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[2026 - DAY 3 - AI SECURITY & SAFETY] If you would not hand an intern your credentials, payment data, and production access, do not hand them to an AI agent without understanding the risk. Agentic systems do more than generate content. They take action across tools, data stores, and workflows with delegated authority. That shifts the trust boundary, expands identity and data risk, and stretches governance. This session explores practical controls security teams can apply now.
SPEAKER:
Diana Kelley - CISO, Noma Security
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[2026 - DAY 3 - AI SECURITY & SAFETY] If you would not hand an intern your credentials, payment data, and production access, do not hand them to an AI agent without understanding the risk. Agentic systems do more than generate content. They take action across tools, data stores, and workflows with delegated authority. That shifts the trust boundary, expands identity and data risk, and stretches governance. This session explores practical controls security teams can apply now.
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Diana Kelley - CISO, Noma Security
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![Guardrails for the Future AI Safety and Responsible AI in Practice
[2025 - Day 2 - Keynote] Jake Brill, Rachad Alao, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, and Daniel Olmedilla share insights from implementing responsible AI safeguards at scale, moving beyond theoretical discussions to explore the practical realities of deploying ethical AI systems. This panel offers candid perspectives on the complex trade-offs and technical challenges of responsible AI deployment, essential for anyone building trust and safety protocols or managing AI governance.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Jake Brill, Head of Product - Integrity, OpenAI
Rachad Alao, Senior Engineering Director, Meta
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Chief Scientist - Clinical AI, Oracle Health
Daniel Olmedilla, Distinguished Engineer - AI & Trust, LinkedIn (Moderator) -
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![AI Launchpad 2025: Mooncake
[2025 - Day 1 - AI Launchpad] Pranav Aurora and Zhou Sun share insights from Mooncake, a real-time search and analytics system built on object-store for GenAI applications, exploring open development principles on open table formats. Like the delicacy its named after, this system offers valuable perspectives on building shared, open-source solutions that everyone can enjoy, particularly relevant for teams developing search and analytics capabilities for AI-powered applications.
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Pranav Aurora, Co-Founder, Mooncake
Zhou Sun, Co-Founder, Mooncake -
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![The Middle Ground: Balancing Batch and Real-Time Processing in a Data Lakehouse
[2025 - Day 3 - Lightning Talks] Brenna Buuck shares insights from bridging batch processing and real-time streaming through data lakehouse architectures, exploring how to support both processing types with efficiency and flexibility on the same platform. For teams whose needs lie between these traditionally polar opposite approaches, this talk offers valuable perspectives on handling high-frequency, low-latency queries alongside resource-intensive batch analytics in modern data infrastructures.
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Brenna Buuck, Developer Evangelist, MinIO -
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![AI Launchpad 2025: TopK
[2025 - Day 1 - AI Launchpad] Marek Galovic and Jerguš Lejko share insights from TopKs unified search platform that drastically simplifies the modern search stack into a single API, exploring how they moved beyond vector database abstractions to production-ready search solutions. After building one of the markets most popular vector databases, this session offers valuable perspectives on unifying dense/sparse vector, text, and faceted retrieval with custom scoring, designed for teams seeking to reduce time-to-value in search implementations.
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Marek Galovic, Co-Founder, TopK
Jerguš Lejko, Co-Founder, TopK -
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![Running Millions of (Millisecond) AI Sandboxes without Breaking the Piggy Bank | Unikraft
[2026 - Day 1 - AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE] Agents are great, but they place difficult requirements on the underlying infrastructure they run on: (1) they need to be strongly isolated (eg, within a VM); (2) they need to start up as quickly as possible (ideally in milliseconds) and put to sleep when not used; and (3) they require massive scale (eg, millions of them for even a single provider/product). Using standard infra to run sandboxes at this level of scale can result in eye-watering cloud-infra bills. And attempting to start sandboxes in milliseconds is an unsolved challenge.
In this talk we’ll cover our years-long journey aimed at severely optimizing and increasing the efficiency of how workloads are deployed on the cloud, beginning with research and OSS work. Along the way, we’ll cover the basics of virtualization and isolation primitives (e.g., virtual machines, microVMs, containers, isolates) and their performance and security trade-offs. With that in place, we will describe how we leveraged the research and OSS work to build a virtualization system that can start any workload in a few milliseconds, and cram up to 1M+ such lightweight VMs into a single, off-the-shelf server, allowing for millions of strongly-isolated agents to be hosted in a rack, rather than an entire data center. Finally, we will show a brief live demo of this in action.
SPEAKER:
Felipe Huici - CEO & Co-founder, Unikraft
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![Benchmarking AI Agents Against Realistic Analytical Tasks with ADE-bench
[2026 - DAY 2 - CODING AGENTS] There are many benchmarks that attempt to measure how well LLMs and AI agents can write SQL queries or do complicated statistical analysis. But as most practitioners know, this is only a small part of our job. Before we can write a query, we have to figure out the business context behind the question. We have figure out which tables to use in a messy database. We have to make subjective decisions about vaguely defined problems. All of this makes benchmarking analytical agents difficult.
We built a new benchmark—ADE-bench—that aspires to do exactly that. It gives agents complex analytical environments to work in and ambiguous tasks to solve, and measures how well they perform.
In this talk, well share how we built the benchmark, the results of our tests, a bunch of things we learned along the way, and what we think is coming next.
The benchmark harness is open source, and can be found here: https://github.com/dbt-labs/ade-bench
SPEAKERS:
Benn Stancil - Founder, Mode (acquired by ThoughtSpot)
Jason Ganz - Director, DX + AI, dbt Labs
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![Revolutionize AI Engineering with AutoGen
[2025 - Day 1 - AI Engineering] Marck Vaisman shares insights from Microsofts AutoGen, an open-source framework for building AI agent systems that transforms complex AI workflows into seamless processes. This talk offers valuable perspectives on accelerating project timelines, boosting model accuracy, and cutting costs through powerful automation, essential for teams looking to revolutionize their AI projects and take intelligent solutions to the next level.
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Marck Vaisman, Global AI Solutions Architect, Microsoft -
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![Causal Inference Methods for Bridging Experiments and Strategic Impact
[2025 - Day 1 - Data Science & Algos] Wenjing Zheng shares insights from connecting A/B test results to real-world business decisions at Roblox, exploring causal inference methods that bridge the gap between clean experimental measures and messy strategic choices. Whether youre attributing business growth to product launches or generalizing experiment results to broader populations, this talk offers valuable perspectives on building a common measurement language that connects local experimental results to global business impact.
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Wenjing Zheng, Data Science Manager, Roblox -
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![The Modern Data Stack Lost the War: Stop Building more DataFrame APIs | OpenAI
[2026 - DAY 3 - LIGHTNING TALK] After more than a decade of limited innovation, the modern data stack is still slow, fragmented, and painfully repetitive. Every new dataframe library promises better ergonomics or performance, yet converges on the same API with the same limitations. The failure isn’t execution or scale, it is ignoring that appearance doesnt matter anymore: Agents and AI-first developers couldnt care less about how an API looks today. In this talk we’ll examine why the dataframe paradigm keeps reproducing itself, why it consistently underdelivers, and why the data stack’s biggest problems were never going to be solved at the API layer first. Princess Leia once put her trust into Obi-Wan Kenobi - what if we did the same with simple Python functions? Could we defeat the evil empire of DataFrame APIs?
SPEAKER:
Leonhard Spiegelberg - Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
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![More Than Query Future Directions of Query Languages, from SQL to Morel
[2025 - Day 2 - Analytics & BI] Julian Hyde shares insights from the evolution of query languages, exploring what we want from modern data languages and introducing Morel, which combines functional programmings type system with declarative query efficiency. This talk offers valuable perspectives on extending SQL and replacing todays data frameworks, particularly relevant for engineers working across data engineering, data science, analytics, and mathematical optimization domains.
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Julian Hyde, Senior Staff Engineer, Google -
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