Workshop: Towards Democratized Academic LLM Hosting

Across Dutch and European academia, multiple initiatives are currently underway to host, operate, and govern LLMs locally, driven by concerns around data sovereignty, sustainability, cost, transparency, and responsible use. This 4TU.NIRICT-funded workshop brings together currently siloed academic hosting initiatives across Dutch institutions (eg, Delft, TU/e, VU, WUR, SURF) to foster knowledge exchange, technical alignment, and collaboration around LLM inference infrastructure.

The workshop addresses LLM hosting as a socio-technical challenge, spanning infrastructure and deployment models, energy efficiency, governance and operational sustainability, tooling ecosystems, and integration into research and education. It lays the groundwork for a coordinated, academic-first Dutch ecosystem for responsible, open LLM hosting.

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More info about the workshop can be found on the workshop's official website.