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With Ivan Burazin (Founder/CEO, Daytona), Aayush Shah (Founder, Blacksmith), Anu Srivastava (Dir. Cloud Engg, Oracle), Jeremy Mendez (AI Cloud Architect, Oracle).
Jun 23 (Tue) @ 05:30 PM       FREE
Venue, To Be Announced

 
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An event dedicated to exploring all things AI Engineering!

Event partners: Oracle & Datadog

Agenda
5:30 pm - 5:40 pm
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Marijan Cipcic, Principal Events Manager at Daytona

5:40 pm - 6:00 pm
Talk "Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox"
Ivan Burazin, Co-Founder & CEO of Daytona

Outline:
Teams are reaching for Kubernetes to run agent sandboxes, & it's the wrong tool. Kubernetes is built to keep things alive & hold them in a steady state. A sandbox is born, forked, & killed before any of that machinery catches up.

The mismatch compounds because the sandbox keeps gaining requirements without shedding any. In eighteen months it went from a fast code-snippet runner, to a stateful box for long-running agents, to ten thousand ephemeral environments that fork for RL rollouts & die in under a second. It has to be all of those at once, a contradiction set no orchestrator was designed to hold.

The cost shows up the moment you measure it. We ran the same 50-action bug-fix trajectory across five stacks & got a 12x spread: 12.9s on the fastest, 161.5s on the slowest. The gap isn't compute, it's lifecycle overhead per action. We name every stack & explain the mechanism behind each number.

6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Talk "Architecture of Tomorrow: Why OCI"
Anu Srivastava, Director - Cloud Engineering at Oracle & Jeremy Mendez, Principal Cloud Architect - AI Cloud Services, Oracle

Outline:
Cloud infrastructure is evolving rapidly as organizations face increasing demands for performance, scalability, data sovereignty, & AI workloads. In this session, we'll take a practical look at how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is addressing these challenges through its architecture & platform capabilities.

We'll explore OCI's networking & performance architecture, global infrastructure footprint, & growing AI ecosystem, including support for leading foundation models. We'll also discuss different approaches to building AI-powered applications, from training custom models to deploying & integrating pre-trained models into existing systems.

This talk aims to provide architectural insights, lessons learned, & real-world considerations for engineers, architects, & technology leaders evaluating cloud platforms for modern workloads.

6:20 pm - 6:40 pm
Talk "TBA"
Speaker from Datadog - TBA

Outline:
TBA

6:40 pm - 6:50 pm
Talk "How AI Changes CI"
Aayush Shah, Co-Founder at Blacksmith

Outline:
AI has exploded the volume of code hitting CI - more agents, more PRs, more tests - & more waiting. Blacksmith is building the infrastructure layer that keeps up: faster machines, smarter storage, & a coding agent that fixes failing checks so your PRs stay green. Come hear how the AI generating all this code can also keep CI from becoming the bottleneck.

6:50 pm - 8:30 pm
Networking
With pizzas & beverages

About event

This is dynamic gathering for AI enthusiasts, innovators, & professionals to collaborate, share ideas, & explore the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Whether you're building AI products, researching cutting-edge algorithms, or simply passionate about the field, join us to connect, learn, & drive the future of AI forward.

Please bring a valid ID & make sure to register on Luma using your legal name for building security purposes.
 
 
 
 
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