---
title: "Recordings \u0026 Talks"
date: 0001-01-01
source: https://ashvardanian.com/talks/
author: Ash Vardanian
---


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

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- PostNauka "Think Like a Scientist" Podcast #56: AI Infrastructure, Numeric Precision, and Search Systems.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/sN4pZP98GUg). 🇷🇺

## 2025

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- PyTorch & Lightning AI Meetup: Matrix Multiplication Assembly Instructions.
  London, UK.
  [Event](https://www.meetup.com/london-pytorch-meetup/events/305522836).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/bDRo7Cf7x1o).
- OpenUK 2025: Linux Kernel 6 - Path to 10x Faster Databases and Networking.
  London, UK.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/xzFYuTqGd6o).
- PyTorch Meetup 21 at Databricks: Scaling Vector Search Up & Out with Spark.
  London, UK.
  [Event](https://www.meetup.com/london-pytorch-meetup/events/310701289).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/t5PHN1W92pU).
- OpenUK 2025: Democratizing AI - Optimizing Matrix Multiplications on Intel, Apple, AMD, NVIDIA & AWS Chips.
  London, UK.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/Qujweq6Gf5A).
- PyData London 101: USearch - the Search Engine Behind Most New RAG Pipelines.
  London, UK.
  [Event](https://www.meetup.com/pydata-london-meetup/events/311635959).
- C++ & Rust Cross-over Meetup: Writing "Less Slow" C++.
  London, UK.
  [Event](https://www.meetup.com/cpplondon/events/310272299).

## 2024

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- ScyllaDB P99 Conf: Internet-Scale Semantic, Structural, and Text Search in Real Time.
  [Event](https://www.p99conf.io/).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/yn87sxRsOj0).
- UC Berkeley Open Source AI Day: Open Source Search: Two Decades of Bad Design Decisions & Legacy Software.
  [Event](https://lu.ma/71y9vyb2?tk=7HrekN).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/LPv7QybMPxU).
- Arize Observe 2024.
  [Event](https://arize.com/observe-2024/).
- Neural Search Podcast: JIT Assembly to Build Exascale AI Infrastructure.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/zFq4-198OpQ).
- Attention Heads Podcast: Large scale data processing for AI apps.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/p96nkMM7wnM).
- Zaiste Programming Podcast: Unlocking the Future of AI with Open Source.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/D7pCY2ySicM).
- Multimodal Visual Question Answering.
  [Event](https://voxel51.com/computer-vision-events/may-30-2024-ai-machine-learning-data-science-meetup/).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/q_WWtZp4vgg). 👯‍♂️

## 2023

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- AI.dev Linux Foundation Conference: Retrieval Augmentation and Semantic Search at Scale.
  San Jose, California, US.
  [Event](https://aidevcass23.sched.com/event/1VRvK).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/ODTpIbJ-Vks).
- All Things Open Conference: Bird's Eye View of Open-Source AI Infrastructure.
  Raleigh, North Carolina, US.
  [Event](https://2023.allthingsopen.org).
  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12bSVtE0ruQ_6lQSRNZN6juS2ybYL9T3S/view?usp=sharing).
  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQKYc0zK0iU).
- UC Berkeley Sky Lab Seminar: Vector Search at Scale - Bottlenecks and Solutions.
  Berkeley, California, US.
  [Event](https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/events/sky-seminar-ashot-vardanian-unum-vector-search-at-scale-bottlenecks-and-solutions/).
- Cloud Native London: Future of Open-Source AI Infrastructure.
  London, UK.
  [Event](https://www.meetup.com/cloud-native-london/events/292727770/).
- Highload++ Conference: Vector Search and Databases at Scale.
  Belgrade Serbia.
  [Event](https://highload.rs/2023/abstracts/9770).
  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/11M51Jw9UdEmzHDTGZmn4n3bxgTcQt3sw/view?usp=sharing).
  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMrhB3icP9w&t=65s).
- Python SF Group: Accelerated Datascience Libraries and Where to Find Them.
  Sentry HQ, San Francisco, California, US.
  [Event](https://www.meetup.com/sfpython/events/skwnctyfchbnb/).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/L9ELuU3GeNc).
- CppCast Podcast #359: On AI Infrastructure.
  [Event](https://cppcast.com/ai_infrastructure/).
  [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0GBepAsjOFerG9bT20WmFw).
  [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-infrastructure/id968703120?i=1000611006222).
  [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9jcHBjYXN0LmNvbS9mZWVkLnJzcw/episode/ZjgwNzRkZmItNTUzNC00N2QwLWFjNDctZmNmNGRmMTc1NzQ1).

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- Amazon AWS Podcast #32: Can you make a database 6-7 times faster?
  [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/7CsVxDOq8nYEBrQxRExM56&nd=1).
  [Podbean](https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vqhii-13e0414).
  [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/by/podcast/032-%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BB%D0%B8-%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C-%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%83-%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85-%D0%B2-6-7-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7/id1600771698?i=1000608732451).
  [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2F3c25hcnVzc2tvbS9mZWVkLnhtbA/episode/YXdzbmFydXNza29tLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2M0YjY3NzZiLTdkN2MtMzEzYS1hYzQwLWI5ZWIyNjUwM2ExMw?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjAjJ_X6bD-AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ). 🇷🇺
- Attention Heads Podcast #4: Large scale data processing for AI apps.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/p96nkMM7wnM).
- DigiTech Conference: On deep tech startups and the development of the industry in Armenia.
  Yerevan, Armenia.
  [Event](https://www.digitec.am/ashot-vardanian).
  [YouTube](https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3L-O_qv7uU). 🗣️
- EVN Disrupt Podcast: Building AI While Embracing the Unorthodox.
  [Event](https://evnreport.com/podcasts/evn-disrupt/ashot-vardanyan-building-ai-while-embracing-the-unorthodox/).
  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvpyJLW2lZI).
  [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/71wdHxO4oqfRCUsoaF1J0D).
  [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/am/podcast/ashot-vardanyan-building-ai-while-embracing-the/id1252212513?i=1000596262592). 🗣️
- Voxel 51 Meetup: Scaling Similarity Search with USearch.
  [Event](https://voxel51.com/blog/recapping-the-ai-machine-learning-and-data-science-meetup-dec-7-2023/).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/x10DpjeegQk).

## 2022

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- __Highload++: Designing the fastest ACID Key-Value Store__.
  [Event](https://highload.am/2022/abstracts/9673).
  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybWeUf_hC7o).
  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/16gdazzt9DTpCWPuXBAV2JSe1NW-Y7HvQ/view).
- __DataFest: 3M - Prospects and Challenges with Multi-Modal Models in AI Research__.
  [Event](https://datafest.am).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/p3RMkiqd7vY).
  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/166UgMRVM1ORJPWQ74oRc2UH-bKmPHbqI/view).
- __PyData Conference: Accelerated Data Science Libraries__.
  [Event](https://pydata.org/yerevan2022/).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/OxAKSVuW2Yk).
  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/168_Ctx0n6Jtw7ufSlTL3skCZR--lw-C0/view).
- __Global Innovation Forum: Life Altering Technologies__.
  [Event](https://fast.foundation/gif/2022/).
  [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBh9_7o31bI&t=24447s). 🗣️
- __AMD & Xilinx: Persistent Memory Technologies Overview__.
  [AMD](https://amd.com).
  [Xilinx](https://www.xilinx.com).
- __CppRussia: Role of C++ in Machine Learning discussion__.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/gO_bVvIN7HM). 🇷🇺
- CppArm Meetup #3: From OpenCL, Thrust & CUB to raw CUDA Kernels & SyCL.
  [GitHub](https://github.com/unum-cloud/ParallelReductions).
- PyData Meetup #2: Fast Inference for Large Language Models with Vladimir Orshulevich.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/tKwL-Q7INnQ). 👯‍♂️
- CppArm Meetup #4: Unsafe Math, GCC Attributes, and Nifty Tricks for Google Benchmark.
  [GitHub](https://github.com/ashvardanian/BenchmarkingTutorial).
- CppRussia: A Practical Approach to Error Handling by Arno Schödl.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/zNbmFRaetTA). 👯‍♂️
- PYerevan Meetup #16: Accelerated Data-Science Tools Overview.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/coTgcwnzvAg).
- CppArm Meetup #5: Bindings 101 - CPython, cGo, and Java Native Interface.
  [GitHub](https://github.com/unum-cloud/ustore).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/psmfAg1Nc3s).

## 2021

- __Mars Podcast: On High-Performance Computing__.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/yK4Bd-6Mxk0). 🇦🇲
- CppArm Meetup #2: Evolution - C++11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26?
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/jtttoxkjTIA).
- Code Republic: Peta-Scale software in 2021.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/8R-43hfnPHI).
  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/166nCWQH1-5KIPNmN4rUzebAW7mi6_eY5/view). 🇦🇲
- FM106.5: On the Gituzh Scientific Initiative.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/89eDghXaZjI). 🇦🇲 🗣️
- CppRussia: SIMD with EVE by Denis Yaroshevskiy.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/CV0e-2a_dTI). 👯‍♂️

## 2020

- __CppRussia Conference: SIMD = Performance you have already paid for__.
  [Event](https://2020.cppconf-piter.ru/2020/spb/talks/23g3egeumhe3p4fd66pbar/).
  [GitHub](https://github.com/ashvardanian/SubstringSearchBenchmark).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/6Sh9QWdzo58).
  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/16BsyqGWjpNfqG0vAb21l0eySbChC_njJ/view). 🇷🇺
- __CppArm Meetup #1: SIMD, Frequency Scaling Licenses and Speculative Execution__.
  [GitHub](https://github.com/ashvardanian/CppBenchSubstrSearch).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/ft51yJ9mDcc?t=140).
- Pure Virtual Cast #4: Conversing about High-Performance Computing.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/dCdBFB4LDjw). 🇷🇺
- Artsakh Must Be Independent.
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/sN8CsCgDlHY). 🗣️

## 2019

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- __CppRussia Conference: Deep dive into GPGPU programming__.
  [Event](https://cppconf-piter.ru/en/2020/spb/talks/23g3egeumhe3p4fd66pbar/?fbclid=IwAR26hl3tEhw1os0J6oLzsVPTOAuSGkZIMzwq689tEq8NH5_V7b3MHV8f_zU).
  [GitHub](https://github.com/ashvardanian/SandboxGPUs).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/AA4RI6o0h1U).
  [Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/16AicAl99t3ZZFnza04Wnw_Vuem0w8lc7/view).
- __CppBayArea: AI and Computational Graphs in C++__.
  [Event](https://www.meetup.com/cpp-bay-area/events/261294493/).
  [GitHub](https://github.com/ashvardanian/NeuralSTL).
- JetBrains HQ: Efficient GPGPU Programming.
  [Event](https://www.jetbrains.com).
  [GitHub](https://github.com/ashvardanian/SandboxGPUs).
  [YouTube](https://youtu.be/BUtHOftDm_Y).