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7-8 April, 2025
Paris, France
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Tuesday April 7, 2026 11:00 - 11:25 CEST


LLMs made for text generation as a service. What does it take to do the same for video?
We built an experimental Video Generation as a Service stack using vLLM-Omni and the LTX-2 open weights video model to explore how far an open, multimodal stack can go toward production use. We’ll share what worked, what busted, and what it takes to treat generative video as a first-class workload.
vLLM is known for high-performance autoregressive inference, and vLLM-Omni extends that foundation to multimodal inputs and outputs. We pushed those capabilities further by adding support for LTX-2, extending the OpenAI-compatible API surface, integrating with front ends, and packaging for scalable deployment. We’re here to walk you through and get you familiar with the touch points for just how we put all the Legos together with vLLM-Omni.
Finally, we’ll examine the gap between novelty demos and real applications: going from quirky spaghetti eating videos to generating consistent characters, personalized media, customized video game cutscenes, and interactive storytelling, and highlight what’s still missing to make generative video truly production-ready.
Speakers
avatar for Doug Smith

Doug Smith

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Doug Smith is a Principal MLOps Engineer at Red Hat, where he works on the AI Inference Server team and contributes upstream to the vLLM project through its CI Special Interest Group. Recently, he's also been looking into contributions to vLLM-Omni. He’s spent years bridging telecom... Read More →
avatar for Ricardo Noriega

Ricardo Noriega

Principal SW Engineer, Red Hat
Ricardo is a Principal Software Engineer working at the Red Hat's Office of the CTO in the Emerging Technologies organization. Ricardo is currently focused on AI multimodality and researching the benefits of Small Language Models.
He is a former member of the Akraino TSC and PTL of the Kubernetes-Native-Infrastructure blueprint family, and contributor to Kubernetes, OpenStack, OpenDaylight and OPNFV... Read More →
Tuesday April 7, 2026 11:00 - 11:25 CEST
Founders Cafe
  GenAI & Multimodal
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