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Evan Chan: Lessons Learned: Porting a Streaming Data Pipeline from Scala to Rust.
Evan Chan is both a data architect and a very hands-on engineer — can build a full data stack from scratch, but also love to — and have —...


Jeremy Smith: Aging: Evolving Software, Tools, and Ourselves.
Jeremy Smith is a long-time Scala programmer and type enthusiast. He currently works on the Machine Learning Platform team at Netflix,...


Anthony Annunziuata: AI, Quantum, & AI + Quantum: What’s Real, What’s Coming, and What’s the Point?
Dr. Anthony J. Annunziata, IBM, Director and General Manager (Product, Engineering and GTM), AI and Quantum Accelerated Science. Dr....


Gonçalo Martins Ribeiro: Unlocking the Power of Data-Centric AI: Mastering Data Preparation for ML
Gonçalo Martins Ribeiro, Co-Founder & CEO at YData Gonçalo is a product builder and passionate about startups and technology. Has a...


Pathikrit Bhowmick: Full Stack Scala Web Application.
Pathikrit serves as the Director of Engineering at Coatue Management, a hedge-fund located in NYC. He has been a member of the Scala...


Dipankar Mazumdar: Apache Iceberg: enabling an open lakehouse architecture for large-scale analytics
Dipankar is currently a Staff Data Advocate at Onehouse.ai, where he focuses on open-source projects such as Apache Hudi and Onetable to...


Annie Talvasto: Kubernetes and MLOps for Scalable and Reproducible Generative AI.
Annie Talvasto, CMO at VSHN. Annie is an award-winning international technology speaker & marketing leader. She has been recognised with...


Denis Magda: Too Far Too Furious: Multi-Region Cloud Applications.
Denis started his software engineering career at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he built JVM/JDK and led one of the Java development...


Sinan Pehlivanoglu: Oblivious Privacy in a Statically Typed World.
Sinan Pehlivanoglu is a software engineer at VMware. For the past few years he has been working on the intersection of PL and large scale...


Josh Tobin: Test-driven development for large language model applications.
Josh Tobin is the founder and CEO of Gantry. Previously, Josh worked as a deep learning & robotics researcher at OpenAI and as a...


Kendall Roden: Building scalable distributed systems powered by Dapr OSS.
Kendall is a Technical Product Manager at Diagrid, helping shape the future of cloud-native development through the creation of...


Zander Matheson: Scaling Embeddings in Real-Time.
Zander Matheson is the CEO and founder of Bytewax, a company focused on making stream processing more accessible and efficient for all...


Viktor Gamov: Gateway to the Future: A Brief History of Kubernetes Ingress
Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, a cloud API connectivity company. Viktor has comprehensive expertise in building...


Fabiana Clemente: Unlocking the Power of Data-Centric AI: Mastering Data Preparation for ML Success.
Fabiana Clemente is the co-founder of YData. In her experience as a Data Scientist, she developed expertise in topics such as Data...


Danica Fine: Practical Pipelines: A Houseplant Alerting System with ksqlDB.
Danica Fine is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent where she helps others get the most out of Kafka and their event-driven...


Jim Dowling: Bridging Python and Lakehouse worlds with Arrow Flight and DuckDB
Jim Dowling is CEO of Hopsworks and an Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He co-developed the open-source...


Louis Brandy:Challenges @ the intersection of ML & real-time data-lessons learned spam fighting @ FB
Louis Brandy is the Vice President of Engineering at Rockset. Prior to Rockset, Louis was Director of Engineering at Facebook. During his...


Ben Church: Creating Context: Loading your life into a vector database.
Located on the West Coast of Canada, Ben Church is a multifaceted senior engineer with a knack for navigating various domains and...


Beyang Liu: Open Source AI Coding Assistants: The Future of Software Development.
Beyang Liu is CTO and co-founder of Sourcegraph. Prior to Sourcegraph, Beyang was an engineer at Palantir Technologies building...


Karthik Ramasamy: Latency goes sub-second in Apache Spark Structured Streaming.
Karthik Ramasamy has more than 20 years of experience including being CPO of Big Data startup that got acquired by Twitter. Karthik is...
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