DATES TO REMEMBER:

• CFP Close: Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:59 PM PDT (UTC -7)
• CFP Notifications: Monday, August 24 - Friday, August 28
• Schedule Announced: Wednesday, September 2
• Event Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026

Reminder: This is a community event — so no product and/or vendor sales pitches.

SUGGESTED TOPICS

• Applications on DPU/IPUs: Networking, security, storage (including disaggregated storage protocols like NVMe-oF), HPC, etc.
• Provisioning, LCM, and Fleet Management: Vendor-agnostic solutions and API standardization.
• Use DPU/IPUs in Kubernetes environments: Use-cases, operators, resource-management, and ensuring DPUs support multi-tenancy for different ISVs.
• Standards and Interoperability: Applicable to DPU/IPUs across the ecosystem.
• DPU/IPUs in AI Infrastructure & Inference: Managing AI inference data movement, AI-driven storage (KV cache offloads), secure GPU assignment via device attestation, and reducing virtualization compute overhead to free up rack space and power for AI hardware.
• Virtualization & Standard VM Workloads: Supporting legacy enterprise environments (OpenStack/QEMU), virtualization stack optimization (e.g., OVS offload), and utilizing Host-Initiated IPU (Standard NIC/FNIC mode) for frictionless adoption.
• Confidential Computing & Advanced Security: Securing boundaries between the host and IPU, providing tenant-specific secure tunnels (host pod isolation), and utilizing DPU/IPUs for crypto offloads
• Sustainability & Edge Computing: Optimizing power and thermal envelopes in high-density data centers, and leveraging DPUs at the network edge for low-latency localized processing.

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