Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Spring 2025

Walt will present an update about the latest AGL release and the upcoming roadmap for 2025

A presentation of Google Summer of Code 2024 projects at Automotive Grade Linux.

Cloud Native technologies enjoy global success, in part because they can deal with higher scale than any technology before.

Good engineering principles can always be applied outside of their initial field. Several global leaders in car manufacturing and their suppliers are already using Cloud Native Observability for their IT workloads, their factories, and their cars.
Of special interest is their ability to use the same systems to both ensure their AI workloads are running correctly, and to use the well-formed data for machine learning applications.

In this session, we will go through
* The definition of Observability, and how to reason about the problem space
* Current Cloud Native technologies in the Observability space
* How to leverage Open Source for a cost-efficient way to collect, store, and analyze actionable data
* How to observe AI systems, and how to use the data for machine learning

At the end, you will have both a solid understanding of the foundations as well as applicable expert knowledge.

This talk showcases OpenSearch's advanced capabilities in supporting flexible Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases through its ML Inference Processor. We demonstrate how this processor enables integration of semantic search and Large Language Models (LLMs), supporting diverse models with high flexibility. This session showcase the implementation of powerful document summarization and question-answering functionalities, emphasizing the versatility and efficiency of this approach in enhancing information retrieval and processing for real-world applications.

In September 2024, we officially launched the AGL OSPO (Open Source Program Office) EG (Expert Group), a new initiative under the AGL project, which aims to help automotive industry in establishing their own OSPOs, contributing to OSS, and more.

Currently, OSPO EG is actively working on various tasks, thanks to the valuable discussions among numerous participants including those outside of AGL projects. These tasks include:
- Identifying and analyzing issues related to OSS adoption in automotive industry
- Developing a template presentation deck for executives to explain OSS and OSPO
- Gathering case studies of OSPOs from various companies in automotive

In this presentation, we will share the latest discussions and outcomes from the OSPO EG with attendees. The latter half of the session will be a BoF style open discussion