Enterprise AI Pilots Fail Before Launch: Oracle’s Fix with Fusion Agentic Applications | Kaushal Kurapati | TFiR
Kaushal Kurapati, GVP of Applications Development at Oracle, explains how Fusion Agentic Applications use policy models, manual ...
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning discussions with industry leaders and practitioners. Covering AI infrastructure, large language models, GenAI adoption, MLOps, vector databases, AI security, and enterprise AI strategy from executives building real-world AI systems.
Sovereign AI Architecture: Controlling Inference, Model Weights, and Data | Christian Stano, Anyscale | TFiR
Christian Stano, Field CTO at Anyscale, breaks down why enterprises must own their inference layer, model weights, ...
Token Governance, AI Harnesses, and Bare Metal AI Infrastructure at Scale | Rob Hirschfeld, RackN | TFiR
Rob Hirschfeld of RackN explains why AI harnesses must come before model selection, why local GPU workstations ...
Distributed Cloud vs. Centralized Cloud for AI Inference | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR
Ari Weil of Akamai breaks down why centralized cloud deployments fail under production AI inference load, how ...
The Agentic Data Loop: Discover, Read, Write at Scale | Michel Tricot, Airbyte | TFiR
Michel Tricot, Founder and CEO at Airbyte, explains why MCP wrappers fail in production agentic systems, how ...
The Hidden Drivers of AI Inference Costs and How to Architect for Cost Control | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR
AI inference costs spiral in production through egress fees and cross-zone charges. Ari Weil, VP Product Marketing ...
90% of AI Agent Latency Isn’t the GPU | Jon Alexander, Akamai
Agentic AI loops compound latency exponentially in centralized cloud. Jon Alexander of Akamai explains why distributed inference ...
Why Centralized AI Inference Fails at Scale and How Distributed Edge Infrastructure Fixes It | Dr. Robert Blumofe, Akamai | TFiR
Dr. Robert Blumofe, CTO at Akamai, explains why centralized GPU clusters cannot serve ubiquitous AI agent demand, ...
Why AI Compounds Cloud Cost Problems and How Java Runtime Tuning Fixes It | Peter Maloney, Azul | TFiR
Peter Maloney, CFO and COO at Azul, explains why AI compounds unoptimized cloud costs, why phase one ...
How to Run AWS Locally and Cut Cloud Dev Costs | Waldemar Hummer, LocalStack | TFiR
Waldemar Hummer explains how LocalStack runs the cloud locally, why AWS and Docker are partnering with the ...