

Hops & Flops: Happy Hour with VAST & ByteBridge
VAST Data and ByteBridge are teaming up for an evening of drinks, bites, and unfiltered conversation with the people behind some of the world’s most demanding compute.
Whether your AI and HPC workloads are still in the lab or already running in production, this is the place to compare notes on what’s holding up, what’s breaking, and what you’d do differently next time.
This one’s for you if you...
Build or run HPC and AI infrastructure
Manage data pipelines, platforms, or storage at scale
Train, tune, or serve large models
Set compute strategy for an enterprise or research organization
What’s on the menu
Drinks and light bites
A Goose Island tasting out in the Fatpour pergola, with one table for the classics and another for premium and specialty pours
Easy, candid conversation with peers who know the challenges firsthand
A chance to catch up with familiar faces and meet new ones during SC26 week
A Chicago original, on tap
Fatpour is known for its beer, so we’ve brought in Goose Island to pour. Wander out to the pergola, taste your way through the lineup with the Goose Island team, and take home some swag.
Space is limited, and RSVP is required. Hosts will review and confirm all registrations.
Meet your hosts
VAST Data is the AI Operating System company, offering a unified software infrastructure stack built to unlock the full potential of AI.
Bytebridge is a global AI data center infrastructure solutions and services provider founded in Silicon Valley. We work with hyperscalers, Neo-clouds, data center operators and enterprise AI teams to bring high density AI capacity online, combining global expertise with local execution across the data center lifecycle.
This is a 21+ event. By registering, you agree to share your information with the co-hosts: VAST Data and Bytebridge.