AI Infra Summit 2026 concludes in Santa Clara today with NVIDIA's Ian Buck delivering the final keynote address.
The AI Infra Summit 2026 concluded today in Santa Clara, with NVIDIA’s Ian Buck delivering the final keynote address. Diamond Partners supported an event that drew 8,000 attendees, featured 400 speakers, hosted 250 partners, and utilized eight stages.
Participating organizations spanned the full AI infrastructure stack. Enterprise participants included Airbus, CVS Health, eBay, Eli Lilly, JP Morgan, McDonalds, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, and Walmart. Model builders represented at the summit were AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, GitHub, Google Gemini, Liquid AI, Meta, Mistral, OpenAI, and Salesforce. Independent software vendors (ISVs) featured Adobe, Atlassian, Cursor, Databricks, Glean, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Workday, and Zendesk. Robotics and autonomous vehicle companies present comprised Archetype AI, Boeing, Bosch, DeepMind Robotics, Lockheed Martin, Mercedes Benz, Path Robotics, Physical Intelligence, Tesla, and Waymo. Cloud, hybrid, and server providers included AWS, Cirrascale, Coreweave, Dell, Google, HPE, Lambda, Microsoft, Nebius, and Oracle. Compute hardware and semiconductor firms showcased AMD, Cadence, Cerebras, Cisco, Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, SambaNova, Siemens, Supermicro, and Synopsys. Data movement innovators featured Astera Labs, Ayar Labs, Celestica, Lightmatter, Marvell, Micron, Nokia, Samsung, Samtec, and SK Hynix. Data center operators and infrastructure partners included CoreSite, DataBank, Digital Realty, Equinix, GridCare, Iron Mountain, NTT Data Centers, PG&E, QTS, and STACK Infrastructure.
Attendance access was structured across three tiers. The Enterprise End-User pass was free and “Available to all enterprise end-users and those working within technical roles at hyperscaler companies. See if you qualify and check out what's included here.” Expo tickets were priced at $597, granting access to the expo hall to meet 250+ partners and be the first to witness product demos and announcements across 2 exhibition stages. Full-Access tickets, described as “Our most popular ticket,” were priced at $3,297 and provided access to the main stage keynotes, 5x content tracks, daily networking lunches, enhanced app features and more.