Stephen Patak
Stephen Patak is Chief Revenue Officer of Blaize, where he leads global revenue and go-to-market strategy. With over 25 years building world-class sales and partner organizations, Stephen brings deep expertise across infrastructure-adjacent markets. Most recently, he was CRO at Nile, focused on secure, AI-powered networking solutions, and previously led the Americas at HERE Technologies and Extreme Networks. His career spans 15 years at Cisco managing sales organizations across the U.S. and Asia Pacific, including building Cisco's Service Provider business into multi-billion-dollar partnerships. That infrastructure foundation, combined with his proven ability to scale go-to-market strategies across emerging and established markets, gives Stephen a comprehensive view of how enterprises and service providers deploy and monetize edge AI compute at scale.
Sessions
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Inference Runs Where Data Lives: From Drone to Rack, One Inference Platform16-Sep-2026Physical AI Track
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Efficiently Managing Compute Across On-Prem, Cloud, and Hybrid AI Infrastructure Stacks16-Sep-2026Compute Track