Open Source AI Awards Night (Open Source AI Week)

Join us for the Open Source AI Awards, the celebration at the heart of Open Source AI Week. We’re bringing the community together to recognize the people and projects moving open source AI forward—and give the often-unsung work of building, maintaining, and supporting this ecosystem its moment in the spotlight. We’ll kick off with keynotes from open source AI leaders, followed by community talks and the awards ceremony. Then stick around for a social, where you can meet fellow builders, connect with the people behind the projects, and see open source AI projects and models in action. Vote for your winners here. This year, we’ll honor contributions across the following categories: Project Awards The Bedrock Award — Best AI InfrastructureThe Reward Signal Award — Best Reinforcement Learning ProjectThe Guardrails Award — Best Security & Alignment ProjectThe Reality Check Award — Best Benchmark or Evaluation ProjectThe Mission Control Award — Best Agentic HarnessThe Glass Box Award — Best Observability Tool Individual Awards The Community Lifeline Award — Outstanding Community SupportThe Unsung Maintainer Award — Outstanding Project StewardshipThe Open Knowledge Award — Outstanding EducatorThe Naming Things Is Hard Award — Most Spectacularly Questionable Project Name Agenda 5:00 - 6:00: Arrival 6:00: Welcome, Yujian Tang and Matt White 6:05: TBA 6:20: TBA 6:35: Awards, Part 1 6:45: Daniel Han, Unsloth 7:00: Awards, Part 2 7:15: 0 to 100k stars in one year, Alex Newman, Claude Mem 7:25: Awards, Part 3 7:35: Lucas Atkins, Arcee 7:50: Awards, Final 8:05: How an Open Model Defended Against OpenAI, Irene Solaiman, HuggingFace 8:20: Outro 8:30 - closing: Social Hour! Whether you’re nominated, or coming to cheer everyone on, expect good company, a few surprises, and plenty of well-deserved recognition. Come celebrate the work—and the people making it happen.