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From Metal to Model: Why Operations Win the AI Infrastructure Race | Mirantis | RAISE Summit 2026
Mirantis is launching Cordoned AI, a metal-to-model platform designed to address the shift toward inference-dominated workloads where hardware commoditization makes operational full-stack ownership the primary competitive advantage. The event highlights how rising failure rates in massive GPU clusters necessitate advanced observability and rigorous process procedures to reduce downtime and control costs. By enabling dynamic management of both CPU and GPU resources through an open architecture, the solution aims to support the diverse latency and throughput requirements of modern AI infrastructure.
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The Token-per-Watt Era: What's Next for AI Hyperscalers | Nebius x Accel | RAISE Summit 2026
Roman Chernin, Philippe Botteri
Nebius, an AI-specialized cloud provider led by Chief Business Officer Roman Tchernin, marks its second anniversary as an independent entity with shares rising tenfold following its IPO. The company targets the projected $11 trillion global investment in AI infrastructure by offering a vertically integrated stack ranging from bare metal for hyperscalers to managed inference for AI-native startups. Nebius anticipates that true enterprise adoption beyond current exceptions like fintech firms remains unrealized and aims to future-proof its platform by shifting pricing models toward billing for solved tasks rather than raw compute hours.
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Fireside Chat with Matan Grinberg, Founder & CEO of Factory | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded in 2023 by ex-physics PhD Matan Grinberg, Factory operates as a model-agnostic router that enables enterprises to deploy fully on-premises autonomous software agents directly within existing developer workflows. The company rapidly scaled from ten to ten thousand users within months by offering a cost-effective alternative to vendor lock-in, notably accelerating legacy COBOL migration and allowing sovereign data deployments for regulated industries. Backed by investors including Sequoia and Avant Capital, Factory currently automates both software engineering tasks and emerging non-software productivity use cases while predicting a future dominance of open models over frontier closed ones.
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From Megawatts to Gigawatts: Building the AI Factories | Lenovo x NVIDIA | RAISE Summit 2026
John Donovan, David Hogan, Roxanne Varza
John of Lenovo and David of NVIDIA are advancing a deep engineering partnership to construct gigawatt-scale "AI factories" that integrate hardware, power infrastructure, and software optimization to address a projected global capacity doubling. Their four-stage deployment framework, which spans from conceptual design to post-launch model orchestration, specifically targets the European market's urgent need to close a 12-month GPU access gap while navigating complex regulatory and energy constraints. By combining Lenovo's global manufacturing scale with NVIDIA's regional expertise, the initiative aims to transform Europe into a sovereign AI hub capable of leveraging unique domain data for next-generation robotics and industrial applications.
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2035 Decoded: Navigating the Decade Ahead | Dust, Glean & More | RAISE Summit 2026
Gabriel Hubert, Eve Bodnia, Arvind Jain, Nico Laqua, Raphaelle D'Ornano, Chris Blundell
Projected as a 10-to-15-year strategic journey, the panel outlines how enterprises must prioritize context graphs and data ownership over specific models to navigate the divergence between the 125 projected S&P 500 winners and the majority of firms unable to transition to agentic workflows. While Large Language Models dominate creative tasks, the future architecture will integrate Energy-Based Models for critical reasoning, demanding talent with advanced systems thinking to manage non-deterministic risks in sectors like finance and robotics. Long-term competitive advantage will ultimately accrue to organizations that retain control over system specifications and leverage human oversight to compound value through defensible data moats.
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AI Transformation Playbook: Practical Lessons from our AI-First Journey | Make | RAISE Summit 2026
Visual workflow automation scale-up Make transitioned to an AI-first entity over two and a half years by implementing a three-phase strategy that combined a dedicated "Samurai" transformation team with a mandatory quarterly "AI Bar" for all 300 employees. This structured approach increased internal AI agent usage from 16% to 96% and generated 23 successful projects in a single year, achieving a 70% success rate compared to the industry average of 5–10%. The initiative shifted organizational focus from debating adoption to executing context management, resulting in 73% of projects directly impacting core business KPIs across every department.
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Infrastructure-as-Prompt: Turning Intent Into Infrastructure | emma | RAISE Summit 2026
emma, Dmitry Panenkov, Dimitri
EMMA, a Luxembourg-headquartered sovereign cloud provider backed by investors including BlackRock, launched its "Infrastructure as Prompt" platform in September to automate cloud management through natural language interfaces. The system functions as a unified control layer that minimizes data egress costs and reduces deployment time to fifteen minutes by selecting optimal compute instances across hyperscalers and on-premises environments. As European sovereign cloud spending remains a small fraction of the global market, EMMA's approach aims to redefine digital sovereignty by shifting control from geographic location to governance and access management while offering a proprietary fleet of accelerators ranging from enterprise to consumer-grade models.
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Self-Driving Production: AI Wrote Your Code. AI Should Fix It, Too. | Traversal | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded by an MIT PhD and Columbia professor, Traversal deploys an AI-driven site reliability engineer that distinguishes itself from traditional correlation-based tools by utilizing a proprietary causal search engine to identify root causes across petabytes of daily telemetry. This platform delivers L5 autonomy in production environments, evidenced by enterprise deployments at American Express that reduced incident resolution times by 58% and Pepsi initiatives that preemptively halted customer-facing outages through historical alert analysis. By integrating a unique production world model, the system autonomously executes complex remediation steps such as traffic failover and code generation, effectively transforming maintenance workflows from reactive war rooms to proactive self-healing operations.
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Fireside Chat with Anastasis Germanidis, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Runway | RAISE Summit 2026
Anastasis Germanidis, Grace Isford
Founded in 2019, Runway is pivoting from generative video leadership to creating "world models" that simulate physical physics and 3D consistency through pixel prediction rather than explicit architectural rules. This technical approach enables efficient real-time inference for robotics and gaming, allowing the company to license policy models to clients while achieving superior performance with significantly less compute than larger competitors. Driven by founder Anastasis's philosophy of intentional growth, the firm recently expanded its global headcount to nearly 200 and opened a Paris office to deepen its research focus on physical AI and interactive storytelling.
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AI for Work, and Security for AI | ServiceNow | RAISE Summit 2026
Amit Zavery, Yevgeny Dibrov, Jennifer Johnson
As enterprise AI shifts from passive tools to autonomous agents projected to outnumber human assets tenfold, organizations face critical risks of uncontrolled data access and rapid cyber exploitation without centralized governance. To counteract these threats, ServiceNow has integrated Vesa's technology to launch an AI Control Tower, enabling CIOs and CISOs to discover, monitor, and secure non-human identities across all platform integrations. This strategic shift transforms security from reactive to proactive, allowing enterprises to realize billions in efficiency savings while preventing catastrophic breaches in high-stakes environments like retail and supply chain management.
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Keynote by Alex Saroyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Netris | RAISE Summit 2026
Following a significant network outage two years ago, Netris deployed automated abstraction technology to manage over 35 AI clusters and nearly one million GPUs globally. The platform addresses the five-layer complexity of modern AI infrastructure by replacing error-prone manual configuration with hardware-enforced multi-tenancy and a unified API. This approach ensures rigorous security isolation while supporting diverse hardware ecosystems from GB300 to Vera Rubin, enabling operators to scale deployments safely without building brittle in-house automation.
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Ship the Next: Agentic Cloud for AI Innovation | Alibaba Cloud | RAISE Summit 2026
Alibaba Cloud unveiled its Qwen 3.7 series and comprehensive "Qwen Cloud" ecosystem, integrating over 80 models into a scalable infrastructure capable of supporting 10,000 isolated agent sandboxes per minute. This launch is paired with significant productivity tools like Coder Work, which has attracted 10,000 organizations through spec-driven development, while the company advances its hardware strategy by designing custom GPUs and expanding global data center capacity. By offering predictive billing and memory-optimized hibernation for agents, the strategy aims to cut hosting costs by 70% and prepare enterprises for future agent-to-human operational ratios of 80:1.
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Vibe Coding for the Next Billion | Michele Catasta, Replit | RAISE Summit 2026
Replit President Michele Zanini outlined the company's trajectory toward $1 billion in annual revenue by deploying agentic workflows that target over 60 million users and non-technical citizen developers. The platform utilizes a heterogeneous model strategy combining open-weight and proprietary systems to enable autonomous agents that handle end-to-end business goals without manual UI interaction. This approach forecasts a 2025 workforce shift where employees evolve into agent managers, prioritizing strategic oversight over repetitive execution to drive exponential productivity gains.
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Failing to Understand the Exponential (Again) | Elastic, AWS, Nebius & More | RAISE Summit 2026
Ashutosh Kulkarni, Pim de Witte, Julien Lépine, Jeremy Fraenkel, Marc Boroditsky, Dylan Patel
A panel of industry leaders characterizes the current AI landscape as an exponential "first chapter" where rapid adaptation is essential, while noting that AWS maintains a strategic advantage by serving both commoditized and premium workloads through a hybrid CPU-GPU architecture. The discussion highlights a critical shift from indiscriminate token consumption to verifiable value creation, driven by the urgent need for AI engineers and the development of governance frameworks that treat agents as distinct security entities. Ultimately, the consensus is that while domains like software coding see immediate ROI, long-term success depends on enterprises leveraging proprietary context and verifying outputs within complex legacy infrastructure.
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Infrastructure as Destiny: The Compute-Capital-Cloud Trinity | RAISE Summit 2026
Stephanie Cohen, Don Barneston, Suresh Vasudevan, Greg Matson, Jeff Denworth, Jordan Nanos
Driven by a critical shortage of physical infrastructure against surging AI demand, the event highlights how neoclouds and vendors are shifting from speculative investment to immediate deployment through deep operational partnerships and aggressive capacity underwriting through 2028. Key industry leaders from companies like Cloudflare, Vast Data, and Solidigm discuss how architectural innovations in storage compression, isolated compute environments, and resilient interconnects are solving bottlenecks in copper, optics, and hardware failure rates. Looking ahead, the discussion projects a multi-decade expansion cycle marked by market consolidation, the emergence of machine-to-machine commerce, and the transition of AI inference into a ubiquitous cloud utility embedded within every application.