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Julien Le Dem - The advent of the open data lake
Julien Le Dem is a Principal Engineer at Datadog, serves as an officer of the ASF and is a member of the LFAI&Data Technical Advisory...


Danica Fine - Donut Kill My Vibe: Enriching RAG with Apache Icebergâ„¢ for Sweet, Structured Retrieval
Danica began her career as a software engineer and pivoted to developer relations, where she focussed primarily on open source...


Angie Jones - Modern Day Mashups: How AI Agents are Reviving the Programmable Web
Angie Jones is the Head of Developer Relations at Block Inc. An award-winning educator and international keynote speaker, Angie shares...


Mihai Maruseac - Taming the Wild West of ML: Practical Model Signing with Sigstore on Kaggle
Mihai Maruseac is a member of Google Open Source Security team (GOSST), working on Supply Chain Security, specifically for ML, but also a...


Matt White - Beyond Open Weights: How Open Source and Open Standards Are Shaping the Future of AI
Matt White - Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation and GM of AI at the Linux Foundation has spent his career building cutting-edge...


Peter Norvig - The present and future of programming with AI
Peter Norvig is a Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute, a long-time researcher...


Michael Maximilien - Build AI Agent workflows fast, for any framework, and LLMs
Max is a Distinguished Engineer and leader for the teams contributing to OSS AI at IBM Research. Max's main expertise is in software...


Steve Anderson - Trusted Agentic AI: Architecting Intelligent Systems with Reliable Data at Scale
Steve Anderson is a data science and AI thought leader. In his current role at Teradata, he is the Senior Director of Data Science & AI....


James Ward - Hands-On: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon Bedrock
Professional software developer since 1997, with much of that time spent helping developers build software that doesn't suck. A Typed...


Josh Long - Hands-On Workshop: Building Agents with Spring AI, MCP, Java, and Amazon Bedrock
Josh is the first-ever Spring Developer Advocate, a Java Champion, and the author of seven books—including the highly regarded "Reactive...


Viktor Gamov - The Missing Protocol: How MCP Bridges LLMs and Data Streams
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Confluent, founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka®. He is passionate about...


Baruch Sadogursky - Can We Trust Al-Generated Code? Maybe We've Been Asking the Wrong Question.
Baruch Sadogursky is a Head of Developer Relations at TuxCare. He did Java pre-generics and DevOps pre-Docker, starting DevRel at JFrog...


Vasanth Mohan - Beyond GPUs: Why AI Agents Need a Need New Hardware
Vasanth Mohan is the Head of Developer Relations and Product Marketing at SambaNova. He started FusedVR YouTube channel back in 2016 as a...


Lisa N. Cao - Catalogues as Context: Using metadata to power and govern the next wave of AI development
Lisa is a data engineer, product manager, and speaker in open source data infrastructure and DataOps fields. Through her work at...


Mary Grygleski - Harnessing Event-Driven and Multi-Agent Architectures for Complex Workflows in Generative AI System
Mary is the Director of Emerging Technologies at Callibrity. She has deep hands-on software engineering experiences. She is active in the...


Viabhav Gupta - A new programming language for building Agents
Vaibhav Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Boundary, a Y Combinator startup developing a new programming language (BAML) that makes LLMs...


Leonid Igolnik - Can We Trust Al-Generated Code? Maybe We've Been Asking the Wrong Question.
Leonid Igolnik Executive Vice President of Engineering at Clari, where he leads the teams behind the company’s revenue platform. Before...


Holden Karau - AI For Good: Fighting Health Insurance with AI
Holden Karau is a prolific author, speaker,engineer, and has played a pivotal role in shaping Apache Spark and other critical data...


Cameron Pfiffer - Beyond JSON: Grammar-Constrained Function Calling with CFGs
Cameron Pfiffer is a Developer Relations Engineer for.txt. Cameron has been an active participant of the generative AI scene for two...


Tu Nguyen - Meet Lexplorer - the visual storytelling robot
Tu is a technical leader with a passion for technology and education. He is currently helping people learn HashiCorp products....
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