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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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Fast by Design: The Infrastructure Powering the Agentic Era | Rodrigo Liang | RAISE Summit 2026
Rodrigo Liang, Monti Saroya, Dylan Patel
SambaNova has secured the first close of a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation, establishing itself as JP Morgan's preferred inference provider for multi-trillion parameter models. The company differentiates its heterogeneous architecture by delivering up to 10x faster decode performance in full precision, avoiding the accuracy trade-offs of quantization while integrating with NVIDIA and Intel infrastructure. By leveraging a distribution network of 94 subsidiaries, SambaNova targets enterprise adoption through hybrid air-gapped and cloud solutions that prioritize data sovereignty and model choice over direct competition with general intelligence labs.
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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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Inference's Scaling Era | Tuhin Srivastava, Baseten & Corinne Riley, Greylock | RAISE Summit 2026
Tuhin Srivastava, Corinne Riley
Base10 CEO Thuy Hinh projects that AI inference will consume $2.5 trillion of the estimated $5 trillion global AI spend by 2030, prompting the company to deploy an inference cloud with clusters across 90 regions to lower customer infrastructure costs. Driven by open-source models closing the performance gap with frontier closed-source alternatives in just three months, enterprises are increasingly shifting spend to custom models to reduce costs by 70% and retain data sovereignty. Hinh predicts that within 12 to 18 months, a Fortune 500 company will achieve 90% open-source adoption as the market moves toward verticalized cloud solutions capable of supporting high-volume tasks like code generation and biological compound synthesis.
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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.
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AI Sticker Shock: Open Source as the Answer to Broken Tokenomics | Vipul Ved Prakash | RAISE 2026
TogetherAI, led by Co-founder Vinod Khosla, recently achieved a $8.3 billion valuation after scaling inference volume to 400 trillion tokens monthly while expanding its user base from $100 million to over $1 billion in annual revenue. The company is driving a strategic pivot toward open-source models to address economic pressures and geopolitical sovereignty concerns, countering the dominance of closed ecosystems like Anthropic and OpenAI by offering data residency on U.S. and European infrastructure. To overcome global compute constraints, TogetherAI is executing a sovereign infrastructure strategy that partners with nations facing data center moratoriums, aiming to prevent industrial capture and establish a collaborative commons for future AI development.
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How Data Became the Most Indispensable Resource for AI | Or Lenchner, Bright Data | RAISE 2026
Bright Data re-architected its infrastructure to serve exploding demand for visual data in physical AI and robotics, successfully defending its operational model against major legal challenges involving Meta and X. The privately held company, which achieved a $300 million revenue run rate without external funding, distinguishes its Western outsourcing strategy from Chinese competitors' focus on internal data stack development. While navigating potential market corrections, Bright Data maintains a long-term outlook on the necessity of its data ecosystem for global AI training and continues to prioritize hyper-growth over an imminent IPO.
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Powering Europe's Industrial Renaissance | Paolo Guglielmini, NVIDIA | RAISE Summit 2026
Addressing a critical five-fold gap in global AI compute capacity, NVIDIA outlined a strategy for Europe to transition from a technology consumer to a builder by deploying the open Nemotron model stack alongside the upcoming Vera Rubin hardware architecture. This initiative targets a 35x efficiency gain in tokens per megawatt and aims to achieve a 10x expansion in AI capabilities by 2027 through synchronized growth across energy, chips, and applications. The speaker emphasized that achieving this industrial sovereignty requires deep collaboration with partners across France, Germany, and Poland to develop domain-specific solutions in robotics, biology, and agentic software.