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The Golden Age of Software Engineering | Scott Wu, Cognition | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded two and a half years ago, global firm Cognition leverages its autonomous AI agent, Devin, to generate 90% of committed code while scaling engineering output tenfold with only a 40% headcount increase. By closing the full software development lifecycle autonomously, the company enables asynchronous, event-driven workflows that effectively add 130 engineers to every 1,000-person team through a 10:1 human-to-AI ratio. This shift toward outcome-based delivery signals the imminent "Golden Age of Software Engineering," where the primary constraint moves from labor availability to identifying complex problems worth solving.
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Dr. Ilya Burkov (Nebius): Powering Next‑Gen Biotech Research with High‑Performance AI and Cloud GPUs
Nebius, a vertically integrated Dutch cloud provider, leverages its unique pay-as-you-go infrastructure and top-tier supercomputer ranking to support biotech and healthcare firms in overcoming hardware bottlenecks. The platform enables critical advancements in drug discovery and radiology diagnostics for organizations like Converge Bio and Simulacra AI, which achieved significant accuracy gains and speedups over hyperscaler alternatives by utilizing on-demand H100 GPU capacity. Looking toward 2025, the company aims to expand its global footprint by integrating agentic AI and multi-omics data processing to address workforce shortages and accelerate time-to-market for new treatments.
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Yuri Frayman, Co-Founder & CEO, Cast AI: Robots Will Feed the World… If We Build the Rails
SoftBank Vision Fund portfolio companies are constructing the physical infrastructure necessary to transition AI from knowledge work into the global economy, aiming to replicate the prosperity seen with previous industrial revolutions. While addressing critical constraints in energy and compute, these initiatives prioritize workforce re-education and decentralized, open-source architectures to navigate regulatory fragmentation and ensure fair access against well-funded commercial labs. The deployment of large-scale, cloud-agnostic inference networks over the next decade will ultimately determine which entities successfully harness this AI abundance.
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Karl Havard, COO, Nscale on 3 Things Sovereign AI Must Deliver: Control, Compliance, and Growth
Carl, CCO of Nscale, defines "sovereign AI" as a full-stack alternative to US hyperscalers that integrates energy generation, data center construction, and model hosting to ensure total infrastructure control. Geopolitical instability and US legislative threats, such as the Patriot Act and potential tariffs, are driving European governments to adopt this "Sovereign First" model to secure data compliance and economic growth through localized "AI Growth Zones." By coordinating renewable energy surpluses with high-density AI hardware requirements, this strategy aims to retain domestic research talent and bypass the physical and legal vulnerabilities of reliance on foreign cloud providers.
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Ramine Roane, CVP @ AMD: Unlocking the Next Wave of AI Open Foundations for Intelligent Systems
AMD outlines a strategic pivot where AI intelligence growth now relies on distributed compute across pre-training, post-training, and reasoning inference, supported by a hardware roadmap featuring the MI350 and MI400 series with superior memory capacity compared to competitors. The company promotes an open software ecosystem via the ROCm stack and optimized inference architectures like LMD, which are already deployed in top global supercomputers and sovereign data centers in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. By advocating for multi-vendor strategies and open standards, AMD aims to establish a global industrial-scale foundation for AI that prevents single-supplier dependency while delivering performance metrics that exceed current closed-source alternatives.
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Craig Tavares, President of BuzzHPC: The Global Contest for AI Sovereignty
Craig Taveras, President and CEO of BuzzHPC, leads a Canadian-owned sovereign GPU cloud provider that constructs power-dense, hydroelectric-powered infrastructure to ensure domestic data control against foreign legal influences like the U.S. Cloud Act. Responding to a 4x increase in rack density and a shift from air to liquid cooling, the company deploys over 300 megawatts of capacity to support high-performance AI workloads while addressing critical national talent retention in Montreal, Toronto, and Alberta. This sovereign approach combines accelerated government funding with strict Protected B compliance to offer enterprises a unified, secure environment for training and hosting applications that traditional cloud providers cannot guarantee.
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Jack Collier, Chief Growth & Marketing Manager, IO.Net: Why Open Models Need Open Infrastructure
A recent analysis identifies a critical infrastructure bottleneck where centralized control of compute power and API dominance force 70% of users toward closed-source models despite 83% preferring open alternatives. To dismantle these barriers, io.net leverages a global distributed network of over 1,000 GPUs to slash costs from $15 to $3.50 per million tokens while offering transparent, blockchain-verified access for training and inference. The platform is further expanding its ecosystem through a new "Training as a Service" feature and an inaugural hackathon, aiming to accelerate the shift toward a permissionless, decentralized AI future.
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Tanuja Randery, Managing Director EMEA of AWS: Unlocking the AI Mindset
Tanuja Randery, Tineja Ranjari
A global presentation highlighted that AI adoption is outpacing mobile growth, with companies like Amazon and British Telecom reporting hundreds of millions in savings through generative coding agents. While the European market faces a critical talent shortage, AWS outlined its strategy to bridge this gap by training millions of individuals and launching a sovereign cloud infrastructure to ensure data security. The event concluded by urging organizations to accelerate from experimental pilots to high-impact deployments in sectors like healthcare and manufacturing to unlock the projected €600 billion economic potential.
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Liran Zvibel, Cofounder, CEO of WEKA: Rise of the Token Economy The New Economics of AI
Scheduled for 2025, this event frames the fourth industrial revolution as the dawn of artificial general intelligence, shifting focus from pattern matching to reasoning models that distinguish true AGI capabilities from simple skill replication. Industry leaders and technical experts will address the critical economic divergence between massive training expenditures and the urgent need for cost-efficient inference, highlighting how latency and tokenomics currently dictate profitability. Strategic infrastructure solutions, including server elasticity and pre-fill disaggregation, will be presented as the essential mechanisms for enabling sustainable, just-in-time AI deployment while securing the industry's path to mass adoption.
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Alex Laubscher, CTO of Windsurf: Engineering at the Speed of Change
Alex Laubscher, Dimitris Bontolos
Windsurf has transitioned from a basic coding tool to an AI agentic IDE, rapidly evolving to enable enterprises to write approximately 90% of their code while tackling complex legacy systems through advanced retrieval and memory capabilities. The platform supports this high-velocity adaptation by integrating design files, reducing project iteration times from months to days as seen with partners like Ferrovial, and targeting a 99% productivity increase in software engineering. To secure global enterprise adoption, the company recently established a Frankfurt data center to guarantee GDPR and FedRAMP compliance, ensuring data sovereignty for clients in sensitive sectors while preparing to scale from 100 to hundreds of large European organizations.
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Alison Wagonfeld @ Google Cloud: Marketing in the AI Era
Google Cloud marketing is pivoting from theoretical planning to active AI execution, targeting key challenges like staffing shortages and budget constraints through tools such as generative asset creation and the VO3 video model. This shift has redirected 75% of team focus toward strategic work while replacing expensive traditional production with self-service agents and real-time personalization features like location-aware digital billboards. As the industry enters a predicted "golden age of marketing," leaders are urged to embrace these transformative capabilities beyond simple workflow digitization to redefine customer interaction within the next two years.
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DDN President, Paul Bloch: AI is the Pivot -- Data is the Power
Paul Bloch, co-founder of DDN, outlined the emerging fifth industrial revolution at the Paris Race Summit, emphasizing that while Nvidia dominates training, the industry is rapidly pivoting toward massive inference farms and sovereign AI infrastructure across Europe. DDN addresses this shift by managing the critical data layer for AI factories scaling to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, with its new Infinia product demonstrating a 22x acceleration in time-to-result and significant cost savings for clients like XAI and Google. As European nations invest billions in data sovereignty and global competitors race to deploy million-GPU clusters, the summit highlighted that human expertise remains essential to stabilize these complex systems while accelerating deployment across healthcare, finance, and energy sectors.
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Windsurf CTO, Alex Laubscher: Engineering at the Speed of Change
Alex Laubscher, Dimitris Bontolos
Windsurf has evolved from an autocomplete tool into an agentic IDE, leveraging a million-user base and strategic partnerships with major enterprises like JPMorgan and Dell to navigate the shift from AI adoption to continuous adaptation. The platform drives efficiency in complex legacy environments by integrating real-time context from tools like Figma and Slack while meeting strict security standards through FedRAMP accreditation and a new Frankfurt data center. Recent deployments, such as the infrastructure case study with Ferrovial, demonstrate how these advanced retrieval capabilities compress development timelines from months to days, reinforcing the company's focus on high-value brownfield modernization over consumer applications.
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Keynote by Christopher Savoie, Zapata AI CEO | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Zapata, a public company spun from Harvard, deploys an edge-native architecture using tensor networks and specialized small model ensembles to solve latency and cost constraints for enterprise AI. The firm demonstrated this capability by implementing a 60-model system on Formula 1 cars that accurately predicted race disruptions in real-time, alongside a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank for financial trading applications. By leveraging military-grade hardware to process streaming data locally, Zapata enables high-precision predictions in biomanufacturing, racing, and finance without reliance on unstable cloud connectivity.
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Keynote by Carla Bünger & Thomas Taroni, CEOs of KORE & Phoenix Technologies | RAISE Summit 2024
QANDA AI is launching a 1,500-square-meter Innovation Center in Basel, Switzerland, to facilitate collaboration with partners like IBM, Red Hat, and Meta while addressing the security risks of US-based cloud infrastructure. The platform leverages sovereign cloud architecture on IBM Watson X to ensure strict data control, enabling enterprises in sensitive sectors such as Swiss banking and luxury goods to deploy generative models that combat brand dilution and misinformation. By prioritizing cost-efficient, hybrid infrastructure with real-time access governance, the initiative allows organizations to process petabytes of data locally without exposing proprietary information to foreign jurisdictions.