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Shea Hawkins:Open-Source OLAP on Open-Source Data Warehouses
Shea Hawkins is close-to-the-metal engineer in the search for speed. Open-Source OLAP on Open-Source Data Warehouses. Data-warehousing...


Mihai Maruseac: Model transparency for AI/ML security
Mihai Maruseac is a member of Google Open Source Security team (GOSST) where he works on Supply Chain Security for AI/ML applications...


Karl Wehden: An introduction to Open Accelerated Discovery: An integrated framework for computation
Product Director for Accelerated Discovery at IBM Research focused on delivering production grade prototypes for Generative AI services...


Stefan Krawczyk: Hamilton: Natively bringing SWE best practices to python data transformations
A hands-on leader and Silicon Valley veteran, Stefan has spent over 15 years working across many parts of the stack. For the last decade,...


Yingjun Wu: Revolutionizing Text Transformation: Going Beyond Standard SQL with LLM
Yingjun Wu is the founder of RisingWave Labs, a database company developing RisingWave, a distributed SQL database for stream processing....


Wangda Tan: Revolutionizing Text Transformation: Going Beyond Standard SQL with LLM
Wangda Tan is an accomplished engineering leader with over 13 years of experience in machine learning, databases, and open-source...


Ryan Wright: Streaming Graph Search with Quine
Ryan Wright is the creator of Quine, and has been leading software teams focused on data infrastructure and data science for two decades....


Manasi Vartak: Can AI Write Its Own Story? Unveiling the Power of Self-Documenting AI
Manasi Vartak is the founder and CEO of Verta, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of the Verta Operational AI platform and Verta Model...


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...


Interview: Airbyte's Odyssey: Navigating the Future of Data Integration in the Age of AI
Airbyte, our Gold sponsor, emerges as a dazzling star, illuminating the path for those navigating the complex corridors of data...


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...


Honored to have Weights & Biases on board as our Gold sponsor! 🏆🏆🏆
Weights & Biases is the leading AI developer platform and helps AI developers build better models faster. Quickly track experiments,...


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...
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