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[2025 - Day 3 - GenAI Applications] Skyler Thomas shares insights from building real-world RAG and GraphRAG systems that scale to hundreds of millions of documents, exploring the complex orchestration beyond trivial extract-and-search approaches. Whether you're designing production RAG systems or debugging complex vector workflows, this talk offers valuable perspectives on scaling to billions of vectors and using open standards like OpenTelemetry for monitoring distributed RAG orchestrations.
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Skyler Thomas, Co-Founder & CTO, Cake AI -
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[2025 - Day 3 - GenAI Applications] Skyler Thomas shares insights from building real-world RAG and GraphRAG systems that scale to hundreds of millions of documents, exploring the complex orchestration beyond trivial extract-and-search approaches. Whether you're designing production RAG systems or debugging complex vector workflows, this talk offers valuable perspectives on scaling to billions of vectors and using open standards like OpenTelemetry for monitoring distributed RAG orchestrations.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Skyler Thomas, Co-Founder & CTO, Cake AI -
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![Building the Blueprint for Scalable Data Products in Public Sector | City of San Francisco
[2026 - DAY 3 - LIGHTNING TALK] This talk will provide a practical framework for moving past innovation theater to build durable, production-grade data tools within public sector constraints. Weโll explore how to navigate legacy infrastructure and strict compliance requirements to deliver real value to citizens.
SPEAKER:
Soumya Kalra - Chief Data Officer, City and County of San Francisco
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[2025 - Day 1 - Keynote] Naveen Rao and George Mathew share insights from their extensive experience at the intersection of data infrastructure and AI systems, exploring how this convergence is reshaping enterprise technology stacks and the architectural patterns emerging across industries. This keynote panel offers valuable guidance for seasoned leaders navigating AI adoption and practitioners building modern data platforms on the future of data and AI integration.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Naveen Rao, VP of AI, Databricks
George Mathew, Managing Director, Insight Partners -
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![Born Different: How AI Natives Build Startups
[2026 - Day 1 - KEYNOTE] The playbook for building a startup hasnt changed much in 20 years - until now. Fewer people, different skills, and a completely different sense of whats possible. A new generation of founders is shipping products with smaller teams, moving faster, and using AI across every function. Join a group of AI-native founders for a candid look at how theyre actually using AI inside their own companies - in their workflows, their code, their ops - and what the shape of their teams looks like as a result.
PANELISTS:
Alex Mashrabov - Co-founder & CEO, Higgsfield
Silas Alberti - Founding Team, Cognition
Nikhil Benesch - CTO, turbopuffer
Brie Wolfson - Chief Marketing Officer, Colossus / Positive Sum (Moderator)
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![Running Enterprise Agents in Production: Architecture and Secure Execution Models | Salesforce
[2026 - DAY 2 - AI ENGINEERING] I lead large-scale AI implementations and design agents for some of the most security-sensitive enterprises in the world. The pattern is always the same: prototypes and MVPs are easy, running agents in production is not. The moment an agent touches real data and real systems, security, policy, identity, orchestration, and auditability dominate the design. You also discover how many teams must align to make it safe. Without a shared and evolving playbook, the deployment stalls. In this talk I outline the approach I use to build enterprise agents that actually run in production. I cover the core architecture, the supervisory runtime, and the secure execution model that keeps agents predictable: identity boundaries, retrieval controls, RBAC and ABAC alignment, sandboxed tools, and evaluation loops. Through this talk Id like to show what it really takes to operate agents inside large organizations and provide a practical blueprint you can adapt to your own environment.
The views, opinions, and content shared in this presentation are my own and do not represent those of any employer, past or present. Iโd also like to note that my book, Data Engineering for Multimodal AI (OโReilly), is authored independently and is neutral in perspective. It is not sponsored by Salesforce and does not represent Salesforceโs viewpoints.
SPEAKER:
Vasundra Srinivasan - Director, AI Architect Lead, Salesforce
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![LLMs for Data Science
[2025 - Day 1 - Data Science & Algos] Hadley Wickham shares insights from practical applications of LLMs in data science, exploring three key areas where these tools prove genuinely useful beyond the hype: writing code, writing prose, and rectangling non-rectangular data. For data scientists working with text, images, videos, or audio data, this talk offers valuable perspectives on leveraging LLMs effectively for real workflows and transforming fundamentally unstructured information.
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Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist, Posit -
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![Open Source Success: Learnings from 1 Billion Downloads
[2025 - Day 3 - Lightning Talks] Avi Press shares insights from analyzing over 1 billion open source package downloads across 2000+ projects on Scarf, exploring user behaviors and interactions that reveal best practices for successful open source projects. This talk offers valuable perspectives on download formats, packaging systems, regional trends, and community engagement strategies, essential for maintainers, founders, and executives looking to boost project adoption and drive business growth.
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Avi Press, CEO, Scarf -
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![Real-Time Data Infrastructure and AI: Powering the Next Generation of Analytics
[2025 - Day 2 - Keynote] Aaron Katz and Martin Casado share insights from their pioneering work in database technology and networking innovation, exploring how real-time data infrastructure is fundamentally transforming analytics and AI capabilities. This authentic conversation offers practical wisdom from leaders whove built the technology driving tomorrows data-driven applications, particularly valuable for those scaling high-performance systems or architecting intelligent platforms.
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Aaron Katz, Co-Founder & CEO, ClickHouse
Martin Casado, General Partner, a16z -
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![The Best Engineer in the Room Doesnt Write Code | Kilo Code
[2026 - DAY 2 - CODING AGENTS] They build systems of agents. In this talk, we explore the shift from session-based AI tools to always-on agents that act, follow up, and own outcomes without waiting to be asked. Well cover what OpenClaw got right, where it falls short, and how were closing the gap with KiloClawโand what all of this means for the future of how software gets built.
SPEAKER:
Emilie Schario - COO & VP of Engineering, Kilo Code
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