AI Virtual Summit 2026

Why you should attend

Three ways to prepare for what’s next:

Build sovereign-ready infrastructure based on the economics of AI infrastructure and security

Deploy proven protection for models, apps, and inferencing across new attack surfaces

Invest in an ecosystem engineered for resilience and control

Explore the agenda below and reserve your spot

Summit keynote

KEYNOTE

Data sovereignty and new imperatives for enterprise AI

Gain practical strategies from the Gartner TRiSM framework to maintain control over AI data and infrastructure with guardrails and sovereignty-aware architectures.

Neil MacDonald, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner

John Maddison, Chief Marketing Officer, F5

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Gartner TRiSM framework maintaining control over AI

Summit sessions

Featuring F5 and industry experts, these sessions highlight practical strategies for architecting, securing, and scaling AI.

SESSION 1

Architecting AI for success

Learn how F5’s AI reference architecture unifies data delivery, scale, and security to reduce risk with more control.

SESSION 2

Reliability belongs between compute and storage

Design AI architectures that optimize the data path between compute and storage to improve performance, security, and reliability at scale.

SESSION 3

Protecting Private AI

Deploy secure, private AI with guardrails, use case-specific policies, and automated red teaming using a three-step model.

SESSION 4

Scaling AI in production

Optimize GPU utilization and token throughput with secure, intelligent inference control built on NVIDIA accelerated computing and F5.

SESSION 5

The right ecosystem for secure AI

Discover how F5 is advancing a partner ecosystem for AI, bringing together technology alliances to help organizations move from AI experimentation to production with confidence.

SESSION 6 / ON-DEMAND

Delivering AI on Kubernetes with F5 NGINX

Deliver AI workloads on Kubernetes with model-aware routing, policy enforcement, and observability built for production.

Featured speakers

Neil MacDonald

Vice President, Distinguished Analyst and Gartner Fellow Emeritus, Gartner Research

Uger Tigli

Chief Technology Officer, MinIO

Leon Derczynski

Principal Research Scientist, NVIDIA

John Maddison

Chief Marketing Officer, F5

Nirav Shah

Senior Vice President of Product Marketing, F5

Buu Lam

Director of Community Evangelism, F5

Scott Calvet

Director of Product Marketing, F5

Micheal Kingston

Senior Product Manager, F5

Hunter Smit

Senior Manager of Product Marketing, F5

Mark Menger

Solutions Architect, F5

Hands on section

Learn what it takes to deploy, scale, and protect enterprise AI applications and workflows during in-person sessions at our AppWorld events or F5 Academies.