Webinar

Predictable AI Infrastructure for Finance

Date
February 26, 2026
Time
2:00 PM ET | 11:00 AM PT
Location
Microsoft Teams

Overview

Keep the Cloud Experience, Gain Sovereign Control, Build Predictable ROI

Financial institutions are accelerating AI adoption, but hyperscaler GPU stacks often introduce tradeoffs that become harder to ignore at scale, including unpredictable costs, data residency and sovereignty risk, and platform lock-in that limits how modern workloads can be deployed across the enterprise.

In this educational session featuring Arc Compute and WEKA, we will explore a practical operating model for AI infrastructure designed for regulated financial environments. You will learn how finance teams can preserve the cloud-like experience their users expect, while regaining sovereign control over data and compute, and creating a clear path to predictable ROI for inference and production AI.

This is not a product demo. The focus is on architecture, operating models, and decision criteria that stand up to real-world constraints across security, compliance, and scale.

What You Will Learn

  • How financial institutions deliver a cloud-like AI and ML experience without relying solely on hyperscalers
  • What data sovereignty looks like in practice as inference and training workloads scale
  • How to run bare metal, managed LLM services, and agentic systems within one cohesive operating model
  • How to identify the key cost drivers behind AI infrastructure, and build a predictable ROI framework
  • Real-world patterns, tradeoffs, and moderated live Q&A

Who Should Attend

This session is built for technical and operational leaders in financial services, including:

  • CTOs, CIOs, and senior technical executives
  • Heads of Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Cloud, or AI Enablement
  • AI and ML platform leaders responsible for production inference
  • Security, risk, and compliance stakeholders
  • Institutions currently running GPU workloads on AWS, Azure, or GCP, and evaluating alternatives

Hosted by

Arc Compute

In Partnership with

WEKA

Featured Speakers

Nive Mahalingamlinkedin logo

Nive Mahalingam

Senior Account Executive | Arc Compute

Nive partners with finance and fintech organizations to translate GPU infrastructure strategy into measurable business outcomes, supporting secure, scalable Al deployments from pilot to production.

Arc Compute
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Val Bercovici

Chief AI Officer | WEKA

Valentin (Val) has extensive experience in the data infrastructure industry, having previously been the Chief Technology Officer at NetApp/SolidFire, where he drove innovation in cloud storage and data management solutions.

WEKA
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Josh Gelata

Infrastructure Lead | Arc Compute

Josh leads the design and deployment of high-performance GPU infrastructure, shaping systems that prioritize scalability, reliability, and long-term efficiency.

Arc Compute