About this Event
A free, in-person event for technologists, builders and engineers exploring what's next in AI infrastructure and security.
No product demos. No pitches. Just sharing practical insights and real-world experiences shaping the future of AI infrastructure, security and innovation.
Spots are limited. RSVP to save your seat: https://thevelocityroom.com/tvr-signal-series-san-francisco
Agenda
🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Opening Session
Info: Defining AI Strategy
Tom Edwards, EY
🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Designing AI-Ready Data Centers
Info: Zane Niyazbekov, Infrastructure Supply Development Manager, AWS
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Networking Lunch: Shape the Closing AMA
Info: During lunch, you'll have the opportunity to share and rank your top questions about what's most critical to the future of AI infrastructure. We'll bring the community's questions back to the stage for the final AMA, giving you a direct role in shaping the closing panel discussion.
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM
Security Session
Info: Details coming soon
🕑: 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM
Transforming Industrial Infrastructure for Edge Compute and Physical AI
Info: An engaging fireside chat on the industry needs, trends, and challenges, illustrating how companies need to address and are using edge compute and AI in real-world applications in the industrial and energy sector.
Christine Boles, Founder, MC Consulting Services
🕑: 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM
Community Case Study
Info: A candid look at standing up an AI function inside a national behavioral health organization, where every deployment has to hold up under HIPAA and prove its value with real data. Expect lessons from production LLM systems, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows and LLM evaluation, with a focus on building secure, governed AI that teams actually adopt.
Joseph Bisaccia, Lead AI Engineer, Behavior Frontiers (BFHQ)
🕑: 02:45 PM - 03:00 PM
Break
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM
Preventing AI Systems From Turning Into Autonomous Insiders
Info: Cal examines how to prevent AI systems from turning into autonomous insiders. His focus is the unglamorous middle ground of AI work: not the model itself but everything around it, including orchestration, observability and the human judgment that decides whether an AI system can be trusted in production.
Cal Al-Dhubaib, Principal Technologist, Rubrik
🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM
Community AMA
Info: Ask Me Anything with Technical Leaders — Open Q&A on AI infrastructure roadmaps and best practices
Facilitator: Tom Edwards, EY
🕑: 04:15 PM - 05:00 PM
Closing & Happy Hour – Networking
Event venue & nearby stays
SPIN San Francisco, 690 Folsom Street, San Francisco, United States
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