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Welcome to the AI Infrastructure Leadership Summit!

Welcome attendees! We're thrilled to have you in Barcelona.

8–10 September 2026 | Hotel Arts Barcelona

HOTEL WIFI ACCESS: Rafay_Summit (network name), password: Rafay2026
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Main Point of Contact: Maria Gallegos, Rafay Systems, email: maria@rafay.co | phone: +1 650-773-7387

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Agenda

16:00–19:00
Networking

Rooftop Terrace Welcome Reception

Kick off the Summit overlooking the Mediterranean — connect with fellow AI infrastructure leaders, NVIDIA, and ecosystem partners.

08:00–09:00
Networking

Coffee, Registration & Networking

09:00–09:15
Opening

Applying Portfolio Theory to AI Factories

Haseeb Budhani — Co-Founder & CEO, Rafay

09:15–09:35
Keynote

The NVIDIA AI Factory Playbook: Where NVIDIA Invests, Where Partners Build, and Why Customers Win

Warren Barkley — VP Product, DSX, NVIDIA

09:35–10:15
Keynote

What It Actually Takes to Go From Silicon to a Service Customers Will Pay For

Ashin Uday — Product Lead, Yotta

10:15–11:15
Session

AI Neocloud Economics: Winning on Margin and Enterprise Readiness

David Wood — Senior Managing Director, Global Lead, Sovereign AI, Accenture

11:15–11:45
Networking

Executive Networking

11:45–12:45
Lunch

Lunch

12:45–13:15
Session

Lessons Learned From Deploying 35+ Multi-Tenant GPU Clouds and AI Factories

Alex Saroyan — Co-Founder & CEO, Netris

13:15–13:45
Panel

The Business of Neocloud Economics

13:45–14:45
Networking

Executive Networking

14:45–15:15
Session

From Token Maxing to Outcome Maxing: Building Hybrid AI Infrastructure for Enterprise Value

Noam Rosen — Director, Enterprise AI Europe & META, Lenovo

15:15–15:45
Session

The Next AI Factory: Where Scale, Sovereignty and Economics Converge

Rod Evans — EMEA VP, Supercomputing & AI Cloud Infrastructure, NVIDIA

15:45–16:15
Session

Two Continents, 2 Gigawatts

Cassava leadership

16:15–16:45
Session

Full Fleet, Thin Margin: The Utilization Number Nobody Owns

Izhar Sharon — SVP AI Customer Advocacy, DDN

16:45–17:45
Networking

Executive Networking

17:45–17:55
Closing

Bringing It Home

Haseeb Budhani — Co-Founder & CEO, Rafay

18:45–20:45
Dinner

Executive Dinner

08:30–09:00
Networking

Coffee & Networking

09:00–09:10
Opening

Meet Team Rafay

09:10–09:40
Session

The New Telco Opportunity: From Connectivity Provider to AI Infrastructure Provider

Franck Jonas — Head of Telco, France, NVIDIA

09:40–10:10
Keynote

From Design to First GPU-Hour Revenue, Faster

Simon Dumbleton — CTO Europe, World Wide Technology

10:10–10:30
Networking

Executive Networking

10:30–11:00
Session

The Secure Foundation for Sovereign AI

Jon Evans — EMEA AI Specialist, Neoclouds & Enterprise GTM, Cisco

11:00–11:30
Session

The Margins That Turned Doubt Into Scale

Karan Kirpalani — CPO, Neysa

11:30–12:00
Networking

Executive Networking

12:00–13:00
Lunch

Lunch

13:00–13:30
Session

Optimizing Inference at Scale

Laura Morselli — NVIDIA

13:30–14:00
Session

Session Details Coming Soon

14:00–14:30
Session

Distributed Compute: Where AI Infrastructure Meets the Built Environment

Xeal

14:30–15:00
Customer Session

Building the Demand Side of Sovereign AI in Malaysia

Farul Mohd Ghazali — CTO, Aras Integrasi Sdn Bhd

15:00–15:30
Session

Dispatches From the Field: What Customers & Partners Are Telling Us

Mohan & Hemanth, Rafay

15:30–15:40
Closing

Bringing It Home

Haseeb Budhani — Co-Founder & CEO, Rafay

15:40–16:10
Networking

Executive Networking

Agenda subject to change. Times shown are local to Barcelona (CEST).

Meet the Speakers

Executives from Rafay, NVIDIA, and the AI infrastructure ecosystem share how operators turn GPU capacity into profitable, sovereign, and scalable AI businesses.

Featured Resources

Economics of the Rafay Token Factory

Measured production data showing how GPU operators can boost annual revenue per GPU by 2x–4.8x by shifting from hourly rental to token-metered AI services.

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NCP Guide

This document consolidates the capabilities an organization builds and operates in order to deliver AI cloud services as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP). It is organized layer by layer, from the physical foundation through to the orchestration and governance layer that makes capacity consumable.

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AI Token Factory

AI Token Factory extends the Rafay Platform to deliver AI services through APIs and token-metered consumption. Production-ready AI APIs run on GPU infrastructure while maintaining governance, multi-tenancy, and operational control. Token-metered consumption provides visibility into usage and enables internal chargeback or monetization models.

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From GPUs to Revenue: A Practical Guide to AI Factory Builds

This white paper breaks down what it actually takes to turn GPU investments into measurable business outcomes.

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Unlock Your AI Potential with Cisco and Rafay: Transform AI PODs into a Self-Service GPU Cloud

Cisco provides AI-optimized infrastructure. Rafay makes it usable across teams, tenants, and use cases in days.

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Commercializing Telco Infrastructure

This playbook outlines a practical, phased approach for telecommunications providers to transform existing GPU infrastructure into a revenue-generating AI Factory in as little as 12 weeks.

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The CIO’s guide to scalable, compliant, and developer-ready AI deployment

Orchestrating the future of AI: The CIO’s guide to scalable, compliant, and developer-ready AI deployment

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Building AI Value within Borders

Rafay's central orchestration platform facilitates efficient, self-service infrastructure and AI application management.

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GPU cloud evaluation report

Evaluating how the Rafay Platform delivers a GPU cloud for enterprises and cloud service providers by PivotNine.

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Experience Barcelona

Hosted at the iconic Hotel Arts Barcelona, the summit combines strategic discussions with exceptional hospitality on Barcelona's Mediterranean waterfront.

Continue conversations over authentic Catalan cuisine, evening receptions overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, and relaxed networking in one of Europe's most dynamic technology and innovation hubs.

HOTEL WIFI ACCESS: coming soon

Main Point of Contact: Maria Gallegos, Rafay Systems
maria@rafay.co | +1 650-773-7387

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