Past eventHeld September 15–17, 2026
AI Infra Summit 2026
AI Infra Summit is a conference focused on the infrastructure layer of AI, covering compute, data movement, data centers, and deployment at scale.
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara
- Held
- September 15–17, 2026
- Venue
- Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara
- Attendance
- 8,000 attendees
- Speakers
- 400 speakers
TL;DR
- AI Infra Summit 2026 took place September 15–17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara.
- The Full-Access pass was billed as including main stage keynotes, five content tracks, daily networking lunches, and enhanced app features.
- The event was billed as drawing about 8,000 attendees, 400 speakers, and 250 partners across 8 stages.
About
AI Infra Summit focuses on the infrastructure layer of AI, targeting the intersection of infrastructure and models that drives AI performance at the software layer. The agenda was scheduled to cover serving AI at scale alongside the deployment and operational challenges across the full technology stack. Its focus areas (AI Data Centers, Compute, Data Movement, Data & Models, and Physical AI) are described by organizers as the bottom four layers of Jensen Huang's AI layer cake. Organizers positioned the event as being 'for the committed' rather than a broad industry survey.
Who was in the room
Enterprise
Enterprise attendees were listed as including Airbus, CVS Health, eBay, Eli Lilly, JP Morgan, McDonald's, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, and Walmart.
Model Builders
Model builder attendees were listed as including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, GitHub, Google Gemini, Liquid AI, Meta, Mistral, OpenAI, and Salesforce.
ISVs
ISV attendees were listed as including Adobe, Atlassian, Cursor, Databricks, Glean, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Workday, and Zendesk.
Robotics & AVs
Robotics and AV attendees were listed as including Archetype AI, Boeing, Bosch, DeepMind Robotics, Lockheed Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Path Robotics, Physical Intelligence, Tesla, and Waymo.
Cloud, Hybrid & Server
Cloud, hybrid and server attendees were listed as including AWS, Coreweave, Dell, Google, HPE, Lambda, Meta, Microsoft, Nebius, and Oracle.
Compute
Compute attendees were listed as including AMD, Cadence, Cerebras, Cisco, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, SambaNova, Supermicro, and Synopsys.
Data Movement
Data movement attendees were listed as including Astera Labs, Ayar Labs, Celestica, Lightmatter, Marvell, Micron, Nokia, Samsung, Samtec, and SK Hynix.
Data Center
Data center attendees were listed as including CoreSite, DataBank, Digital Realty, Equinix, GridCare, Iron Mountain, NTT Data Centers, PG&E, QTS, and STACK Infrastructure.
Public posts about this edition
1 postQuoted word for word from public posts; each links to the original.
“Great conversation last week at the AI Infra Summit with Robert Hormuth and Nicholas Harris on the future of AI infrastructure.”
Andrew Wheeler, HPE
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Featured speakers
6 listedJeff Dean
Chief Scientist & Technical Lead, Gemini · Google
Lip-Bu Tan
CEO · Intel
Ian Buck
VP, Hyperscale & HPC Computing · NVIDIA
Peter DeSantis
SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon & Quantum Computing · Amazon
Santosh Janardhan
Head of Infrastructure · Meta
Karan Batta
SVP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure · Oracle
What attendees say
“The AI Infra Summit is the perfect place to gain extensive knowledge of the top innovations and, future roadmap in the AI Infra community.”
“If you're serious about staying ahead in AI, this is where you'll find the critical insights, the latest innovations, and the connections that truly move the field forward.”
“The AI Infra Summit was truly exceptional in bridging the critical gap between AI hardware innovation and practical enterprise implementation.”
Questions people ask
7 answeredThe next edition, AI Infra Summit 2027, is scheduled for Aug 31 - Sept 2, 2027 in San Jose, CA.
AI Infra Summit 2026 took place September 15–17, 2026.
AI Infra Summit was billed as drawing about 8,000 attendees, 400 speakers, and 250 partners across 8 stages.
AI Infra Summit 2026 was held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara.
Attendees were listed as spanning enterprise buyers such as Airbus, JP Morgan, and Walmart; model builders such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta; ISVs such as Adobe, Databricks, and Snowflake; and infrastructure vendors across compute, cloud, and data centers such as NVIDIA, AWS, and Equinix.
It is most useful for infrastructure engineers, data center and silicon specialists, and enterprise buyers of AI hardware, since the summit focuses on the infrastructure layer and listed attendees from NVIDIA, AMD, Equinix, Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI, plus main stage speakers from Google, Intel, Amazon and Oracle. With 8,000 attendees, 400 speakers and 250 partners across 8 stages as billed, it also suits vendors seeking a broad buyer pool; application developers and general business audiences would find the hardware focus narrower than they need.
Comfortable shoes are worthwhile for a large convention center with 8 stages and an expo.
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