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# Compress, Cut, and Distill: The Latest Gen AI Model Compression Techniques in Practice


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 10, 2026
- **Time:** 12:15–14:15 (120 min)
- **Room:** Room M2 (40 Seats)
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Description

This training lab explores the art and engineering of compressing large language models to make them cheaper, faster, and easier to deploy while preserving practical capability. Designed for a broad audience that spans beginners to advanced practitioners, the workshop will introduce foundational concepts for newcomers, share implementation patterns and pitfalls for experienced engineers, and highlight cutting-edge research directions for specialists.


Workshop Preparation:
- Please bring your own laptop.
- Please review the following document and prepare accordingly before the workshop: <https://developer.nvidia.com/dli/getready>

## Speaker

### [Sergio Perez](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@sergio-perez)

Senior Solution Architect at NVIDIA


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- [Smaller Voice Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1467-smaller-voice-models) — Sohaib Ahmad
- [Fine-Tuning Small Language Models for Agentic AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1389-fine-tuning-small) — Björn Buchhold
- [Tour de Force: Open-Source LLM Inference Optimization from Simple to Sophisticated](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1094-tour-de-force-open) — Christin Pohl
- [Teaching AI to Code in Every Language with NVIDIA NeMo](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/994-teaching-ai-to-code) — Antonio Rueda-Toicen, Marco Gullotto DE, Nikita Pavlichenko