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World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 25, 2026 • Session details

The Unit Economics of AI

Ed Huang , Jeremy Murray , John Malcolm , Aaron Bawcom , Matt Burns

Are skyrocketing GPU costs stalling your AI deployments? Discover how intelligent routing, agentic caching, and model compression can slash inference bills and reduce your compute footprint by 80 percent.

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5:58 min

Architecting inference layers and meta harnesses to manage token costs

Hari Lingamagunta Hari Lingamagunta +3 · World Congress 2026 North America

2:26 min

Cost and latency pressures pushing AI to the edge

Moe Sani Moe Sani · World Congress 2026 Europe

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Reducing cloud dependency with on-device edge AI models

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Managing economic costs and intelligence scaling in AI products

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Managing compute costs and AI model routing

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Externalized computing costs of AI scaling

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