CES AXES & ALLIES - GMI After-Hours @ AREA15
GMI is taking over Dueling Axes at AREA15 for a private, invite-only night designed for teams actively evaluating how to deploy, scale, and operate AI models — whether through Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) or on-prem infrastructure.
There are no stages, no slides, and no forced demos.
Instead, we’ll split the night between axe-throwing, drinks, food, and focused conversations around two core tracks that reflect how AI is actually being deployed today.
Two Focus Tracks
🔹 MaaS (Model-as-a-Service)
For teams scaling or evaluating API-based model access.
From POC to production
Cost vs. performance at scale
Enterprise billing, SLAs, predictability
Data privacy, logging, compliance
Real workloads (video, agents, search, coding)
🔹 On-Prem / Dedicated Infrastructure
For teams that need deeper control.
Compute and inference orchestration on your own GPUs
Security, data residency, governance
Hybrid cloud + on-prem management
Performance isolation under bursty demand
What’s Happening
🪓 Private axe-throwing sessions (no experience needed)
🍸 Dinner, drinks, and relaxed lounge areas
🎯 Small group rotations to encourage real conversations
🔥 Light competition, zero pressure
🤝 Structured enough to be useful, casual enough to be human
Who Should Come
This event is a good fit if you are:
A founder or CTO planning to run AI models in production
An engineering or platform lead responsible for inference or infra cost
A product or ops owner evaluating MaaS vs on-prem trade-offs
Whoever interested in GMI Cloud and our products can join!
Before You Come
📍 Dueling Axes @ AREA15
3215 S Rancho Dr, Suite 160, Las Vegas, NV 89102
(Free entry to AREA15 included)
⏰ Arrive by 7:15 PM for check-in and safety briefing
📝 Waiver required (link shared ahead of time)
👟 Closed-toe shoes required
🚗 Free on-site parking
Capacity & RSVP
Invite-only. Limited capacity.
RSVP approval required.
If you’re in, you’re in.