Earlier this month, we announced the first Ampere Developer Summit, a half-day virtual event being held on Thursday, September 26th, 2024. We wanted to share more information about the event schedule and some of the guest speakers.

This year’s event is focused on why you should consider Ampere Cloud Native CPUs for your next cloud native application deployment, which workloads are particularly good candidates to move to Ampere today, and lessons learned from other organizations that have already successfully undertaken this migration.

Why Consider Ampere's Cloud Native Processors?
In the first session, Sean Varley, Chief Evangelist at Ampere, will explore why we call Ampere CPUs “Cloud Native Processors”. He’ll be joined by Kate Goldenring of Fermyon who will discuss how the core density and power efficiency of Ampere CPUs make them a great match for WASM-based functions running on Kubernetes. Additionally, Dor Laor, CEO and co-founder of ScyllaDB, will share how Ampere’s single-threaded, high-performance cores enable predictable, low-latency responses and high throughput for distributed cloud native databases.

Workloads that Shine
The summit’s second session will be hosted by Naren Nayak, VP, Application Engineering at Ampere. Naren will speak with Vikrant Soman, Senior Staff Solutions Architect at Uber, about their cloud infrastructure experience. Naren will also speak to Dmitry Polyakovsky, Consulting Software Engineer at Oracle Cloud and Tech Lead for OCI Cache Service, on his experience leading the OCI Cache team running Redis as a service for OCI customers.

Right Sizing AI Compute for LLM Inference
The third session, led by Victor Jakubiuk, Head of AI at Ampere, will share why Ampere CPUs are a great choice for AI inference workloads. Victor will welcome Amar Gowda, OCI’s AI/ML Senior Product Manager, on the work that OCI has done with Ampere to enable AI inference workloads. Victor and Amar will be joined by Steve Notley, Field Engineering at Wallaroo.AI, to discuss how their products ease the management and operation of trained models in the cloud. Some studies have shown that over 80% of all ML models are never deployed into production. Amar and Steve will share why you should deploy your inference model to Ampere CPUs and how to successfully deploy and manage your models in production.

Making the Change
The final session will be hosted by Dave Neary, Head of Developer Relations at Ampere, discussing the practicalities of adding another architecture to your infrastructure. The platform migration to Ampere may well be easier than you think. Dave will be joined by Maximilian Wittich of Stackable, to share the steps they followed to add Arm64 support using Ampere for their data platform product, and Andreas Lykke of Uber who will present the practical aspects of adding Cloud Native CPUs for their applications and the results that they have been able to offer their customers in terms of price and performance.

Register for the Ampere Developer Summit!

We’ve got 3+ hours full of valuable content planned for you. Guest speakers and Ampere hosts will be available for live Q&A during each session, as well as networking at the end of the event.

Be sure to register for Summit to ensure you’re able to take advantage of all the event has to offer. If you’re unable to attend, please register for the event and we’ll notify you when session recordings are available.

We look forward to seeing you there!