Rethinking Where AI Runs: Building a Smarter Hybrid Future
Enterprises are rethinking where AI runs. As workloads grow, many are moving closer to their data to address privacy, sovereignty, cost, and latency concerns. But this shift is creating new challenges, balancing cloud and on-prem environments, controlling rising infrastructure costs, and overcoming the bottlenecks that keep AI stuck in experimentation. At the same time, gaps in governance, visibility, and trust are becoming more critical as AI moves into core business decisions.
Leading organizations are adopting hybrid strategies that align AI workloads with business needs, not rigid mandates. This includes optimizing where workloads run, improving visibility across environments, and strengthening governance to ensure data is secure, accessible, and actionable. The focus is shifting toward creating a more controlled, scalable path from pilot to production while maintaining performance and cost efficiency.
Join Cloudera X Dell Technologies X NVIDIA as we explore how to balance cloud and on-prem strategies to scale AI effectively while managing cost and risk. You will walk away with practical approaches to building trust in AI across stakeholders while creating a more resilient, efficient AI foundation.
Discussion Topics
Where AI should run and why – How to decide between cloud, on-prem, and hybrid models based on data sensitivity, latency, cost, and performance requirements.
Breaking the production bottleneck – The biggest barriers preventing AI from scaling beyond pilots, including infrastructure constraints, cost management, and operational complexity.
Governance, visibility, and trust at scale – How to maintain control over data, ensure compliance, and build stakeholder trust as AI moves into core business decisions.
Speakers
Paul Mackay
Event Agenda
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Arrivals, welcome drinks, and networking
7:00pm - 7:30pm
Event welcome and introductions
7:30pm - 9:15pm
Table discussion and three-course dinner
9:15pm - 9:30pm
Event Wrap Up
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