Keynote – Building the Foundations: AI-Ready Infrastructure for the Digital Enterprise
Nick Lippis will kick off the AI Networking Summit with an insightful keynote on establishing robust, scalable, and secure AI-ready infrastructures. He will provide a comprehensive framework that sets the stage for the day’s discussions, exploring the crucial role of networking and security in supporting AI workloads. Emphasizing the need to reduce AI infrastructure capital expenditures (CapEx) and operational expenditures (OpEx), Nick will highlight how making AI more accessible and affordable can enable industries to achieve their own groundbreaking advancements, much like MSKCC in healthcare will show.
Who Should Attend:
- Enterprise business leaders
- Innovation and IT leaders
- Network and infrastructure architects
- Security professionals
- AI and data science practitioners
What You Will Learn:
- The essential components and strategies for building AI-ready infrastructure.
- How to address the compliance, security, and scalability challenges in AI integration.
- Key trends and innovations in networking and security that support AI workloads.
- Practical steps for accelerating AI adoption and driving business value.
- Strategies to reduce AI infrastructure CapEx and OpEx, enabling broader industry advancements.
- A cohesive framework that ties into subsequent keynotes on AI in healthcare, democratization of AI infrastructure, and AI ROI.
This keynote will provide a strong foundation for the morning’s sessions, including Tsvi Gal’s exploration of AI’s impact on healthcare at MSKCC, Soni Jiandani and Brad McCredie providing insights on democratizing AI infrastructure, Kevin Wollenweber’s discussion on data center networking at Cisco, and a final panel addressing AI ROI.
Nick Lippis is an authority on corporate computer networking. He has designed some for the largest computer networks in the world. He has advised many Global 2000 firms on network strategy, architecture, equipment, services and implementation including Hughes Aerospace, Barclays Bank, Kaiser Permanente, Eastman Kodak Company, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Liberty Mutual, Schering-Plough, Sprint, WorldCom, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and a wide range of other equipment suppliers and service providers.
Mr. Lippis is uniquely positioned to comment, analyze and observe computer networking industry trends and developments.
