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# Building the Nervous System of AI


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 13:30–14:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Mainstage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2133-building-the-nervous-system-of-ai-michael-kagan-nvidia)

## Description

Michael Kagan, NVIDIA’s CTO, explains how AI factories are scaling toward million-GPU data centers, what drove NVIDIA’s evolution from a chip company into an AI infrastructure company, and why networking has become the “nervous system” of AI.

## Speakers

### [Michael Kagan](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@michael-kagan)

CTO of NVIDIA
### [Sead Ahmetović](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@sead-ahmetovic-2)

CEO & Co-founder, WeAreDevelopers


## Related talks at this congress

- [Building, securing and governing AI infrastructure in the Era of Agentic AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1469-building-securing) — Rob Nertney
- [Accelerating AI Inference at Scale: A Deep Dive Into NVIDIA Dynamo on Kubernetes](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1061-accelerating-ai) — Anshul Jindal, Mohak Chadha
- [From AI Assistance to Agentic Systems: Scaling Sovereign AI in Banking](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1075-from-ai-assistance) — Julia Koch, Markus Hacker
- [Production AI Is a Systems Problem: How ML Breaks at Scale and How to Prevent It](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1010-production-ai-is-a) — Elle S