Akamai AI Summit

Experience the future of AI — here’s what’s waiting for you

Join us for one of the most exciting San Francisco tech events this November, connecting AI leaders and innovators.

This event is for CTOs, startup founders, VPs of engineering, and chief architects running real-time AI inside larger organizations — the people deciding where AI actually runs.

• Learn where inference runs best and how to scale agentic workloads.
• Learn how to secure AI agents, not just traditional bots.
• See AI in action with a live multimodal application teardown from NVIDIA and Akamai engineers.
• Hear from Akamai leaders, customers, industry visionaries, and Salim Ismail on what’s next in AI and how agentic AI will reshape organizations.
• Understand the value of speed — what milliseconds mean for conversion and cost.
• Build and stress-test real AI code on real infrastructure.
• Step onto the field to pitch and bat alongside a Giants legend.

Speakers

• ・Dr. Tom Leighton, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Akamai
• ・Elad Blatt, Global Head of Business Development, Telco Networking, NVIDIA
• ・Salim Ismail, Futurist, Strategist & Enterpreneur
• ・Dave McCarthy, Group Vice President, Cloud and Datacenter Infrastructure, IDC
• ・Alberto Tauti, CEO, Reactor
• ・Matt Berk, SVP, Sales US and Canada, Akamai
• ・Dr. Robert Blumofe, EVP and Chief Technology Officer, Akamai
• ・Lena Hall, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Akamai
• ・Adam Karon, COO and GM, Cloud Technology Group, Akamai
• ・Kate Prouty, SVP, Chief Information Officer, Akamai

Agenda

• 12:00 Arrival, Registration, Lunch
• 1:00 Powering Protecting Business in the Age of AI
• 1:45 Designing for Agents: Insights for the Agentic Web
• 2:15 Why Inference Is Going Distributed: A Cloud Strategy Conversation
• 3:00 The Edge, In Play: Step to the Plate with Real-Time AI
• 4:00 Architecture Teardown: Real-Time Multimodal AI on Distributed Infrastructure
• 5:15 The exponential Organization in the Age of AI
• 6:00 Networking Reception