# Harpreet Arora (Head of AI Infrastructure, Vercel) on open weight models in the enterprise · Tue, Jan 19, 2027 · 560 Davis St suite 250 · Free

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# Harpreet Arora (Head of AI Infrastructure, Vercel) on open weight models in the enterprise

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January 19, 2027

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6:00 PM PT

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560 Davis St suite 250

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Free · Approval required

## What we're seeing

- **Approval required**

## About This Event

*Baseten is proud to present Heavyweights, a series of talks where AI founders learn from the greats.*

Join us at Baseten for an evening with Harpreet Arora, Head of AI Infrastructure at Vercel, and Mudith Jayasekara, Baseten’s Co-head of Model Training.

They’ll cover topics like:

- When and why to shift to open-weight models
- Clearing the blockers to open weight models in the enterprise - data residency, security, procurement, and more

This is a casual evening for technical founders, engineering leaders, and ML engineers. Space is limited.

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**Schedule**

6:00–6:30 PM — Welcome drinks and snacks
6:30–7:30 PM — Fireside and audience Q&A
7:30–8:00 PM — Wrap up and networking

**This event is hosted by ​****[Baseten](http://baseten.co/?utm_source=luma)**— the training and inference platform behind some of the most demanding AI workloads in production like Abridge, Cursor, Notion, and OpenEvidence. Try the latest open-source models or train and deploy your own custom models at the frontier.

## Hosted by

[Baseten Events](https://luma.com/baseten)

[Baseten](https://luma.com/user/usr-BdJ45u7riLyMdAW)

## Location

📍 [560 Davis St suite 250, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA](/events/venue/560-davis-st-suite-250)

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