Keynote
- Speakers:
- Laura Schaffer, Head of Growth & Marketing, DigitalOceanPaddy Srinivasan, CEO, DigitalOceanVinay Kumar, CPTO, DigitalOcean
Deploy San Francisco
The Conference for the Inference Era
Thank you to our amazing speakers, our generous sponsors, and everyone who joined us at Deploy 2026. Learn about all of our product updates announced at Deploy here.Deploy 2026 Agenda
Inference Track
The Cost Cliff: Improve Your Tokenomics as you Grow, ft. Character.AI & Inferact
70% of AI spend is now inference. See how Character.AI partnered with Inferact and DigitalOcean to cut inference costs by 50%, while improving throughput, on AMD GPUs.
- Speakers:
- Archana Kamath, VP of Engineering, DigitalOceanPiyush Srivastava, Principal Engineer, DigitalOceanJames Groenveld, Chief Architect, Character.aiSimon Mo, CEO, Inferact
AI at Scale Track
Built for Mass Scale: Hard-Won Lessons from Teams Running High Volume Inference Workloads in Production
Scaling inference isn't a model problem. It's a decisions problem. Industry leaders from Workato Research Lab, ISMG, and Hippocratic AI share the decisions, tradeoffs, and investments that got them to production AI at scale.
- Moderator:
- Karnik Modi, Senior Manager of Engineering, DigitalOcean
- Panelists:
- Oscar Wu, AI Research Technical Lead, WorkatoDan Grosu, CTO/CISO, ISMGDebo Datta, Co-Founder, Hippocratic AI
Inference Track
Open by Design: How NVIDIA and DigitalOcean Are Building the Stack for the Always-On Agentic Era
Kari Briski, VP Gen AI, NVIDIA, and Salman Paracha, SVP AI, DigitalOcean discuss why AI-native teams are demanding openness, model flexibility, and infrastructure built for agents that never sleep — and how the convergence of NVIDIA's software layer and DigitalOcean's platform is designed to meet exactly that moment.
- Speakers:
- Salman Paracha, SVP of Engineering, DigitalOceanKari Briski, VP of Generative AI Software Products, NVIDIA
AI at Scale Track
Your Model Is Only as Good as Its Memory, with Weaviate
Your model isn't failing because it can't reason. It's failing because it doesn't have the right information at the right time. In this session, we'll dig into the data layer: the part of your AI stack most teams treat as an afterthought and then scramble to fix in production.
- Speakers:
- Karthik Pandian, Senior Director of Engineering, DigitalOceanRyan O'Connor, Senior Developer Advocate, DigitalOceanBob Van Luijt, CEO & Co-Founder, Weaviate
Inference Track
Your Model Doesn't Matter. Your Infrastructure Does.
Everyone has access to the same models. So what actually matters? It's everything around them – routing requests to the right model, connecting to live data, scaling from prototype to production without ripping your code apart. We'll walk through the full journey: from a single API call to intelligent routing across GPU fleets, showing what it looks like when the platform owns the stack end to end. Live demos included.
- Speakers:
- Amit Jotwani, Staff Developer Advocate, DigitalOceanApril Dagonese, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, DigitalOcean
AI at Scale Track
AI Disruptors: How the Next Generation of Business is Being Built
Early-stage founders building real AI companies today—what they’re solving, what’s getting in the way, and how they’re pushing through it.
- Moderator:
- Dinesh Murthy, Director of Product Management, DigitalOcean
- Panelists:
- Peter Elias, Founder, Probably AIHovsep Seraydarian, Co-Founder, LawVoAlex Mashrabov, CEO & Co-founder, Higgsfield AIAngela Hoover, Co-Founder & CEO, Andi
Inference Track
The Inference Economy: How Venture Is Betting on the Agentic Era
Leading investors break down the economics of scaling AI in production, from infrastructure bottlenecks to open vs. closed ecosystems, and share their predictions for what the AI industry will look like in five years.
- Moderator:
- Meghan Grady, Senior Director of Marketing & Communications, DigitalOcean
- Panelists:
- Lauri Moore, Partner, Bessemer Venture PartnersBob Rosin, Managing Partner, AntlerVanessa Larco, Co-Founder, Premise VCSantiago Zavala, Global Managing Partner, 500 Global
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FAQ
When and where is Deploy?
Deploy 2026 was hosted in person at Convene 100 Stockton, 40 O'Farrell St, San Francisco. The mainstage keynote was streamed live to registrants.
Who should attend Deploy?
Deploy is designed for teams responsible for managing or building AI workloads in production at scale.
Qualifying participants got $5,000 in promotional inference cloud credits when they deploy a qualifying AI workload. Terms Apply.
Why should I attend Deploy?
This is a special Deploy that represents an evolution of cloud infrastructure that will change the way companies with AI in production conceive of their businesses. DigitalOcean's vertically integrated agentic inference cloud delivers radically simple operations and predictable unit economics that will set AI-natives on a path to success and growth.
Is there a cost to attend?
No. Deploy is free to attend.
Qualifying participants got $5,000 in promotional inference cloud credits when they deploy a qualifying AI workload. Terms Apply.
Is there a code of conduct?
Yes. Deploy follows the DigitalOcean Community Code of Conduct.
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