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markdown_generated_at: "2026-11-04"
title: "LinaroConnect"
url: "https://www.qualcomm.com/company/events/linaro-connect"
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# LinaroConnect

May 14–17 | Madrid

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## **Meet Team Qualcomm at Linaro Connect 2024**

Linaro Connect Madrid 2024 is where Arm excellence gathers and gets together for 4 days full immersion about how to best implement, leverage, and foster the Arm solutions. Join our keynote, sessions, and live demos to learn more about our open-sources initiatives and recent innovations such as Qualcomm Linux.

## Session Overviews

### Thursday May 16

#### Keynote – Developer-First: Enabling Open-Source Software at Qualcomm

9:45 – 10:05am

During this keynote, we will explore how Qualcomm is embracing open-source software to empower developers and drive innovation in the realm of next-generation AI apps.

**Speaker:** Leendert Van Dorrn

#### TianoCore Community Update

11:00 – 11:25am

TianoCore is the project that maintains the edk2 project, the UEFI reference implementation, as well as other related projects such as edk2-platforms. This session will cover changes to processes, codebases, and new features.

**Speaker:** Leif Lindholm

#### Using Logical Performance and Power Domains to Achieve Resource Abstraction over SCMI

11:00 – 11:25am

This session will discuss logical performance and power domains for peripheral devices. We will abstract resources in firmware and use SCMI power and perf protocols help minimize traffic between the agent and platform and improve KPIs.

**Speaker:** Nikunj Kela

#### What’s Qualcomm Up To in IoT?

12:10 – 12:35pm

This session will focus on the journey of open source software solutions for Qualcomm RB platforms, explore the support for Linux kernel, U-Boot and discuss the current status of SystemReady-IR and explore future possibilities with RB platforms.

**Speakers:** Vinod Koul at Linaro and Ameya Pandit (Qualcomm)

## Session Overviews

### Friday May 17

#### Accelerate your AI workloads on Windows on Snapdragon

11:00 – 11:55am

Attendees will gain insights into leveraging cutting-edge AI capabilities for Windows applications to enhance inference performance and optimize power efficiency. Learn how to deploy large language models such as Llama2 directly on-device and Qualcomm AI SDKs to deploy models more efficiently.

**Speaker:** Devang Aggarwal

#### SBSA Reference Platform in QEMU – Status Update

11:30 – 11:55am

In this talk we will share the current state, what was changed, what we have tested, and how close we are to SBSA/SystemReady SR compliance, as well as some of our future plans..

**Speakers:** Marcin Juszkiewicz from Red Hat and Leif Lindholm

#### Qualcomm’s SystemC and QEMU Modelling Solution

12:05 – 12:30pm

Join seasoned experts from Qualcomm, who will unveil the inner working and capabilities of QQVP. Qualcomm’s QEMU based virtual platform solution which combines various models from several simulation frameworks together by means of SystemC.

**Speakers:** Antonio Caggiano and M Burton

## **Demo Friday Overview**

### 1:05 PM - 4:00 PM

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#### DEMO 1: AI PC with Snapdragon® X Elite

Experience the power of Llama2 on device with our locally running chatbot and how you can accelerate your AI workloads with the Snapdragon X Elite. You will also learn how to use the Colab notebook and see how [Qualcomm AI Hub](https://aihub.qualcomm.com/) makes it easy for you to deploy optimized models on local devices in minutes.

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#### DEMO 2: Qualcomm Robotics RB5 development kit and Open Source Robotics

[Qualcomm Robotics RB5 development kit](https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/robotics-rb5-development-kit#overview) mounted on TurtleBot 3. Revolutionize robotics applications with open source. This demo shows how developers can use open source frameworks like openRMF and RoS to implement fleet management for Robotics use cases. You can drive the development kit using a joystick from a web interface, implement on-device AI and create video streams for robotics use cases.

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#### Demo 3: Qualcomm Linux and Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 development kit (Private Preview)

Learn how you can run parallel inferencing for IoT use cases as we showcase four AI models running simultaneously on the RB3 Gen 2 development kit. Powered by Qualcomm Linux and bundled SDKs, this demo highlights the seamless integration and performance of multiple AI models, opening new possibilities for advanced applications.