9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Morning Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

STAC

9:10 AM

9:30 AM

STAC Overview

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

STAC

9:30 AM

10:00 AM

Going the last mile to AI production on roller skates

James Massa

Senior Executive Director of Architecture and Engineering, JP Morgan Chase

AI development tracks

10:00 AM

10:05 AM

Accelerate Data for AI Models

Victor Alberto Olmedo

Global Analytics and AI Principal Field Solution Architect , Pure Storage

AI development tracks

10:10 AM

10:30 AM

A lean orchestration manifesto

Paul Yang

Developer Relations, Runhouse

AI development tracks

10:30 AM

11:10 AM

Leaner AI: Integrating breakthrough capabilities without the bloat

Nataraj Dasgupta

VP Engineering, Syneos Health

Yi Ding

CEO, AnswerMagic.ai

Paul Yang

Developer Relations, Runhouse

Dave Duggal

Founder & CEO, Enterprise Web

AI development tracks

11:10 AM

11:45 AM

Break
Networking

11:45 AM

12:05 PM

Shrinking 1000 hours to 1: Lessons from AI in pharma

Nataraj Dasgupta

VP Engineering, Syneos Health

Enterprise AI stacks

12:05 PM

12:10 PM

Future Ready AI

Michael Watson

Senior Director of Field Application Engineering, Supermicro

Enterprise AI stacks

12:10 PM

12:50 PM

"Who says?": Tracing AI outputs to their source

Deepak Dube

Founder & CEO, EazyML

Niamh O'Connell

Enterprise Lead, Prove AI

Pete Harris

Principal, Lighthouse Partners

Enterprise AI stacks

12:50 PM

1:50 PM

Lunch
Networking

2:00 PM

2:40 PM

AI in the Cloud: how to keep your models flying high and deliver ROI

Yuri Gubin

Chief Innovation Officer, DataArt

Attila Narin

VP / Distinguished Architect, Oracle

Colman Madden

Head of Customer Engineering, Hedge Funds & Exchanges, Google Cloud

Enterprise AI stacks

2:40 PM

2:45 PM

TEMPORAL IQ: Advanced Techniques for Real-Time Anomaly Detection

Jaka Pandza

Pre-Sales Engineer, KX

AI training stacks

2:45 PM

2:50 PM

Make the Most of Your GPU Infrastructure Investment: Scale Capacity and Performance while Reducing Cost and Power Consumption

Brian Kuebler

Sr. Systems Engineer, Hammerspace

AI training stacks

2:50 PM

2:55 PM

Accelerating Inferencing RAG Pipeline with WEKA

Kevin Tubbs

Field CTO, WEKA

AI training stacks

3:05 PM

3:25 PM

Stop RESTing: How to make object storage fast enough for financial AI

Rami Douenias

Vice President Global Sales Engineering, DDN

AI training stacks

3:25 PM

3:55 PM

Break
Networking

3:55 PM

4:00 PM

Lenovo AI and Sustainability Innovations

Danny Dorado

ISG Senior Account Executive, Lenovo

AI inference stacks

4:00 PM

4:05 PM

AI/HPC Solutions for Financial Services

Michael Watson

Senior Director of Field Application Engineering, Supermicro

AI inference stacks

4:05 PM

4:10 PM

New technology for cognitive time-series analysis with nanosecond latencies

Jeff Chiles

CTO & Co-founder, Great Sky

AI inference stacks

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

Don’t assume GPU: Why FPGA is better for some ML

Andrea Suardi

Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera Technologies

AI inference stacks

4:30 PM

4:55 PM

STAC Update: STAC-AI benchmark & audit results

Bishop Brock

Head of Research, STAC

AI inference stacks

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

Reception
Networking