- 7th Annual
- November 17-18, 2026
- Austin, TX
Hardware and Chips
About the track
New chips are unlocking new model training and inference capabilities while maneuvering around supply chain constraints. Upgraded TPUs allow 370 tokens per second for Gemini 3.7 Flash, OpenAI is 12x-ing 5.6 Sol speed on Cerebras, and Nvidia is reducing memory on its upcoming Rubin GPU due to rising prices. Hardware is exciting again, at both the startup and enterprise level. This track is for ML engineers looking to go deeper into hardware and kernel knowledge.
Talks cover the new generation of chips, chip architecture, kernels and inference tricks, and recent developments in open source models such as linear attention. Speakers are professionals from chip companies diving into the details of the next generation of hardware. You’ll walk out knowing what the next generation of hardware unlocks in LLMs and other models.
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Track host
Denys Linkov
Head of ML, Wisedocs
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Denys Linkov is SVP of AI at Wisedocs, where he leads the company’s AI strategy and delivery for medical document intelligence, and a machine learning lecturer at the University of Toronto. Previously he was Head of ML at Voiceflow, guiding enterprise AI initiatives and working with more than 50 enterprises on their conversational and generative AI journeys, following earlier engineering work at LinkedIn.
Denys’s experience spans the full AI product lifecycle, from building production ML systems and evaluation frameworks (including his widely shared work on micro-metrics for LLM evaluation) to directing product teams and advising customers on best practices. He’s also a prolific educator: his courses and generative AI content have helped over 150,000 learners build practical AI skills, and he’s a regular speaker at conferences including QCon, AI Engineer, and TMLS.
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