AMD Advancing AI 2026
About the Event
AMD Advancing AI 2026 is AMD's flagship annual developer, customer, and partner conference, held July 22 to 23, 2026 at the Moscone Center (Moscone West) in San Francisco and livestreamed on AMD's YouTube channel. Now in its third year, the conference is headlined by AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su, whose keynote opens Thursday, July 23 at 9:30 AM PT. The event centers on AMD's end-to-end AI stack, from silicon to software, and expects more than 1,000 developers alongside enterprise leaders and ecosystem partners.
Programming Focus
- AMD Instinct MI450 accelerators and the Helios rack-scale AI system
- Zen 6-based EPYC "Venice" server CPUs
- ROCm open software stack and AMD Enterprise AI software
- AI-factory networking: scaling from AI clusters to distributed production, Ethernet transport, and Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC)
- Agentic AI and sovereign AI infrastructure
- Infrastructure TCO, power, and density constraints
- Rack-scale to distributed deployment blueprints, hands-on developer workshops, and open-source AI infrastructure
Featured Speakers
AMD:
- Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO (opening keynote)
- Mark Papermaster, EVP and CTO, Technology and Engineering
- Vamsi Boppana, SVP, AI
- Dan McNamara, SVP and GM, Compute and Enterprise AI
- Salil Raje, SVP and GM, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group
- Rahul Tikoo, SVP and GM, Client Business Unit
- Anush Elangovan, CVP, AI Software
- Sharon Zhou, VP of Engineering and AI
Ecosystem partners:
- Trish Damkroger, SVP and GM, HPC and AI Business Unit, HPE
- Tarkan Maner, Chief Commercial Officer, Nutanix
- Vik Malyala, Chief Business Officer, Supermicro
- Darrick Horton, Founder and CEO, TensorWave
- Kevin Cochrane, CMO, Vultr
- Art Baudo, Head of EC2 Product Marketing, AWS
- Alistair Speirs, GM, Azure Infrastructure, Microsoft
- Varun Chhabra, SVP, Product Marketing, Dell Technologies
- Prith Banerjee, SVP, Innovation, Synopsys
AI luminaries (developer track):
- George Hotz, Founder, tiny corp
- Chris Lattner, Co-founder and CEO, Modular
- Simon Mo, Co-founder and CEO, Inferact (vLLM)
- Ying Sheng, Co-founder and CEO, RadixArk (SGLang)
- Matt White, Global CTO of AI, Linux Foundation, and CTO, PyTorch Foundation
Sponsors
Visionary: AWS, Dell Technologies, HPE, Microsoft, Nutanix, Sanmina, Supermicro, TensorWave, Vultr
Innovator: Bull, Crusoe, DigitalOcean, Lenovo, Oracle, Red Hat
Catalyst: Arista, ASRock Rack, Celestica, Cisco, Cohere, Compal, Gigabyte, HP Inc., IBM, MiTAC, MSI, Phanos.AI, VAST Data
Ambassador: Acer, Advantech, Aivres, Akash Systems, Astera Labs, ASUS, Broadcom, CDW, CIQ, Cloudera, Core Scientific, DriveNets, EvergridAI, Google Cloud, Hyve Solutions, Ingram Micro, Insight, Micas Networks, Micron, OneQode, Pegatron, Pure Storage, Samsung, Scale Computing, Schneider Electric, SHI, SUSE, Synopsys/Ansys, Tech Mahindra, Wiwynn
Who Should Attend
- AI and ML engineers and software developers
- Data scientists and researchers
- Enterprise AI and infrastructure leaders
- Data center operators and cloud providers
- Hardware and systems partners (OEMs and ISVs)
Logistics
- Free to attend; registration required
- In-person at Moscone West, San Francisco, plus livestream on AMD's YouTube channel
- Keynote: Thursday, July 23, 2026, 9:30 AM PT