Generative AI is rapidly evolving beyond prediction and prompts toward systems that can reason, act autonomously, and interact with the physical world. At the edge, this shift introduces new constraints and new opportunities, including low latency, energy efficiency, hardware diversity, privacy, and real-time decision-making.
The v5 Generative Edge AI Forum brings together industry and academic leaders to explore how reasoning, agentic, and physical AI can be designed, deployed, and scaled at the edge, and what it will take to move these systems from concept to production.
AGENDA DAY 2:
Session 3: Hardware Optimization & Platform Resources
Focus: Performance breakthroughs in memory, workload optimization, and platform efficiency.
Ritik Shrivastava (BrainChip): Running Generative AI Locally: An Open SSM Model for Edge Devices.
Davis Sawyer (NXP): Domain-Specific Intelligence meets the Ara Discrete NPUs
Vikash Kodati (Godel Space): From Orbit to Action: Running NASA Foundation Models on Edge Hardware for Real-Time Disaster Detection.
Tara Khani (Moorcheh.ai by Edge AI Innovations): Total Recall at the Edge: A Deterministic Universal Memory Layer for Agentic AI.
Session 4: Academic & Research Foundations
Focus: Research-led insights and joint industry-academia collaborations.
Henrik Flodell (Alif Semiconductor): Device Pilot.
Marcus Rueb (foresthub.Ai): The Intelligent Service Technician for Industrial Machines: A Real-World Embedded Agent Use Case.