For years, the industry mantra has been "Software as a Service" (SaaS). But the tide is turning. The SaaS marketplace has shifted leaving organizations with the realization that with the power of AI, they can, and should, build their own bespoke solutions rather than waiting on a vendor’s roadmap.

Join Jeff Price, Field CTO at SUSE, for a deep dive into the shifting landscape of artificial intelligence and the infrastructure requirements powering it. We’ll move past the hype to discuss how companies are accelerating by creating their own software ecosystems on flexible, composable platforms.

In this session, we will explore:

• The SaaS Vacuum: Understanding the shift from off-the-shelf subscriptions to self-developed innovation.

• Intelligent Infrastructure: How to provide the flexible connective tissue for containers, VMs, and GPUs.

• The Agentic Future: Leveraging tools like MCP (Model Context Protocol) to hook AI agents directly into your infrastructure.

• Data Sovereignty: Solving the "hard questions" of how to deploy and run AI workloads on-premises or at the edge without compromising private data.

• Stop being bound by vendor lock-in. Learn how to build the infrastructure that allows your team to innovate faster.