In The Arena by TechArena

Allyson Klein

In The Arena by TechArena is your source for authentic conversations with the leading innovators in technology. The show is hosted by long time industry insider Allyson Klein

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S3 · E112
August 25 · 21 min
Ken Sun of AMI on Firmware, Fragmentation & AI Infrastructure
In this episode of The Control Plane, host Allyson Klein is joined by Ken Sun, Corporate Vice President at AMI, a Lattice company, for a wide-ranging conversation about firmware's growing strategic importance across the AI infrastructure stack. Ken brings a perspective shaped by years across service providers and cloud infrastructure, and frames firmware as the connective layer binding together the five layers of the modern tech stack: energy, silicon, cloud, models, and applications.
S3 · E111
August 18 · 32 min
Scott Robohn of Solutional on NetDevOps for AI Networks
Scott Robohn, CEO of Solutional, co-founder of the Network Automation Forum, and consulting CTO at Carahsoft, joins Hedgehog founder and CEO Marc Austin to talk about why AI infrastructure raises the stakes on network automation. They cover NetDevOps, the talent gap in network engineering, deterministic scripting versus agentic AI, and where reference architectures fall short at scale.
S3 · E110
August 17 · 20 min
Phononic's Thermal Fabric: Precision Cooling for AI
Heat has become the real ceiling on AI performance. In this episode of In the Arena, Allyson Klein talks with Matt Langman, SVP and GM of Infrastructure at Phononic, about why hotspots are multiplying across the rack and what to do about them.
S3 · E109
August 17 · 26 min
OCP's Zane Ball on the Open AI Era and Chip-to-Grid Vision
In this episode of The Control Plane sponsored by AMI, recorded at the OCP EMEA Summit in Barcelona, host Allyson Klein sits down with Zane Ball, Chief Technical Officer of the Open Compute Project Foundation, and Colin Brix, Vice President of Marketing at AMI, for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of open hardware, the rising importance of firmware across AI infrastructure, and the emerging chip-to-grid era reshaping how the industry designs data centers.
S3 · E108
August 12 · 26 min
Q-CTRL on Quantum Computing’s Path to Production
Quantum computing is moving out of the lab and into real production environments. In this episode of Data Insights, recorded live at Xcelerated Compute in New York, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Alex Shih, VP of Product at Q-CTRL, to unpack what that transition actually looks like.
S3 · E107
August 11 · 18 min
HPE's Trish Damkroger on the Convergence of HPC and AI
TechArena's Allyson Klein sits down with Trish Damkroger, SVP and GM of HPC and AI Business at HPE, for a look at the machines behind modern science and AI. They cover the convergence of HPC and AI, the engineering behind the Cray GX 5000 platform, 100% liquid-cooled racks reaching 400 kilowatts, the rise of sovereign AI, HPE's lead on the Green 500, the new NVIDIA collaborations, and what it takes to deliver a supercomputer customers commit to years before the silicon ships.
S3 · E106
August 6 · 22 min
Google's Bill Magro on AI, HPC, & the Future of Scientific Computing
In this episode of In the Arena, Allyson Klein sits down with Bill Magro, Global Director and Chief Technologist of High Performance Computing at Google, for a wide-ranging look at where scientific and technical computing is headed. Bill explains how Google Cloud approached HPC by meeting customers where they are, letting researchers bring their existing binaries and workflows without rewriting for the cloud.
S3 · E105
July 29 · 34 min
Broadcom's Hasan Siraj on Why the Network Is AI's Computer
Networking has quietly become a decisive variable in AI infrastructure performance. In this episode of The AI Hedge, host Marc Austin talks with Hasan Siraj, VP of Products at Broadcom, about why the network functions as the computer for modern AI clusters.
S3 · E104
July 28 · 14 min
Inside a High-Stakes Infrastructure Overhaul
In this episode of In the Arena, host Allyson Klein sits down with Rakesh Awasthi, a principal software engineer, to explore what it actually takes to modernize legacy data infrastructure at global scale and how AI has fundamentally changed the nature of that work in a preview of his talk at the AI Infra Summit in September 2026.
S3 · E103
July 28 · 24 min
Arm’s Dong Wei on the End of Monolithic Silicon Design
In this episode of The Control Plane sponsored by AMI, recorded live at the OCP EMEA Summit in Barcelona, host Allyson Klein is joined by Dong Wei (Fellow and Lead Standards Architect, Arm) and Colin Brix (AMI) for a deep dive into the chiplet economy, the future of firmware, and why open standards are critical to unlocking the next era of AI infrastructure.
S3 · E102
July 27 · 20 min
Doug Finke on Quantum Computing’s Commercial Future
Quantum computing is moving from research labs into the real world. In this episode of Data Insights, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Doug Finke, chief content officer at Global Quantum Intelligence, to unpack where the industry stands today and what comes next.
S3 · E101
July 23 · 22 min
Nebius on Why AI Infrastructure Is More Than GPUs
In this episode of Data Insights, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski welcome Hitesh Kumar, GPU Cluster Design Architect at Nebius, for a discussion on the realities of designing and deploying AI infrastructure at scale. The conversation explores how AI infrastructure has evolved beyond GPUs into a full-system challenge involving power, cooling, networking, storage, and interconnect technologies.
S3 · E100
July 22 · 21 min
Equinix on the Reality Behind 2026 Data Centers
AI infrastructure is reshaping the global conversation around data centers, power, water usage, and digital growth. In this episode of In the Arena, Allyson Klein sits down with Jordan Singleton, Managing Director at Equinix, to separate fact from fiction surrounding the future of data centers in 2026.
S3 · E99
July 20 · 24 min
Foresight’s Atif Ansar: AI Infra Execution & Delivery Risk
In this episode of Data Insights, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski sit down with Atif Ansar, Co-Founder of Foresight Works, to explore the execution challenges behind large-scale AI infrastructure projects. The conversation reframes the perceived AI “bubble,” arguing that demand is not the issue. Instead, the ability to deliver projects on time and manage complex interdependencies is the true constraint.
S3 · E98
July 17 · 46 min
FarmGPU on the Ticking Clock Driving Neocloud Economics
In this episode of The AI Hedge, host Marc Austin, Founder & CEO of Hedgehog, is joined by Jonmichael (JM) Hands, Founder & CEO of FarmGPU, for a deep dive into the emergence of neoclouds—AI-first cloud providers purpose-built for modern training and inference workloads.
S3 · E97
July 17 · 19 min
How RackRenew and AMI Are Tackling the AI E-Waste Crisis
The AI infrastructure buildout could generate up to 5 million additional tons of e-waste by 2030. In this episode, sponsored by AMI, host Allyson Klein sits down with Patrick Bliemer, Global Sales Manager at RackRenew, to explore how remanufactured OCP hardware and open-source firmware are offering a sustainable, enterprise-ready alternative to new equipment.
S3 · E96
July 16 · 25 min
Hedging AI Risk with Midokura CTO Dan Mihai Dumitriu
In this episode of The AI Hedge, Hedgehog Founder & CEO Marc Austin sits down with Dan Mihai Dumitriu, Founder & CTO of Midokura, to talk about sovereign AI infrastructure, data privacy, AI inference costs, open weights models, AI networking, SONiC, RoCEv2, Ultra Ethernet, and the future of AI infrastructure in Japan.
S3 · E95
July 16 · 26 min
OCP on How Open Compute Is Shaping the Future of AI Clusters
In this episode of The AI Hedge, host Marc Austin (Founder and CEO of Hedgehog) interviews James Kelly, VP of Market Intelligence and Innovation at the Open Compute Project (OCP) to explore how OCP evolved from Meta's open-source server initiative and discuss AI infrastructure trends, including disaggregated inference, specialized AI accelerators, heterogeneous AI clusters, open networking, and OCP's Open Cluster Design initiative.
S3 · E94
July 16 · 25 min
Engineering Capital’s Ashmeet Sidana on the Future of AI
In this episode of The AI Hedge, host Marc Austin (Founder & CEO of Hedgehog) sits down with Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital (an investor in Hedgehog) and former VMware executive, to discuss the future of AI infrastructure, networking, and enterprise adoption.
S3 · E93
July 14 · 13 min
Data Insights: A.J. Camber on Computer Vision & AI Scale
In this episode of Data Insights, Allyson Klein and Jeniece Wnorowski speak with A.J. Camber about how AI is evolving from specialized tools into more accessible systems that can be used by a broader range of professionals.

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