Tianyi Zhang
AI Researcher @ Together AI
Flagship eventSep 12, 2026 · 2–7 PMSan Francisco100 seats · application only
AI Infra Signal: From Research to Production.
The AI stack is still moving — from the models to the systems that train them and the infrastructure that keeps them running. This is a 100-person, application-only room where founders, researchers, enterprise leaders, and infra investors debate what is still unresolved — then carry those conversations into two technical tracks, a salon, and a 90-minute demo floor.
Curated, not crowded.
100
Application-only attendees, reviewed for fit
11
Talks — 3 keynotes + 8 lightning across 2 tracks
90 min
Demo floor & networking
4
Sponsor slots max — no sponsor walls
Confirmed guests
Lightning Speakers.
Harshit Joshi
CS PhD @ Stanford SAIL
Yuexing Hao
Founder @ MatrAIx AIResearcher @ MicrosoftPostdoc @ MIT
Xiaomin Li
Senior Research Scientist @ Microsoft
Biwei Huang
Founder @ Aether AIAssistant Professor @ UC San Diego
Yash More
Member of Technical Staff @ Cohere
Dexter Horthy
Founder @ HumanLayer (YC F24)
More coming soon
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Every seat reviewed for fit.
No general AI-enthusiast crowd — every conversation at your booth is with a qualified prospect, partner, hire, or investor.
Founders & CTOs
Teams building AI infra, agents, inference, training, data, and security.
Frontier researchers
Researchers and engineers from frontier labs working on AI systems.
Enterprise infra leaders
Deploying AI at scale — with real budgets and real constraints.
Infra investors
Pre-seed to Series B infrastructure VCs and technical angels.
Stage time and floor time.
- 2:00 PM
- Doors, coffee, booth preview
- 3:00 PM
- Opening
- 3:10 PM
- Technical panel
- 3:40 PM
- Keynote block
- 4:20 PM
- Lightning talks I — AI infra & data
- 4:45 PM
- Lightning talks II — research
- 5:10 PM
- Technical salon
- 5:45 PM
- Demo floor, food & drinks — until 7:00 PM
Why join the room.
For the people building, researching, deploying, and backing AI infrastructure.
Open questions
The talks begin where polished demos usually stop.
Speakers bring the architecture decisions, reliability constraints, and unresolved problems they are still working through — not a finished success story.
Full-stack context
See how one decision travels from research to production.
Compute and training, inference and agents, evals and reliability, data and security — discussed as one connected system rather than separate tracks.
The room
Meet the people building and deciding at the infrastructure layer.
Founders, frontier researchers, enterprise infrastructure leaders, and investors — 100 application-only seats reviewed for fit.
Floor time
The useful conversation continues after the talk.
A technical salon and 90-minute demo floor give you time to challenge an idea, inspect a product, and continue the discussion face to face.
We’ve done this before — at scale.
12–20
Roundtable Chat
Closed-door, frontier AI researchers
75–100
AI Salon Night
Deep tech discussion, curated list
100
GTM Series
Founders with technical backgrounds
1,000
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3-day summit at KQED · 2,000+ applicants
Past partners
Bay Area Founders Club · Beta Fund · GMI Cloud · Inference AI and more
Interested in partnering?
Contact the OpenStages team directly.