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Keynote: RISC-V Opportunities at the Edge of AI - Makeljana Shkurti, Chair of the RISC-V AI Market Development Committee & Ed Doran, VP of Strategy, Edge AI Foundation
The rapid evolution and adoption of AI has been driven by new innovation and massive investments. While AI in the data center can enable powerful new applications, we also need to focus on AI in the real world. In this session, we will explore how AI on the edge is necessary to both leverage the cloud’s strength and deliver its own unique value. So what do RISC-V and Edge AI have in common? Both are reshaping the future of compute by challenging the limits of legacy architectures. Edge AI represents the fastest-growing demand for intelligence, where inference must happen close to the data, under tight cost, power and latency constraints. RISC-V is the only modular platform designed to meet these demands, enabling domain-specific acceleration from the smallest devices to the largest systems.
In this joint Keynote, Ed Doran and Makeljana Shkurti will share how the growth of Edge AI and RISC-V innovation are not happening in parallel but rather sharing the same trajectory. Together, they will present a vision for the future of AI infrastructure - one where inference at the edge is efficient, sustainable and accelerated by RISC-V.
Keynote: RISC-V Opportunities at the Edge of AI - Makeljana Shkurti, Chair of the RISC-V AI Market Development Committee & Ed Doran, VP of Strategy, Edge AI Foundation
The rapid evolution and adoption of AI has been driven by new innovation and massive investments. While AI in the data center can enable powerful new applications, we also need to focus on AI in the real world. In this session, we will explore how AI on the edge is necessary to both leverage the cloud’s strength and deliver its own unique value. So what do RISC-V and Edge AI have in common? Both are reshaping the future of compute by challenging the limits of legacy architectures. Edge AI represents the fastest-growing demand for intelligence, where inference must happen close to the data, under tight cost, power and latency constraints. RISC-V is the only modular platform designed to meet these demands, enabling domain-specific acceleration from the smallest devices to the largest systems.
In this joint Keynote, Ed Doran and Makeljana Shkurti will share how the growth of Edge AI and RISC-V innovation are not happening in parallel but rather sharing the same trajectory. Together, they will present a vision for the future of AI infrastructure - one where inference at the edge is efficient, sustainable and accelerated by RISC-V.
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