The people

Voices behind the program

Hundreds of practitioners have taken our stages since 2017. Here are some of the leaders shaping this year's conversation.

Dr. Amara Okafor

Dr. Amara Okafor

VP, Data Platforms · Meridian Cloud

LakehouseGovernance
Srikanth Jonnakuti

Srikanth Jonnakuti

Staff Software Engineer & Cloud Architect · Realtor.com

Event-Driven ArchitectureCloud-NativeDevSecOps
Rohan Mehta

Rohan Mehta

Principal Data Scientist · Northwind AI

LLMOpsVector Search
Lin Zhao

Lin Zhao

Staff Engineer · Streamscale

StreamingKafka
Erik Larsen

Erik Larsen

Chief Cloud Architect · Atlas Systems

Multi-cloudFinOps
Dr. Valentina Cruz

Dr. Valentina Cruz

Head of AI Research · Helix Labs

Foundation ModelsMLPlatform
Marcus Bell

Marcus Bell

Distinguished Engineer · Quanta Data

Query EnginesOpen Formats
Priya Nair

Priya Nair

Director, ML Infrastructure · Lumen Analytics

Feature StoresMLOps
Kenji Tanaka

Kenji Tanaka

Principal Architect · Toranet

Distributed SystemsStorage
Sofia Russo

Sofia Russo

Lead Data Scientist · Pelagic AI

ForecastingCausal ML
David Goldberg

David Goldberg

Distinguished Engineer · Corewave

DatabasesQuery Optimization
Dr. Aisha Rahman

Dr. Aisha Rahman

Senior AI Researcher · Beacon Institute

Responsible AIEvaluation
Carlos Mendez

Carlos Mendez

Cloud Solutions Lead · Vantage Cloud

KubernetesPlatform Engineering
Mei Chen

Mei Chen

Staff ML Engineer · Forge Data

RecommendersReal-Time ML
James O'Brien

James O'Brien

Principal Engineer · Halcyon Systems

ObservabilityReliability
Dr. Fatima Al-Sayed

Dr. Fatima Al-Sayed

Research Scientist · Nexus Labs

PrivacyFederated Learning
Wei Liu

Wei Liu

Staff Data Engineer · Streamscale

Data QualityPipelines
Naomi Clarke

Naomi Clarke

VP, Data Engineering · Brightpath Data

Data PlatformsGovernance
Arjun Patel

Arjun Patel

Senior Software Engineer · Northwind AI

LLM ServingInference
Hana Kim

Hana Kim

Data Scientist · Pelagic AI

ExperimentationCausal ML
Diego Ramirez

Diego Ramirez

Principal Cloud Architect · Vantage Cloud

Multi-cloudNetworking
Dr. Katherine Wolfe

Dr. Katherine Wolfe

Senior Research Scientist · Beacon Institute

EvaluationBenchmarks
Omar Haddad

Omar Haddad

Staff Data Engineer · Quanta Data

IngestionChange Data Capture
Terrence Walker

Terrence Walker

Director of Engineering · Halcyon Systems

ReliabilityIncident Response
Lucia Fernandez

Lucia Fernandez

Machine Learning Engineer · Forge Data

EmbeddingsVector Search
Daniel Park

Daniel Park

Principal Engineer · Toranet

Storage EnginesConsensus
Ben Fisher

Ben Fisher

Staff Engineer · Atlas Systems

FinOpsCost Optimization
Anita Desai

Anita Desai

VP of Engineering · Lumen Analytics

Platform EngineeringMLOps
Dr. Grace Adeyemi

Dr. Grace Adeyemi

Machine Learning Researcher · Helix Labs

Responsible AIFairness