Chicago
CIO Community
Town Hall
July 16, 2025 | 10:00am CDT
July 16, 2025 | 10:00am CDT
Strategic AI at Scale — Building Cost-Efficient, Portable Workloads
Participate with your CIO peers in the Chicago community in small, breakout discussions on a mission-critical priority for IT leaders. These informal discussions allow you to share your insights and learn from the lessons, approaches and experiences of a diverse group of peers in virtual breakout rooms.
Join fellow CIOs in the Chicago community to discuss:
Real-World Deployments of Scalable Sentiment Analysis and Audio Transcription
Infrastructure-First Strategies Drive Agility and Reduce AI Workload Costs
Teams and Organizations Best Positioned to Succeed With This Approach
Discussion Leaders
Members of the Chicago CIO community will lead the interactive discussion and share lessons learned.
Joseph Glover
Akamai Technologies
Director, Field CTO
Moderator
Agenda
July 16, 2025
10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Strategic AI at Scale — Building Cost-Efficient, Portable Workloads
Hosted by Akamai
GenAI and machine learning are redefining enterprise strategy, compelling technology leaders to accelerate innovation while maintaining cost control and architectural flexibility. Though it may seem like it, high-cost, fully managed AI platforms are not the only viable path. Organizations are designing AI workloads that deliver enterprise-grade performance without the constraints of locked-in platforms. By leveraging open-source frameworks, infrastructure primitives like GPUs, CPUs, VMs and Kubernetes, along with distributed application platforms, IT leaders are unlocking scalable, portable and cost-optimized AI pipelines.
This discussion will explore:
- Real-world deployments of sentiment analysis and audio transcription at scale
- Infrastructure-first strategies are driving agility and reducing AI workload costs
- Types of teams and organizations are best positioned to succeed with this approach
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