Keynote: AI Innovation Begins with Trust
Keynote Speaker: Richard Grisenthwaite, EVP & Chief Architect, ARM

The AI industry is undergoing a period of unprecedented infrastructure investment, often focused on massive data centres (like the Stargate activity). But while creating giant generative models requires staggering compute (up to 10^26 flops, equivalent to immense energy expenditure), the long-term reality is that the majority of compute will shift to inference (using the models).

Richard Grisenthwaite argues that true monetization and widespread adoption will happen through distributed, agentic AI and smaller, specialized language models deployed at the edge. Edge deployment is crucial for addressing challenges like cost efficiency, latency, and user privacy.

The Future of AI is Embodied and Distributed

• Embodied AI: The growth of physical AI, including autonomous systems moving toward Level 3/Level 4 autonomy, requires equipping vehicles with server-class systems.

• The Trust Challenge: The potential of computing is ultimately limited by the degree to which we can trust it. Crucially, 90 to 95% of AI cybersecurity relies on foundational hardware, software, and operational security.

Securing the Edge: Architectural Innovations from ARM

Richard discusses how architectural advances are meeting the need to protect valuable intellectual property (the models and their architecture) and user data at the edge through:

• Confidential Compute: This technology is seeing a massive uptick in interest outside the cloud space to safeguard these “crown jewels” when deployed on client devices.

• Performance Acceleration: New architectures like ARM’s SME2 (Matrix Multiplication Extensions) provide substantial performance gains (4x to 5x) for inference tasks.

• Next-Gen Security: The introduction of Future Architecture Technologies (FAT), including Permission Overlays V2 (POE2), which enables lightweight compartmentalization within a single address space.

This innovation improves security against attacks while offering better performance than traditional application-level process switching.

Join us to understand how foundational security is absolutely fundamental to realizing the full, transformative potential of the AI explosion!

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