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20 NOVEMBER 2026

BENGALURU

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( SPEAKER )

Nataraj K R

Android Developer Relations Engineer

Google

~10 years of experience in Android development. Currently focussed on modern telecom integrations, and on-device AI. I collaborate closely with global partner engineering teams to build performant, seamless, and high-quality experiences across the Android ecosystem.

Session

Running Small Language Models (SLMs) On-Device

When off-the-shelf system models aren’t tailored enough, bringing custom open-weight models (like Gemma) to the device is the answer. This talk dives into optimizing, quantizing, and executing custom open models directly on mobile GPUs and NPUs.
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