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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.