NVIDIA at AI Infra Summit
September 15–17, 2026 | Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara Convention Center
Discover how to scale AI factory performance, efficiency, and flexibility in the era of agentic AI.
What is the AI Infra Summit?
The AI Infra Summit 2026, taking place September 15–17, 2026, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, is a premier industry event dedicated to the full-stack infrastructure powering the era of agentic AI. Join more than 8,000 engineers, technical practitioners, architects, and C-suite executives to discuss the compute, networking, systems, software, and physical infrastructure needed to build and scale AI factories. Explore technical tracks, speakers, and event details on the AI Infra Summit 2026 website.
Watch the NVIDIA Keynote at AI Infra Summit
Watch live at the AI Infra Summit on September 15.
Join Ian Buck, VP of HPC and hyperscale at NVIDIA, at the AI Infra Summit to explore how agentic AI is reshaping computing infrastructure. This keynote will highlight NVIDIA’s full-stack, co-designed approach to AI factories—from NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, NVIDIA Vera CPU and NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX to scale-in, scale-up, scale-out, scale-across networking, and context memory with BlueField-4, DOCA, NVLink™, Spectrum-X™ Ethernet and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand. Also learn how NVLink Fusion™ extends these innovations to a broader ecosystem of partners.
Keynote Speaker
Ian Buck
VP of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing, NVIDIA
What Other NVIDIA Experts Will Be Talking at the AI Infra Summit?
NVIDIA Participation at AI Infra Summit 2026
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Thursday
Tuesday, September 15 | 9:55–10:15 a.m.
Advancing Infrastructure for the Era of Agentic AI
Keynote | Ian Buck, NVIDIA
Tuesday, September 15 | 1:30–2 p.m.
From Infrastructure to Intelligence: The Enterprise AI Operating Layer
Session | Kaushik Shirhatti, NVIDIA; Rampal Singh, HCLTech
Tuesday, September 15 | 2–2:20 p.m.
The Infrastructure of Intelligence: NVIDIA and OpenAI on a Decade of Building Frontier AI
Fireside Chat | Ian Buck, NVIDIA; Sachin Katti, OpenAI
Tuesday, September 15 | 3-3:20 p.m.
From Simulation to Deployment: Building the Engineering Stack That Powers Trusted Physical AI
Session | John Linford, NVIDIA; Anthony Matarazzo, Synopsys
Wednesday, September 16 | 9:45–10:05 a.m.
AI Infrastructure at Hyperscale: OCI Superclusters With NVIDIA
Keynote | Ian Buck, NVIDIA; Karan Batta, Oracle
Wednesday, September 16 | 11–11:20 a.m.
Scaling Physical AI Safety With NVIDIA Halos
Session | Amit Goel, NVIDIA
Wednesday, September 16 | 4–4:15 p.m.
Edge Inference for Physical AI on NVIDIA Jetson
Session | Aditya Sahu, NVIDIA
Wednesday, September 16 | 4:10–4:50 p.m.
Operationalizing AI: Turning Data, GPUs, and Inference Into Enterprise ROI
Panel | Kaushik Shirhatti, NVIDIA; Boris Lukashev, WhiteFiber; Ruben Bryon, Verda; Alex Saroyan, Netris
Wednesday, September 16 | 4:15–5:00 p.m.
Agentic AI: CPU Use Cases and Benchmarks
Panel | Ian Finder, NVIDIA; Madhu Rangarajan, AMD; Mrittika Ganguli, Intel; Matt Langman, SiFive; Ravi A Giri, Microsoft
Thursday, September 17 | 2–2:20 a.m.
Feed the Beast: Optimizing the Storage Layer for Maximum GPU Utilization
Session | Harish Arora, NVIDIA; Karthik Srinivasan, MinIO
Frequently Asked Questions About the AI Infra Summit 2026
The conference features eight content stages and tracks that span the entire AI technology stack, including Compute, Data Movement, Physical AI, Data and Models, and AI Data Center.
- View the full breakdown of tracks and session topics on the official AI Infra Summit 2026 site.
Unlike general AI events that may focus on software applications, the AI Infra Summit is uniquely dedicated to the infrastructure layer of the five-layer AI cake, focusing on the crucial intersection of infrastructure with energy, chips, models and applications to drive AI performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
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Understand the specific focus of the infrastructure layer in the AI Infra Summit FAQ section.
Yes, everyone will have access to NVIDIA recorded sessions post-event, allowing them to review key technical insights, keynote presentations, and deep-dive technical talks.
- Verify access to on-demand content included with your ticket on the AI Infra Summit Eventbrite page.
- Session recordings by NVIDIA speakers will be published on this web page within 72 hours of the live event.
The NVIDIA Vera CPU is a high-performance processor designed as part of NVIDIA extreme co-designed AI infrastructure platform, meant to work as a standalone CPU in tandem with GPU acceleration for optimal AI factory performance.
- Discover the technical details and specifications for the Vera CPU on the NVIDIA Vera CPU product page and the Vera CPU whitepaper.
- Learn how the single-threaded NVIDIA Vera CPU is designed to accelerate agentic AI workloads with maximum performance at scale.
Groq 3 LPX is the interactive AI inference accelerator, an extension of the Vera Rubin platform. It extends the inference performance of Vera Rubin NVL72 with ultrafast token generation for highly responsive agentic systems.
- Discover how NVIDIA Groq 3 LPX accelerates interactive, long-context agentic AI inference.
- Learn more about the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.
NVLink Fusion is a technology and IP for building semi-custom, rack-scale AI infrastructure. It lets hyperscalers and AI-native companies integrate custom XPUs, ASICs, or CPUs with NVIDIA’s high-bandwidth, low-latency NVLink scale-up fabric and broader AI infrastructure stack.
- Explore the architectural benefits of the interconnect at the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion product page.
- Read about its impact on the broader world-class AI factory landscape.
AI factories are purpose-built, large-scale infrastructure environments that transform energy and data into intelligence for training, inference, and agentic AI workloads. They are a central focus of AI Infra Summit because delivering AI at scale requires the compute, networking, storage, software, power, cooling, and operations layers to be designed and managed as one integrated system.
- Learn more about NVIDIA extreme co-design and how this approach is used to build efficient, flexible, and high performant AI factories in the AI Infra Summit keynote with Ian Buck.
- Explore how the NVIDIA DSX platform helps organizations design, simulate, and operate high-performance, energy-efficient AI factories.
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