CNCF Presents at Tech Field Day at KubeCon North America 2026

CNCF Presents at Tech Field Day at KubeCon North America 2026

When smartphones went mainstream in the late 2000s, they irrevocably changed the nature of mobile networks. Originally built for voice, these networks needed to pivot to data almost overnight, and agentic traffic is forcing the same shift across the rest of the internet today. Jonathan Bryce, executive director, CNCF, will discuss what 6–10x traffic spikes […]

DDN Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 6

DDN Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 6

What can we optimize in AI inference that meaningfully increases productive throughput? How can we lower the cost per token once a model is in production? DDN goes past the “what if?” to field-proven deployments and what our architects learned in customer environments. The team will share techniques and trade-offs that lead to more productive […]

Upscale Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 6

Upscale Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 6

Scaling the AI Cluster What are the key design rules used to define the size and shape of the different networks composing an AI Cluster? We will introduce SkyD, an online tool that can help you in the design process.

Keysight Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 6

Keysight Presents at AI Infrastructure Field Day 6

Validating AI Infrastructure: From Silicon to System Scale The race to expand AI capacity puts pressure on organizations to move quickly while ensuring their infrastructure will perform as intended. Join Keysight product experts to learn how a comprehensive approach to validation—including uncovering bottlenecks early in the design process—helps organizations reduce costly rework and make informed […]

HPE and Equinix Present at AI Infrastructure Field Day 6

HPE and Equinix Present at AI Infrastructure Field Day 6

HPE and Equinix will present a practical framework for examining AI tokenomics across 3 dimensions: make every token count, pay less per token, and govern every token. HPE brings the private AI platform, model operations, infrastructure management, observability, and governance. Equinix provides the AI-ready data center foundation, private interconnection, and proximity to clouds, networks, data […]

Who’s Winning the Enterprise AI Model Wars with ETR

Erik Bradley from ETR, now a Futurum company, presented findings on the “model wars” in enterprise AI, focusing on how actual enterprises are rating and using various models rather than just benchmark rulings. ETR’s research spans 16 years, drawing insights from over 10,000 vetted technology leaders overseeing significant annual technology spend. This proprietary dataset, comprising […]

Signal65 PINNACLE the Measure of Working Intelligence

Ryan Shrout, who leads Signal65, presented Pinnacle as an innovative approach to performance analysis and testing for AI models. Drawing from his extensive background in measuring CPU and GPU performance, including a tenure at Intel’s competitive analysis group, he highlighted that Pinnacle moves beyond traditional benchmarks that offer mere numbers or speed. The core objective […]

Welcome to the Loop AI Inference Lifecycle with DDN

DDN, represented by Eric Wright and Scott Ekstrom, presented an overview of the complex AI inference lifecycle, highlighting their role in optimizing this process. The presentation, titled “Welcome to the Loop,” illustrated the end-to-end path, beginning with initial prompts and system instructions that form the critical context. DDN’s solution leverages its technology to load this […]

To Infinia and Beyond AI Inferencing with DDN

DDN, represented by Eric Wright and Scott Ekstrom, discussed their solutions for AI inferencing, building on their success in AI training. They highlighted the AI data pipeline as a continuous loop involving ingest, prepare, train, and inference stages. DDN’s Exascaler is used for the ingest, prepare, and train phases, while their Infinia product addresses inference […]

Thinking Fast and Furious Inferencing with DDN

Eric Wright, a consulting solutions architect with DDN, introduced the presentation by highlighting the growing importance of AI inference workloads, which now account for 80% of AI activity compared to training. He characterized this shift as “thinking fast and furious,” drawing an analogy to human cognitive processes, where training and inference operate in the same […]

Connecting the AI Loop with CoreWeave Forge Live Demo

Russ Ratshin from CoreWeave’s product marketing team presented a live demo demonstrating how to connect the AI loop using CoreWeave Forge. He explained that the AI loop is a recognized workflow for developing AI agents, and CoreWeave Forge serves as the environment to facilitate this process. The presentation took the audience through each stage of […]

CoreWeave Agent Lens Intelligent Observability at Enterprise Scale

CoreWeave Agent Lens provides intelligent observability purpose-built for enterprise scale, monitoring agents to diagnose and fix issues. It is part of Forge, CoreWeave’s development layer for building and improving models and agents, specifically focusing on the agent development side. Forge unifies model training, experiment tracking, evaluation, and agent development into one connected environment, eliminating the […]

CoreWeave Inference From Model Training to Production Scale Serving

Nisha Nadkarni, a specialist field engineer at CoreWeave, delivered a presentation on CoreWeave inference, detailing the process from model training to production scale serving. She introduced CoreWeave Forge as an additional development layer built upon CoreWeave’s core compute offerings, designed to help users construct AI models and agents with familiar frameworks. A significant part of […]

Post-Training on CoreWeave Forge

David Corbitt introduces CoreWeave Forge post-training, explaining how his background co-founding OpenPipe led to CoreWeave acquiring the company to bring accessible fine-tuning to enterprises. Forge provides an integrated environment where observability, post-training, and inference work together in a continuous improvement cycle. Teams observe production behavior, extract traces to form evaluation or training datasets, alter the […]

Connecting the AI Loop with CoreWeave Forge

Shane Robbins from CoreWeave discusses the fundamental shift occurring as artificial intelligence initiatives transition from experimental pilots to production deployments. While pilot projects permit flexible timelines, limited users, and manual oversight, production applications demand rigorous reliability at scale, strong governance, security, and continuous improvement. Traditional software development operates linearly through building, deploying, and monitoring, whereas […]

Cisco Secure Networking Simplifying Multicloud Networking

Mirko Grabel and Jubil Mathew of Cisco introduced Cisco Multi-Cloud Fabric, a network-as-a-service offering in Cisco Cloud Control that connects sites, regions, and AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud directly. They covered its Cisco-operated virtual points of presence, zero trust routing, ThousandEyes integration, and consumption pricing, and they demonstrated onboarding cloud networks and a Meraki site […]

Cisco Secure Networking Building Resilient Infrastructure

Sumant Mali and Mike Ketabforoosh of Cisco explained how Cisco is building resilient infrastructure for the AI and quantum era. Mali covered post-quantum cryptography across IPsec, SD-WAN, MACsec, and secure boot, including hybrid key exchange and live demos. Ketabforoosh introduced Live Protect, which uses eBPF-based shields to block exploits of known vulnerabilities until customers can […]

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