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AI Infrastructure Events

Where compute, models, and hardware meet. A curated calendar of the major events shaping how the industry measures, understands, and optimizes the AI stack, workloads × models × hardware infrastructure.

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Sep 15–17, 2026Santa Clara, CA

AI Infra Summit 2026

AI infrastructure's ultimate stage, 8,000 attendees, 400 speakers, and 8 stages spanning Data & Models, Compute, Data Movement, AI Data Center, and Physical AI. Where inference meets influence, and where efficiency becomes the deciding metric.

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Upcoming · 2026
Aug 21, 2026Seoul, Korea

OCP Korea Tech Day 2026

OCP's Korea community day, memory, storage, and open hardware from the region that supplies much of the silicon underneath the AI stack.

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Aug 23–25, 2026Stanford, CA

Hot Chips 2026

The symposium on high-performance chips, where the accelerators, memory, and interconnect that run AI get unveiled, the silicon whose real-world energy efficiency gets measured downstream.

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Sep 29–30, 2026Singapore

OCP Southeast Asia Tech Day 2026

OCP's inaugural Southeast Asia tech day, hosted inside Data Centre World Asia, open infrastructure meeting the region's fast-growing AI data center build-out.

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Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2026San Francisco, CA

The AI Conference 2026

Two days on the AI frontier, models, agents, and the infrastructure that runs them, where deployment cost and efficiency increasingly set the agenda.

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Oct 7–9, 2026Prague, Czechia

Open Source Summit Europe 2026

The Linux Foundation's flagship open source gathering, the projects and communities, from Linux to Kubernetes, that form the software substrate of AI infrastructure.

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Oct 12–15, 2026San Jose, CA

OCP Global Summit 2026

The Open Compute Project's flagship for open data center hardware, 800 VDC power, liquid cooling, and interconnect standards. The open foundation beneath efficient, measurable AI infrastructure.

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Oct 22–23, 2026San Jose, CA

AGNTCon + MCPCon North America 2026

The Linux Foundation's summit for agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol, the agent workloads whose token and compute cost define the next efficiency frontier.

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Nov 9–12, 2026Salt Lake City, UT

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

CNCF's flagship conference, and the platform layer that schedules AI workloads across clusters, where cloud native meets the infrastructure behind modern AI systems.

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Nov 15–20, 2026Chicago, IL

SC26: Supercomputing

The international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, where compute at extreme scale, and the power it draws, sets the frontier for AI training and inference.

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Nov 30 – Dec 4, 2026Las Vegas, NV

AWS re:Invent 2026

AWS's flagship cloud and AI conference, the instances, accelerators, and services on which a vast share of AI workloads run, and where their cost gets measured.

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Dec 7–9, 2026Tokyo, Japan

Open Source Summit Japan 2026

The Linux Foundation's premier open source event in Japan, open infrastructure and community across APAC powering modern AI systems.

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December 2026San Diego, CA

NeurIPS 2026

The premier machine learning research conference, the models and methods whose deployment cost, in joules per token, Aitra exists to attribute and optimize.

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Looking ahead to 2027
Mar 15–18, 2027San Jose, CA

NVIDIA GTC 2027

NVIDIA's accelerated-computing gathering, shaping the GPUs and rack-scale systems that define modern AI, the hardware side of every workload × model × infrastructure equation.

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Earlier in 2026 · concluded
Apr 29–30, 2026Barcelona, Spain

OCP EMEA Regional Summit 2026

The Open Compute Project's European gathering, open data center hardware, power, and cooling standards brought to the operators building efficient, measurable AI infrastructure across EMEA.

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Jul 28–30, 2026Tokyo, Japan

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026

CNCF's Japan gathering, where we ran Aitra Meter live, metering AI inference from PDU to pod. The cloud native platform layer that schedules AI workloads, read our recap.

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Aug 11–12, 2026Taipei, Taiwan

OCP APAC Summit 2026

OCP's Asia-Pacific summit at the heart of the hardware supply chain, the silicon, systems, and data center standards that make AI infrastructure efficient and measurable.

opencompute.org →

A curated selection focused on AI infrastructure, compute, data center, power, and the models that run on them. Dates are confirmed against organizer sources; some 2026–27 details may shift. Spot something we should add? Find us in #soda-aitra on the SODA Foundation Slack.