Speakers

Richard Brough
Chief Technology Officer
Blue Beck Ltd
An experienced software professional focussed on Machine Learning and Apps with a passion for Open Source AI and a strong interest in novel ways Machine Learning can be used on locally on low power devices.
Richard is the Chief Technology Officer at Blue Beck Ltd, and has a background in mobile development and Java backend services, having started his career at RARE as a console game developer.
Currently working on solutions built on Open Source AI models and tools, and recently published open source LLMs on Hugging Face hub that realign DeepSeek’s R1-Distil models with Meta’s Llama 3 family.
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05 June 2025 — 14:00 to 14:45 on Future of Engineering Stage
Open source AI with the JVM
Covering how it is possible to incorporate cutting-edge open source AI capabilities into Java applications, and build full Retrieval Augmented Generation solutions without leaving the JVM ecosystem. Looking at options for local model deployment, bindings to use popular open source frameworks with the JVM and the latest open source models.
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Richard Brough [Chief Technology Officer — Blue Beck Ltd]