Operating Distributed Inference Systems at Scale
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 10:45am-11:05am
- Track/room: Inference · Track 9
- Speaker(s): Nishant Gupta, Naman Ahuja
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Inference has rapidly become one of the most important infrastructure problems in modern computing.
As AI systems evolve into autonomous agents with persistent memory, tool usage, and multi-step
reasoning, traditional inference architectures struggle under growing demands for latency,
throughput, cost efficiency, and reliability. In this talk, I’ll share lessons from building large-
scale elastic compute and AI infrastructure systems powering production workloads. We’ll explore the
modern inference stack and the architectural patterns emerging to support next-generation agentic AI
systems. Topics include distributed inference architectures for large-scale AI systems, GPU
scheduling and elastic compute for inference workloads, multi-tenant inference infrastructure,
caching, batching, latency optimization strategies, reliability and fault isolation for inference
systems, observability and control loops for AI serving platforms, balancing cost, throughput, and
user experience, and why inference is becoming an infrastructure orchestration problem. Attendees
will gain practical insights into designing scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient inference
platforms for modern AI workloads.
Related YouTube Video
Deterministic Infra for Non-Deterministic AI Agents - Nishant Gupta, Meta Superintelligence Labs (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
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