NYC Alt Cloud Meetup (May 2026)

Join us for an informal, geeky, growth-oriented meetup all about the Alt Clouds that build their value directly on top of infrastructure: GPU clouds, AI clouds, data clouds, developer clouds, connectivity cloud, sovereign clouds…and more!
Agenda
5:00 - Doors open, drinks, mingling
6:00 - Tony Perez "Big Iron, Tiny Fish"
6:30 - Alexander Petrovskiy "Accelerated Networking with NVIDIA BlueField"
-> with special guest David Wang on "Optimizing Envoy for BlueField"
7:15 - Erica Hughberg & Alexa Griffith "Inference Awakens: Tools for the Age of GenAI"
7:45 - Drinks and mingling
Tony Perez is an internet plumber (e.g. software and infrastructure engineer) at CoreWeave where he wrangles large-scale AI factories into production each day.

Alexander Petrovskiy is a Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA for DPU and DOCA (Datacenter on a Chip) products.

David Wang is head of product, marketing and customer success at Tetrate. He previously led product marketing and developer relations at MuleSoft and was an early leader at Databricks.

Alexa Griffith is a Senior Software Engineer building AI platforms at Red Hat. She works on the open source project KServe and Envoy AI Gateway and enjoys engaging with the community through her personal podcast, Alexa’s Input and writing technical blogs.

Erica Hughberg is a technical leader, software engineer, and community advocate at Tetrate. As a maintainer of Envoy AI Gateway, she concentrates on features that enable organizations to securely and efficiently integrate AI-powered services while streamlining traffic management, security, and observability.