AfroTech Conference 2026

Nicole Murray

Sr. Solutions Architect, DGX Cloud (AI Platform Engineering), NVIDIA

Track Legacy Speaker, Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Nicole Murray is a Senior Solutions Architect on NVIDIA's Customer Success Engineering team for DGX Cloud, where she helps customers design and scale high-performance AI platforms on GPU infrastructure. She brings a rare dual perspective to AI compute, having spent six years at AWS across public sector, startups, and AI/ML before joining NVIDIA to work inside the company that builds the hardware powering those workloads. With nearly 20 years across systems integration, cloud operations, public sector IT, and AI/ML, Nicole has a track record of translating complex technology into clear, actionable guidance.

Sessions

  1. Know Your Chips: Optimizing AI Compute Without Overspending

    Tue, Nov 3, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM CT

    Track Artificial Intelligence

    Most teams buying compute have no framework for right-sizing it, and the cost of that gap is real. Drawing on experience at AWS and NVIDIA, this session walks through how GPUs perform in real systems, when a CPU is the better call, and what the difference means for budget and runway. A practical, scenario-based playbook for founders and builders who want smarter AI infrastructure decisions.

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