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Soofi - What It Takes to Build a Sovereign Foundation Model

Tom Röhr • Location: TUECHTIG • Back to Haystack EU 2026

Tom will provide insights into Pre-Training and Post-Training challenges from data preparation, infrastructure setup and actual training. In the second half of the session, he’s going to focus on how to specialise models for distinct use cases and open up a discussion with the audience. To wrap up the keynote he’ll share their latest research towards specialisation and self-improvement.

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Tom Röhr

DATEXIS / Berliner Hochschule für Technik

Tom is a researcher at the SOOFI (Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models) project at the Data Science and Text-based Information Systems (DATEXIS) institue of Berliner Hochschule für Technik.