Oct 11, 2026

AI Apps in a Flash: Ship to GPUs Without Docker — Dean Quiñanola, Runpod

Dean Quiñanola, a staff engineer at Runpod, presents Runpod Flash, a way to run Python on cloud GPUs as if they were local, with no Dockerfiles, image builds, or registry pushes. The talk covers serverless and load-balanced endpoints, endpoint-to-endpoint calls, network volumes with warm caching, and live serverless iteration. A live demo moves from GPU detection to text and image generation and then deploys to production with a single command.

Sep 18, 2026

Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon

Stefano Ermon, co-founder and CEO of Inception, discusses his company's radical bet on diffusion models to overcome the hardware and latency bottlenecks of autoregressive LLMs. He explains how parallel token generation in diffusion offers superior inference scaling and GPU utilization, expanding beyond images to discrete text and code generation. Ermon shares insights into Inception’s Mercury models, real-world applications like voice agents, the custom software stack required, and why efficiency will define the next era of AI competition.