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In The Arena by TechArena is your source for authentic conversations with the leading innovators in technology. The show is hosted by long time industry insider Allyson Klein
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Ken Sun of AMI on Firmware, Fragmentation & AI Infrastructure (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Control Plane, host Allyson Klein is joined by Ken Sun, Corporate Vice President at AMI, a Lattice company, for a wide-ranging conversation about firmware's growing strategic importance across the AI infrastructure stack. Ken brings a perspective shaped by years across service providers and cloud infrastructure, and frames firmware as the connective layer binding together the five layers of the modern tech stack: energy, silicon, cloud, models, and applications.
Scott Robohn of Solutional on NetDevOps for AI Networks (opens the original)
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Scott Robohn, CEO of Solutional, co-founder of the Network Automation Forum, and consulting CTO at Carahsoft, joins Hedgehog founder and CEO Marc Austin to talk about why AI infrastructure raises the stakes on network automation. They cover NetDevOps, the talent gap in network engineering, deterministic scripting versus agentic AI, and where reference architectures fall short at scale.
Phononic's Thermal Fabric: Precision Cooling for AI (opens the original)
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Heat has become the real ceiling on AI performance. In this episode of In the Arena, Allyson Klein talks with Matt Langman, SVP and GM of Infrastructure at Phononic, about why hotspots are multiplying across the rack and what to do about them.
OCP's Zane Ball on the Open AI Era and Chip-to-Grid Vision (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Control Plane sponsored by AMI, recorded at the OCP EMEA Summit in Barcelona, host Allyson Klein sits down with Zane Ball, Chief Technical Officer of the Open Compute Project Foundation, and Colin Brix, Vice President of Marketing at AMI, for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of open hardware, the rising importance of firmware across AI infrastructure, and the emerging chip-to-grid era reshaping how the industry designs data centers.
Q-CTRL on Quantum Computing’s Path to Production (opens the original)
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Quantum computing is moving out of the lab and into real production environments. In this episode of Data Insights, recorded live at Xcelerated Compute in New York, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Alex Shih, VP of Product at Q-CTRL, to unpack what that transition actually looks like.
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