Ignite After Hours | ALIANDO X Archera X CoreStack

Your Ignite Head Start

Tue, Nov 17 · Ignite Day 1 · [6:30–9:30 PM] · Steps from Moscone

Why Day 1 matters

The connections you make on Tuesday night decide who you grab coffee with on Wednesday, which booths are worth your time, and which sessions you compare notes on all week. Most attendees spend Day 1 night in a hotel bar or a 400-person party where nobody can hear anyone. This is the other option: one table, the right people, real conversations.

Who's in the room

• Cloud, platform and infrastructure leaders running Azure and multi-cloud estates

• FinOps and cloud finance practitioners owning commitment and spend decisions

• Microsoft specialists and partners shaping how AI workloads land on Azure

• Teams from Archera, Aliando and CoreStack — no booth, no pitch deck

What you'll walk away with

• A short list of peers you'll actually look for at Moscone the rest of the week

• Straight talk on what AI workloads are doing to reservations, savings plans and cloud budgets

• How other teams are deciding what to commit to, and what to keep flexible, when usage keeps shifting

• A great dinner on us, after a long first day on the show floor

The evening

1. [6:30 PM] Arrivals and drinks — walk over straight from Moscone

2. [7:15 PM] Dinner and open conversation: Rethinking cloud optimization in the age of AI

3. [8:30 PM] Mingle, dessert, and plans for the rest of the week

Your hosts

Start Ignite in the right room.