​AI Infrastructure Nights in SF! Join founders, engineers, and FDEs building the systems behind production AI for three technical talks exploring AI infrastructure, agentic AI, and enterprise data security—from real-world engineering challenges to encryption and customer-controlled data access.

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​Agenda & Speakers

​5:00–6:00 PM · Arrival & Networking Food, drinks, and introductions.

​6:00–6:15 PM · Telnyx, Sonam Gupta, PhD, Developer Advocate
Voice Agents Are an Infrastructure Stress Test
Voice agents expose infrastructure problems faster than most AI applications. Every network hop affects the flow of a conversation, while lost or poorly owned state causes agents to forget context across interruptions and later interactions. This talk examines the turn-time budget, compute placement, conversation state, and failure handling behind real-time AI systems. Using a Telnyx venue concierge as a reference architecture, Sonam will show how Stateful Actors, edge compute, and durable storage work together to keep the critical path short and conversation state consistent.

​6:15–6:30 PM · BytePort, Jayram Palamadai, CEO

​FedEx and the Invention of Middle Mile Shipping
Byteport discusses how FedEx didn’t won by inventing the hub and spoke network. This talk uses that story to explain why moving big datasets between clouds is still slow. TCP slows down as distance and packet loss grow, so a transfer from S3 to Azure crawls when it should fly. We’ll introduce DART, a protocol that only asks about what’s missing, and show how Byteport nodes carry it across the middle mile while your apps keep speaking TCP on both ends. The result is connectivity up to 1500x faster than the current internet.

​6:30–6:45 PM · Alien, Aditya Mahamuni, Ambassador

​How do you operate software inside infrastructure you don't control?
Deploying into a customer’s cloud once is straightforward; upgrading and debugging it across hundreds of opinionated environments is not. This talk covers drift, permissions, partial failures, upgrades, rollbacks, observability, and supporting Terraform, Helm, and internal platform tooling without direct access.

​6:45–7:00 PM · ClickHouse, Dustin Healy, Full Stack Software Engineer

Agentic Analytics, a brief overview
A quick discussion of the current state-of-the-art for agentic data analysis, the future of the Model Context Protocol spec, as well as how you can offer your own MCPs to customers leveraging your ClickHouse data.

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​7:00–7:30 PM · Networking Continue the conversations with speakers and fellow attendees.