Monetizing the Edge: The Future of AI Services

NVIDIA’s Global Head of Edge Solution Sales, Irfan Ali, explains how service providers can unlock new revenue by transforming their edge locations into AI-powered hubs. Learn how real-time AI services, preloaded models, and cybersecurity integration can create a game-changing opportunity. Can the edge become the service provider’s greatest AI asset?

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In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Irfan Ali of NVIDIA:

How can service providers monetize their edge locations using AI?
Why is AI inferencing at the edge critical for real-time enterprise applications?
What practical steps should service providers take to transform their networks into AI service platforms?
What role does cybersecurity play in delivering trusted AI solutions at the edge?
Can partnerships with system integrators and software vendors accelerate edge AI deployment?

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Read the related MEF Edge VIEW Blog post, GPU-as-a-Service: Unlocking AI at the Edge.
And see the collaboration between MEF, Infosys, Nvidia, and IronYun unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2025, showcasing GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and Enabling GPUaaS with MEF LSO APIs

About Our Guest

Irfan Ali, Global Head of Edge Solution, Segment Sales, NVIDIA

Irfan is the global leader for NVIDIA’s Edge Segment business. He is responsible for edge solutions for Accelerated computing hardware and AI software stack. He has 3 decades in edge solutions and infrastructures in SCADA systems, IOT and SaaS from his tenures in Schlumberger, Cisco and now NVIDIA.

Before joining NVIDIA, Irfan led global Sales GTM for Cisco’s Collaboration Software business and directly involved in its transition into Cisco’s largest SaaS asset. Prior to that, he led Customer Success Management for the entire software and services portfolio. He co-founded the global go-to-market for the Internet of Things (IoT) group within Cisco and led sales to grow the business from zero to $1B in 4 years. As part of his responsibilities, he was also a contributing member for the Global Center for Digital Business transformation, in partnership with IMD University and part of the executive steering committee for the IoT World Forum

Prior to these roles, Irfan led artificial lift systems sales, SCADA systems and Alliances for Schlumberger.  

Irfan holds an MBA from Pepperdine Graziadio School of business and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach.

Executives at the Edge podcast is brought to you by MEF, an industry association of 200 service, technology, and cloud providers who together accelerate enterprise digital transformation.

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