Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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Faith Ekstrand

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Faith has been contributing to the Mesa 3D graphics library for over a decade and is one of the core maintainers. She developed the NIR optimizing compiler layer, the Intel Vulkan driver (ANV), most of the shared Vulkan runtime, and the new Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware (NVK). She's also made other contributions scattered all over the Linux graphics stack from various other Mesa drivers to the kernel/DRM to X11 to the Wayland protocol and Weston. She also sits on the Vulkan and SPIR-V spec committees, representing Linux graphics. She started her professional work on Linux graphics at Intel but now works at Collabora where she continues that work with a more vendor-neutral perspective.


Events

Title Day Room Track Start End
Geometry shaders in panvk with libpoly
Sunday K.4.601 Graphics 09:00 09:55