Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group and Vice President of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA, presents the “Deploying Accelerated ML and AI: The Role of Khronos Open Standards” tutorial at the May 2025 Embedded Vision Summit.
Accelerating machine learning and AI workloads often requires specialized hardware, but managing compatibility across diverse platforms can be challenging. The Khronos Group provides the industry’s only suite of nonproprietary API and language standards for ML and AI acceleration, enabling developers to build flexible, portable and scalable solutions.
In this presentation, Trevett explores how Khronos APIs such as Vulkan, OpenCL, SYCL and OpenVX empower developers to optimize AI workloads across GPUs, NPUs and FPGAs while ensuring portability across vendors. He also highlights recent advancements like the open-source Slang shading language for neural computation and the evolving OpenVX framework for cross-vendor inferencing. You’ll discover how Khronos is shaping the future of AI and ML acceleration by fostering open ecosystems that reduce deployment complexity, enhance hardware interoperability and lower development costs, including in embedded and safety-critical systems.
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