Toby Ford
Toby Ford is Head Architect at WhiteFiber, Inc. (NASDAQ: WYFI), where he leads design and deployment of distributed AI infrastructure — most recently the company's cross-data-center GPU supercluster, which achieved 111.2 Tbps across 83km of dark fiber at 0.9ms guaranteed round-trip latency, with patent applications filed and commercial launch targeted for Q3 2026.
He has spent the last 10 years consulting on security and network architecture for the companies such as Dell EMC, GSK and BNYM.
Earlier in his career he served as AVP of Cloud and Platform Architecture & Strategy at AT&T, shepherding SDN and NFV projects onto AT&T's Integrated Cloud platform, after serving as CTO of USinternetworking, prior to its 2006 acquisition by AT&T.
While at AT&T he was a leading figure in open infrastructure and was one of the original board of directors of the OpenStack Foundation at its 2012 launch. Duing this time he also served on the OPNFV and Linux Foundation Board of Directors.
Sessions
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Future-Proofing AI Data Centers: Designing for Rapid Hardware Evolution & Infrastructure Flexibility16-Sep-2026AI Data Center Track