Saurabh Kulkarni

Overview

Saurabh Kulkarni is VP of AI Technical Product Management at Intel, responsible for Intel's data center AI product portfolio. At OCP Global Summit 2025, Kulkarni presented Intel's heterogeneous hardware strategy for the agentic AI era, arguing that hardware diversity is not a feature but the foundational architecture for next-generation AI data centers. He framed agentic AI as the moment where enterprise AI monetization becomes real, with inference projected to consume ~80% of data center AI compute cycles by 2028.