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Washington dinner to discuss trade-offs in sovereign AI infrastructure
A Washington dinner on 29 October will bring together representatives from HPE and NVIDIA to discuss sovereign AI infrastructure.
The event is aimed at leaders in fields including government, healthcare, finance, research and higher education.
Sovereign AI systems are designed around rules about where data and computing are controlled or operated.
Choosing an infrastructure option can involve trade-offs in cost, capability and flexibility.
Some costs and operational challenges may only become clear after a system moves from planning to everyday use.
The discussion will cover what data can leave a jurisdiction or a building, and what evidence auditors may require.
The event will be held under the Chatham House Rule, which allows participants to use information shared without identifying who said it.
The Register will host a Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA on sovereign AI infrastructure trade-offs.
The event will take place on Thursday 29 October at Fiola Mare in Washington, DC.
The discussion will compare infrastructure options by capital cost, capability, elasticity and who operates them.
Participants will consider jurisdictional boundaries, operational questions and what auditors may accept as evidence.
The dinner is aimed at technology, data and risk leaders making infrastructure decisions this quarter.
- Who
- The Register, HPE and NVIDIA will host the dinner. HPE and NVIDIA representatives will take questions.
- What
- A dinner discussion about trade-offs in sovereign AI infrastructure.
- When
- Thursday 29 October, from 6.00pm to 8.30pm.
- Where
- Fiola Mare, Washington, DC.
- Why
- To examine infrastructure choices, their costs and operational implications, and how they handle boundaries and audit requirements.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The Register will host the dinner with HPE and NVIDIA in Washington.
The dinner is scheduled to run at Fiola Mare.
- Date
- Thursday 29 October
- Venue
- Fiola Mare, Washington, DC
- Hosts
- The Register, HPE and NVIDIA
- HPE participants
- Bharath Ramesh and Tracy Mills
- NVIDIA participant
- Bert Condensa
- Format
- One table, no slides, under the Chatham House Rule
What people are saying
Every sovereign AI architecture is a trade, and the currency changes with the option: capital, capability, elasticity, or the fine print about who operates it.
The cost you notice last is usually the one that decides whether the pilot ever becomes production.
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