Beyond CUDA Summit

​🚀 The Future of AI Compute is upon us — and It’s Beyond CUDA.

Join us for an exclusive summit bringing together AI founders, researchers, and engineers, to explore the next era of AI compute beyond the CUDA moat.

📅 Date: March 17, 2025
📍 Location: San Jose CA, Guildhouse

There will be free food, drinks, cloud credits, and AMD MI210 GPU giveaways!

​What to Expect:

​Hot Takes, Fireside Chats, Panels, Demos presented by

• ​Jim Keller - CEO @ Tenstorrent

• ​Raja Koduri - CEO @ Mihira AI

• ​Gregory Diamos - Co-Founder @ MLCommons  

• ​Mark Saroufim - Pytorch @ Meta / GPUmode

• ​Anush Elangovan - VP of AI SW @ AMD

• ​Ramine Roane - VP of AI @ AMD

• ​Emad Barsoum - VP of AI @ AMD

• ​Dylan Patel - Founder @ SemiAnalysis 

• ​Will Beauchamp - CEO @ Chai Research 

• ​Alex Mashrabov - CEO @ Higgsfield AI

• ​Anton Polishko - CTO @ OpenBabylon

• ​Eugene Cheah - CEO @ Recursal / RWKV

• ​Waleed Atallah - CEO @ Mako

• ​Jay Dawani - CEO @ Lemurian Labs 

• ​Paul Merolla - CEO @ MK1 

• ​Andrey Cheptsov - CEO @ dstack

• ​Philippe Tillet - Technical Staff @ OpenAI / Triton 

• ​Neha Prakriya - PHD Student @ UCLA  

• ​Michael Søndergaard - CEO @ Spectral Compute 

• ​Quentin Anthony - Model Training Lead @ Zyphra 

• ​Darrick Horton - CEO @ TensorWave

• ​Kyle Bell - VP of AI @ TensorWave

• ​and more, including a Surprise Special Guest 🤫

​Summit Schedule:

​12-1pm - LUNCH / Networking

1pm  - The Past + Future of Compute (Fireside Chat)
​Jim Keller - CEO @ Tenstorrent
​Raja Koduri - CEO @ Mihira AI
Nicholas Wilt - Author of The CUDA Handbook

1:30pm - Crossing the CUDA moat
​Waleed Atallah - CEO @ Mako
​Jay Dawani - CEO @ Lemurian Labs
​Michael Søndergaard - CEO @ Spectral Compute

2:00pm - Pre-training beyond CUDA
​Emad Barsoum - VP of AI @ AMD
​Quentin Anthony - Model Training Lead @ Zyphra
Koosh Azimian - CEO @ 310.ai
​Neha Prakriya - PHD Student @ UCLA
Eugene Cheah - CEO @ Recursal / RWKV

2:45pm - Fine-tuning beyond CUDA
​Alex Mashrabov - CEO @ Higgsfield AI - 8-10m
Anton Polishko - CTO @ OpenBabylon

3:15pm - 15 min BREAK

3:30pm - Inference beyond CUDA
​Will Beauchamp - CEO @ Chai Research
​Paul Merolla - CEO @ MK1
​Kyle Bell - VP of AI @ TensorWave

4pm - Open Source beyond CUDA
​Philippe Tillet - Technical Staff @ OpenAI / Triton
Liz Li  - Principal AI Engineer@ AMD
Andry Cheptsov - CEO @ dstack
Greg Diamos - Technical Staff @ TensorWave / ScalarLM

4:30pm - Hot Takes Panel
​Mark Saroufim - Pytorch @ Meta / GPUmode
​Anush Elangovan - VP of AI SW @ AMD
Dylan Patel - Founder @ SemiAnalysis
​Darrick Horton - CEO @ TensorWave
Eugene Cheah - CEO @ Recursal / RWKV

5pm - The bridge over the moat: What’s next?
​Anush Elangovan - VP of AI SW @ AMD
Jeff Tatarchuk - Founder @ TensorWave

5:15pm GPUmode Kernel Leaderboard / Giveways
Mark Saroufim / Jeff Tatarchuk

5:30-7:30pm - BREAK Networking

7:30-9pm - Tech Roast Show

​🔹 Deep Dive Presentations – Breaking down the CUDA moat and the future of pre-training, post-training, and inference.

​🔹 Networking – Connect with top AI researchers, engineers, and founders.

​🔹 Demos – Explore demos from developers and companies pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AMD.

​🔥 Whether you’re building, optimizing, or scaling AI, this event is a must-attend for those looking for more beyond CUDA.

​Looking to showcase your product or company?

​If you are interested in speaking or sharing a demo, register and share your interest there. We will consider each on a case by case basis.