AI Infra Builders Social: Bridging Open Source, Research, and Production

AI Infra Builders Social Lillian Shao Alison Shao Frank Chen

An evening of meaningful conversations about AI, food, drinks, and new connections! AI infrastructure is built at the intersection of research, open source, and production. Researchers push the boundaries of training, inference, and efficiency. Open-source maintainers turn new ideas into reusable tools and frameworks. Production engineers bring these systems to life at scale. Yet these communities don’t always have the opportunity to exchange perspectives, share practical experiences, and learn from one another. No product pitches. No formal research presentations. Just the people building AI infrastructure, sharing perspectives, and connecting across communities. Easy-to-grab meals and drinks will be available throughout the evening.

Schedule 7:00 PM – 7:35 PM — Welcome, Easy-to-Grab Meal & Cross-Community Networking 7:35 PM – 8:15 PM — Lightning Talks “What is one thing you wish the other AI infrastructure communities better understood about your work?” 8:15 PM – 9:00 PM — Food, Drinks & Open Networking

Hosts SGLang is a high-performance, open-source serving framework for large language and multimodal models, advancing efficient and scalable AI inference. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides high-performance AI infrastructure and cloud services designed to support demanding AI training and inference workloads at scale. Together, SGLang and OCI are bringing the AI infrastructure community together to foster open exchange, practical learning, and connections across research, open source, and production.