As enterprise artificial intelligence transitions from experimentation to core operations, organizations face crucial questions regarding return on investment, inference costs, model reliability, and supporting infrastructure.
AI Field Day 9 takes place October 14 and 15, 2026 to address these exact economic and operational realities. The event brings together industry experts, market analysts, and field delegates to examine enterprise AI adoption, neocloud infrastructure, and production data platforms. You can watch AI Field Day live on our website, LinkedIn Live, YouTube, and Techstrong TV.
Event Schedule
Wednesday, kicks off at 9:00 AM PT with a live Utilizing AI roundtable, which will also be released as an episode of Futurum Media’s weekly podcast. At 10:00 AM PT, Ryan Shrout of Signal 65 presents Pinnacle, an agentic AI benchmark evaluating models, GPUs, CPUs, and full systems on real-world enterprise workloads. At 11:00 AM PT, Eric Bradley of ETR analyzes the competition between frontier labs and open-weight models, using empirical market data to track enterprise consumption and token costs.
CoreWeave follows at 1:00 PM PT to detail CoreWeave Forge, a unified development layer that links training, inference, observability, and agent development into a continuous feedback loop. Day one wraps up at 4:00 PM PT with delegate community sessions, featuring Stephen Foskett on Meta’s Muse Agent, Scott Robohn on building tech trust, Dave Graham on AI lab research, and Keith Townsend on his 4+1 AI infrastructure framework.
Thursday, October 15, begins at 8:00 AM PT with additional delegate-led community sessions. At 10:00 AM PT, DDN presents “AI Thinks on DDN,” exploring real-world enterprise inference use cases while tackling the challenge of balancing cost, efficiency, quality, and performance. The conference concludes at 1:30 PM PT with a final live Utilizing AI roundtable featuring Futurum’s Mitch Ashley and Dave Nicholson alongside first-time delegate Claudia De Luna.
Follow Along and Watch Live
AI Field Day 9 offers practical, data-backed guidance for technology leaders navigating the operational and financial demands of scaling production AI. You can watch the event live streaming on our website, LinkedIn Live, YouTube, and Techstrong TV on October 14 and 15. On-demand recordings and deeper post-event analysis will be posted to Techstrong.ai, with real-time updates available across social platforms using #AIFD9.
Tech Field Day, Techstrong TV, and Utilizing AI are part of Futurum Media.