AI Hardware Forum 2025

Please join us at the 2025 AI Hardware Forum on November 12 at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. 

• The fast adoption of Generative and Agentic AI is transforming the physical and time scales at which we compute, requiring bold innovations in hardware and software platforms. Continuing to rely on conventional approaches is simply not sustainable and limits accessibility to the technology.
• Industry professionals and researchers will convene on November 12 for the AI Hardware forum at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York to discuss what's next in AI compute and the challenges in co-designing AI hardware and software solutions to support complex and multi-modal workloads.
• There will be presentations from industry leaders, a special panel session, interactive demos by IBM experts, and a poster session showcasing research from leading universities.

Agenda

• 9 - Registration and Breakfast
• 10 - Welcome and Keynotes - Mukesh Khare- GM, IBM Semiconductors & VP, Hybrid Cloud Research, IBM
  • Accelerating AI Time and Physical Scaling
    • Mike Schulte, Sr Fellow Design Engineer, AMD
  • AI Open-Source Community and Heterogeneous Backend Enablement with PyTorch
    • Alban Desmaison, Sr Research Engineer, Meta
  • Mind the Gap: Bridging AI Data Centers and the Electric Grid
    • Minlan Yu, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
• 12 - Lunch
• 1 - Plenary Talks
• Optimizing AI Compute: from Silicon to Node design
  • Justin Xiang, Head of 5G & AI Server Infrastructure, Foxconn
  • Paul Crumley, Sr. Technical Staff Member, AI Compute Research, IBM
• AI-ready Enterprise Infrastructure with Power11 + Spyre
  • Rebecca Gott, CTO of IBM Power and Distinguished Engineer, IBM
  • Raghu Ganti, Distinguished Engineer, Hybrid Cloud and AI Platform Research, IBM
• Hybrid Open-Source Platform: Building, Training and Deploying AI Models
  • Robert Shaw, Director of Engineering, Red Hat
  • Carlos Costa, Distinguished Engineer, Hybrid Cloud and AI Platform Research, IBM
• 3 - Break
• 3 - Panel & Market Trends
  • Growth and Evolution of AI Models
    • Moderator: Karl Freund, Principal Analyst & Founder, Cambrian AI
  • Panelists: 
    • Jonathan Ragan-Kelley- Associate Professor, Computer Science & AI Lab, MIT
    • Liu Liu- Assistant Professor, Electrical Computer and Systems Engineering, RPI
    • Hui Wu- Principal Research Scientist, Granite Models, IBM
• 5 - Reception, Demos & Poster Showcase

If you are interested in learning more about this invite-only event, please reach us at ibmaihw@us.ibm.com.