AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit, the prestigious Silicon Valley technology conference that has long served the semiconductor and IT infrastructure industries, will return in 2025. AI Infra Summit.
The prestigious conference, which has hosted top industry speakers over its seven-year history, including Andrew Ng and John L. Hennessy, will double to over 2,500 attendees in 2025, expanding to include apply cases for AI and technology in enterprise infrastructure constituting their basis. Previous editions of the summit have featured several notable products and companies, the most notable of which was Habana Labs coming out of hiding in the conference’s inaugural year in 2018. Many leading semiconductor manufacturers, including Intel, Qualcomm and SambaNova Systems, have introduced products during his keynotes, and it is widely believed that the summit has grown in proportion to the growth of the AI hardware industry.
As the industry’s focus has shifted from the benefits of single-chip design to the implementation and optimization of entire systems, the AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit has evolved into a knowledge and business sharing hub for all players within the AI technology stack.
However, perhaps the most pressing issue currently facing the global AI community is the apparent ROI deficit resulting from vast CAPEX investments in infrastructure. There just isn’t enough money being made from application-side AI. While apps are generally expected to become more profitable, the bar is also constantly rising. The growth in size and complexity of cutting-edge machine learning models shows no sign of abating, driving the need for more and more training and inference infrastructure, further widening this “return on investment gap.”
In response, the newly renamed AI Infra Summit will create a forum for enterprise AI leaders and their infrastructure counterparts, serving as an interface between AI infrastructure and application design. The up-to-date “Enterprise AI” track will showcase areas with high potential for AI monetization, while the rest of the conference will focus on how to make AI faster, more capable and cheaper.
The expanded conference, taking place in September 2025, will be a one-stop-shop for enterprises looking to conduct due diligence on infrastructure investments or for those looking to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their AI implementations.