Val Bercovici
Chief AI Officer at Weka, an AI-native data platform company; experienced storage industry executive and former NetApp CTO who speaks about storage, context memory, and AI infrastructure innovations.
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Feb 6, 2026 • 54min
A New Era of Context Memory with Val Bercovici from WEKA
Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer at Weka and former NetApp CTO, explains AI-native storage and context memory challenges. They explore memory tiering from HBM to NVMe. Discussions cover latency, high-bandwidth flash, dedicated context memory networks, Axon pooling local NVMe into memory, augmented memory grids, token warehouses, and networking innovations for AI infrastructure.
Jul 7, 2025 • 47min
A Conversation with Val Bercovici about Disaggregated Prefill / Decode
Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer at Weka and a veteran in storage infrastructure, delves into the fascinating world of disaggregated pre-fill and decode for AI workloads. He discusses how inference is now taking center stage in AI spending and the challenges it presents. Bercovici explains how the split between pre-fill and decode enhances GPU utilization and efficiency, likening it to an assembly-line architecture. He highlights Weka's innovative solutions in software-defined memory, which promise to revolutionize memory management and scalability in AI-heavy environments.
