AI Infrastructure, Built in the Open

Choose one half-day experience - or attend both for a full day of technical learning and open-source contribution.

Morning: AI Inference Technical Deep Dive

Technical sessions and live demonstrations covering deployment, load testing, scaling, and platform operations. The morning program does not include individual attendee labs.

Afternoon: DSX OS Contributor Workshop

A hands-on working session where participants collaborate with maintainers, work directly in open-source repositories, and begin or advance a contribution.

 

Schedule at a Glance

November 9th

Nov 9, 2026
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Check-in and Community

Coffee and networking with NVIDIA engineers and maintainers.

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
AI Inference Stack Overview and Deployment Demo

Introduce the platform stack and demonstrate provisioning a Kubernetes/GPU foundation, deploying an open model, and issuing a live inference request.

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Live Demo: Building and Load-Testing a Coding Assistant

See how to connect a coding agent, trace inference, build repeatable load tests, scale GPUs, and accelerate model loading.

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Technical Deep Dive: Scale & Disaggregate Serving

Explore replica scaling, routing strategies for cache efficiency, and the separation of prefill and decode workers across a cluster.

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Multi-Team Platform Ops

Learn how shared GPU capacity, workload checkpoint and restore, and emerging research problems are addressed in multi-team environments.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Optional Lunch
 

Nov 9, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Optional Lunch and Contributor Setup

Optional working lunch to get set up as an open-source contributor

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
DSX OS Orientation & Choose Your Path

Fast overview of DSX OS projects and contribution routes.

1:30 PM - 3:45 PM
PATH I - Supported Contribution Sprint

Hands-on work in the repositories—claim an issue, open a draft PR, run CI, get live maintainer review

PATH II Maintainer Roadmap Roundtables

Small-group architecture discussions. Bring your org's requirements and integration ideas.

3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
Show-and-Tell & Contribution Follow-Through

Rapid recap and recognition of sprint accomplishments, then continued PR review and CI troubleshooting for unfinished work

4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Optional Community Meetings

Project-focused community sessions enabling maintainers, contributors, and partners to review updates, address requests, discuss governance, and schedule recurring syncs.

Venue

Wasatch Ballroom- 2nd Floor

Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown

215 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT, 84101