Keynote

Gilad Shainer

Senior Vice President Marketing at NVIDIA

Title: Networking Innovations for Gigascale AI Systems

Abstract: As AI factories grow to hundreds of thousands, and soon millions of interconnected GPUs, the network has become the defining architecture of large-scale AI. Achieving uncompromised performance requires fabrics that scale up, scale-out and scale-across. In this session, we will discuss the full breadth of networking innovations that enable the construction of gigascale AI infrastructure, delivering the performance required to train massive foundation models, deploy real-time inference pipelines, and interconnect federated AI factories globally.

Biography:

Gilad Shainer serves as senior vice president of networking at NVIDIA. Gilad joined Mellanox in 2001 as a design engineer and has served in senior marketing management roles since 2005. Gilad holds multiple patents in the field of high-speed networking. He is a recipient of the 2015 R&D100 award for his contribution to the CORE-Direct In-Network Computing technology and the 2019 R&D100 award for his contribution to the Unified Communication X (UCX) technology. Gilad holds a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Israel.

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