Venue
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

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Event Date Tue Sep 9 PDT - Thu Sep 11 PDT (in 3 months)
In your timezone (EDT): Tue Sep 9 3:00am - Thu Sep 11 3:00am
Location Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA
Region Americas
Details

This event is the world's largest and most established AI conference that focuses on the infrastructure layer of AI & Machine Learning.
Originating as the AI Hardware Summit back in 2018, the summit has evolved from a semiconductor conference into a full-stack AI infrastructure event. The 2025 summit will attract 3,500 attendees and over 100 partners, with content designed for hardware providers, hyperscalers, and all enterprise IT and AI infrastructure specialists building fast, efficient, and affordable AI.

Speakers

2025 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Cynthia Stoddard
CIO, Adobe

Mark Lohmeyer
VP & GM, Compute and AI Infrastructure, Google

David Glick
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business Services, Walmart

Berta Rodriguez-Hervas
Chief AI and Analytics Officer, Pfizer

Sam Hamilton
SVP, Head of Data & AI, Visa

Alan Rosa
CISO & SVP Technology, CVS Health

Laura Ortman
CEO, Cologix

Mark Kidd
EVP & GM, Data Centers & Asset Lifecycle Management, Iron Mountain

Chris Crosby
CEO, Compass Data Centers

Mohamed Awad
SVP & GM, Infrastructure Business, Arm

Ram Velaga
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group, Broadcom

Ankur Gupta
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Siemens EDA

RK Anand
Co-Founder and CPO, RECOGNI

Vinesh Sukumar
VP of Product Management for AI, Qualcomm

John Overton
CEO, Kove

ENTERPRISE SPEAKERS:

Barak Turovsky
Chief AI Officer, General Motors

Arun Nandi
Chief Data & AI Officer, Carrier

Zeljka Lemaster
Global AI Accelerator Head of Hub US, Ericsson

Donald Thompson
Distinguished Engineer, LinkedIn

Milind Naphade
SVP AI Foundations, Capital One

Ahmed Menshawy
Vice President of AI Engineering, Mastercard

Hitesh Seth
Chief Architect, Financial Services and Insurance, Salesforce

Bala Chidambaram
Chief Engineer & Senior Director, Autonomy, Office of the CTO, Boeing

Eliana Stefani
Staff Autonomy & AI Research Engineer, Lockheed Martin

Chandra Kapireddy
Head of Analytics, AI ML, & Gen AI, Truist

AK Karan
VP, Advanced Engineering & Innovation, Baxter International

Aunsha Nerella
AI & FinTech Innovation, State Street

Abhijeet Gulati
Head of AI, Senior Director of AI & ML Engineering, Mitchell International

Nikhil Sukhtankar
Head of Product Conversational AI & Messaging Platforms, PayPal

Nenad Mancevic
Principal Software Engineer, Warner Brothers Discovery

Michael Bahr
Head of Infrastructure, Data Center & Networking, DWR

Rohith Vangalla
Lead Software Engineer, Optum

Daniel Wu
Strategic AI Leadership | Keynote Speaker | Educator | Entrepreneur Course Facilitator, Stanford University

Michael McLaughlin
Head of AI ML and Advanced Analytics, Children's National Hospital

Jacey Heuer
Head of AI & Data Science, Pella Corporation

David Hinkler
Global Manufacturing IT Director, Pharma 4.0, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Florian Berchtold
Principal Software Engineer, Zipline

TECH ECOSYSTEM SPEAKERS:

Richard Ho
Head of Hardware, OpenAI

Lisa Cohen
Head of Data Science, Anthropic

Apala Guha
Principal AI Architect, Microsoft

Rochan Sankar
Co-Founder & CEO, Enfabrica

Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Partner, Hitachi Ventures

Priya Kesavan
Principal, Azure AI Systems Strategy, Microsoft

Marc Hourican
CTO, CleanArc Data Centers

Rashmi Gopinath
General Partner, BAM Corner Point

Sean Ma
Head of Applied AI, Amazon Dash Cart, AWS

Raul Martynek
CEO, Databank

Dharmendra Modha
IBM Fellow, IBM Chief Scientist, Brain-Inspired Computing, IBM

Ashwin Gumaste
Principal Architect Azure Network Hardware, Microsoft

François Sterin
COO, Data4

Phill Lawson-Shanks
Chief Innovation Officer, Aligned Data Centers

Moshe Tanach
Co-Founder & CEO, NeuReality

Matt Pfile
CEO, Crane Data Centers

Tom Traugott
SVP, Strategy, EdgeCore

Steven Woo
Fellow and Distinguished Inventor, Rambus

Dave Lazovsky
Co-Founder & CEO, Celestial

Euicheol Lim
Research Fellow, System Architect, SK Hynix

Sid Sheth
CEO & Co-Founder, D Matrix

Godwin Maben
Fellow, Synopsys

Alex Liu
SVP of Global Business, FuriosaAI

Dudy Cohen
VP Product Marketing, Drivenets

Matthew Burns
Global Director, Technical Marketing, Samtec

Nalini Garg
California State Ambassador, Women In AI

Andrew Sloss
VP Technology, Vaire Computing

Puneet Kumar
CEO, Rivos

Mahesh Maddury
AI Architect, Meta

Bernie Malouin
CEO, JetCool, A Flex Company

Krishna Rangasayee
Founder & CEO, SiMa.ai

Nikhil Tyagi
Senior Manager, Wireless Device Innovation Strategy, Verizon

Prem Theivendran
Director, Software Engineering, Expedera

Pyungsu Han
VP & CTO, Qualitas Semiconductor

Anirudh Sharma
Head of R&D, Embodied AI, Amazon Lab126

Marc Austin
Founder & CEO, Hedgehog

Matt Roman
Senior Director, Design Engineering, Celestica

Hyungjun Kim
CEO, Squeezebits

Jeongkyu Shin
CEO, Lablup

James Kelly
VP Market Intelligence & Innovation, Open Compute Project

Mehir Arora
Founding Engineer, ChipAgents

Sponsors & Partners

2025 Partners

DIAMOND PARTNERS:
• AWS
• Google

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• ARM
• Broadcom
• Kove
• Qualcomm
• Recogni
• Siemens

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Alphawave Semi
• Amphenol Communications Solutions
• Axelera Artificial Intelligence
• AyarLabs
• Celestial AI
• Celestica
• Databank
• D-Matrix
• Efabless
• Enfabrica
• Furiosa
• Neureality
• Qualitas Semiconductor
• Rafay
• Rambus
• Samtec
• SiMa AI
• SK Hynix
• Synopsys
• Ultra Accelerator Link

EVENT PARTNERS:
• Andes
• Drivenets
• Expedera
• Lablup
• JetCool
• Movellus
• Malico Inc
• Phison
• Rivos
• SqueezeBits
• Vaire
• Zetic.ai