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AI Infra Signal - Build, Operate & Monetize Intelligence
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| With Biwei Huang (Founder, Aether AI), Dexter Horthy (Founder, HumanLayer), Tianyi Zhang (Researcher, Together AI), Xiaomin Li (Research Scientist, Microsoft), Yash More (Cohere), Harshit Joshi (Stanford SAIL). |
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Sep 12 (Sat) @ 02:00 PM
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The whole stack is still moving - the models, the systems that train them, the systems that run them in production. None of it has settled yet.
Most AI events optimize for volume. This one optimizes for depth - a room with the size enough that every conversation starts already past the introductions, built around the open questions speakers are still working through, not the ones they've solved.
First Speaker Lineup
Tianyi Zhang - AI Researcher @ Together AI
Harshit Joshi - CS Phd @ Stanford SAIL
Yuexing Hao - Researcher @ Microsoft & Postdoc @ MIT & Founder of MatrAIx AI
Xiaomin Li - Senior Research Scientist @ Microsoft
Biwei Huang - Founder @ Aether AI & Assistant Professor @ UC San Diego
Yash More - Member of Technical Staff @ Cohere
Dexter Horthy - Founder @HumanLayer (YCF24)
More speakers confirming!
What's Being Debated Across the Stack
Compute, training infrastructure
Inference, agent infrastructure
Reliability, evals, & recursive self improvements
Data, security, & enterprise deployment
Frontier research shaping what comes next
Why join us:
Three keynote-length talks + Eight lightning talks more move fast across two tracks: AI Data / Infra + Researcher Topics
Every talk ends with something unresolved. Those open questions carry straight into the salon & the demo floor
100 people, application-only: founders, frontier researchers, enterprise infrastructure leaders, & infra-focused investors
An hour & a half on the demo floor - built for the conversations that start after the talks end
Format:
Panel Discussion - The future if AI Infra, Agent token-economics & models
Keynote Block - 3 companies, extended time to go deep
Lightning Talks I - AI Infra & Data (4 companies)
Lightning Talks II - Research Topics (4 companies)
Technical Salon - researchers, founders, enterprise leaders & investors on what's structurally becoming the bottleneck
Demo Floor - booths, food & drinks, direct conversations
Schedule:
2:00 PM - Doors open, coffee & booth preview
3:00 PM - Opening
3:10 PM - Technical panel
3:40 PM - Keynote block
4:20 PM - Lightning Talks I: AI Infrastructure & Data
4:45 PM - Lightning Talks II: Research
5:10 PM - Technical salon
5:45-7:00 PM - Demo floor, food & drinks
Who should apply:
Founders & CTOs building infrastructure, researchers from frontier labs, enterprise leaders deploying AI at scale, & investors focused on infrastructure. This isn't for general AI enthusiasts - it's for people building or deciding at the infrastructure layer.
Researchers / Technical Builders -= Frontier lab researchers, PhDs, postdocs, & engineers working on AI systems, distributed training, inference, & agent infrastructure.
Strategic Partners - Sponsors Infrastructure providers, developer platforms, compute & cloud partners, & ecosystem partners looking to connect with a curated pipeline of AI infrastructure founders.
Founders Startup Teams - AI infrastructure, agent systems, inference & serving, training infrastructure, data & security, & frontier AI application startups.
Investors / VCs - Pre-seed to Series B infrastructure investors, technical VCs, & angels looking for early access to high-quality AI infrastructure companies.
100 spots. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
Join as Speakers
11 spots - 3 keynote, 8 lightning talk, across AI infrastructure, data, & frontier research. If you're building or researching at the infrastructure layer & want to present, reach out to the OpenStages team at partnership@openstagesai.com.
Join as Strategic Partners
Community Partner Enterprise Startups Investors
Strategic partners get direct access to a curated pipeline of AI infrastructure founders, the researchers & technical builders shaping the space, & structured follow-up after the event. Reach out to the OpenStages team at partnership@openstagesai.com.
Why AI Infra Signal
AI infrastructure is moving from research prototypes into production systems - real deployments, real reliability constraints, real scale problems. This gathering brings together the founders, researchers, investors, & strategic partners actively shaping that transition: from lab benchmark to production system, from experimental architecture to infrastructure enterprises depend on.
About the host:
OpenStages is a Bay Area team that plans & hosts curated events for founders & builders: hackathons, salons, & closed-door sessions across AI & tech. LinkedIn openstagesai.com
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