Howdy, Arsians! Final yr, we partnered with IBM to host an in-person occasion within the Houston space the place all of us gathered collectively, had some cocktails, and talked about resiliency and the way forward for IT. Location at all times issues for issues like this, and so we hosted it at House Middle Houston and had our cocktails amidst cool area artifacts. Along with studying a bunch of neat stuff, it was superior to hang around with all of the wonderful of us who turned up on the occasion. A lot enjoyable was had!
This yr, we’re again partnering with IBM once more and we’re trying to repeat that success with not one, however two in-person gatherings—every that includes a sequence of panel discussions with specialists and capping off with a cheerful hour for hanging out and mingling. The place final time we went central, this time we will the coasts—each east and west. Learn on for particulars!
September: San Jose, California
Our first occasion might be in San Jose on September 18, and it is titled “Past the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI and What Comes Subsequent.” The concept might be to discover what generative AI means for the way forward for knowledge administration. The subjects we’ll be discussing embody:
- Taking part in the infrastructure lengthy recreation to handle any sort of workload
- Figuring out infrastructure vulnerabilities with right this moment’s AI instruments
- Infrastructure’s environmental footprint: Navigating impacts and duties
We’re getting our panelists locked down proper now, and whereas I haven’t got any names to share, many might be acquainted to Ars readers from previous occasions—or from the entrance web page.
As a neat added bonus, we will host the occasion on the Pc Historical past Museum, which any Bay Space Ars reader can attest is an extremely cool venue. (Simply no person spill something. I believe they’re going to kick us out if we break any reveals!)
October: Washington, DC
Switching coasts, on October 29 we’ll arrange store in our nation’s capital for the same present. This time, our occasion title might be “AI in DC: Privateness, Compliance, and Making Infrastructure Smarter.” Provided that we’ll be in DC, the tone shifts a bit to some extra policy-centric discussions, and the discuss observe appears to be like like this:
- The important thing to compliance with rising applied sciences
- Knowledge safety within the age of AI-assisted cyber-espionage
- One of the best infrastructure answer to your AI/ML technique
Identical right here cope with the audio system as with the September—I can not identify names but, however the checklist might be acquainted to Ars readers and I am excited. We’re nonetheless contemplating venues, however hoping to seek out one thing that matches our earlier occasions when it comes to model and coolness.
Curious about attending?
Whereas it would be superior if everybody might come, the outdated track and dance applies: area, as they are saying, might be restricted at each venues. We would like to verify native of us in each areas get precedence in having the ability to attend, so we’re asking anybody who needs a ticket to register for the occasions on the sign-up pages under. You need to get an e-mail instantly confirming we have obtained your data, and we’ll ship one other observe in a few weeks with additional particulars on timing and attendance.
On the Ars aspect, at minimal each our EIC Ken Fisher and I might be in attendance at each occasions, and we’ll doubtless have another Ars employees exhibiting up the place we will—free drinks are a powerful lure for the weary tech journalist, so there must be not less than just a few showing at each. Hoping to see you all there!
