Boston Alt Cloud Meetup (Nov 2026)

​Join us for an informal, geeky, growth-oriented meetup all about the Alt Clouds that build their value directly on top of infrastructure: GPU clouds, AI clouds, data clouds, developer clouds, connectivity cloud, sovereign clouds…and more!

​Presenters:

Ben Vandiver
Co-Founder at G5 Labs
"Programming is dead. Engineering is thriving."

John Willes
Co-founder at Auto Inference

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Ben Vandiver co-founded G5 Labs with Tim Kraska and a great cast of other characters. Prior to that, he spent a number of years in leadership roles building databases: Spanner (Google’s massively scalable database) and Vertica (the database that popularized column stores for analytics).

John Willes co-founded Auto Inference alongside Deval Pandya. Previously, John spent four years at the Vector Institute in Toronto, where he lead infrastructure and research.