Photographs

Events

Conference halls, panel tables, lecture rooms and broadcast desks, 2018 to 2026. Grouped by the occasion rather than by the frame.

Frames
92
Years
2018–2026
Occasions
31
Continents
2

2026

Nine frames · Bellevue, Seattle

Fremont Brewing's Urban Beer Garden · Seattle

The RLHF Book Launch

Guest · 10 August 2026 · Nathan Lambert's Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback · hosted by Nathan Lambert and Mia Ocolisanu, presented by RadixArk · event page

The RLHF Book Launch for Nathan Lambert's Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Fremont Brewing's Urban Beer Garden, Seattle, 10 August 2026.
The RLHF Book Launch for Nathan Lambert's Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Fremont Brewing's Urban Beer Garden, Seattle, 10 August 2026.

MLSys 2026 · Bellevue

Conference on Machine Learning and Systems

Guest · 17 to 22 May 2026 · Hyatt Regency Bellevue · lunch with Matt White, Global CTO of AI at the Linux Foundation and CTO of the PyTorch Foundation · the write-up

Andy Peng and Matt White at MLSys 2026, both wearing MLSys lanyards
With Matt White (Global CTO of AI, the Linux Foundation; CTO, the PyTorch Foundation)
MLSys 2026, the Conference on Machine Learning and Systems, Bellevue, Washington.

University of Washington · MSIS 549

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Business Applications

MSIS 549, UW Foster · 14 March 2026 · PACCAR Hall, University of Washington · hosted by Léonard Boussioux

MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 14 March 2026.
MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 14 March 2026.
MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 14 March 2026.
MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 14 March 2026.
MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 14 March 2026.

2025

Twenty-one frames · Mexico City, Vancouver, Seattle, online

NeurIPS 2025 · Mexico City

NeurIPS CDMX, the conference's first satellite city

Workshop Co-Chair · 30 November to 5 December 2025, running in parallel with San Diego · trip notes · committee

NeurIPS CDMX 2025, the conference's Mexico City satellite location.
NeurIPS CDMX 2025, the conference's Mexico City satellite location.
NeurIPS CDMX 2025, the conference's Mexico City satellite location.

UW AI & Robotics Data Summit

LLM Native Primitives: Next Golden Path

Keynote · 28 August 2025 · Boeing Advanced Research Center, University of Washington · hosted by Xu Chen · event page

UW AI & Robotics Data Summit, Boeing Advanced Research Center, University of Washington, 28 August 2025.
UW AI & Robotics Data Summit, Boeing Advanced Research Center, University of Washington, 28 August 2025.
UW AI & Robotics Data Summit, Boeing Advanced Research Center, University of Washington, 28 August 2025.
UW AI & Robotics Data Summit, Boeing Advanced Research Center, University of Washington, 28 August 2025.
UW AI & Robotics Data Summit, Boeing Advanced Research Center, University of Washington, 28 August 2025.

ICML 2025 · Vancouver

International Conference on Machine Learning

Reviewer · July 2025 · Vancouver Convention Centre · recap

ICML 2025 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
ICML 2025 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
ICML 2025 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

FlickBloom Tech Talks · Seattle

Consumer-facing AI agents evaluation and validation

Guest · 19 July 2025 · Foundations, Seattle · talk by Dr. Zhou (Jo) Yu (Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University; Founder & CEO, Arklex.ai; Forbes 30 Under 30, 2018) · event page

FlickBloom tech talk on evaluating consumer-facing AI agents, Foundations, Seattle, 19 July 2025.

Packt GenAI Summit

State of Open Source LLM

Keynote · online · event page

Speaker card for the Packt GenAI Summit 2025.

University of Washington · Foster MSIS

MSIS Mentorship Celebration

Anthony's Forum, Dempsey Hall, University of Washington · Seattle, 3 June 2025

MSIS Mentorship Celebration at the University of Washington, 3 June 2025.
Photograph by Matt Hagen
MSIS Mentorship Celebration at the University of Washington, 3 June 2025.
Photograph by Matt Hagen
MSIS Mentorship Celebration at the University of Washington, 3 June 2025.
Photograph by Matt Hagen
MSIS Mentorship Celebration at the University of Washington, 3 June 2025.
MSIS Mentorship Celebration at the University of Washington, 3 June 2025.

SMILE · Seattle

Succeed in Internal Transfer

Seattle Amazonian Chinese League · 27 May 2025

SMILE session on succeeding in an internal transfer, Seattle, 27 May 2025.
SMILE session on succeeding in an internal transfer, Seattle, 27 May 2025.
SMILE session on succeeding in an internal transfer, Seattle, 27 May 2025.

2024

Thirty-one frames · Seattle, online

OnBoard! Podcast · episode artwork

New Software Development Paradigms in the LLM Era

Panel with Yangqing Jia 贾扬清 and Ed Huang 黄东旭 · moderated by Monica Xie · livestream · podcast · transcript

Episode artwork for the OnBoard! podcast episode on software development in the LLM era.
Episode artwork for the OnBoard! podcast episode on software development in the LLM era.

B.E.L.L.E. · Seattle

AI, Equity, and Innovations: Shaping the Future of Technology and Venture Capital

16 November 2024 · Capital One Café, Seattle

B.E.L.L.E. community panel on AI, equity and venture capital, Capital One Café, Seattle, 16 November 2024.
With Rolanda Fu (Investor, Madrona) and Anna Hong (CEO and Co-founder, B.E.L.L.E.)

China Entrepreneur Network · University of Washington

Dinner With Professionals (DWP)

Invited professional · October 2024 · Kane Hall, University of Washington · Seattle · write-up

Dinner With Professionals, hosted by the China Entrepreneur Network at the University of Washington, October 2024.
Dinner With Professionals, hosted by the China Entrepreneur Network at the University of Washington, October 2024.

Madrona Venture Group Inc. · Seattle

OpenAI Community Meetup

Guest · 1 August 2024 · DocuSign Tower, Seattle

OpenAI Community Meetup Seattle at Madrona Venture Group, DocuSign Tower, 1 August 2024.
OpenAI Community Meetup Seattle at Madrona Venture Group, DocuSign Tower, 1 August 2024.
OpenAI Community Meetup Seattle at Madrona Venture Group, DocuSign Tower, 1 August 2024.
With Jay Bartot (Technical Partner, Madrona Venture Labs; Affiliate Professor, University of Washington)

SMILE · Seattle

GenAI 茶话会

Panel with Xiaopeng Li and Raphael Shu · Seattle Amazonian Chinese League · Rednote post

The GenAI panel at SMILE, the Seattle Amazonian Chinese League, 2024.

CVPR 2024 · Seattle

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Guest · 17 to 21 June 2024 · Seattle Convention Center

A CVPR 2024 attendee badge, its QR code blanked.
CVPR 2024, the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference, Seattle Convention Center.

Google Bay View · Mountain View

KuberTENes Birthday Bash

Guest · 6 June 2024 · ten years of Kubernetes · event page · my ten KubeCons

KuberTENes Birthday Bash, ten years of Kubernetes, at Google's Bay View office in Mountain View, 6 June 2024.
KuberTENes Birthday Bash, ten years of Kubernetes, at Google's Bay View office in Mountain View, 6 June 2024.
With Tim Hockin (Distinguished Software Engineer, Google Cloud: Kubernetes and GKE)
KuberTENes Birthday Bash, ten years of Kubernetes, at Google's Bay View office in Mountain View, 6 June 2024.
With Janet Kuo (Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud)
KuberTENes Birthday Bash, ten years of Kubernetes, at Google's Bay View office in Mountain View, 6 June 2024.
With Katie Greenley (Senior Manager, Marketing and Community, CNCF, the Linux Foundation; Marketing Committee Co-chair)
KuberTENes Birthday Bash, ten years of Kubernetes, at Google's Bay View office in Mountain View, 6 June 2024.
With Kelsey Hightower (Distinguished Software Engineer)
KuberTENes Birthday Bash, ten years of Kubernetes, at Google's Bay View office in Mountain View, 6 June 2024.
With Brian Grant (Distinguished Software Engineer, Google)

University of Washington · MSIS 549

Transforming AI: Modern Business Redefine

Guest lecturer · MSIS 549 (2): Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Business Applications · PACCAR Hall, University of Washington · LinkedIn post

Guest lecture for MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 2024.
Guest lecture for MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 2024.
Guest lecture for MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 2024.
Guest lecture for MSIS 549 at the University of Washington, 2024.

Open Source Summit North America · Seattle

Open Source Summit North America 2024

16 to 18 April 2024 · Seattle Convention Center

An AWS-themed food menu at Open Source Summit North America 2024, its QR code blanked.
On the menu: the EC2 Elastic Cloud Cheeseburger, the Lambda Gyro, the Bedrock Surprise, S3 Fries, and the EKS Milkshake
Open Source Summit North America 2024, Seattle Convention Center.
With Hanna Hajishirzi (VP, Microsoft AI; Professor, University of Washington; ex-Senior Director of AI, AI2)
Open Source Summit North America 2024, Seattle Convention Center.
Group photo at the venue with the University of Washington students I sponsored to attend
Open Source Summit North America 2024, Seattle Convention Center.
Open Source Summit North America 2024, Seattle Convention Center.
With Jennifer Madriaga (Chief of Staff, The Linux Foundation)

University of Washington · MSIS 547

New Era of Generative AI and Building in the Cloud

Guest lecturer · MSIS 547 (2): Managing in the Era of Cloud Computing · 2 March 2024 · PACCAR Hall, University of Washington · co-lecturer Jay Bartot · hosted by Léonard Boussioux · UW Foster MSIS post · LinkedIn post

Guest lecture for MSIS 547 at the University of Washington, 2 March 2024.
With Jay Bartot (Technical Partner, Madrona Venture Labs; Affiliate Professor, University of Washington)
Guest lecture for MSIS 547 at the University of Washington, 2 March 2024.
Guest lecture for MSIS 547 at the University of Washington, 2 March 2024.
Guest lecture for MSIS 547 at the University of Washington, 2 March 2024.
Guest lecture for MSIS 547 at the University of Washington, 2 March 2024.

2023

Twenty-four frames · Amsterdam, New York, Seattle, online

Women in Tech Regatta · Seattle

Myth-Busting Tech Trends

Panel with Morgan Zion and Caroline Williams · moderated by Padmaja Vrudhula · April 2023 · session page

The Myth-Busting Tech Trends panel at the Seattle Women in Tech Regatta 2023.
The Myth-Busting Tech Trends panel at the Seattle Women in Tech Regatta 2023.
The Myth-Busting Tech Trends panel at the Seattle Women in Tech Regatta 2023.
The Myth-Busting Tech Trends panel at the Seattle Women in Tech Regatta 2023.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe · Amsterdam

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Speaker, and announced here as a CNCF Ambassador · 18 to 21 April 2023 · presented “The open-source community at AWS: containerd and Envoy” with Phil Estes · AWS Open Source post · my ten KubeCons

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
Chris Aniszczyk (VP, Developer Relations, the Linux Foundation; CTO, CNCF) announcing the new Ambassadors at the opening
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
The CNCF Ambassadors · photograph by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
With Alolita Sharma (then Senior Manager, Software Engineering and Principal Technologist, AWS, and concurrently a CNCF Governing Board member, Chair of the End User TAB and Co-chair of the Observability TAG; now Engineering Management, Observability and Platform Technologies, Apple) and Michael Hausenblas (then Principal Product Manager, AWS; now Principal Software Engineer, Genesys)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
With the Knative group
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
With Anni Lai (General Member Representative and Generative AI Commons Co-chair, LF AI & Data; Head of Open Source Operations and Marketing, Futurewei)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
With Kelsey Hightower (Distinguished Software Engineer)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
With the AWS team
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
With Cheryl Hung (founder and CEO, Cloud Native London; previously VP at the Linux Foundation for CNCF, and Senior Director at Arm)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
With Barry Cooks (VP, AWS Compute Abstractions; CNCF Governing Board member)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, Amsterdam.
With Kevin (Zefeng) Wang (Vice Chair of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and a CNCF Ambassador; Lead of the Cloud Native Open Source Team, Huawei)

CNCF · on camera

Meet the Ambassadors

Filmed at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 · YouTube

Meet the Ambassadors, filmed at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023.

CUC Meetup

Technical Leadership in Team Management

Speaker · moderated by Zheng Luo · YouTube

CUC Meetup 2023, the session on technical leadership in team management.

StaffPlus New York

StaffPlus New York 2023

Guest · 16 March 2023 · New York · The Staff Engineer's Path, signed by its author, Tanya Reilly

StaffPlus New York 2023, where Tanya Reilly signed a copy of The Staff Engineer's Path.
StaffPlus New York 2023, where Tanya Reilly signed a copy of The Staff Engineer's Path.
StaffPlus New York 2023, where Tanya Reilly signed a copy of The Staff Engineer's Path.

2022

Three frames · Detroit, online

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America · Detroit

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

Sole presenter · presented “Building Multi-Tenant Routing and Scaling with Envoy” · session page · YouTube

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, the session on multi-tenant routing and scaling with Envoy.

DockerCon

How developers can get to production web applications at scale, easily

With Inbal Shani and Clarinda Mascarenhas · YouTube

DockerCon 2022, the AWS session on getting production web applications to scale.

Containers from the Couch · livestream

AWS App Runner X-Ray Integration

Guest · hosted by Adam Keller · YouTube

Containers from the Couch, the episode on the AWS App Runner and X-Ray integration.

2019

Three frames · Vancouver, San Diego

NeurIPS 2019 · Vancouver

Neural Information Processing Systems

Guest · 8 to 14 December 2019 · Vancouver Convention Centre · my first NeurIPS, 13,000 participants, just before the pandemic · six years on

The NeurIPS 2019 badge, lanyard and programme on the first morning, the badge's QR code blanked.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America · San Diego

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019

The first of ten KubeCons · 18 to 21 November 2019 · San Diego Convention Center · my ten KubeCons

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, San Diego Convention Center.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, San Diego Convention Center.

2018

One frame · Seattle

The Collective · Seattle

Kai-Fu Lee on AI Superpowers, with a book signing

Guest · 27 September 2018 · presented by Town Hall Seattle at The Collective, South Lake Union

Kai-Fu Lee's AI Superpowers talk and book signing at The Collective, Seattle, 27 September 2018.

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