4 IT events this fall you won’t want to miss
Important IT industry events are coming in October and November--with lots of participation from AMD and Supermicro.
Summer’s over…somehow it’s already October…and that means it’s time to attend important IT industry conferences, summits and other get-togethers.
Here’s your Performance Intensive Computing preview of four top events coming this month and next.
- Where & when: San Jose, California; Oct. 13-16, 2025
- Who it’s for: This event, sponsored by the Open Compute Project (OCP), is for anyone interested in redesigning open source hardware to support the changing demands on compute infrastructure. This year’s theme: “Leading the future of AI.”
- Who will be there: Speakers this year include Vik Malyala, senior VP of technology and AI at Supermicro; Mark Papermaster, CTO of AMD; Johnson Eung, staff growth product manager in AI at Supermicro; Shane Corban, senior director of technical product management at AMD; and Morris Ruan, director of product management at Supermicro.
- Fun facts: AMD is a Diamond sponsor, and Supermicro is an Emerald sponsor.
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- Where & when: San Francisco, Oct. 20, 2025
- Who it’s for: Developers of artificial intelligence applications and systems. Workshop topics will include developing multi-model, multi-agent systems; generating videos using open source tools; and developing optimized kernals.
- Who will be there: Speakers will include executives from the University of California, Berkeley; Red Hat AI; Google DeepMind; and OpenAI. Also speaking will be execs from Ollama, an open source platform for AI models; Unsloth AI, an open source AI startup; vLLM, a library for large language model (LLM) inference and serving; and SGLang, an LLM framework.
- Fun facts:
- Supermicro is a conference sponsor.
- During the conference, winners of the AMD Developer Challenge will be announced. The grand prize winner will take home $100,000.
- AMD, PyTorch and Unsloth AI are co-sponsoring a virtual hackathon, the Synthetic Data AI Agents Challenge, on Oct. 18-20. The first-prize winners will receive $3,000 plus 1,200 hours of GPU credits.
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- Where & when: San Francisco; Nov. 7, 2025
- Who it’s for: Anyone interested in the convergence of AI innovation and scalable infrastructure. This event is being hosted by Ignite, a go-to-market provider for the technology industry.
- Who will be there: The speaker lineup is still TBA, but is promised to include enterprise technology leaders, AI and machine learning engineers, cloud and data center architects, venture capital investors, and infrastructure vendors.
- Fun facts:
- This is a hybrid event. You can attend either live or online.
- AMD and Supermicro are Stadium-level sponsors.
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- Where & when: St. Louis, Missouri; Nov. 16-21, 2025
- Who it’s for: The global supercomputing community, including those working in high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. This year’s theme: “HPC ignites.”
- Who will be there: Speakers will feature nearly a dozen AMD executives, including Rob Curtis, a Fellow in Data Center Platform Engineering; Shelby Lockhart, a software system engineer; and Nuwan Jayasena, a Fellow in AMD Research. They and other speakers will appear in panels, presentations of papers, workshops, tutorials and more.
- Fun facts: SC25 will feature a series of noncommercial “Birds of a Feather” sessions that allow attendees to openly discuss topics of mutual interest.