WHERE DATA MEETS INTELLIGENCE

Mike has spent over two decades as a technologist, entrepreneur, and investor. He’s currently co-founder and CEO of Rill, a cloud service for operational intelligence. Previously he founded Metamarkets (acquired by Snap, Inc. in 2017), a real-time analytics platform for digital ad firms, and CustomInk.com a leader in custom apparel online. Mike was also a founding partner at the venture capital firm DCVC, which has invested over $2B+ in assets in deep tech. He began his career as a software engineer for the Human Genome Project and later received a Ph.D. in computational biology.

Julien Le Dem is a Principal Engineer at Datadog, serves as an officer of the ASF and is a member of the LFAI&Data Technical Advisory Council. He co-created the Parquet, Arrow and OpenLineage open source projects and is involved in several others. His career leadership began in Data Platforms at Yahoo! - where he received his Hadoop initiation - then continued at Twitter, Dremio and WeWork. He then co-founded Datakin (acquired by Astronomer) to solve Data Observability. His French accent makes his talks particularly attractive.

Krishnaram Kenthapadi is the Chief Scientist, Clinical AI at Oracle Health, where he leads the AI initiatives for Clinical Digital Assistant and other Oracle Health products. Previously, as the Chief AI Officer & Chief Scientist of Fiddler AI, he led initiatives on generative AI (e.g., Fiddler Auditor, an open-source library for evaluating & red-teaming LLMs before deployment; AI safety, observability & feedback mechanisms for LLMs in production), and on AI safety, alignment, observability, and trustworthiness, as well as the technical strategy, innovation, and thought leadership for Fiddler. Prior to that, he was a Principal Scientist at Amazon AWS AI, where he led the fairness, explainability, privacy, and model understanding initiatives in the Amazon AI platform, and shaped new initiatives such as Amazon SageMaker Clarify from inception to launch. Prior to joining Amazon, he led similar efforts at the LinkedIn AI team, and served as LinkedIn’s representative in Microsoft’s AI and Ethics in Engineering and Research (AETHER) Advisory Board. Previously, he was a Researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab. Krishnaram received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2006. He serves regularly on the senior program committees of FAccT, KDD, WWW, WSDM, and related conferences, and co-chaired the 2014 ACM Symposium on Computing for Development. His work has been recognized through awards at NAACL, WWW, SODA, CIKM, ICML AutoML workshop, and Microsoft’s AI/ML conference (MLADS). He has published 60+ papers, with 7000+ citations and filed 150+ patents (72 granted). He has presented tutorials on trustworthy generative AI, privacy, fairness, explainable AI, model monitoring, and responsible AI at forums such as ICML, KDD, WSDM, WWW, FAccT, and AAAI, given several invited industry talks, and instructed a course on responsible AI at Stanford.

Han-chung Lee is a machine learning expert who builds and operates AI systems with a focus on GenAI, LLM agents, and recommendation engines. Currently Director of Machine Learning at Moody's Analytics and founder of Calabazas Creek, Han-chung excels at untangling complex code and organizations. A Berkeley EECS grad with an MBA from SJSU, he shares insights on ML engineering and tech investing drawn from his diverse experience across sell-side, buy-side, and venture capital. Follow his practical wisdom and occasional industry reflections.

Julian Hyde is the original developer of Apache Calcite, which provides SQL parsers and query optimizers for dozens of products, and Morel, a new functional query language. Previously he led the query processing team at Looker (acquired by Google in 2020), and co-founded SQLstream, an engine for continuous queries. He left Google in early 2025 to create the next language for data.

Arvind Prabhakar is the co-founder and CEO of Tabsdata, a company pioneering a new approach to self-serve data integration through Pub/Sub for Tables. Prior to this, he was the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of StreamSets, a leading data integration platform now part of IBM. An open source enthusiast and seasoned entrepreneur, Arvind has spent his career building systems that simplify and scale enterprise data management. If you have questions or thoughts on the future of data integration, feel free to reach out to him directly at arvind@tabsdata.com.

George Fraser is the CEO and co-founder of Fivetran. George founded the company with COO Taylor Brown in 2012 after completing the prestigious Y-Combinator accelerator program. Since then he has built Fivetran, a fully managed automated data integration provider, from an idea to a rapidly growing global business valued at $5.6 billion, supported by a global team of 1000+ employees.

Mitul Tiwari is CTO and Co-founder of a stealth AI startup. Until recently he was a Director of AI and Machine Learning Engineering at ServiceNow leading natural language technologies group. Earlier he was CTO and Co-founder of Passage AI (acquired by Servicenow). His expertise lies in building data-driven products using AI, Machine Learning and big data technologies. Previously he was head of People You May Know and Growth Relevance at LinkedIn, where he led technical innovations in large-scale social recommender systems. Prior to that, he worked at Kosmix (now Walmart Labs) on web-scale text categorization, and its applications. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has also co-authored more than twenty publications in top conferences such as ACL, AAAI, KDD, WWW, RecSys, VLDB, SIGIR, CIKM, and SPAA.

Marcel Kornacker is currently CTO and Co-Founder at Pixeltable and is notably known as the founder of Apache Impala and co-founder of Apache Parquet. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he studied databases under Joe Hellerstein. His career includes founding several startups, including Blink Computing, which provided data lake analytics as a service. He has also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at both Sutter Hill Ventures and Coatue Management. Kornacker's expertise spans databases, data analytics, and open-source technologies.

Michael is a globally recognized leader in AI and data-driven business transformation, known for developing AIOS, an intelligent marketing system at Plus that optimizes customer journey analysis and marketing ROI. A former NYU Stern marketing professor, his research spans predictive computation, marketing strategies, and consumer behavior. He has launched successful AI products focused on user safety, privacy, and marketing optimization. His work on explainable prediction and data synthesis, particularly with incomplete data, has been featured in major publications like LA Times and AdAge, and he frequently speaks at prestigious events including The Nantucket Project and ANA Masters of Marketing.