Thomas Koehrer
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- RAISE Summit19 min
Fireside Chat with Mark Moffat, CEO of IFS | RAISE Summit 2026
IFS, under the leadership of CEO Mark Moffat, distinguishes itself in capital-intensive sectors like utilities and aerospace by deploying "forward-deployed engineering" to solve complex physical value chain challenges rather than merely offering software features. This approach has yielded a 96% gross retention rate and a notable 38% reduction in downtime for clients such as Grant Distillery, while simultaneously underpinning 100% of US commercial aviation flights through a hybrid model of probabilistic optimization and deterministic safety. To ensure resilience against geopolitical shifts, the company further secures its position with a sovereign AI architecture that leverages edge-deployed, agnostic models across its global supply chain.
- RAISE Summit42 min
Sovereign AI: Piece by Piece | NetApp, Radiant, Hydra Host, Coatue & More | RAISE Summit 2026
George Kurian, Mahdi Yahya, Aaron Ginn, Max Cook, Benjamin Germin, Thomas Koehrer, Thomas Kova, Maddy, Ben
Industry leaders convened to define sovereign AI as a spectrum of national control over critical infrastructure, data residency, and model provenance rather than a binary state. While experts debated the feasibility of achieving true autonomy through hyperscalers, they agreed that geopolitical constraints and physical hardware limitations are driving significant investments in localized data centers and domestic chip ecosystems. The consensus projects a bifurcated future where the US and China maintain full-stack dominance, compelling other nations to navigate a complex landscape of duopoly dependency or costly independent infrastructure development.