Dive into the world of local AI at our meetup designed for developers, researchers, makers, and enthusiasts eager to run, build, and optimize AI systems on their own hardware. This gathering is all about harnessing the power of local and self-hosted AI—no external APIs needed!

Whether you're experimenting with a laptop, managing a workstation, constructing a GPU server, or operating a homelab, you'll connect with others tackling similar challenges. Topics to explore include:

• Running local LLMs using tools like Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang, LM Studio, and Open WebUI
• Setting up self-hosted AI infrastructure and inference servers
• Techniques in model optimization, quantization, fine-tuning, and distillation
• GPU performance tweaks, memory optimization strategies, and hardware setups
• Exploring agent frameworks and local-first AI applications
• Insights on MCP servers, tooling innovations, and developer workflows
• Benchmarking and evaluation harnesses for rigorous model testing
• Open-source AI ecosystems and emerging local tools
• Privacy-preserving and offline AI deployments

The meetup format includes technical talks, lightning presentations, demos, benchmarking sessions, and open discussions. Bring your projects, questions, and experiences—successes or failures!

This is NOT a startup pitch or prompt-engineering event; we focus on the real challenges of building and maintaining AI systems locally, from hardware optimization to infrastructure knowledge.

Whether you’re running a robust model on a laptop, benchmarking frameworks, or serving frontier open models from your GPUs, we welcome you to connect with fellow pioneers in local AI right here in Copenhagen! 🌍