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[ AI INFRA SUMMIT 6 ] · DEC 9 · SAN FRANCISCO

AI KEEPS
ROLLIN’
INFRA KEEPS
TURNIN’.

AI INFRA SUMMIT → Dec’09 is the definitive gathering for those who aren’t just adapting to the AI era—they’re engineering it.

DateDecember 9, 2026 VenueThe Midway · San Francisco Hours9 AM → 5 PM

// 01 - Why Attend

THIS ISN’T A CONFERENCE.
IT’S A CATALYST.

AI’s future depends on the infrastructure we build today. From GPUs and liquid cooling to sovereign clouds and edge AI, the stakes are massive—and growing.

[ A ]

Command the Conversation

Hear from and meet top CxOs, architects, and investors.

[ B ]

Access Real Playbooks

Sessions packed with ground-truth deployments, not hand-waving hype.

[ C ]

Build Strategic Partnerships

Private roundtables, 1:1s, and innovation showcases built to create dealflow.

[ D ]

Get Ahead of the Demand Curve

AI infrastructure demand is exploding. Learn where to invest and how to scale.

// 02 - Speakers

LEADING THE CHARGE:
VOICES THAT MATTER.

Speakers from

  • Apple
  • AWS
  • Cisco
  • AMD
  • BlackRock
  • Supermicro
  • WEKA
  • ServiceNow
  • Together AI
  • Procore Technologies
  • Classie
  • Uber Freight
  • SambaNova
  • SK Telecom Ventures
  • Upscale AI
  • iMasons (Infrastructure Masons)
  • DriveNets
  • Celesta Capital
  • Lightning AI
  • IPClear
  • Elorian
  • SF Compute
  • GenEye Labs
  • University of San Francisco
  • JazzComputing

[ Main Stage Lineup ]

Former Capital One / OCIKeynote

Victor Kuarsingh

Former MVP, Capital One
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Cisco

Murali Gandluru

SVP, Data Center Networking
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Cisco

Kiran Kamity

VP Product, Data Center Networking
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Upscale

Aravind Srikumar

SVP of Product & Marketing
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Jazz ComputingKeynote

Lamia Youseff

Founder
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SambaNova

Rob Naidoff

VP Sales & GTM, Americas
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IPClear

John Brzozowski

Co-Founder
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DriveNets

Andy Holland

Sales Director - AI Infrastructure
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Lightning AI

Drew Pletcher

Principal Architect
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iMasons

Dean Nelson

Founder & Chairman
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Celesta Capital

David Goldman

Partner
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BlackRock

David Hefter

AI Investment Strategist
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SK Telecom Ventures

Shesh S

Sr. Investment Director
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USF

Roger Chen

Professor, Strategy & Innovation
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ServiceNowModerator

Vyoma Gajjar

Sr Principal AI Architect
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Uber Freight

Akansha Aggarwal

SVP, Commercial Growth & Transformation
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Apple

Wanyu Bian

ML Engineer / Architect
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AWS

Sandhya Subramani

Sr. Developer Advocate, Generative AI
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WEKA

Liran Zvibel

CEO & Co-Founder
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AMD

Ravi Singh

Director of Product Strategy and Management
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Elorian.ai

Gautam Kumar

Engineering
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Together AI

Simran Arora

SVP of Research
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Classie

Poonacha Kongetira

CEO
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Procore Technologies

Shishir Tewari

Sr. Manager of Data Engineering
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GenEye Labs

Hira Dangol

Founder/CEO & Chief AI Officer
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AMD

Sandeep Subramaniam

Sr. Technical Product Manager, NTSG
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SF Compute

Alan Butler

CBO
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// 03 - Key Themes

KEY THEMES.

The NeoCloud Grows Up

From GPU capacity to enterprise product.

Tokens per Watt

The economics of inference.

Pilot to Production

Enterprise AI at scale.

Power, Capital & Sovereignty

What really limits the buildout. Compute is no longer the only bottleneck: capital, power and communities, and control of data now set the pace.

Infrastructure for the Agentic Era

Agent workloads, inference control planes, and trust and identity for agents.

// 04 - Programming

STORIES THAT EVOLVE
WITH THE MARKET.

[ Dec 9 / 2026 · Infra 6 ]

A First Look at the Agenda

More sessions and speakers to come. Lineup subject to change.

[ Main Stage ]

Keynote
The Bridge AI Infrastructure Must Build

The challenge is no longer just delivering GPUs, cooling, and network capacity. It is building the bridge from those components to an enterprise product customers can actually buy.

Victor Kuarsingh, Former Capital One / OCI

Keynote
AMD Keynote

Ravi Singh, AMD

Panel
WEKA Enterprise Panel
Keynote
Beyond GPUs: Building AI Infrastructure That Delivers

Why security, observability, and operations need to work together across the AI stack, why the network is central to that approach, and how these choices can shorten time to first token.

Murali Gandluru, Cisco

Keynote
AI Economics by Design: The Fabric Behind Every Token

Infrastructure choices shape cost per token, performance, and the flexibility to grow. Upscale shares its Token Fabric vision and how an open, unified network architecture can improve the economics of AI.

Aravind Srikumar, Upscale

Panel
Time to Token

Hardware doesn’t produce tokens on its own, and agents don’t run on silicon directly. How fast bare metal becomes usable compute, what’s slowing that pipeline down, and why solving it will define the next phase of AI infrastructure.

Presented by Supermicro

Keynote
Own Your Intelligence: Turning AI Infrastructure into Competitive Advantage

The newest enterprise asset is an intelligence asset. Where AI runs determines where data resides, who controls the intelligence, and what governance can actually be enforced.

Lamia Youseff, Jazz Computing

Panel
Running the Fabric: What NeoClouds Learned Scaling AI Networks in Production

Buying GPUs is the easy part. Keeping them busy is where NeoClouds win or lose, and the network is usually why. No vendor pitches, straight to operations.

John Brzozowski, IPClearAndy Holland, DriveNetsDrew Pletcher, Lightning AI

Keynote
Power, Pushback, Politics and Policy

$250B in data center projects paused or cancelled in the last year. Moratoriums and bans in over half of US states. How the industry drives responsible development in the face of the biggest growth in history.

Dean Nelson, iMasons

Panel
Follow the Money: The State of Capital Markets for AI Infrastructure

Capital, not compute, is becoming the gating factor in AI infrastructure. Is it truly grade-A customers or bust? And which financing structures survive a correction?

David Goldman, Celesta CapitalDavid Hefter, BlackRockShesh S, SK Telecom Ventures

[ Breakouts ]

Breakfast
Women in AI Breakfast
Panel
Pilot to Production: Closing the Enterprise AI Chasm

Every enterprise has an AI pilot. Few have AI in production. Operators who’ve crossed the chasm on the real blockers, and what comes next when AI shifts from tool to teammate.

Roger Chen, USFVyoma Gajjar, ServiceNowAkansha Aggarwal, Uber Freight

Panel
Agents as Non-Human Identities: Governance & Security

Agents don’t have badges, MFA prompts, or HR files, but they need credentials, permissions, and audit trails just the same. How to authenticate them, scope their access, and revoke them when something goes wrong.

Poonacha Kongetira, ClassieShishir Tewari, Procore TechnologiesHira Dangol, GenEye Labs

Panel
Your AI Workloads Changed. Your Inference Stack Should Too

Production AI workloads look nothing like they did 18 months ago. How leading teams are rethinking the inference stack end-to-end to optimize cost per inference without sacrificing quality.

Kiran Kamity, CiscoSimran Arora, Together AI

Panel
Sovereign & Private AI: Owning the Stack in Regulated Industries

Regulated enterprises can’t send sensitive data to a shared cloud endpoint and hope for the best. What it takes to own the full AI stack, from on-prem deployment to model control.

Session
The Shift of AI Systems: From Model-Centric Intelligence to Agentic Systems

System-level design is becoming as important as model capability. Six major shifts shaping the next generation of AI systems, from model orchestration to agentic execution.

Wanyu Bian, AppleSandhya Subramani, AWS

CXO Panel
Under the Hood: What Enterprise AI Deployment Demands from Infrastructure

Enterprises are rolling out the AI use cases that work and hitting new questions about token costs, connectivity, and compute. Enterprise AI leaders and infrastructure providers on where the two sides meet.

Liran Zvibel, WEKA

[ A ]

What to expect on the day

One day, engineered end-to-end: a tight 15-minute main-stage cadence, curated breakouts, live demos, 1:1 deal-flow, giveaways, and hallway time that actually compounds. MC’d, timed, zero filler — then a happy hour and afterparty where the real deals get done.

[ B ]

How Ignite curates

Every summit is programmed from a standing start. No recycled panels, no pay-to-play keynotes: sessions are sourced from what operators are shipping and what capital is chasing right now, then pressure-tested with the community until the agenda reads like a map of the market.

[ C ]

The receipts

Read the last four agendas side by side and watch the story move: foundations and sovereign AI in 2024, the token economy and energy in early 2025, 200kW racks and cost-per-inference by November, stranded power and the agentic enterprise in 2026. Expos book big logos. We program the zeitgeist.

Sep 27 / 2024Infra 2 · Foundations
May 2 / 2025Infra 3 · The Token Economy
Nov 7 / 2025Infra 4 · Scale & Sovereignty
May 1 / 2026Infra 5 · The Demand Curve

Sep 27 / 2024

Infra 2

Chapter 01 — Foundations

[ Main Stage ]
  1. Sovereign AI, Why It Matters
  2. Enterprise Use Cases for AI
  3. Maxing the Limits of AI Infrastructure
  4. The Rise of the AMD AI Cloud
  5. The Rise of AI Agents & the Future of AI Infrastructure
  6. The Direct Path to AGI
  7. GPU Market Trends & Insights
  8. Unlocking the Power of Wafer-Scale Engines

May 2 / 2025

Infra 3

Chapter 02 — The Token Economy

[ Main Stage ]
  1. Welcome to the Token Economy
  2. The Future of Seamless Infrastructure
  3. AI + Robotics — The Future
  4. Capital at the Core: Betting on Infra
  5. Agentic for GPUs
  6. Winning the AI Energy Race
  7. The Next Frontier: Sustainable, Scalable, Self-Sufficient AI Infrastructure

Nov 7 / 2025

Infra 4

Chapter 03 — Scale & Sovereignty

[ Key Themes ]
  1. Scaling GenAI Stacks Across Clouds
  2. Liquid Cooling & Energy Optimization for 200kW+ Racks
  3. Economics & Cost-Per-Inference Strategy
  4. Data Center Sovereignty & National AI Infrastructure Strategies
  5. Edge-to-Core Infra for Autonomous Systems

May 1 / 2026

Infra 5

Chapter 04 — The Demand Curve

[ Main Stage ]
  1. The State of AI INFRA
  2. The Ecosystem Flywheel Behind AI Infrastructure Demand
  3. Rethinking Enterprise Infrastructure for Agentic AI
  4. Stranded Power & the AI Energy Breakthrough
  5. Co-Packaged Optics & Liquid Cooling
  6. Beyond the GPU: When AI Outgrows a Single Architecture
  7. Everyone Has AI. No One Has an Operating Model
  8. AC to DC: Powering the AI Era

// 05 - Partners

OUR VALUED
PARTNERS & SPONSORS.

/ Stadium

  • WEKA
  • Supermicro
  • AMD

/ Shift

  • SambaNova
  • Upscale AI

/ Bronze

  • DriveNets
  • QumulusAI
  • Cisco
  • Cloudian
  • VAST Data
  • NexusNova

// Media Partners

MEDIA PARTNERS.

Previous event recap.

// 06 - Memories

AI INFRA SUMMIT has brought together over 1,000 of the top minds shaping the future of infrastructure—from breakthrough founders to enterprise builders and hyperscale giants.

Backed by teams from AMD + Supermicro + WEKA + Microsoft + Zscaler + BP + Vultr + Nutanix + Inflection AI + Recogni, each summit raised the bar for what’s possible when compute, capital, and collaboration collide.

// Since inception

10k+ Registrants
50+ Partners
40K+ Ecosystem of founders, funders, operators & builders
Download Agenda PDF

// Last Time Was 🔥

AI INFRA HIGHLIGHTS.

Enjoyed meeting some great people, and also learning from those in the trenches and doing the work in AI
Stephanie SparksMay 5 / 2026
Found the conference very educational, well organized, and comfortable. Presenters were excellent and well prepared. Loved the 15-minute speaker cadence - kept things fresh. Future suggestion to encourage participation from audience - use of interactive tools to vote on topics or to submit questions for speaker. Consider a roundup for 30 minutes of all speakers to address questions that could not be answered during the time slot. Just an idea that I would enjoy but all in all, great show!
Troy MitchellMay 5 / 2026
Love it, learned a few new things and great networking opportunities. Thank you!
Jim McConiheMay 3 / 2026
Amazing group of speaker and attendees. Especially loved the ClawCamp content in the Expo area!
Steven EchtmanMay 3 / 2026
Only thing I’d tweak is the day. As coming to support my team from Dallas and being over late - forced me to return home on Saturday.
Ryan ElmoreMay 10 / 2026
Dope event!! Really Enjoyed it.
Armani SweetwyneMay 2 / 2026
Awesome organization, great programme. The location was a bit chaotic, but still. A+ :)
Zsolt NemethMay 2 / 2026
Great Conference!
Brad LyonMay 3 / 2026

// 07 - The Venue

THE MIDWAY.
SAN FRANCISCO.

Date
December 9, 2026
Venue
The Midway, San Francisco
Hours
9 AM → 5 PM

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