Steven Carlini
Chief AI Advocate
Schneider Electric
As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and infrastructure complexity increases, traditional approaches fall short. In this briefing Axiado CEO Gopi Sirineni introduces a hardware-anchored, AI-driven approach to platform security and system management, powered by intelligent agents embedded directly in trusted silicon and independent of the host CPU and OS. Running on our Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU), these agents autonomously detect, respond to, and recover from threats while optimizing system performance in real time. Learn how Axiado’s architecture transforms passive infrastructure into resilient, self-defending systems—delivering proactive protection and operational intelligence from the ground up.
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Gopi Sirineni
Founder, President & CEO
Axiado
Gopi Sirineni is a Silicon Valley veteran with four startups and almost thirty years of experience in the semiconductor, software and systems industries. As a senior executive, he has demonstrated exceptional skill at building highly efficient,
cost-effective organizations, managing them in rapidly changing environments, and bringing industry-changing technologies like Wi-Fi mesh, network-attached storage, and core network backplanes to market.
Axiado
Website: https://axiado.com/
Axiado Corporation is pioneering a new era of platform security and system management by embedding AI-driven intelligence directly into trusted silicon. At the core of its innovation is the Trusted Control/Compute Unit (TCU), a single-chip solution that unifies root-of-trust, BMC, TPM, SmartNIC, and AI/ML engines into a secure, autonomous platform. This architecture enables real-time threat detection, response, and recovery at the foundational layers of compute infrastructure before the OS even loads.
Axiado’s embedded AI agents continuously monitor system behavior, detect anomalies, and take autonomous action to neutralize threats and optimize performance. Purpose-built for complex, distributed environments like data centers, accelerated computing, and cloud infrastructure, Axiado delivers proactive, resilient protection and intelligent system control in industry-standard form factors.
By fusing cybersecurity and system management into a unified, silicon-anchored platform, Axiado eliminates operational silos and blind spots—transforming passive infrastructure into self-defending, self-managing systems. With a mission to eliminate foundational vulnerabilities from the ground up, Axiado is setting a new standard for secure, intelligent infrastructure.
A staggering number of AI projects fail before reaching production, and the primary culprit is data. As enterprises re-architect their infrastructure to support generative, agentic, and physical AI across distributed infrastructures, the data layer is emerging as the lynch pin for success.
Learn how to architect a strategic data foundation that increases efficiency using infrastructure you already have, to simplify AI data pipelines, enable AI anywhere across any on-premises and cloud storage, and prepare for a future at a much larger scale.
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Jeff Echols
VP of Strategic Partners
Hammerspace
With a dynamic 20-year career in enterprise software, Jeff Echols has established himself as a leader in building differentiated solutions, strategic relationships, and driving joint partner success. He is currently the VP of Strategic Partners at Hammerspace, focusing on the company's AI Solutions and go-to-market strategy. His extensive experience spans enterprise and startup environments, including two IPOs and international assignments. Throughout his career at companies like WEKA, Nutanix, and CommVault, Jeff has led sales, product marketing, and corporate strategy teams, contributing to significant revenue growth and market differentiation.
Hammerspace
Website: https://hammerspace.com/
Hammerspace is a high-performance data platform built to simplify AI infrastructure at scale. It makes all your data immediately accessible, anywhere - across on-prem and cloud environments - without copying or migrating data. Hammerspace integrates with your existing storage, networking, and applications to create a unified, high-speed data backbone for AI, accelerating every stage of the AI pipeline while eliminating data silos.
As AI workload demands continue to accelerate, Cloud Service Providers, System OEMs, and IP/Silicon vendors require a scalable, high-performance solution to support advanced workloads. By enhancing performance, optimizing power and cost efficiency, and promoting interoperability and supply chain diversity, the UALink 200G 1.0 Specification delivers a low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect designed for efficient communication between accelerators and switches within AI computing pods.
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UALink Consortium
Website: https://ualinkconsortium.org/
The Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium, incorporated in October 2024, is the open industry standard group dedicated to developing the UALink specifications, a high-speed, scale-up accelerator interconnect technology that advances next-generation AI & HPC cluster performance. The consortium is led by a board made up of stalwarts of the industry; Alibaba, AMD, Apple, Astera Labs, AWS, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, and Synopsys. The Consortium develops technical specifications that facilitate breakthrough performance for emerging AI usage models while supporting an open ecosystem for data center accelerators. For more information on the UALink Consortium, please visit www.UALinkConsortium.org.
A 40 minute exclusive pre-event preview for members of the press on upcoming announcements from a select handful of summit sponsors including: Recogni, Neureality, Moores Lab, Syncthetics.
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AI Infra Summit - Breakfast Briefing Agenda
Tisha Holden
Market President
Optum
Serving as Market President at Optum, Tisha has spent more than 25 years at the forefront of health plan innovation, helping clients build strategic, comprehensive programs to address their toughest challenges and achieve financial health and operational excellence at scale.
