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AI Field Day 5

Left to Right: Ziv Levy, Karen Lopez, Frederic Van Haren, Jay Cuthrell, Ray Lucchesi, Justin Warren, Alastair Cooke, Jack Poller, Mitch Ashley, Liselotte Foverskov, Andy Banta, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Stephen Foskett

AI Field Day 5

September 11–September 13, 2024

#AIFD5

Who: AI

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

AI Field Day and AI Data Infrastructure Field Day

Tech Field Day is hosting AI Field Day 5 in September and our first-ever AI Data Infrastructure Field Day in October. What’s the difference? AI Field Day is focused on building and running AI applications in the enterprise, including training and inferencing hardware and software. AI Data Infrastructure supports the AI pipeline with storage and data management technologies.

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Delegate Panel

Delegates are selected by the Field Day Delegate community. For more information on our selection process, please see our page about becoming a Field Day Delegate.

Alastair Cooke

@DemitasseNZ

Alastair is a Tech Field Day event lead at the Futurum group, specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and Edge.

Andy Banta

@AndyBanta

Storage Janitor – seasoned technology professional

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

@CalvinHP

AWS Community Hero | Python, Django, Orchestration & Containers | CTO and Founder | IndyPy & IndyAWS | FreeBSD, Linux & ZFS

Frederic Van Haren

@FredericVHaren

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.

Jack Poller

@Poller

Principal Cyber Security Industry Analyst

Jay Cuthrell

👋 Hi. I’m Jay. Chief Product Officer at NexusTek. I write things at fudge.org. 🤓

Justin Warren

@JPWarren

Justin is the founder and chief analyst at PivotNine

Karen Lopez

@DataChick

Data Evangelist and Architect

Liselotte Foverskov

@LFoverskov

Technical content, Writing, Podcast and videos via Textrovert.VMUG Leader in Denmark, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard and Psychotherapist

Mitch Ashley

@MitchellAshley

Innovator, Analyst and Product Creator in Cybersecurity, Cloud, DevOps and SaaS

Ray Lucchesi

@RayLucchesi

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.

Ziv Levy

@ZivLevy_

Seasoned professional with more than 15 years of experience in designing and implementing Cloud and On-prem infrastructure solutions.

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at TechFieldDay.com, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Sep 11 8:00-9:30
Keysight Presents at AI Field Day 5
Presenters: Alex Bortok, Ankur Sheth, Linas Dauksa
Wednesday, Sep 11 10:30-12:30
Integrail Presents at AI Field Day 5
Presenters: Anton Antich, Tom Leyden
Wednesday, Sep 11 14:00-16:00
Cisco Presents at AI Field Day 5
Presenters: Jake Katz, Nicholas Davidson, Paresh Gupta, Siva Sivakumar, Tushar Patel
Thursday, Sep 12 9:00-10:00
Ignite Talks at AI Field Day 5
Presenter: Andy Banta, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Jack Poller, Karen Lopez
Thursday, Sep 12 10:30-12:30
VMware Presents at AI Field Day 5
Presenters: Chris Gully, Jake Augustine, Justin Murray, Ramesh Radhakrishnan
Thursday, Sep 12 14:00-15:30
Elastic Presents at AI Field Day 5
Presenters: Kevin Murray, Philipp Krenn
Friday, Sep 13 8:00-9:00
AI Field Day 5 Delegate Roundtable Discussions
Moderator: Alastair Cooke, Stephen Foskett
Friday, Sep 13 9:30-11:00
Arista Presents at AI Field Day 5
Presenters: Hardev Singh, Hugh Holbrook, Tom Emmons
Friday, Sep 13 13:00-14:30
Enfabrica Presents at AI Field Day 5
Presenters: Rochan Sankar
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Owen Lindsley

Owen Lindsley is the Senior Account Director at Tech Field Day, bringing a decade of sales and account management to the team.

Rachael Fritz

Senior Event Manager at Tech Field Day

Stephen Foskett

@SFoskett

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group and focuses on AI, edge, and cloud


45 Links with Tag #AIFD5

  1. Coverage: The Myth That Is Enterprise-Ready Software
    • Karen Lopez, Sulagna Saha
  2. Coverage: The Evolution of CXL
    • Andy Banta
    • Enfabrica
  3. Coverage: AI Chatbots – A Chatty Companion or a Sneaky Trap?
    • Jack Poller, Justin Warren, Mitch Ashley, Ray Lucchesi, Stephen Foskett, Sulagna Saha
  4. Coverage: Enfabrica puts the network in the computer
    • Justin Warren
    • Enfabrica
  5. Coverage: Arista Highlights the Power of AI
    • Justin Warren
    • Arista Networks
  6. Coverage: Keysight for Testing AI Infrastructure
    • Justin Warren
    • Keysight Technologies
  7. Coverage: The Evolving Landscape of AI Infrastructure: Powering the Future with Cisco
    • Jack Poller
    • Cisco
  8. Coverage: Cisco Says AI Networking Is Just Another Workload
    • Justin Warren
    • Cisco
  9. Coverage: The Rise of AI Networking: How Arista is Evolving Data Center Infrastructure
    • Jack Poller
    • Arista Networks
  10. Coverage: Elastic Is Far More Useful Than Mere Search Chatbots
    • Justin Warren
    • Elastic
  11. Coverage: Demystifying Elastic: From Keyword Search to AI-Powered Insights
    • Jack Poller
    • Elastic
  12. Coverage: Can You Deploy Large-Scale AI On-Premises?
    • Jack Poller
    • VMware by Broadcom
  13. Coverage: Enfabrica: Accelerating AI GPU Communication
    • Jack Poller
    • Enfabrica
  14. Coverage: VMware Private AI Foundation With NVIDIA Gains Traction Across Key Verticals Within Months of General Availability
    • Sulagna Saha
    • VMware by Broadcom
  15. Coverage: AI and Privacy: VMware @ AI Field Day 5
    • Liselotte Foverskov
    • VMware by Broadcom
  16. Coverage: Building Smarter AI: A First Look at Integrail
    • Jack Poller
    • Integrail
  17. Coverage: How the #@!$% Do You Optimize Your Massive AI Network?
    • Jack Poller
    • Keysight Technologies
  18. Coverage: Elastic Improves Search Experience With Additions to Its Vector Database
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Elastic, The Futurum Group
  19. Coverage: Enfabrica Shows Off the Industry’s First Multi-Terabit SuperNIC for AI Networks at AI Field Day
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Enfabrica
  20. Coverage: Using AI To Connect Business Workflows
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Integrail
  21. Coverage: Integrail Launches No-Code Platform for Building Agentic AI for Complex Workflows
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Integrail
  22. Coverage: Arista Networks Unifies Management of Compute and Network Fabrics With EOS-Based AI Agent
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Arista Networks
  23. Coverage: Keysight Joins the AI Fray With Evaluation and Benchmarking Platform for AI/ML Infrastructure
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Keysight Technologies
  24. Coverage: Early Tests on OpenAI’s SearchGPT Prototype Show Promise and Problems
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Google Cloud
  25. Coverage: Techstrong Gang – September 17, 2024
    • Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Stephen Foskett
    • Arista Networks, Cisco, Enfabrica, Integrail
  26. Coverage: Cisco Aims to Operationalize GenAI in Enterprises With AI-Ready FlexPod with NVIDIA NIM CVD
    • Sulagna Saha
    • Cisco
  27. Coverage: Hyperscale AI networks with Arista at AI Field Day
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Arista Networks, The Futurum Group
  28. Coverage: Arista Highlights the Power of AI
    • Justin Warren
    • Arista Networks
  29. Coverage: Enfabrica SuperNIC for massive clusters at AI Field Day
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Enfabrica, The Futurum Group
  30. Coverage: Integrail Just Launched: No-code AI Agents – Your Sales and Marketing Assistant
    • Liselotte Foverskov
    • Integrail
  31. Coverage: Enfabrica MegaNIC, a solution to GPU backend networking
    • Ray Lucchesi
    • Enfabrica
  32. Coverage: Cisco Ethernet and validated designs at AI Field Day
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Cisco, The Futurum Group
  33. Coverage: AIFD5 Recap
    • Mitch Ashley
    • Elastic, The Futurum Group, VMware by Broadcom
  34. Coverage: VMware Private AI at AI Field Day
    • Alastair Cooke
    • The Futurum Group, VMware by Broadcom
  35. Coverage: Elastic brings Vectors to Semantic Search at AI Field Day 5
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Elastic, The Futurum Group
  36. Coverage: Keysight
    • Justin Warren
    • Keysight Technologies
  37. Coverage: Cisco Says AI Networking Is Just Another Workload
    • Justin Warren
    • Cisco
  38. Coverage: AIFD5 Preview
    • Justin Warren
    • Elastic, VMware by Broadcom
  39. Coverage: Keysight at AI Field Day
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Keysight Technologies, The Futurum Group
  40. Coverage: Integrail at AI Field Day 5
    • Alastair Cooke
    • Integrail, The Futurum Group
  41. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Solves All Our Problems
    • Alastair Cooke, Frederic Van Haren, Justin Warren, Stephen Foskett
    • Tech Field Day
  42. Coverage: The Shifting Focus of AI at AI Field Day 5
    • Stephen Foskett
    • Arista Networks, Cisco, Elastic, Enfabrica, Integrail, Keysight Technologies, VMware by Broadcom
  43. News: The Shifting Focus of AI at AI Field Day 5
    • Alastair Cooke, Mitch Ashley, Stephen Foskett
    • Arista Networks, Broadcom, Cisco, Elastic, Enfabrica, Integrail, Keysight Technologies, Tech Field Day, The Futurum Group, VMware by Broadcom
  44. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI is Not a Fad
    • Frederic Van Haren, Karen Lopez, Marian Newsome, Stephen Foskett
    • The Futurum Group
  45. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI as We Know It is Just a Fad
    • Alastair Cooke, Allyson Klein, Glenn Dekhayser, Stephen Foskett
    • The Futurum Group

More Information

If you would like to sponsor or attend these events as a delegate, please contact Tech Field Day, [email protected].


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