Name: Data Infrastructure for AI/ML Innovations - Object Storage & Beyond
Start: 2025-07-30T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-07-30T19:30:00-04:00
Location: WeWork Tysons Corner

At this meetup you can expect a welcoming atmosphere filled with MinIO users and experts from across private and public sectors. We'll talk about all things MinIO, AI infrastructure, data lakehouses, MLOps, GPUs and much more.

**Agenda**
5:30 - 6:30: Arrival & Community Networking
6:30 - 6:50: AI/ML Infrastructure Innovations - Keith

* Data Lakehouses
* Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
* Vector Databases
* Distributed Training
* The Current State of GPUs
* GPU Direct and S3 over RDMA

6:50 - 7:00: Break
7:00 - 7:20: Lightning Talk w/ MinIO User
7:20 - 8:00: Continued Networking

We'll meet at the Tyson's Corner WeWork on Wednesday, July 30th.
Food and drinks will be provided.

If you're interested in sharing your MinIO use case during the meetup, **email rachel@min.io.**

**Prize Drawing!**
We will be raffling off two, [MinIO 1-year Training Subscriptions](https://min.io/training) (including certification exam)! Make sure to fill out the registration form with your name/email to be entered.

Rachel Maxwell

DC Metro MinIO Users

NoVA/DC metro MinIO Users

Technology

Open Source

Cloud Computing

Enterprise Servers & Storage

Data Storage

Data Center Colocation

Storage Solutions

Data Privacy

Cloud Integration

Private Cloud

Big Data

Data Management

[Keith Pijanowski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithpij/) is MinIO’s subject matter expert for all things AI/ML where he researches and writes about storage requirements for AI and ML workloads. Keith has extensive experience in the software space, most recently as an Enterprise Architect on BNY Mellon’s Distribution Analytics team building data pipelines and analytics solutions. Prior to BNY Mellon, Keith spent more than a decade at Microsoft where he served in a number of different developer evangelism and business roles. He was one of the first members of Microsoft’s Evangelism team when the .NET Framework was first released.

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