AI Infra Summit 2026: Intel Will Discuss its AI infrastructure at scale

At AI Infra Summit 2026, Intel will showcase its progress executing its vision for AI infrastructure at scale, demonstrating momentum across edge, enterprise, cloud, and physical AI environments.Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan joins moderator Edmund Nelson, co-founder & strategy director, AI Infra Summit, for a fireside chat on September 15 to discuss how innovation across silicon, systems, and software are shaping the future of AI infrastructure.

As enterprises implement AI, infrastructure is emerging as a key differentiator across performance, efficiency, and cost. Highlighting the systems-level approach outlined at Computex, Intel will demonstrate how its technologies, open approach, and ecosystem partners are building the foundation needed to scale AI across real-world environments.

Join Intel experts for panel discussions and sessions throughout the show and visit the Intel booth to see how Intel and its partners are delivering AI infrastructure innovations that are driving real-world impact.

AI Infra Summit 2026

When: September 15 – 17, 2026
Where: Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
Intel Booth: Intel booth: #736

Fireside Chat – The AI Opportunity: Silicon to Systems
In a moderated fireside chat by Edmund Nelson, co-founder and strategy director, AI Infra Summit, and Lip-Bu Tan, CEO, Intel, will discuss how the industry will be driven by close collaboration across the ecosystem with advances in silicon, systems, and software enabling the next phase of AI.

When: Tuesday, September 15 from 10:15 –10:35am PT
Where: Mainstage
Replay: A video will be published on the Intel Newsroom after the event

Reshaping the Stack: Challenges of Building Purpose Built Inference Infrastructure
Huma Abidi, senior director & GM, AI frameworks, Intel, will join a panel on the architectural and operational challenges of designing and deploying specialized inference infrastructure for AI workloads.

When: Tuesday, September 15 from 2:20 – 3:00pm PT
Where: Compute Track, Santa Clara Convention Center

From Digital AI to Physical AI: Open Infrastructure to Scale from Models to Machines
Nagesh Puppala, GM, physical AI & robotics, client computing and physical AI group, Intel, will discuss how the shift from experimentation to real-world scale will require an open, full-stack infrastructure approach spanning heterogeneous compute, software frameworks, developer tools, and ecosystem collaboration and hybrid architectures that combine cloud-scale training and reasoning with edge-based inference and control.

When: Wednesday, September 16 from 9:55 – 10:15am PT
Where: Physical AI Track, Santa Clara Convention Center

Intelligence at Scale: A Blueprint for Agentic AI Infrastructure
Anil Nanduri, VP, AI products and GTM, data center group, Intel, will join Anton McGonnel, VP, product, SambaNova Systems, to present a blueprint for agentic AI infrastructure. This discussion will explore how heterogeneous computing, disaggregated inference, and intelligent orchestration are emerging as foundational architectural patterns for scaling autonomous AI systems.

When: Wednesday, September 16 from 2:20 – 2:40pm PT
Where: Main Stage
Session replay: A video will be published on the Intel Newsroom after the event

AI Infra Summit Hackathon
Intel is hosting virtual and on-site hackathons where developers can leverage Intel’s physical AI technologies to build, optimize, and deploy real-world robotics systems.

Schedule:

Virtual challenge: September 10-16
Onsite challenge: September 15-16
Final submissions/judging: September 16
Where: Santa Clara Convention Center