Deploy countdown

Write the one-week countdown email for Lumenrack Deploy 2026 that Lumenrack sends to everyone with a Lumenrack account.

Lumenrack Deploy is the annual Lumenrack virtual conference on running inference and data infrastructure at rack scale. Deploy 2026 takes place on Thursday, October 15, 2026, online and free, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM Pacific. The email goes out one week before, so the event is 7 days away. One registration covers every track and the on-demand recordings, which registrants receive the day after the event. Registration: https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/deploy/register

The framing: the hard part of shipping an AI product is no longer picking a model, it is serving it: batching requests to keep GPUs saturated, reusing KV cache across shared prefixes, restoring replicas before cold starts eat into latency, routing traffic across regions, and giving agents storage that remembers. Deploy 2026 covers all of it in one day, across three tracks and eight sessions. The email leads with three at-a-glance callouts (7 days to go, October 15, 9:00 AM PT) and one primary register call to action before the schedule. Reference artwork: assets.illustrations.deployHero

The schedule, all times Pacific. The opening keynote and the closing session are for every attendee; the six track sessions run in three parallel tracks at 10:00 AM and 11:30 AM.

Opening keynote, 9:00 AM, all tracks: Inference at rack scale. Mara Okonkwo, CEO, Lumenrack.

Compute track (icon assets.icons.cpu), track page https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/deploy/agenda/compute

• 10:00 AM: Saturating GPUs: batching and KV-cache reuse in production. Devin Okafor, Staff Engineer, Lumenrack Compute.
• 11:30 AM: The unit economics of inference: a customer ledger. Lena Marsh, CTO, Hollowbeam Audio.

Functions track (icon assets.icons.zap), track page https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/deploy/agenda/functions

• 10:00 AM: Checkpoint restore: from multi-minute cold starts to seconds. Priya Raman, Functions Lead, Lumenrack.
• 11:30 AM: Beacon in production: global routing and failover. Sam Ortega, Engineer, Lumenrack.

Vault track (icon assets.icons.database), track page https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/deploy/agenda/vault

• 10:00 AM: Agent memory on Vault: the six data patterns. Jonas Lindqvist, Product, Lumenrack Vault.
• 11:30 AM: Vault 4.0 live: vector search and streaming ingest. Aiko Tanaka, Engineer, Lumenrack.

Closing session, 1:00 PM, all tracks: Roadmap and live Q&A with the Lumenrack team.

The schedule is grouped by track, in the order Compute, Functions, Vault, with the keynote before and the closing session after the three tracks. Session times are set in the mono face in their own column.

Two secondary calls to action close the email: the full agenda at https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/deploy/agenda and add to calendar at https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/deploy/calendar. Both are styled alike and lighter than the register button; the three track-page links are plain text links. The event page is https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/deploy

The recipient receives this because they have a Lumenrack account. Email preferences are at https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/preferences and they can unsubscribe at https://lumenrack-email.s3.amazonaws.com/unsubscribe

Use /world/lumenrack-email for brand chrome and CSS; the marketing family fits this email. Use the absolute HTTPS URLs from tokens.json; do not use /world/ paths as image src.

Dark mode should be supported.

Leave the HTML in output/email.html, a plain-text version in output/email.txt, and the subject in output/meta.json as {"subject": "..."}. Don't include From, To, or Date headers.