AI Systems & Infrastructure @ SURF
Seattle AI Week @ SURF x SWELL: AI Systems & Infrastructure, Thursday 29 October
SURF Incubator, 999 3rd Ave, Suite 700, Seattle.
$10 garage parking, passes at the Floor 7 front desk of SURF.
10:30 to 11:00am | KEYNOTE: Inference Hardware That Keeps Up With the Models
Saman Naderiparizi, CTO, Elastix.ai. Why fixed-function inference accelerators fall behind fast-moving LLMs, and how reconfigurable silicon that adapts to the model at runtime cuts latency and lifts throughput in production. For ML engineers, infra leads, CTOs and technical founders. Q&A included.
https://luma.com/ilonzhkx
11:00 to 11:30am | Shipping Agentic AI in Production: What Actually Breaks
Rainy Jain, Senior Software Developer, Amazon Digital Acceleration. Why agents that look great in demos fall over at scale, the common failure modes, and the patterns Amazon uses to fix them. For engineers, founders and product leads building with agents.
https://luma.com/xtwpzq8s
11:30am to 12:00pm | Cyber Security 101 for AI Builders
Hosted with Maksim Akifev. For founders and small teams shipping AI apps on a modest budget: the threats that hit first (web exploits, DDoS, bad bot traffic), the cheapest high-payoff protections to put in place, and how to plan security as the product grows.
https://luma.com/ypsy7cyu
12:15-1pm | Lunch & Learn: Running and engineering org of coding agents. Mohit Sinha, Sr Principal Engineer, Auger. Over one summer, one engineer and 5,440 coding-agent sessions rebuilt a core system end to end. Getting there took a working org chart of agents: orchestrators, leads, implementers, and more reviewers than builders.
https://luma.com/uzolgrde
1:00 to 1:45pm | Energy, Infrastructure, and AI: Compute, Supply Chain, and What It Takes to Build AI in the PNW
Moderated by Aspen White, CEO, AerwareAI. Panel: Jonathan Azoff (SnoCap), Madison Hanberry (CTO, TriMagnetix), Jerry Lopez (CEO, NoiseFigure). Where compute capacity sits and how smaller teams get at it, how the regional grid and power mix shape new buildouts, chip and hardware lead times, and where the PNW stands against other hubs. Audience Q&A.
https://luma.com/a3ifj7ba
2:00 to 4:00pm | Building Community & Authentic Connections in the Age of AI
Presented by Veery, hosted by Rich Rudzinski. Panel with Sarah Studer, Lindsay Randall, Marcelo Calbucci (Seattle Flow) and Rob Ricciardelli (Escalon Services) on keeping Seattle’s networking human as AI fills the channels. Panel 2:15 to 3:00, networking to 4:00.
https://luma.com/2z5swnl3?tk=wbqkiy
AI Systems & Infrastructure day is made possible with the support of Elastix.ai.
Elastix.ai is a Seattle startup building inference infrastructure for frontier LLMs on reconfigurable silicon. Founded by former Apple and Meta machine learning engineers, Elastix runs large models on off-the-shelf FPGA servers that fit a standard air-cooled rack and plug in through a vLLM back end with an OpenAI-compatible API. The company reports up to 50x lower total cost of ownership and 80% less power than GPU deployments. Learn more at elastix.ai.
Hosted by SURF Incubator and The SWELL.