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Edition 7 · 2023

Foundation Models Meet Data

New York, NYJavits Center

July 17–19, 2023

7,300

Attendees

128

Talks

62

Papers

Headliners

Keynote speakers

Program highlights

Analytics

Vectorized Query Engines from First Principles

A ground-up tour of columnar execution, SIMD, and the design tradeoffs behind modern OLAP engines.

Marcus Bell Jul 17, 2023 · 12:30 PM
AI / ML

Fairness Guardrails That Ship

Translating fairness research into measurable guardrails teams can actually put into production.

Dr. Grace Adeyemi Jul 17, 2023 · 3:00 PM
AI / ML

Scaling the ML Platform Team

Org design, interfaces, and the platform-as-product mindset behind ML infrastructure that scales.

Anita Desai Jul 17, 2023 · 4:30 PM
AI / ML

Foundation Models as Infrastructure

Why the next platform layer is model-shaped, and how to build a reusable ML platform around it.

Dr. Valentina Cruz Jul 18, 2023 · 9:00 AM
Analytics

Causal Measurement for Growth Teams

Geo experiments, switchbacks, and synthetic controls when a clean A/B test just isn't possible.

Hana Kim Jul 18, 2023 · 12:30 PM
AI / ML

Real-Time Recommenders at Consumer Scale

Serving large embedding models and fresh features with single-digit-millisecond latency.

Mei Chen Jul 18, 2023 · 2:30 PM
Cloud

Golden Paths: Platform Engineering on Kubernetes

Designing internal developer platforms that abstract Kubernetes without hiding what matters.

Carlos Mendez Jul 19, 2023 · 9:00 AM
Data Engineering

The Modern Ingestion Stack

Batch, streaming, and CDC under one roof — choosing the right tool for each source without sprawl.

Naomi Clarke Jul 19, 2023 · 1:00 PM

Proceedings

Peer-reviewed papers — 2023

Vectorized Execution Beyond Columnar Storage

M. Bell, S. Volkov

Query Engines202397 citations

Confidential Query Processing Over Encrypted Data Lakes

P. Adeyemi, M. Bell

Security202358 citations

Workload-Aware Partition Pruning with Learned Index Structures

D. Chen, U. Johansson

Data Engineering202345 citations

Canary Deployments for Data Pipeline DAGs in Production

B. Andersen, Q. Zhang

DevOps202339 citations

GPU-Accelerated Window Aggregations on High-Velocity Streams

F. Almeida, L. Zhao

Streaming202352 citations

Provenance-Based Audit Logging for Regulatory Compliance

H. Tanaka, X. Dubois

Data Governance202341 citations

Infrastructure Drift Detection via Symbolic Execution of IaC Templates

I. Santos, W. Kim

Platform Engineering202333 citations

Merge-on-Read versus Copy-on-Write: A Cost Model for Real-Time Ingestion

Z. Thompson, J. Rivera

Data Engineering202356 citations