Sep 29, 2025

EDGE AI Neuromorphic WG kick off meeting

Invited Gideon Intrater Petrut Bogdan Pete Bernard Eran Briman Venkat Rayudu raashid.ansari@silabs.com Ed Doran Rosina Haberl Seung Hun SHIN/신승훈 Chetan Singh Thakur jtapson@brainchip.com Jason Eshraghian Vijay Janapa Reddi

Summary

Pete Bernard introduced the Edge AI Foundation, emphasizing its advocacy and education efforts within the Edge AI community, highlighting the neuromorphic working group’s importance for mainstream adoption. Petrut Bogdan detailed the neuromorphic working group’s mission to inspire and educate, aiming to accelerate the field by addressing commercialization challenges, which Klaus Knobloch (IFX) and Jonathan Tapson also discussed. Petrut Bogdan and Rosina Haberl outlined logistics for bi-weekly meetings, including creating a poll for meeting times and setting up communication channels.

Details

• Introduction to the Edge AI Foundation Pete Bernard, CEO of the Edge AI Foundation (formerly Tiny ML Foundation), introduced the organization. They highlighted its focus on advocacy and education within the Edge AI community, including initiatives like scholarships, academic working groups, and educational programs, with working groups facilitating neutral collaboration for collective benefit (00:03:03).
• Edge AI Foundation Working Groups Pete Bernard outlined the various working groups within the Edge AI Foundation, totaling about seven, including groups for industry, marketing, generative Edge AI, and datasets. They emphasized that the neuromorphic working group is particularly fascinating and crucial for advancing Edge AI by aiming for more mainstream adoption, commercialization, and efficiency (00:05:11).
• Neuromorphic Working Group Goals and Organization Petrut Bogdan, a co-chair of the neuromorphic working group, explained its mission to inspire, educate, federate, and build on academic-industrial synergies to address grand challenges in neuromorphic computing. They noted that the group comprises experts in hardware, SNN training, and open-source projects, aiming to accelerate the field without duplicating existing efforts (00:21:13).
• Definition of Neuromorphic Computing Petrut Bogdan clarified that the working group broadly defines neuromorphic computing to include anything inspired by biology, encompassing a wide spectrum of approaches without excluding any particular flavor. This inclusive definition aims to foster collaboration across diverse perspectives within the field (00:22:29).
• Commercialization Challenges in Neuromorphic Computing Klaus Knobloch (IFX) raised crucial questions about the commercialization of neuromorphic computing, emphasizing the need to demonstrate a clear business advantage for its adoption at the edge (00:39:51). They highlighted challenges such as the absence of effective compiler architectures, difficulties in system simulation for power estimation, and the need for convincing use cases beyond technical metrics like “tops per watt” (00:41:54).
• Neuromorphic Technology and Commercial Branding Jonathan Tapson shared insights from their experience with Gray Matter Labs, a successful neuromorphic startup, noting that commercially successful neuromorphic companies often shed the “neuromorphic” label (00:44:36). They suggested that the technology’s adoption depends on its performance and efficacy rather than its neuromorphic designation, emphasizing that success means the technology is simply recognized for “working” (00:45:53).
• Advancing Neuromorphic Commercialization Petrut Bogdan proposed strategies to advance neuromorphic commercialization, including generating realistic use cases and expanding benchmarking efforts like Neuroben to include non-neuromorphic platforms. They stressed the importance of demonstrating benefits such as lower power consumption and enhanced capabilities, making neuromorphic tooling accessible to embedded ML engineers without requiring specialized academic knowledge (00:46:47).
• Working Group Logistics and Future Meetings Petrut Bogdan and Rosina Haberl discussed the logistics for future working group meetings, which will occur bi-weekly for 30 minutes, with the current kickoff meeting being an hour. Rosina Haberl mentioned creating a poll for preferred meeting times and setting up an email alias and WhatsApp group for offline discussions to accommodate all members, as the group has grown larger than initially expected (00:34:57).

Suggested next steps

• Petrut Bogdan will send an email with a couple of forums to get opinions about three good outcomes for the working group.
• Rosina Haberl will send out the link to the WhatsApp group for offline discussions.
• Petrut Bogdan and Rosina Haberl will be in touch to figure out preferred times for future meetings.