Left to Right: Frederic Van Haren, Andy Banta, Jack Poller, Ray Lucchesi, Stephen Foskett, Jay Cuthrell, John Willis, Jon Swartz, Gina Rosenthal, Mitch Ashley, Jim Czuprynski
Inset: Dr. Bob Sutor

AI Field Day 6

January 29–January 30, 2025

#AIFD6

Who: AI

What: Field Day

When: Past

Location: Silicon Valley

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Presenting Sponsors

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.

Andy Banta

@AndyBanta

Storage Janitor – seasoned technology professional

Dr. Bob Sutor

Quantum Computing and AI, but not necessarily together: Tech Leader/Ph.D., Non-Executive Director, Author, Advisor, Pundit, Keynote Speaker, Analyst, Professor, Cat Lover

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.

Gina Rosenthal

Product Marketing leader who knows how to turn complex technology into stories that inspire and connect.

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. ????

Jim Czuprynski

Jim Czuprynski is an in-demand public speaker and technology advocate focused mainly on databases, analytics, spatial/graph, and AI.

John Willis

@Botchagalupe

John Willis is CEO and Founder of Botchagalupe Technologies.

Jon Swartz

@JSwartz

Jon Swartz is senior content writer at Techstrong Group

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.

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

Presentation Calendar

Most presentations are streamed live on this page, at stg-techfielddayq-staging.kinsta.cloud, and on the Tech Field Day LinkedIn page. After the event, the following pages contain video recordings of these presentations.

Wednesday, Jan 29 8:00-9:00
ML Commons Presents at AI Field Day 6
Presenters: Curtis Anderson, David Kanter
Wednesday, Jan 29 10:00-12:00
VMware by Broadcom Presents at AI Field Day 6
Presenters: Alex Fanous, Justin Murray, Tasha Drew
Wednesday, Jan 29 14:00-15:30
MemVerge Presents at AI Field Day 6
Presenters: Bernie Wu, Charles Fan, Steve Scargall, Steve Yatko
Wednesday, Jan 29 16:00-17:00
Futurum Presents CEO Insights on AI Strategies
Presenters: Dion Hinchcliffe
Thursday, Jan 30 8:00-9:30
Kamiwaza Presents at AI Field Day 6
Presenters: Luke Norris, Matt Wallace
Thursday, Jan 30 10:00-11:00
AI Field Day 6 Delegate Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Stephen Foskett
All dates and times listed are local time in Silicon Valley, US/Pacific.

Event Staff

Cassidee Garcia-Nesloney

Cassidee is an Event Coordinator at Tech Field Day

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


27 Links with Tag #AIFD6

  1. Coverage: We Are Still in the Early Innings of AI
  2. Coverage: AI Innovation Inevitably Drives Massive Energy Consumption
  3. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI Innovation Inevitably Drives Massive Energy Consumption
  4. Coverage: Companies’ AI Readiness Is Lagging Behind Their Optimism: Futurum Research
  5. Coverage: Why Is AI Inferencing the Next Battleground for Enterprise Tech?
  6. Coverage: Unlocking GPU Potential: How MemVerge Solves Enterprise AI Infrastructure Challenges
  7. Coverage: AI Field Day 6: Kamiwaza and Superhuman Power for Enterprise AI
  8. Coverage: Solving AI’s Data Gravity Takes an Alternative Approach to Shuttling Data between Locations: Kamiwaza
  9. Coverage: AI Field Day 6: MemVerge on Supercharging AI Infrastructure
  10. Coverage: MLPerf Storage v1.0 Benchmark Results Reveal Performance Scores of Systems for AI Training
  11. Coverage: AI Field Day 6: Broadcom on VMware’s Impact in Private AI
  12. Coverage: Measuring Success in the AI Revolution: The Critical Role of MLCommons
  13. Coverage: Kamiwaza: Orchestrating Generative AI
  14. Coverage: GreyBeards talk AgenticAI with Luke Norris, CEO&Co-founder, Kamiwaza AI
  15. Coverage: VMware: Let’s Take This AI Thing Private!
  16. Coverage: More Than Just Hardware: The Art of GPU Optimization
  17. Coverage: MemVerge’s Memory Machine AI May Help Avert an Acute Crisis in Tech
  18. Coverage: VCF 5.2.1 Introduces New Features to VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA
  19. Coverage: The Single Biggest Blocker to Mass Adoption of AI Is Numbing Complexity
  20. Coverage: Is Private AI a good idea?
  21. Coverage: MLCommons: Bench More AI Weight With Less Pain
  22. Coverage: MemVerge: Machining AI Memory Needs To Size
  23. Coverage: ML Commons and Measuring the Right Things
  24. Coverage: MemVerge’s Memory Machine AI May Help Avert an Acute Crisis in Tech
  25. Coverage: How MLPerf Proves AI Client and Storage Performance
  26. Tech Field Day Podcast: AI is the Leading Geopolitical Issue
  27. News: Redefining Enterprise AI Strategies at AI Field Day 6

More Information

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