Technical Advisory Council (TAC)

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Last updated: Oct 08, 2024 by Nancy Rausch
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Join the TAC mail list here to stay up to date on communications. Contact the TAC via email at tac-general@lists.lfaidata.foundation.

LF AI & Data Foundation TAC Overview

a) The role of the TAC is to facilitate communication and collaboration among the Technical Projects. The TAC will be responsible for: i) coordinating collaboration among Technical Projects, including development of an overall technical vision for the community; ii) making recommendations to the Budget Committee of resource priorities for Technical Projects; iii) electing annually a chairperson to preside over meetings, set the agenda for meetings, ensure meeting minutes are taken and who will also serve on the Governing Board as the TAC’s representative (the “TAC Representative”); iv) creating, maintaining and amending project lifecycle procedures and processes, subject to the approval of the Governing Board; and v) such other matters related to the technical role of the TAC as may be communicated to the TAC by the Governing Board.

b) The voting members of the TAC consist of: i) one representative appointed by each Premier Member; and ii) one representative appointed by the technical oversight body (e.g., a technical steering committee) of each TAC Project (as defined herein).

c) One representative of any Member may observe meetings of the TAC. Any committers from a TAC Project may observe meetings of the TAC. The TAC may change this at any point in time, including: (a) opening meetings to a broader community; (b) holding closed meetings; and (c) holding meetings open to the public. 

d) At the start of the Directed Fund, “TAC Projects” are those Technical Projects listed as having voting representatives on the TAC on the Directed Fund’s web site. Thereafter, any Technical Project can become a TAC Project through the approval of the Technical Project’s technical oversight body, the TAC (by a two-third’s vote), and the Governing 6 Board. The TAC and the Governing Board may approve a project lifecycle policy that will address the incubation, archival and other stages of TAC Projects. 

e) The TAC representatives will elect a chair to preside over meetings, ensure minutes are taken and drive the TAC agenda with input from the TAC representatives.

Additional information is available in the LF AI & Data Charter.

mailto:vini.js1303@gmail.com

Voting Members

Under the original charter rules we need 50% attendance from the voting members ( represented by premier members + graduate projects) to meet quorum. To ensure quorum is met more consistently, the TAC implemented the following attendance and voting eligibility rule effective Dec 1, 2022: Voting members of the TAC who miss 2 consecutive meetings will not be allowed to vote and must then attend 2 consecutive meetings before their voting privileges are reinstated.

With the new attendance and voting rule adopted by the TAC, the number of eligible voting members varies per week and is tracked here. Please see meeting minutes on the TAC Wiki for details on attendance and voting eligibility on a per meeting basis.

Member Company or Graduated ProjectMembership Level or Project LevelVoting EligibilityCountryTAC RepresentativeDesignated TAC Representative Alternates
4paradigmPremierVoting MemberChinaZhongyi Tan


Amazon Web ServicesPremierVoting MemberUSABrian GrangerMark Atwood
DatabricksPremierVoting MemberUSADenny Lee
EricssonPremierVoting MemberSwedenvacant
HuaweiPremierVoting MemberChinaHoward (Huang Zhipeng)Charlotte (Xiaoman Hu), Leon (Hui Wang)
IBMPremierVoting MemberUSASusan MalaikaBeat Buesser, Alexandre Eichenberger
IntelPremierVoting MemberUSAKe Ding
MicrosoftPremierVoting MemberUSAAli Dalloul
Neural MagicPremierVoting MemberUSARobert Shaw

Tyler Michael Smith

Nvidia PremierVoting MemberUSAFrench Ben Bonnefoy
OPPOPremierVoting MemberChinaJimmy (Hongmin Xu)


SasPremierVoting MemberUSARuth AkintundeRuth Suehle
TikTokGeneralVoting MemberUSAVini Jaiswal*


ZTEPremierVoting MemberChinaLiya Yuan
Adversarial Robustness Toolbox ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberUSABeat BuesserKevin Eykholt 
Angel ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberChinaJun Yao
DocArray ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberGermanyJoan Fontanals-Martinez

Nan Wang

Egeria ProjectGraduated Technical Project

Voting Member

UKMandy Chessell

Dan Wolfson, Peter Coldicott
Nigel Jones, David Radley, Maryna Strelchuk, Ljupcho Palashevski, Chris Grote

Flyte ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberUSADavid Espejo

Samhita Alla

Horovod ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberUSATravis Addair
Milvus ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberChinaXiaofan LuanJun Gu
ONNX ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberUSAAlexandre EichenbergerAndreas Fehlner, Prasanth Pulavarthi, Jim Spohrer
Pyro Project Graduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberUSAFritz Obermeyer
Open Lineage ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberUSAJulien Le DemMichael Robinson, Mandy Chessell
Marquez ProjectGraduated Technical ProjectVoting MemberUSAWilly LulciucTBD

*Current TAC Chairperson

Voting Information

In various situations, the LF AI & Data Foundation TAC shall hold a vote. These votes can happen on the phone, email, or via a voting service, when appropriate. TAC members can either respond "agree, yes, +1", "disagree, no, -1", or "abstain". 

a) Quorum for Governing Board and Committee meetings will require fifty percent of the voting representatives. If advance notice of the meeting has been given per normal means and timing, the Governing Board may continue to meet even if quorum is not met, but will be prevented from making any decisions at the meeting.

b) Ideally decisions will be made based on consensus. If, however, any decision requires a vote to move forward, the representatives of the Governing Board or Committee, as applicable, will vote on a one vote per voting representative basis.

c) Except as provided in Section 16.a., decisions by vote at a meeting will require a simple majority vote, provided quorum is met. Except as provided in Section 16.a., decisions by electronic vote without a meeting will require a majority of all voting representatives.

d) In the event of a tied vote with respect to an action that cannot be resolved by the Governing Board, the Chair may refer the matter to the LF for assistance in reaching a decision. If there is a tied vote in any Committee that cannot be resolved, the matter may be referred to the Governing Board.

e) Effective: Dec 1, 2022 - Voting members are expected to attend TAC members to vote on important council decisions, participate in planning, and provide input on future strategies. Voting members are encouraged to provide designated alternate attendees who will assume voting privileges for the individual meeting they attend, and to send said alternates in their absence to maintain quorum. Voting members (or their alternates) who do not attend two consecutive TAC meetings will lose their voting privileges. Privileges will be reinstated upon the successful attendance of two consecutive meetings by the voting member or designated alternate. 

Additional information is available in the LF AI & Data Charter.

Proposing Projects 

Visit LF AI & Data GitHub to review the LF AI & Data Project Proposal Process and Project Lifecycle documentation.

Current Projects

For a list of all projects, visit the LF AI & Data Wiki home page home page.

Election Results 

For information on TAC Chairperson election results history, visit the LF AI & Data Election Results History page. 

Meeting Details 

TAC meetings are open to the public and held every other Thursday from 6am-7am PT. Meeting invites are managed from the https://lists.lfaidata.foundation/g/tac-general sub-group (mail list) within the LF AI & Data Foundation Groups.io account.

Visit the Community Meetings & Calendar page for instructions on how to subscribe to the meetings.

The meetings can be accessed as follows:

  • Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/430697670

  • Or iPhone one-tap

    • US: +16465588656,,430697670# or +16699006833,,430697670#

  • Or Telephone:

    • Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):

      • US: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 855 880 1246 (Toll Free) or +1 877 369 0926 (Toll Free)

      • Meeting ID: 430 697 670

      • International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/achYtcw7uN

Meeting Agendas 

All meeting agendas, content, and minutes are distributed via tac-general@lists.lfaidata.foundation mail list. Subscribe to the TAC mail list here.

Meeting Recordings and Minutes

All past meeting content (decks/minutes) are now available in the tac-general@lists.lfaidata.foundation mail list message archive in Groups.io. 

Below is archived information from some previous meetings.  Please note that all content is available in the tac-general list link above.  

  • November 18, 2021 recording/deck/minutes

    • KServe new project incubation proposal

  • November 4, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
    • FEAST annual review
    • Update from the Outreach Committee
  • October 21, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
    • OpenBytes new sandbox project 
  • October 7, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
    • Update on new DataOps Committee
    • Amundsen Annual Project Review 
    • Ludwig Annual Project Review
    • Update from Outreach Committee
  • September 23, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
    • Milvus update on integration with Triton and Feast
    • NNStreamer Annual Project Review 
  • September 9, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
    • Acumos Annual Project Review
    • Marquez Annual Project Review
    • Update from Outreach Committee
  • August 26, 2021 recording/deck/minutes
    • Kedro - new project in incubation
    • Annual project review schedule
  • August 12, 2021  recording/deck/minutes
    • Sparklyr Annual Review
    • Milvus Annual Review
    • Annual Project Review Schedule
  • July 29, 2021  recording/ deck / minutes 
    • Adlik Annual Review
    • Angel Annual review
    • Discussion of new MLOps Committee
    • Associate Members Monthly Call
    • Annual Project Review schedule
  • July 15, 2021  recording/ deck / minutes  
    • TonY presentation Incubation project 
    • EDL Annual Project Review 
    • Annual Project Review schedule
  • June 17, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • Invited Presentation - GSI Technologies
    • MLOps Committee Proposal (updated deck)
    • TAC Chair election, Annual Project Review schedule
  • June 3, 2021 recording/ deck / minutes
    • Milvus graduation proposal
    • KOSA.AI invited presentation
    • TAC Chair election, Badging for Projects, Annual Project Review schedule
  • May 20, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • Open Lineage sandbox proposal
    • ONNX - annual project review
    • TAC Chairperson Election - Call for Nominations
    • Annual Project Review Schedule
  • May 6, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • ML eXchange (MLX) sandbox proposal
    • Vulcan Kompute sandbox proposal
  • April 22, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • Egeria - annual project review
    • OpenDS4All - annual project review
    • CI WG - update on survey and next steps
  • April 8, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • Jina AI - invited presentation
  • March 25, 2021 recording/ deck / minutes
    • Substra Framework - incubation proposal
  • March 11, 2021 recording/ deck / minutes
    • RosaeNLG - sandbox project proposal
    • Elyra/AI - invited presentation
    • Annual project review initial discuss template
  • February 25, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • Flyte - incubation project proposal
  • February 11, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • Invited Talk: Egeria CI - Build and Release
    • Invited Talk: Mentorships
  • January 28, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • Projects Lifecycle Stages - vote - proposal document
    • Invited Talk: Sedna - KubeEdge SIG AI
    • Invited Talk: Cloud Information Model
    • Welcome new members: General - VMWare, Associate - Galgothia U (India)
  • January 14, 2021 recording / deck / minutes
    • Datashim (formerly Data Lifecycle Management) - incubation project proposal
    • Project Lifecycle Stages proposal document
    • Welcome new associate member - U Washington Tacoma
  • December 17, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Pyro - graduation project proposal
    • XPrize - invited presentation
    • IT Update on new security services - invited presentation
  • December 3, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • JanusGraph - incubation project proposal - approved
    • RosaeNLG - invited project presentations
    • Also reviewed 2021 pipeline, and 2020 progress
  • November 19, 2020 recording / deck /minutes
    • Invited courseware related projects/activities
      • OpenDS4All
      • DataPractices.org
      • edX Ethics AI Video
  • November 5, 2020 recording/ deck / minutes
    • DataPractices.org - Incubation Project Proposal
    • Kubeflow-on-Premise - Invited Presentation
  • October 22, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Invited Presentations
      • Open Lineage - Julien Le Dem (Datakins)
      • IDA Open Source Effort - Param Singh (Salesforce), Maryia Rakina (IBM)
  • October 8, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Invited Trusted AI Presentations
      • Adversarial Robustness Toolbox
      • AI Fairness 360
      • AI Explainability 360
  • September 24, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • FEAST Project -  Incubation Project Proposals
    • ODPi Presentations
      • Egeria Project - Graduation Proposal
      • OpenDS4All Project - Incubation Proposal
      • BI & AI Committee - Presentation
  • September 10, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Delta Incubation Proposal
    • SOAJS Incubation Proposal
    • LF AI Updates
  • August 27, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • ModelDB
    • OPDi
    • LF AI Updates
  • August 13, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Horovod Graduation Proposal + TAC Vote
    • Guest Presentation: Didi Delta
    • LF AI Updates
  • July 30, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Amundsen incubation Proposal + TAC Vote
    • LF AI Updates
  • July 16, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Guest Presentation: Mindspore  
    • LF AI Updates
  • June 18, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • IBM Trusted AI: Incubation Projects (AIF360 / ART / AIX360) Proposal + TAC Vote
    • Invited Talk: Montreal AI Ethics Institute 
    • LF AI Updates
  • June 4, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Guest Presentations
      • AI for People
      • Ambianic.ai
      • LF AI Updates
  • May 21, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
    • Snap ML Presentation
    • LF AI Updates
  • May 7, 2020 recording / deck / minutes
  • April 23, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
    • TAC Chair Nominations Extension
    • TAC Sponsor Discussion
    • ODH Introduction 
    • Open Data Initiative
    • LF AI Updates
  • April 9, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
    • Interop Committee Proposal
    • TAC Chairperson Election Kickoff
    • Trusted AI Committee Update
    • LF AI Updates
  • March 26, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
    • Upcoming TAC Chairperson Election 
    • ForestFlow: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote 
    • LF AI Updates
  • March 12, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
    • Upcoming TAC Chairperson Election 
    • NNStreamer: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote 
    • LF AI Updates
  • February 27, 2020 recording / minutes / deck

    • Upcoming TAC Chairperson Election 

    • Invited Talk: Collective Knowledge (CK) and CodeReef

    • LF AI Updates

  • February 13, 2020 recording / minutes / deck

    • ITU Global Challenge on AI/ML in 5G Networks 

    • Invited Talk: CD.Foundation on MLOps Work

    • LF AI Updates
  • January 30, 2020
    • Meeting Cancelled - Chinese New Year
  • January 16, 2020 recording / minutes / deck
    • Milvus: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote 
    • LF AI Updates
  • December 19, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Marquez: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote
    • LF AI Updates
  • December 5, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Sparklyr: Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote 
    • LF AI Updates
  • November 21, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Angel: Graduation Project Proposal + TAC Vote
    • LF AI Updates
  • October 24, 2019 recording / minutes
    • ONNX: Graduation Project Proposal + TAC Vote
    • LF AI Updates
  • October 10, 2019 recording / minutes
  • September 26, 2019 recording / chat  / minutes
    • Incubation Project Proposal + TAC Vote: Adlik from ZTE
    • Outreach Committee Updates
    • Updates on Ongoing Efforts by Other Committees 
  • September 12, 2019 
    • Meeting Cancelled
  • August 29, 2019 recording / minutes 
    • NOTE: There was a Zoom recording error, only first 7 min are available, please reference slide decks shared via mail list and minutes for reference

    • General Updates

    • ML Workflow Collaboration

    • Update on Trusted AI

    • Invited Presentation - FATE Project from WeBank

  • August 15, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Approval of the Project Proposal and Lifecycle Document
    • Invited Presentations: ZTE - Machine Learning on 5G: Use Cases & Architecture & Adlik: A Tool for AI Model Optimizer
  • August 1, 2019
    • Meeting Cancelled
  • July 18, 2019
    • Meeting Cancelled
  • July 4, 2019
    • Meeting Cancelled
  • June 20, 2019 recording / minutes 
    • Working Group Updates
      • ML Workflow
      • Proposal and Lifecycle Document Refresh
    • LF AI Events
    • AI Ethics Committee
    • Trapezium Project
  • June 6, 2019 
    • Meeting Cancelled
  • May 23, 2019 recording / minutes 
    • Invited Presentation: Trapezium from Verizon Media
  • May 9, 2019 
    • Meeting Cancelled
  • April 25, 2019 recording / minutes
    • LF DL Updates
    • ML Workflow
    • Alignment with External Initiatives
    • Project Proposal Template and Lifecycle Document Refresh
  • April 11, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Invited Presentation: Petastorm
  • March 28, 2019
    • Meeting Cancelled
  • March 14, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Invited Presentation: Argoproj
  • February 28, 2019 
    • Meeting Cancelled
  • February 14, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Invited Presentation: TransmogrifAI
  • January 31, 2019 recording / minutes 
    • TAC / LF DL General Updates
    • GB F2F Meeting
    • Collaboration Among LF DL Projects
  • January 17, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Pyro project presentation, proposal, and TAC vote
  • January 3, 2019 recording / minutes
    • Project Updates: Acumos AI and Angel
    • LF DL Mission Statement & Goals
    • LFDL Interactive Landscape 
  • December 6, 2018 recording / minutes
    • Horovod project presentation, proposal, and TAC vote
  • November 8, 2018 recording / minutes
  • October 25, 2018 recording / minutes
  • October 11, 2018 recording / minutes
  • September 13, 2018 recording / minutes
  • August 16, 2018 recording / minutes
  • August 2, 2018 recording / minutes
  • July 19, 2018 recording / minutes
  • July 5, 2018 recording / minutes
  • June 21, 2018 recording / minutes
  • June 7, 2018 recording / minutes
  • May 22, 2018 recording / minutes
  • May 8, 2018 minutes
  • April 24, 2018 minutes
  • April 10, 2018 minutes