Building the AI Foundation Advantage: How Open Infrastructure and Strategic Partnerships Accelerate Enterprise AI
Building the AI Foundation Advantage: How Open Infrastructure and Strategic Partnerships Accelerate Enterprise AI
Lunch @ EPIC Steak, San Francisco
Wednesday, July 22nd
@ 12:00 – 2:00 PT
Join us to gain fresh perspectives, build valuable connections, and leave inspired to lead your organization into the future of enterprise AI.
About the Content
Deploying AI at scale requires more than powerful models. It requires the right ecosystem.
As enterprises move from pilots to production, success increasingly depends on how effectively they connect infrastructure, software, cloud services, and strategic partners. Organizations are looking for ways to accelerate deployment, simplify operations, and maximize returns on existing investments while maintaining flexibility for future AI innovation.
Based on themes from AMD’s AI inference and open ecosystem strategy, including open frameworks, OpenAI-compliant deployments, and optimized AI software stacks, this panel will explore how ecosystems and collaboration are becoming a competitive advantage.
Join leaders from AMD, an OEM partner, and customers as they discuss real-world approaches to deploying AI across enterprise and cloud environments.
Learn how customers can reduce complexity, speed time-to-value, and create scalable platforms for generative AI, RAG, recommendation systems, and emerging AI applications. Whether you’re evaluating your first deployment or scaling globally, this session will provide practical insights into building an AI-ready ecosystem for long-term success.
The conversation will explore how enterprises can successfully bring together hardware, software, cloud services, and ecosystem partners to move AI initiatives from pilot to production.
The panel is designed for enterprise IT leaders, cloud architects, CSPs, and customers evaluating AI infrastructure investments.
Discussion Topics
- Building the right AI ecosystem:
How can enterprises align hardware, software, cloud, and partner strategies to accelerate AI deployment and reduce complexity? - Moving from pilots to production:
What practical steps help organizations scale AI initiatives faster while maximizing existing infrastructure investments? - Preparing for inference at scale:
How should enterprise architectures evolve to support real-time AI, high-volume inference, and performance-sensitive workloads? - Enabling agentic AI workflows:
What new infrastructure, governance, and orchestration requirements will emerge as agentic AI becomes part of enterprise operations?
Agenda (in PT)
12:00 PM Arrival, Registration & Welcome Networking
12:20 PM Seating & First Course Served
12:30 PM Short Presentation
12:45 PM Moderated Panel Discussion & Audience Q/A (Lunch Served)
1:45 PM Panel / Interactive Discussion Concludes & Dessert Served
2:00 PM Event Concludes
12:00
Arrival, Registration & Welcome Networking
12:20
Seating & First Course Served
12:30
Short Presentation
12:45
Moderated Panel Discussion & Audience Q/A (Lunch Served)
1:45
Interactive Discussion Concludes & Dessert Served
2:00
Event Concludes
Who's Attending
Objectives
Gain practical insight from peers and practitioners on how enterprises are evolving virtualization to support AI workloads, data growth, and hybrid cloud environments.
Exchange perspectives with infrastructure, IT, and cloud leaders on managing cost, complexity, and flexibility as virtualization shifts toward a cloud-like operating model.
Participate in a focused, peer-to-peer discussion over a private lunch designed to encourage candid dialogue and meaningful professional connections.
About the Venue
EPIC Steak
369 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105
Situated on the waterfront of San Francisco’s Embarcadero—with panoramic views of the Bay Bridge, Treasure Island, and city skyline—EPIC Steak is a modern American steakhouse that showcases expertly prepared cuts of prime dry aged meats, along with a selection of fresh caught seafood, complemented by an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. Chef/Owner Parke Ulrich’s menu features modern interpretations of traditional steakhouse favorites, drawing inspiration from different preparations of meat from around the world.





Sponsor
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) drives innovation in high-performance and AI computing to solve the world’s most important challenges. Today, AMD technology powers billions of experiences across cloud and AI infrastructure, embedded systems, AI PCs and gaming. With a broad portfolio of AI-optimised CPUs, GPUs, networking and software, AMD delivers full-stack AI solutions that provide the performance and scalability needed for a new era of intelligent computing. Learn more at www.amd.com.
Organizer
Business Development Institute (BDI) is an award-winning event marketing agency specializing in producing invitation-only, thought leadership driven, custom events on the most impactful topics. BDI’s programs create an interactive peer learning experience while providing a rare networking opportunity for like-minded leaders. Learn more at bdionline.com.