# The New Economics of AI, and an Evening at Wrigley Field

In-Person Event • Wrigley Field — hosted — November 16, 2026 • 2:00 – 9:00 PM CT — 1060 W. Addison St., Chicago, IL 60613, Chicago, United States

Featuring Microsoft

The Inaugural WEKA Executive Summit

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## Why attend

You’re Invited

## WEKA Executive Summit at SC26

You’re invited to participate in the WEKA Executive Summit on Monday, November 16, hosted in partnership with Microsoft.

The Afternoon

## Covering All the Bases: What AI Infrastructure Actually Costs

Designed as an interactive leadership discussion, the afternoon is built to invite interruption and flow with the room. Across three hours, we’ll tackle the real cost curve of training and inference, the tradeoffs of model placement, and what boards require before funding the next phase. Guest keynotes and customer firesides spark each topic, while WEKA leadership moderates a conversation driven entirely by the attendees.

The Evening

## Network, Tour, Hit, and Dine at Wrigley Field

Following the afternoon program, the evening transitions into a private hosting experience at Wrigley Field: terrace cocktails, a guided stadium tour, time in the batting cages, and dinner inside the park.

The Agenda

## Six Sessions Across the Afternoon

The afternoon moves from the economics of AI to what comes after training.

- **The New Economics of AI** — Why productive compute is becoming the defining competitive advantage in AI
- **The AI Factory** — What it actually takes to build and run AI infrastructure at scale
- **Executive Exchange: The $1B AI Infrastructure Question** — A live look at where leaders would place a billion dollars in AI infrastructure
- **Building at Scale: Inference Economics** — What it costs to serve models to real users, from token economics to latency
- **From AI Investment to AI ROI** — Why some companies scale their AI investment and others stall
- **After Training** — Agentic AI, persistent agents, and multimodal systems: what the next wave of AI demands

## Your Hosts & Featured Speakers

Hosted by WEKA leadership, in partnership with Microsoft. Perspectives from the companies building and running AI infrastructure at scale.

- **Liran Zvibel** — Co-Founder & CEO, WEKA
- **Brian Froehling** — Chief Revenue Officer, WEKA
- **Evan Burness** — AI & HPC Lead, Microsoft
- **John Fragalla** — Principal Architect, NVIDIA
- **Alfredo Ramos** — Head of Product, Nebius
- **Scott Albin** — VP, Commercial & Customer, Groq
- **Mark Munsell** — Executive Director, GeoSTL