Inference Day
Hear where AI infrastructure is going from the engineers building it.Inference Day is a free, live virtual event on the future of AI infrastructure.
About the event
The future of AI infrastructure, from the people building it.
Kelsey Hightower opens with a 45-minute fireside chat on where AI infrastructure is headed, what platform teams should build now, and which lessons from cloud native still apply.
From there, open source maintainers, infrastructure leaders, and practitioners working with AI in production come together for live conversations about what it actually takes to run inference at scale.
Viktor Farcic closes the event with Inference 101, bringing the pieces together and breaking down what platform engineers need to understand about this emerging infrastructure layer.
Every session is live. Bring your questions. They’ll answer them.
Free · Virtual · November 5
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AGENDA · NOVEMBER 5 · ALL TIMES PST / CET
Three hours. All live.
- 8:00 A.M.5:00 P.M. CET
Welcome
- 8:10 A.M.5:10 P.M. CET
FIRESIDE CHAT
Kelsey Hightower
A conversation on how inference is changing infrastructure, what platform teams should build now, and what the community should avoid repeating.
- 9:00 A.M.6:00 P.M. CET
LIVE PANEL
Serving Inference at Scale
How do you serve models fast, reliably, and at scale? Maintainers behind NVIDIA Dynamo, KServe, Envoy AI Gateway and Modelplane break down the inference stack layer by layer, from routing requests to running the engine.
- 9:30 A.M.6:30 P.M. CET
LIVE PANEL
Building the Platform for AI
Running inference at scale starts with the platform underneath. Maintainers and contributors from Kubernetes, Metal3, Crossplane and Modelplane discuss how the cloud native ecosystem is evolving to orchestrate AI infrastructure, from the cloud to bare metal.
- 10:00 A.M.7:00 P.M. CET
LIVE PANEL
Running Inference in Production
Getting a model running is the easy part. Practitioners share what it takes to operate inference in the real world, from observability and cost to the challenges enterprise teams face every day.
- 10:30 A.M.7:30 P.M. CET
INFERENCE 101
Viktor Farcic
A practical look at the emerging AI inference stack and what cloud native and platform engineers need to know.
- 11:00 A.M.8:00 P.M. CET
Wrap-up
Speakers
The people building the inference stack.
FIRESIDE CHAT WITH
Kelsey Hightower
Former Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer, Open Source Contributor, Author, Investor, and Minimalist
INFERENCE 101 WITH
Viktor Farcic
Developer Advocate, Upbound · DevOps and AI Toolkit
Panelists
Itay Neeman
Senior Director, NVIDIA
Dynamo Engineering
Erica Hughberg
Community Advocate, Tetrate
Envoy AI Gateway / Agent Router Maintainer
Kashif Nizam Khan
Principal Open Source Architect, Ericsson
Metal3 Maintainer and CNCF TAG Infrastructure Co-Chair
Shivay Lamba
Senior ML Engineer, Qualcomm
TensorFlow.js SIG member, Kubeflow and cloud native AI contributor
Filippe Spolti
Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
KServe Maintainer
Julia Furst Morgado
Principal Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0
OpenTelemetry project Community Manager, Google Women Techmakers Ambassador
Karan Nisar
Staff Account Solutions Architect, CoreWeave
Enterprise AI
Nina Polshakova
Member of Technical Staff, Inco.ai
Cloud Native AI Working Group & Kubernetes v1.33 Release Lead
Nic Cope
Senior Principal Engineer, Upbound
Modelplane & Crossplane Maintainer
Dennis Ramdass
Principal AI Engineer, Upbound
Modelplane Maintainer
Event Host
Annie Talvasto
Senior Manager, Upbound
CNCF Ambassador