2025 JAX & OpenXLA Summer DevLabs

The 2025 JAX & OpenXLA Summer DevLabs in Sunnyvale!

Date: June 23rd and June 24th, 2025
Time: 8:00am-5:00pm
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Join us for the upcoming 2025 JAX and OpenXLA Summer DevLabs in Sunnyvale! Building on the success of previous years, we've expanded this event to be two days. The first day will focus on JAX, and the second day will focus on OpenXLA. You're welcome to join us for one day, or for both.

Event Description

This event offers a casual, hands-on opportunity to learn about JAX and OpenXLA development, meet fellow members of the community, and deep dive into specific needs with engineers from Google.

Schedule

JAX DevLab - Monday 6/23

Δ Time Content
1h 8:00 - 9:00am Registration, light breakfast, and coffee
25m 9:00 - 9:25am Keynote (Roy Frostig)
65m 9:25 - 10:30am Lightning talks. JAX core (Matthew Johnson), Grain (Ihor Indyk), Flax/NNX (Cristian Garcia), Orbax (Colin Gaffney), Tunix (Tianshu Bao), Qwix (Dangyi Liu), MaxText (Rich James), Profiling and Debugging (Kelvin Le), Pallas (Sharad Vikram), Serving (Fenghui Zhang).
20m 10:30 - 10:50am Break
60m 11 - 12pm Tutorials #1. What's new in the model development and post-training ecosystem (Cristian Garcia, Tianshu Bao, Rich James). Profiling and optimizing workloads (Kelvin Le, Skye Wanderman-Milne). Large scale training techniques and best practices (Jacob Austin). Working with Kernels (Sharad Vikram).
90m 12:00 - 1:30pm Lunch
60m 2:30 - 3:30pm Tutorials #2. Repeat of the morning session, so you have a chance to attend two. Additional tutorial: Serving JAX Models (Fenghui Zhang).
15m 2:30 - 2:45pm Break
15m 2:45 - 3:00pm Group picture and swag
90m 3:00 - 4:30pm Roundtables
90m 4:30 - 6:00pm Happy hour

OpenXLA DevLab - Tuesday 6/24

Δ Time Content
1h 8:00 - 9am Networking Breakfast & Coffee
20m 9:05 - 9:25am Brief Keynote
5m 9:25 - 9:30am Lightning talk (OSS Microbenchmarking, Chris Jones)
1h 9:30 - 10:30am Tutorials #1 XLA Architecture (Blake Hechtman). Partitioning Workloads with Shardy (Zixuan Jiang). PJRT (Parker Holloway). Operator Fusion in XLA (Karthik Srinivasa Murthy). Mosaic (Jaswanth Sreeram). PyTorch/XLA (Han Qi).
15m 10:30 - 10:45am Break
1hr 10:45 - 11:45m Tutorials #2 Repeat of the morning sessions so you can attend two.
1h 15m 11:45 - 1:00pm Lunch
1h 1:00 - 2:00pm Roundtable discussions
0m 2:00pm Group picture and swag

Tutorials will be recorded and uploaded to the OpenXLA YouTube channel after the event. The schedule will be updated as it is finalized.

How to register

If you'd like to attend, please fill out this form to express interest. Space is limited. We will confirm your registration by 5/30 if we can!

Questions? Comments? We want to hear from you. You can email us at devlab@google.com