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Edition 8 · 2024

AI-Native Data Platforms

Seattle, WASeattle Convention Center

July 15–17, 2024

8,900

Attendees

142

Talks

63

Papers

Headliners

Keynote speakers

Program highlights

Analytics

Causal Inference for Product Decisions

Moving teams beyond correlation dashboards to causal models that actually inform decisions.

Sofia Russo Jul 15, 2024 · 10:30 AM
Analytics

Query Optimization in the Age of Open Formats

How cost-based optimizers are being rebuilt for Iceberg, Delta, and the disaggregated stack.

David Goldberg Jul 15, 2024 · 2:30 PM
Data Engineering

Change Data Capture at High Volume

Keeping operational databases and the lakehouse in sync without melting the source system.

Omar Haddad Jul 16, 2024 · 10:30 AM
Cloud

FinOps for Multi-Cloud: Stop Guessing, Start Governing

A governance framework that gives finance and engineering one shared, real-time view of spend.

Erik Larsen Jul 16, 2024 · 12:30 PM
Data Engineering

On-Call for Data: Building a Reliability Culture

The tooling, runbooks, and incentives that keep data products dependable and engineers rested.

Terrence Walker Jul 16, 2024 · 3:00 PM
AI / ML

Evaluating LLMs You Can Actually Trust

A practical framework for building evaluation suites that catch real regressions, not vibes.

Dr. Aisha Rahman Jul 17, 2024 · 9:00 AM
Data Engineering

Storage Engines for Geo-Distributed Databases

Design tradeoffs in LSM trees, replication, and consensus for databases that span continents.

Daniel Park Jul 17, 2024 · 9:00 AM
Cloud

Secure Multi-Cloud Networking for Data Teams

Connecting data platforms across providers without opening holes your security team will hate.

Diego Ramirez Jul 17, 2024 · 10:30 AM
Data Engineering

Exactly-Once at a Million Events per Second

Lessons from running mission-critical streaming pipelines with strict ordering and replay guarantees.

Lin Zhao Jul 17, 2024 · 3:00 PM
AI / ML

Benchmarks You Can Trust

Why most ML benchmarks mislead, and how to build evaluation suites that survive contact with reality.

Dr. Katherine Wolfe Jul 17, 2024 · 4:30 PM

Proceedings

Peer-reviewed papers — 2024

Cross-Cloud Orchestration Patterns for Resilient Data Platforms

E. Larsen, D. Ramirez

Cloud202442 citations

Deterministic Replay in Exactly-Once Stream Processors

L. Zhao, K. Nakamura

Streaming202451 citations

A Survey of Multi-Cloud FinOps Governance Models

E. Larsen, P. Adeyemi

Cloud202444 citations

Golden Paths for Infrastructure Provisioning with Policy-as-Code

C. Mendez, I. Santos

Platform Engineering202434 citations

Adaptive Checkpointing for Exactly-Once Stream Processing on Spot Instances

L. Zhao, B. Andersen

Streaming202426 citations

Self-Tuning Resource Governors for Multi-Tenant Query Services

Y. Patel, U. Johansson

Cloud202422 citations

Distributed Tracing with Causal Consistency in Event-Driven Microservices

K. Nakamura, F. Almeida

DevOps202426 citations

Vector Similarity Search Over Hybrid On-Disk and In-Memory Indexes

S. Volkov, D. Chen

AI Systems202435 citations

Fine-Grained Access Control with Attribute-Based Encryption in Data Lakes

P. Adeyemi, W. Kim

Security202429 citations

ML-Driven Query Optimizer Hints Through Reinforcement Learning

C. Williams, H. Tanaka

Analytics202424 citations

Automated Data Quality Scoring for Streaming Ingestion Pipelines

T. Han, G. Park

Data Governance202419 citations

Unified Batch and Stream Processing with Stateful DoFn Abstractions

L. Zhao, Q. Zhang

Streaming202436 citations

Declarative Feature Engineering Pipelines for Real-Time ML Serving

V. Cruz, B. Andersen

ML Infrastructure202427 citations