Agents That Own Their Inference: Building Production AI Agents on Dedicated GPUs
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Duan Lightfoot
Akamai
Senior Developer Advocate
As foundation models move toward deeper test-time computation, inference becomes the dominant scaling constraint. Latency, throughput, and cost are governed by a small set of forces: autoregressive decoding, KV-cache growth, memory bandwidth, and scheduling under contention. This workshop frames large-scale inference through these emerging laws of inference, starting from first principles and building toward real systems. Learners deploy NVIDIA Dynamo on Kubernetes to operate aggregated and disaggregated inference architectures using built-in KV-aware routing and scheduling. The outcome is a principled understanding of where inference time and money go — and how architectural choices bend those curves in production. Participants will deploy both aggregated and disaggregated inference on a 4xA100 node and compare the performance of the two.
Workshop Preparation: - Please bring your own laptop. - Please review the following document and prepare accordingly before the workshop: https://developer.nvidia.com/dli/getready
World Congress 2026 Europe
Duan Lightfoot
Akamai
Senior Developer Advocate
Jeremy Murray
Stack8s
Founder and CEO
Piotr Zaniewski
vCluster Labs
Head of Engineering Enablement
Boris Hecker
Atos/Eviden
Managing Director
Max Tschochohei
Director Customer Engineering
Peter Kürpick
EPAM Systems
Senior VP Germany and Austria and CTO
Tomislav Tipurić
Nephos
CTO