AI Infra Summit 2026
About the Event
AI Infra Summit is Kisaco Research's flagship conference for the technical foundations of AI systems, covering production-level infrastructure challenges across the full AI stack. The 2026 edition runs September 15-17, 2026 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, with projected attendance of 8,000. The event is the evolution of the AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit under a new name reflecting broader data center and infrastructure coverage.
Programming Focus. Content is organized across five technical tracks: AI Data Center, Compute, Data & Models, Data Movement, and Physical AI. Topics span compute silicon and accelerators, optical interconnect and networking, data center facility design for AI workloads, power and thermal management for high-density racks, model infrastructure and serving, and physical AI and embodied systems.
Keynote Speakers. Lip-Bu Tan, CEO, Intel. Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist, Google. Monique Picou, Chief Product Supply Officer, Google. Ori Goshen, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, AI21 Labs. Prashant Mehrotra, EVP and Chief AI Officer, U.S. Bank. Kripa Krishnan, VP Meta AI Infrastructure, Meta. Ivan Poupyrev, CEO, Archetype AI. Arun Nandi, Chief Data and AI Officer, Carrier. Ram Nagappan, VP AI Infrastructure, Oracle. Chelle Izzi, CCO, PG&E. Chris Dolan, Chief Data Center Officer, Crusoe. Keith Sarbaugh, EVP and Chief Digital Officer, Zoetis.
Platinum Sponsors. Ayar Labs, Broadcom, Cognichip, Credo, d-Matrix, Eridu, Kove, Lambda, Lightmatter, Marvell, Mirantis, Qualcomm, Siemens, Solidigm, and Western Digital.
Who Should Attend. AI infrastructure architects and engineers at hyperscalers and enterprises. Data center developers and operators building AI-optimized facilities. Silicon, networking, optics, and storage vendors. Power and cooling engineers designing for high-density AI racks. ML platform and model infrastructure teams. Investors and analysts tracking AI compute capacity.
Logistics. Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Three-day program September 15-17, 2026. Organized by Kisaco Research.