Vinoth Chandar is the creator and PMC chair of the Apache Hudi project, a seasoned distributed systems/database engineer, and a dedicated entrepreneur. He has deep experience with databases, distributed systems, and data systems at the planet scale, strengthened through his work at Oracle, Linkedin, Uber, and Confluent. During his time at Uber, he created Hudi, which pioneered transactional data lakes as we know them today, to solve unique speed and scale needs for Uber’s massive data...

Alexa Grabell is the co-founder and CEO of Pocus, a Revenue Data platform that is purpose-built for GTM teams to analyze, visualize, and action data about their prospects and customers without needing engineers. Alexa’s passion for Product-Led Sales started when she led sales strategy & operations at Dataminr, where she built internal solutions to equip sales teams with data. She studied engineering at Vanderbilt University and received her MBA from Stanford University.

Carlos Aguilar is the Founder and CEO of Glean, a data visualization company based in New York City. He grew up in Washington, DC, where he started tinkering with robots and websites early on and fell in love with the intersection of art and technology. At Cornell, he studied Mechanical Engineering and robotics and did research in machine learning applications in robotics and art. In 2009, he joined an early robotics startup called Kiva Systems, where he got deep into data and...

Shruti Bhat leads product management and marketing at Rockset. Before Rockset, she led Product Management for Oracle Cloud, focusing on AI, IoT, and Blockchain. Previously, she was the VP of Marketing at Ravello Systems, where she drove the start-up's rapid growth from pre-launch to hundreds of customers and a successful acquisition. Before that, she was responsible for launching VMware's vSAN and led engineering teams at HP and IBM. Shruti has a bachelor's in computer science engineering and...

Arjun Narayan is the co-founder and CEO of Materialize. Materialize is a streaming database for real-time applications and analytics, built on top of a next-generation stream processor – Timely Dataflow. He was previously an engineer at Cockroach Labs and held a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Doris Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Ponder, a startup delivering scalable, enterprise-ready pandas that improve the productivity of data teams. She graduated with her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley RISE Lab in 2021, where she developed data science tools to accelerate insight discovery.

Chris Riccomini is an engineer, author, investor, and advisor. He has worked on infrastructure as an engineer and manager for about 15 years at PayPal, LinkedIn, and WePay. He was involved in open source as the original author of Apache Samza and an early contributor to Apache Airflow. He has also written a book with Dmitriy Ryaboy called The Missing README, a guide for software engineers. Lately, he has been investing in startups in the data space.

Nnamdi Iregbulem, a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, is a self-taught programmer and lifelong technology nerd. His mission is to increase total software output by supporting entrepreneurs building technical tools for technical people. He focuses on investments in technical enterprise software such as developer tools, application infrastructure, and machine learning.

Tom Rikert is the co-founder and CEO of Masterful AI, the training platform for computer vision that helps developers build models faster and with much less labeling. He is a former VC and invested in enterprise software and AI/ML at Andreessen Horowitz. Before VC, he held product management roles at Wildfire (acquired by Google), YouTube, and Autodesk. He began his AI/ML journey at MIT and started his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics. Tom lives in the Bay Area with his wife and...

Grace Isford is a Partner based in Lux Capital's New York City office. She invests in companies innovating at the nexus of the computational sciences – data, AI and ML infrastructure, network and compute infrastructure, and cutting-edge technological applications, especially in healthcare and financial services. She focuses on data and machine-learning startups that are hyper-personalizing user experiences and transforming legacy industries, as well as fintech and blockchain infrastructure...

Dânia Meira has been a senior expert and mathematician in the data field since 2012, with a Data Science career in Berlin startups where her work focused on ML for predictive analytics. She is also an experienced teacher and mentor. Dânia is the Director of #datalift and a Founding Member of the AI Guild.

Bobby Pinero is the CEO and Co-Founder of Equals, a next-generation spreadsheet. He has worked in Finance, Analytics, and Data generally for the last few years. Previously he was the head of Finance and early employee number 8 at Intercom.

Ran Romano is the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Qwak, where he is focused on building the next-generation ML infrastructure for ML teams of various sizes. Before Qwak, Ran led the Data and ML engineering groups at Wix.com - where he built Wix's internal ML Platform. Previous to that, he was a Technical Product Manager at the Israeli Intelligence corps.

Dr. Eric Daimler is an authority in Artificial Intelligence with over 20 years of experience in the field as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, technologist, and policy advisor. Eric has co-founded six technology companies that have done pioneering work in areas ranging from software systems to statistical arbitrage. As a Presidential Innovation Fellow during the Obama Administration, Eric helped drive the agenda for U.S. leadership in research, commercialization, and public adoption of...

Astasia Myers is a Partner on Quiet Capital's enterprise team leading investments in ML, data infrastructure, open-source, developer tools, and security. She focuses on pre-seed, seed, and Series A. Prior to joining Quiet, Astasia was an investor in Redpoint's early-stage enterprise team, where she partnered with Dremio, LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Preset, Hex, Cyral, among others. Before that, she worked at Cisco Investments, where she focused on cloud-infrastructure M&A and investments,...

Tarush Aggarwal is one of the leading experts in leveraging data for exponential growth, with over ten years of experience in the field. After graduating with a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2011, he became the first data engineer on the analytics team at Salesforce.com. Data was in its infancy, and the log metric framework he built was critical in allowing Salesforce to analyze data across customers and provide benchmarks across different industries and...

Hyun Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Superb AI, an ML DataOps platform that helps computer vision teams automate and manage the entire data pipeline: from ingestion and labeling to data quality assessment and delivery. He initially studied Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Duke but shifted from genetic engineering to robotics and deep learning. He then pursued a Ph.D. in computer science at Duke with a focus on Robotics and Deep Learning but ended up taking leave to...

Gary Hagmueller is CEO of Arcion Labs, Inc., the only cloud-native, zero-code data mobility platform that allows enterprises to build high-performance, real-time data pipelines in seconds. He brings 20+ years of tech industry leadership experience and has generated nearly $8B in enterprise value through two IPOs and four M&A exits. He holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where he was named Sheth Fellow, and a bachelor’s in Business...

DeVaris Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa, a VC-backed company enabling teams of any size and level of expertise to build real-time data pipelines in minutes, not months. Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, VSCO, and Zendesk. When he’s not sitting in front of a computer, you can find DeVaris behind a camera capturing moments in time, at the stove whipping up the finest delicacies, or behind a set of turntables, moving a sea of people through music.

Cody Coleman is the Founder and CEO of Coactive AI. He is also a co-creator of DAWNBench and MLPerf and a founding member of MLCommons. His work spans from performance benchmarking of hardware and software systems to computationally efficient methods for active learning and core-set selection. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where Professors Matei Zaharia and Peter Bailis advised him, and an MEng and BS from MIT.

Merav Yuravlivker is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Society. With over ten years of experience in instructional design, training, and teaching, she started her career teaching elementary special education in NYC public schools through the Teach for America program. She went on to join the International Baccalaureate Organization, where she developed deep expertise in online training, assessments, and recruitment. She also taught as a Kaplan GRE instructor, where she ranked...

Douwe Maan is the founder and CEO of Meltano, an open-source DataOps platform. Before joining Meltano, he was hired as the tenth employee at GitLab, later becoming an Engineering Manager. While at GitLab, he spent six months traveling the world, visiting colleagues in 14 different countries. In 2019, he joined the internal Meltano project at GitLab and quickly became its General Manager. In early 2021, Douwe led Meltano in spinning out of GitLab to become an independent startup, raising seed...

Mars Lan is the co-founder and CTO of Metaphor Data, a startup that offers a Modern Metadata Platform to solve many complex organizational data challenges, such as data discovery and data governance. He also co-created the popular open-source project DataHub while working as the Tech Lead of the metadata team at LinkedIn. Mars received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ville Tuulos has been developing tools and infrastructure for data science and machine learning for over two decades. At Netflix, he led the machine learning infrastructure team. Currently, he is the CEO and co-founder of Outerbounds - where he’s building the modern, human-centric ML infrastructure stack, continuing the open-source product called Metaflow that he developed and managed during his Netflix days.