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Bridging the gap between hardware and software in the age of AI

New workloads are fundamentally reshaping IT infrastructure, as accelerated hardware innovation is enabling more new workloads. How can you keep up in this rapid cycle of new AI models, new hardware, new software, and the race to be first to market?

The DCD Compute event series empowers leaders to make sharp decisions on IT infrastructure and AI deployment. Join 400+ peers from enterprise, hyperscale, and top IT infrastructure and architecture innovators to shape the future of compute—on-prem or in the cloud.

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400+ Decision-Makers for IT Infrastructure, Architecture, AI, HPC and Quantum Computing
60+ industry-leading speakers at the forefront of innovation across cloud and on-prem compute
3 co-located events focused on hardware, software, and data center evolution

Who attends DCD>Compute

On-Prem and Cloud IT Infrastructure

Chief Information Officer

Chief Technology Officer

Head of IT Infrastructure

Head of IT Operations

IT Director

VP - Data Centre IT

IT Project Manager

VP, IT, Global Head of Hybrid

Hardware Operations Engineer

VP Cloud AI and Advanced Systems Engineering

AI, HPC & Quantum

MD, AI Cloud

Head of AI Factory

Head of High Performance Computing

GenAI Lead

GenAI Technology Leader

Director of AI & Cloud Strategy

Global Director of AI & Innovation

Head of Quantum Computing

Global Head of Compute

Head of HPC Division

Head of Quantum Computing

Compute & Infrastructure Lead

Storage

Head of Storage

Storage Engineer

Head of Hardware and Storage

Networking & Interconnect

Head of Network Operations

Head of Network Architecture

Head of Network Services

SVP, Networking Infrastructure

Network Engineer

Network Architect

400+ Hardware & Software Decision-makers

60+ Industry-leading Speakers

3 co-located events

400+ Hardware & Software Decision-makers

60+ Industry-leading Speakers

3 co-located events

Our 2025 Speakers

Director, Infrastructure Strategy & Development, OpenAI

Independent Thought Leader, Hardware and Data Center Engineering

Vice President - Advanced Technology Innovation, Google

Technical Director - Systems Design, AMD

Head of Compliance and US Gov Network Engineering, Oracle

Global Director of AI & Innovation, Digital Realty

Chief Evangelist, VP of Business Development, Ampere

Founder & CEO, Tensorwave

HPC Division Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory

CEO, Sutor Group Intelligence and Advisory

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2025 Agenda Highlights

- March 25, 2025, 9:00 a.m. — 9:20 a.m.
- Compute Main Stage
- Compute
- Storage
- Networking
- Open Session
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Keith Heyde

Director, Infrastructure Strategy & Development, OpenAI

Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, DatacenterDynamics
Sebastian Moss

Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, DatacenterDynamics

Data center journalist, Editor-in-Chief, and Publisher at the world's largest digital infrastructure publication, DCD.
Send tips to sebastian.moss@datacenterdynamics.com

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Major Panel: Reading between the lines: Striking the XPU/GPU/CPU balance to adapt to AI inference workloads?

March 25, 2025, 3:20 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.

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Closing Major Panel: Between a rock and hard-ware place: How to stay ahead of obsolescence despite rising costs

March 25, 2025, 4:20 p.m. — 5:00 p.m.

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- March 25, 2025, 9:40 a.m. — 10:20 a.m.
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VP, Brand Evangelism, QTS Data Centers
David McCall

VP, Brand Evangelism, QTS Data Centers

David McCall is the VP of Brand Evangelism for QTS Data Centers. He is responsible for building teams, setting strategic goals, and serving as an evangelist for one of largest and fastest growing data center service providers in the United States. He has more than 14 years of solutions engineering experience in the data center, telecommunications, and internet technology industries.

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Chief Operations Officer- DC Infrastructure, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

Imran Latif

Chief Operations Officer- DC Infrastructure, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

Imran Latif is an engineering executive, presently, Chief Operations Officer at the US Dept of Energy Office of Science at Brookhaven National Lab where he leads the Infrastructure Operations of High Performance Computing Centers supporting the Global cutting-edge research collaborations on Physics, Life Sciences, Quantum, AI and HPC. Imran has over 20 years of leadership experience delivering large scale engineering, construction and sustainability projects.
Imran leads worldwide sustainability research with leading academia and tech companies. The research work is focused on solving the real-life energy issues in the mission critical facilities and developing the AI and ML based technologies to automate the sustainability processes. He is a subject matter expert in direct to chip and immersion cooling in data centers.

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Founder & CEO, Tensorwave
Darrick Horton

Founder & CEO, Tensorwave

Darrick Horton is the Founder and CEO of TensorWave, a leading AI compute and cloud solutions company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a serial entrepreneur, Darrick has successfully founded and led several technology startups, focusing on data center, cloud infrastructure, and semiconductor technology. His career also includes experience on Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works team, where he worked on nuclear fusion. Prior to that, he contributed to several research projects including NASA-funded plasma physics research as well as astrophysics research with the LIGO project.
Beyond his professional achievements, Darrick has served as the President of Engineers Without Borders, where he dedicated his efforts to supporting the development of disadvantaged communities worldwide.

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Chief Evangelist, VP of Business Development, Ampere

Sean Varley

Chief Evangelist, VP of Business Development, Ampere

Sean Varley is the Chief Evangelist and leader of ecosystem development and partner programs at Ampere. His group is responsible for go to market, messaging, strategy and execution of developer and partner ecosystem growth programs. The team covers marketing strategy, strategic business relationships, business planning and developer recruitment for Cloud Native Computing in the rapidly evolving Cloud and Edge server markets. Our goal is to provide Products and Solutions that showcase the disruptive advantage our unique Cloud-Native server processors provide to the market.

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Founder & CEO, Lemurian Labs
Jay Dawani

Founder & CEO, Lemurian Labs

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Srivatssan Srinivasan

Gen AI Technology Leader, Independent Thought Leader
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- March 25, 2025, 11:20 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
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Strategic Advisor
Nilesh Shah

Strategic Advisor

Nilesh drives Business Development at ZeroPoint Technologies. He advises several companies in the Semiconductor, Data Center AI and Memory space. He contributes regularly to standards bodies like SNIA, OCP, JEDEC, RISC-V, CXL Consortium. He is regularly invited to speak at Conferences, and has led multiple panels and featured in Analyst/ Press interviews.

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Compute, Storage, and Networking Editor at Datacenter Dynamics, DatacenterDynamics
Charlotte Trueman

Compute, Storage, and Networking Editor at Datacenter Dynamics, DatacenterDynamics

Charlotte is the Compute, Storage, and Networking Editor at DCD. Previously, she was a senior writer at IDG, writing for Computerworld, CIO, and NetworkWorld.

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March 25, 2025, 2:00 p.m. — 2:20 p.m.

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Presentation: Cutting-edge cooling: How microfluidics technology can transform cooling for the next generation of compute

March 25, 2025, 2:40 p.m. — 3:00 p.m.

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Gary Grider

HPC Division Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Technical Director - Systems Design, AMD

J Metz

Technical Director - Systems Design, AMD

J is a Technical Director for Systems Design for AMD and holds several roles of influence in the tech industry. He is currently serving his 4th term as Chair of the Board of Directors of SNIA, as well as the inaugural Chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium formed in 2023.
Recognized as a leading storage networking expert, J is an evangelist for all related technologies and has a unique ability to dissect and explain complex concepts and strategies. He is passionate about the inner workings and application of emerging technologies. He does so by coordinating and leading strategic initiatives related to systems architecture, including storage and networking.
J has previously held roles in both the startup ecosystem and Fortune 100 companies as a Field CTO, R&D Engineer, Solutions Architect, and Systems Engineer. His extensive leadership across several key industry standards groups, SNIA, and former board member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA), and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe). He was crucial in the founding of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), one of the fastest-growing projects in the Linux Foundation.
J is a sought-after entertaining presenter and a prolific writer. He has won multiple awards as a speaker and author, writing over 300 articles and giving presentations and webinars attended by over 10,000 people.
A popular blogger and active on X, his areas of expertise include high-performance storage and networking solutions. He earned his PhD from the University of Georgia.

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Director of AI Technology, Solidigm
Alan Bumgarner

Director of AI Technology, Solidigm

Alan Bumgarner began his career at Intel Corporation in Folsom, CA more than 20 years ago. Since then, his roles included front line technical support, remote server management of multiple Intel datacenters, product/channel/technical marketing, field sales, and strategic product planning and management. These roles took him from California, to New Jersey, Texas, and Oregon, and finally back to Folsom, CA. Alan currently holds a position as Director of AI Technology for Storage Products in Solidigm’s Datacenter Products Group. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Systems from the University of Phoenix. In his free time he likes to ski/bike/hike, work on cars and enjoys cooking.

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