The enterprise AI landscape is rapidly evolving, and organizations are grappling with fundamental questions: How do we harness generative AI while maintaining control over our proprietary data? What does it take to build AI infrastructure that scales securely? How do we move from experimentation to production-ready AI workloads?
At VMware Explore 2025, industry leaders and technical experts addressed these critical challenges head-on. From architecting secure private AI foundations to rightsizing infrastructure for demanding AI workloads, the sessions delivered practical insights that go beyond theoretical frameworks to real-world implementation strategies.
Whether you’re a platform engineer looking to enable AI across your organization, a security professional focused on protecting AI workloads, or an infrastructure architect planning your next AI deployment, these sessions offer proven approaches and hard-earned lessons from the field.
Here are the essential AI sessions that provide the clearest path forward for enterprise success.
What’s New with VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA [INVB1779LV]
Since the launch of VMware® Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, our solution has matured to offer robust services to turn proprietary IP into differentiated GenAI apps using NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIM) deployed through Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures on-premises.
Join the VMware and NVIDIA PM team with UT Systems to learn how our solution is evolving to:
• Support for best-in-class GPUs and HGX systems purpose-built for AI using VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF)
• Ease the delivery of RAG applications through: Private AI services, including a model runtime to deploy LLMs as a service, AI data services, including NVIDIA NeMo Microservices and the VMware Data Indexing and Retrieval Service, and digital humans on VCF using NVIDIA blueprints.
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Building Secure Private AI Deep Dive [INVB1432LV]
Discover how to securely build and scale private AI infrastructure using VMware® vDefend™ and VMware® Private AI with NVIDIA. This session will guide you through designing a robust private AI architecture with built-in data protection, workload isolation, and automated policy enforcement.
Learn how vDefend enhances AI model security with segmentation and real-time threat detection, while Private AI with NVIDIA provides the platform to deploy and manage AI workloads with full control.
Ideal for architects and security teams, this session delivers practical insights to operationalize AI securely in a private cloud environment.
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Sizing AI Workloads in VMware Private AI Foundation [INVB1801LV]
As AI adoption grows, ensuring optimal performance and scalability of AI workloads are crucial for delivering accurate results and timely insights. In this session, we walk through a few default scenarios and show you tools that are available to help you size out your AI workloads.
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Tanzu AI Solutions Essentials: What You Need to Know to Get Up and Running [MODB1496LV]
Will you be supporting AI workloads on your platform but are not sure where to start? Curious about getting hands-on with AI using VMware Tanzu® Platform? This session is designed for platform engineering practitioners who want a practical starting point.
In this session, we will cover the core components of Tanzu AI solutions from infrastructure readiness to model deployment patterns so you can enable, scale, and operationalize AI across your environments. You will learn how to integrate AI models into new or existing platforms, ensure governance and scalability, and provide self-service access for your data and dev teams.
Key takeaways include architectural best practices, key configuration steps, and tips for enabling fast, secure AI experimentation—so you are ready to support innovation from day one.
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10 Big Benefits of Private AI That Make Your Decision Easy [CLOB1707LV]
In this session, we talk about what private AI is and will review the 10 key reasons why it is the right way for an enterprise to do Generative AI. This session will help you get better informed and be able to make the right decisions for your organization and to unleash the power of private AI for your organization.
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Unlock Innovation with VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA [INVB1446LV]
Discover how enterprises are transforming their AI strategies with the joint GenAI platform between Broadcom and NVIDIA, VMware® Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. This session focuses on private AI services—including model runtime, data indexing and retrieval, and agent builder services and more.
Join us to explore top use cases and see live demos that highlight the platform’s capabilities in action.
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Real-World Lessons in Rightsizing VMware Cloud Foundation for On-Premises AI Workloads [INVB1300LV]
AI workloads—especially those powered by large language models (LLMs)—are reshaping how we design, size, and operate infrastructure. It is no longer just about compute and storage. Model size, inference latency, concurrency, and GPU allocation all have a major impact.
In this session, Frank Denneman and Johan van Amersfoort share real-world lessons from designing and deploying AI-ready VMware Cloud Foundation® platforms across multiple customer environments. You will learn practical strategies for rightsizing infrastructure, weighing the trade-offs between backup and MLOps pipelines, and designing for on-premises AI workloads.
Using a practical AI infrastructure sizing tool, they will demonstrate how to align infrastructure with real-world demands and guide conversations with stakeholders and AI ISVs to help you make smarter, more cost-effective platform decisions.
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Missed the conference or want to revisit these highly-rated sessions? All VMware Explore content is available on-demand in the video library.
