AI Centers of Data: Scaling for the Agentic Era – Main Stage Keynote
What does it take to build optimal AI centers of data in the generative and agentic era? Enterprises must weigh economic impact, bandwidth growth, and architectures that scale up, out, and across electrons and photons. At the foundation is Ethernet, with the access front end serving as the feeder to the AI fabric. Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and Arista Networks and one of Silicon Valley’s most successful innovators and investors, will share his view of how the Enterprise AI market will proceed — and with Andy’s track record, his guesses are better than most people’s facts.
Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim is Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Arista Networks. He is responsible for advanced AI, silicon and optics initiatives. Previously Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures.
Andy received a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a doctoral student in Computer Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, the EY 2015 US Entrepreneur of the Year Award (together with Jayshree Ullal) and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
