Most materials are in English unless literally flagged otherwise. The absolute majority is on the subjects of Systems Design, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence. The 🗣️ talking head links aren’t technical, and in the ones with a 👯‍♂️ - I am just a wingman supporting another speaker.

2026

  • PostNauka “Think Like a Scientist” Podcast #56: AI Infrastructure, Numeric Precision, and Search Systems. YouTube. 🇷🇺

2025

  • PyTorch & Lightning AI Meetup: Matrix Multiplication Assembly Instructions. London, UK. Event. YouTube.
  • OpenUK 2025: Linux Kernel 6 - Path to 10x Faster Databases and Networking. London, UK. YouTube.
  • PyTorch Meetup 21 at Databricks: Scaling Vector Search Up & Out with Spark. London, UK. Event. YouTube.
  • OpenUK 2025: Democratizing AI - Optimizing Matrix Multiplications on Intel, Apple, AMD, NVIDIA & AWS Chips. London, UK. YouTube.
  • PyData London 101: USearch - the Search Engine Behind Most New RAG Pipelines. London, UK. Event.
  • C++ & Rust Cross-over Meetup: Writing “Less Slow” C++. London, UK. Event.

2024

  • ScyllaDB P99 Conf: Internet-Scale Semantic, Structural, and Text Search in Real Time. Event. YouTube.
  • UC Berkeley Open Source AI Day: Open Source Search: Two Decades of Bad Design Decisions & Legacy Software. Event. YouTube.
  • Arize Observe 2024. Event.
  • Neural Search Podcast: JIT Assembly to Build Exascale AI Infrastructure. YouTube.
  • Attention Heads Podcast: Large scale data processing for AI apps. YouTube.
  • Zaiste Programming Podcast: Unlocking the Future of AI with Open Source. YouTube.
  • Multimodal Visual Question Answering. Event. YouTube. 👯‍♂️

2023

  • AI.dev Linux Foundation Conference: Retrieval Augmentation and Semantic Search at Scale. San Jose, California, US. Event. YouTube.
  • All Things Open Conference: Bird’s Eye View of Open-Source AI Infrastructure. Raleigh, North Carolina, US. Event. Slides. YouTube.
  • UC Berkeley Sky Lab Seminar: Vector Search at Scale - Bottlenecks and Solutions. Berkeley, California, US. Event.
  • Cloud Native London: Future of Open-Source AI Infrastructure. London, UK. Event.
  • Highload++ Conference: Vector Search and Databases at Scale. Belgrade Serbia. Event. Slides. YouTube.
  • Python SF Group: Accelerated Datascience Libraries and Where to Find Them. Sentry HQ, San Francisco, California, US. Event. YouTube.
  • CppCast Podcast #359: On AI Infrastructure. Event. Spotify. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

2022

  • Highload++: Designing the fastest ACID Key-Value Store. Event. YouTube. Slides.
  • DataFest: 3M - Prospects and Challenges with Multi-Modal Models in AI Research. Event. YouTube. Slides.
  • PyData Conference: Accelerated Data Science Libraries. Event. YouTube. Slides.
  • Global Innovation Forum: Life Altering Technologies. Event. YouTube. 🗣️
  • AMD & Xilinx: Persistent Memory Technologies Overview. AMD. Xilinx.
  • CppRussia: Role of C++ in Machine Learning discussion. YouTube. 🇷🇺
  • CppArm Meetup #3: From OpenCL, Thrust & CUB to raw CUDA Kernels & SyCL. GitHub.
  • PyData Meetup #2: Fast Inference for Large Language Models with Vladimir Orshulevich. YouTube. 👯‍♂️
  • CppArm Meetup #4: Unsafe Math, GCC Attributes, and Nifty Tricks for Google Benchmark. GitHub.
  • CppRussia: A Practical Approach to Error Handling by Arno Schödl. YouTube. 👯‍♂️
  • PYerevan Meetup #16: Accelerated Data-Science Tools Overview. YouTube.
  • CppArm Meetup #5: Bindings 101 - CPython, cGo, and Java Native Interface. GitHub. YouTube.

2021

  • Mars Podcast: On High-Performance Computing. YouTube. 🇦🇲
  • CppArm Meetup #2: Evolution - C++11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26? YouTube.
  • Code Republic: Peta-Scale software in 2021. YouTube. Slides. 🇦🇲
  • FM106.5: On the Gituzh Scientific Initiative. YouTube. 🇦🇲 🗣️
  • CppRussia: SIMD with EVE by Denis Yaroshevskiy. YouTube. 👯‍♂️

2020

  • CppRussia Conference: SIMD = Performance you have already paid for. Event. GitHub. YouTube. Slides. 🇷🇺
  • CppArm Meetup #1: SIMD, Frequency Scaling Licenses and Speculative Execution. GitHub. YouTube.
  • Pure Virtual Cast #4: Conversing about High-Performance Computing. YouTube. 🇷🇺
  • Artsakh Must Be Independent. YouTube. 🗣️

2019