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What will it take to build AI platforms for the agent era? Join Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and UC Berkeley professor Ion Stoica (co-creator of Apache Spark and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale) to explore how AI infrastructure must evolve as systems become agentic, multimodal, and globally distributed. Get practical insights on next generation architectures, from training to real time serving, and why open source, security, and governance are now core platform concerns.
Seating for this session is first-come, first-served. Add it to your schedule to plan your day and arrive early to secure a spot.
To learn more, please check out these resources:
* https://aka.ms/build26/BRK227
𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀:
* Mark Russinovich
* Ion Stoica
𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
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BRK227 | Cloud platform & data
Breakout | (200) Intermediate
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Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction and session overview at BUILD conference
00:00:36 – Speaker backgrounds and history in AI systems such as Spark, Ray, and VLLM
00:04:07 – Discussion on fundamentals of distributed systems applied to AI infrastructure
00:10:19 – Evolution of data centers and rise of large-scale AI supercomputing regions
00:13:33 – Modern serverless computing and its role in AI workloads
00:14:25 – Emergence of agentic AI systems and architectural implications
00:19:31 – Optimization layers in AI infrastructure: algorithms, hardware, and architecture
00:22:03 – Open source AI infrastructure stack and challenges of cross-layer optimization
00:29:30 – Security, confidential computing, and protecting sensitive AI data
00:34:48 – Developer experience, code verification challenges, and discussion on future automation limits Read More Microsoft Developer
