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VAST Forward 2027
Call for Speakers
Share your expertise with the architects, engineers, and technical leaders building the future of AI, data, and infrastructure. Present at VAST Forward 2027, February 9–11 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Why Speak at VAST Forward?
Your Stage for What’s Next in AI
Whether you're solving infrastructure challenges, building intelligent applications, or researching what's next, speaking at VAST Forward puts you in front of the people shaping the future of AI.
Complimentary Conference Pass
Attend VAST Forward as a speaker, on us. Last year's event was the must-attend gathering for AI and data leaders, selling out well ahead of the show.
Speaker Networking
Connect with the practitioners tackling the same challenges you are, across infrastructure, applications, and research.
Reach an Influential Technical Audience
Present your ideas to AI infrastructure leaders, platform engineers, architects, researchers, and practitioners driving the next generation of enterprise AI.
Amplified Visibility
Get promoted across VAST Forward marketing and event channels, putting your session in front of the broader VAST community.
Solved a hard problem? Tell the room.
Customer-led sessions consistently rank among the highest-rated talks at VAST Forward. If your team has deployment stories, lessons learned, or hard-won operational insight - we want to hear it.
Focus Areas
Bring Your Expertise to the Table
VAST Forward is organized around four core focus areas that reflect the biggest challenges and opportunities in AI infrastructure today. When submitting your proposal, select the track that best aligns with your session's primary topic.
AI Infrastructure and Operations
How organizations build, operate, and scale AI systems in production. Potential topics: training and inference infrastructure, GPU optimization, AI networking, AI observability, platform engineering.
Building Intelligent Applications
How teams create and deploy production AI systems. Potential topics: agentic AI, RAG, video reasoning, AI application architectures, AI development workflows.
Modern Data Platforms
Preparing enterprise data for the AI era. Potential topics: data architecture, governance, streaming, vector search, hybrid cloud.
Frontier Perspectives
Exploring what comes next. Potential topics: emerging AI architectures, research breakthroughs, agentic systems, future infrastructure trends.
Session Formats
Four Ways to Take the Stage
Breakout Session (45 min)
Share technical insights, lessons learned, and real-world experiences.
Technical Deep Dive (45 min)
Advanced architectural, operational, and engineering topics.
Panel Discussion (40 min)
Multiple perspectives on industry challenges and emerging trends.
Hands-On Workshop (120 min)
Interactive learning experiences and practical training.