Event Page: https://techfieldday.com/event/aiifd5/ Think you can just buy more GPUs to solve your AI infrastructure problems? Think again. In this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, recorded live on-site at AI Infrastructure Field Day 5, host Alastair Cooke sits down with industry experts Ray Lucchesi, Frederic Van Haren, and Brandon Whichard to discuss why the endless race for new hardware is hitting a wall. With supply chain shortages and massive power demands making upgrades difficult, companies must shift their focus toward optimizing the technology they already own. The panel explores how clever software tools, smaller foundation models, and efficient token management can squeeze maximum performance out of existing data centers. The panel explores the real secret to scaling AI lies in smart software practices rather than just buying more chips.
Panelists
Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.
Brandon Whichard is the co-host of Software Defined Talk and founder of Failover Media, a B2B podcast network reaching cloud architects, platform engineers, and IT decision-makers across three shows and 20M+ combined downloads. He brings 20+ years of product management and marketing experience from Sun Microsystems, IBM, CA Technologies, DXC Technology, and several startups.
Frederic is the CTO at HighFens Inc (active in the HPC & AI market). He spent more than a decade building large HPC & AI environments from the ground up and is frequently invited to speak at events to provide his vision on AI, Big Data and HPC.
Ray Lucchesi is president of Silverton Consulting, blogs at RayOnStorage.com, co-hosts GreyBeardsOnStorage.com podcast and has worked in data storage for over 30 years mostly in marketing and engineering new disk and tape automation products.