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 - Rob May "Small but Mighty, Where SLM’s Shine"
7:00 - Alexander Petrovskiy "Accelerated Networking with NVIDIA BlueField"
7:30 - Varun Talwar "Envoy at the AI Edge & BlueField"
8:00 - 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.

Rob May is the CEO of Neurometric, where he is working to make inference free. He host of the AI in NYC podcast.

Alexander Petrovskiy is a Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA.

Varun Talwar is the co-founder of Tetrate, the leading company behind Envoy, and helped to create both gRPC and Istio.