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Join DDN and ecosystem leaders to explore the infrastructure powering sovereign AI, AI factories, and enterprise AI at scale.
DDN AI Data Summit at RAISE 2026
Tuesday, July 7 | Paris, FR
Building the Foundation for AI at Scale
How Sovereign AI, AI Factories, and Enterprise AI Are Transforming the Future of Infastructure
4:00PM
What You'll Experience at The Summit
Meet the
Experts
Summit Agenda
4:05PM
Welcome Address
Wes van den Berg / SVP
Building the Modern AI Factory: The Land-Power-Compute Approach
4:30PM
4:55PM
Beyond Data Residency: Operationalizing True Sovereign Cloud for Frontier AI Workloads
5:20PM
Panel - AI Factory Blueprint: Scaling Sovereign, Sustainable, and High-Performance Compute
Register Early, Seating Is Limited.
When: Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm
Reception to follow
Where: Hôtel du Louvre
Pl. Andre Malraux, 75001 Paris, France
Kickstart Your
AI Journey
Explore how governments, national cloud providers, and regulated industries are building secure, scalable sovereign AI infrastructure to support national innovation, AI independence, and trusted data governance.
Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure
Scaling the AI Factory Era
Learn how leading AI factories and frontier labs are optimizing large-scale AI training and inference with infrastructure designed for maximum GPU utilization, accelerated performance, and operational efficiency at scale.
Discover how enterprises are moving from AI experimentation to production with turnkey AI infrastructure that accelerates RAG, inferencing, and AI application deployment while reducing cost and complexity.
Accelerating Enterprise AI Adoption
Alex Bouzari
CEO & Co-founder
DDN
Omer Asad
CPO
DDN
Wes van den Berg
SVP, Strategic AI
DDN
Barry Kick
AI Business Development Director
CUDO Compute
Nicolas Kremer
CTO
Polarise
Michael Champion
Chief Information Security Officer
Verda
Rod Evans
VP EMEA
NVIDIA
Chris Kawalek
Director, Product Marketing, NVIDIA DGX Systems
NVIDIA
Jacob Liberman
Director, Enterprise Product
NVIDIA
Dave Malik
MD, Global Infra Eng AI & HPC Lead
Accenture
Derek Elbert
AI Practice Leader
World Wide Technology
Vik Malyala
SVP Technology & AI
Supermicro
DDN’s Data Intelligence Platform is designed to fully saturate your GPU’s, maximizing your investment.
In an era where AI defines competitive advantage, DDN Infinia emerges as a transformative data platform.
Yann-Guirec Manac’h
Office of the CTO, Head of Hardware R&D
Scaleway
Sunil Gupta
CEO
Yotta
Michael Ang
Director, Solutions
Supermicro
Join DDN, customers, partners, and industry leaders to explore how organizations are building and scaling the next generation of AI infrastructure — from sovereign AI initiatives and AI factories to enterprise AI deployments.
Learn how global enterprises, frontier labs, and national cloud providers are operationalizing AI with high-performance data infrastructure designed to power large-scale training, inference, and AI data pipelines. Discover why AI factories are becoming the industrial plants of the AI era, and why data is the control plane driving AI performance, efficiency, and scale.
Agenda Coming Soon!
Infinia & Product Annoucements
Omer Asad / CPO
5:50PM
Closure
Wes van den Berg / SVP
Closure
Supported by
Build your AI Factory on GPU-driven and x86-based NVIDIA DGX systems with Intel® Xeon® CPUs.
Summit Agenda
4 PM – 4:05 PM
Welcome Address
Wes van den Berg | SVP, DDN
4:05 PM – 4:30 PM
DDN is the Data Engine Powering the AI Economy
Alex Bouzari | CEO & Co-Founder, DDN
4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
Building the Modern AI Factory: From AI Ambition to Deployable Infrastructure
Barry Kick | AI Business Development Director, CUDO Compute
4:50 PM – 5:10 PM
Beyond Data Residency: Operationalizing True Sovereign Cloud for Frontier AI Workloads
Michael Champion | Chief Information Security Officer, Verda
5:10 PM – 5:40 PM
Polarise and NVIDIA | Moderated by DDN
AI Factory Blueprint: Scaling Sovereign, Sustainable, and High-Performance Compute
5:40 PM – 5:55 PM
Omer Asad | CPO, DDN
Infinia & Product Announcements
5:55 PM – 6:00 PM
Wes van den Berg | SVP, DDN
Vote of Thanks and Session Closure