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Emmanuel Turlay: How to make ML teams 80% more productive: table stakes features for ML platforms
Emmanuel started his career in academia 15 years ago doing Physics research at CERN before branching out to tech and moving to the US in...


Alex Klibisz: Pragmatic, scalable, and ergonomic CI/CD using Github Actions and Kubernetes
Alex Klibisz is a staff software engineer on the energy product software team at Tesla. His work spans energy asset management,...


Pardis Noorzad: Cross-company data exchange for the cloud
Pardis Noorzad is CEO at General Folders. She led a data team at Twitter, covering a variety of consumer products. Pardis built products...


Guang-Jie Ren: Data management for enterprise-grade foundation models: opportunities and challenges
Guang-Jie Ren is a Principal Research Scientist at IBM Almaden Lab and currently manages a team of researchers and engineers working on...


Chris Fregly: Implementing a Multi-Tenant Generative AI Chatbot for RAG-based Workflows...
Chris Fregly is a Principal Solution Architect focused on Generative AI Startups at AWS. He is the author of O'Reilly's "Generative AI on...


Isaac Yang: NVIDIA FLARE: Federated Learning from simulation to production
Isaac Yang is a software engineer at NVIDIA focused on building tools to solve problems related to deep learning. He was the main...


Yuan-Ting Hsieh: NVIDIA FLARE: Federated Learning from simulation to production
Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA Yuan-Ting is currently focused on NVFlare, an application runtime environment designed for NVIDIA's...


Omar Khattab: DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines
Omar Khattab is a PhD candidate at Stanford and an Apple PhD Scholar in AI/ML. He builds retrieval models as well as retrieval-based NLP...


Alex Leong: Five Years of Cloud Native Rust
Alex is a software engineer at Buoyant and a core contributor to Linkerd, the open source service mesh for cloud native applications....


Alex Monahan: In Process Analytical Data Management with DuckDB
Alex Monahan is a forward deployed software engineer at MotherDuck and writes blogs and docs part time for DuckDB Labs. He has a...


Melissa McKay: Navigating a Mined World: Repositories, Registries and Artifact Storages
Melissa is passionate about Java, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. She is currently a Developer Advocate for JFrog, serves on the...


David Hall: Levanter: Legible, Scalable, Reproducible Foundation Models with JAX
David Hall is the Research Engineering Lead at Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models, where he leads the development of...


Riley Hun: Lesson learned from orchestrating large-scale GenAI, ML, and data on Kubernetes
Riley is a born and raised Vancouverite. Growing up in Canada, hockey is in his DNA. As a former Data Scientist and now an ML Platform...


Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner is a co-founder and the CEO of Modular, which is building an innovative new developer platform for AI and heterogenous...


Salar Rahmanian: Streamline Your Development Workflow: Harnessing the Power of NixOS and Nix Package
Salar Rahmanian is a seasoned software developer with over 20 years of experience. In 2018, Salar Rahmanian discovered the power of Nix...


Oleg Avdeëv: Lesson learned from orchestrating large-scale GenAI, ML, and data on Kubernetes
Oleg Avdeëv is a co-founder of Outerbounds, a company building the modern, human-centric ML infrastructure stack based on open-source...


Supriya Rao: PyTorch 2.1 - New Developments
Supriya Rao is an Engineering Manager working on PyTorch at Meta. Her team works on architecture optimization techniques like...


Baruch Sadogursky: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI (with ChatGPT)
Baruch Sadogursky did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at...


Mary Grygleski: Boost LLMs with Event Streaming and Retrieval Augmented Generation
Mary Grygleski is a Java Champion and a passionate Senior Developer Advocate at DataStax, a leading Data Management company that...


Gwen Shapira: Things Databases Don't Do (but should)
Gwen Shapira is a co-founder and CPO of Nile. She has 20+ years of experience working with code and customers to build reliable and...
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