API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: Full Schedule

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9:30am PDT

PRO Session (DataWeek): The Rise of Agentic Commerce: Where AI Intelligence Meets Infinite Retail Possibility

Friday September 5, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT

Aswini Atibudhi, Walmart, Driving Innovation with Generative AI

In this visionary session, we’ll explore how Agentic AI is not just enhancing retail — it’s fundamentally reinventing it. As commerce shifts from static transactions to dynamic, intelligent interactions, Agentic AI emerges as the architect of a new era: Agentic Commerce. Learn how AI-powered agents, composable architectures, and autonomous decision-making systems are creating infinitely adaptable, customer-first retail ecosystems. We’ll dive into real-world examples, transformative architectures, and the strategic shifts needed to thrive in an AI-first retail future.
Join us to uncover how businesses can unlock limitless innovation, personalized experiences, and operational agility by embracing the rise of Agentic Commerce.

Speakers

Aswini Atibudhi

Distinguished Architect for Customer Space, Walmart

Aswini is the Distinguished Architect for Customer Space at Walmart. He has more than 20 years of IT experience in design and development of scalable microservice and microfrontend based Web/Cloud/AI & ML Applications. His Portfolio is jam-packed with Multiple domains such as Finance... Read More →

Friday September 5, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks DataWeek, AI Models and Management (DataWeek), Data Tools / Technology and Management (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:00am PDT

PRO Session (DataWeek): Data Sovereignty in the Age of AI

Friday September 5, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT

DataWeek -- Main Stage

Michel Tricot, Airbyte, Co-founder and CEO

This session will explore the intersection of data sovereignty and artificial intelligence, addressing how organizations can maintain control of their valuable data assets while still leveraging the power of AI. Drawing from extensive experience building open-source data infrastructure solutions, Michel will illuminate the challenges companies face when integrating AI into their data ecosystems without compromising ownership, security, or compliance requirements.

The session targets data leaders, CDOs, and enterprise architects who are navigating the complex landscape of AI adoption while maintaining strict data governance standards. Michel will share practical frameworks for implementing a self-managed data integration strategy that enables AI innovation while preserving first-party data sovereignty—a crucial consideration as regulatory requirements around data protection continue to evolve globally. Attendees will gain actionable insights on building resilient data architectures that support AI initiatives without surrendering control of sensitive information.

This session aligns perfectly with Data Week's focus on "Data Engineering & Governance" and "AI & ML" tracks, offering attendees a unique perspective on balancing innovation with control. Conference participants will benefit from Michel's vision of how open-source data integration infrastructure can serve as the foundation for responsible AI development, empowering organizations to build competitive advantages while maintaining complete sovereignty over their data. The presentation will include real-world examples of companies that have successfully implemented these principles.

Speakers

Michel Tricot

Co-founder and CEO, Airbyte

Michel Tricot is co-founder and CEO of Airbyte, the open data movement platform. The company was started in 2020 with a vision of commoditizing data integration pipelines across all industries and organizations and today has more than 170,000 deployments. Michel has been working in... Read More →

Friday September 5, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks DataWeek, AI Models and Management (DataWeek), Data Engineering / Architecture and Streaming (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

10:30am PDT

OPEN Session (DataWeek): Ask Us Anything: Building Real-World AI Agents for Business

Friday September 5, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT

DataWeek -- Main Stage

Lee Dickson, raia AI, Director of Sales and Operations
Rich Swier, raia AI, Founder

You’ve seen the hype. Now let’s get practical. In this live AMA-style session, Lee Dickson and Rich Swier — co-hosts of The AI Guys podcast and builders of raia AI — open the floor to the questions business leaders, operators, and tech pros are really asking about AI.

From deployment timelines to hallucination prevention, ethics to employee augmentation — nothing’s off limits. Whether you’re planning your first AI rollout or scaling from one use case to a dozen, this is your chance to get direct insights from AI practitioners who’ve helped companies from $5M startups to $500M enterprises make AI work.

Speakers

Lee Dickson

Director of Sales and Operations, raia AI

Lee Dickson brings 7+ years of experience in productizing AI solutions and predictive analytics, with a strong track record of streamlining operations and improving customer engagement for SMBs and enterprise clients. With an extensive background in technology and SaaS, he's an advocate... Read More →

Rich Swier

Founder, raia

Rich is a serial entrepreneur based in Sarasota, Florida. For the past 30 years, Rich has built and exited numerous successful tech businesses and continues to launch and incubate new ventures.

Friday September 5, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks DataWeek, OPEN Session, Data Tools / Technology and Management (DataWeek), AI Models and Management (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PDT

OPEN Session (DataWeek): Data Integrity in the Age of AI: SBOMs, Lineage, and Trust in the Pipeline

Friday September 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

DataWeek -- Main Stage

Saloni Garg, Wayfair, Senior Software Engineer

With AI models consuming more data than ever, ensuring the integrity and traceability of that data is critical. This talk focuses on how to build trust into your data pipelines -- using concepts like SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials) for datasets, audit trails, and metadata tagging to make data consumption safer and more transparent. I’ll also touch on how this ties into emerging compliance frameworks and how we’ve approached this in practice.

Speakers

Saloni Garg

Senior Software Engineer, Wayfair

International Red Hat Women in Open Source Awardee | Mozilla Open Leader 2019 | a strong open source diversity supporter | Google Venkat Scholarship winner | Speaker

Friday September 5, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks OPEN Session, DataWeek, Data Governance and Security (DataWeek), Data Strategy / Analytics & Business Intelligence (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:30am PDT

OPEN Session (DataWeek): Rearchitecting Data Processing for Today’s Demands

Friday September 5, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT

DataWeek -- Main Stage

Rajan Goyal, DataPelago, CEO & Co-founder

IT leaders face mounting pressure to leverage their organization’s data for genAI and lakehouse analytics. Yet, with data volumes doubling every two years and nearly 90% of new data being unstructured, traditional data processing architectures can’t keep up. Existing systems were designed for structured data and CPU-based computing, and businesses are finding they struggle with processing latency, high costs, and siloed data. In fact, more than 80% of IT leaders say that data silos are hindering digital transformation.

To drive value in today’s data environment, IT leaders need to implement new data processing architectures that are designed to handle massive volumes of complex data and are capable of taking advantage of the accelerated hardware (GPUs, FPGAs, CPU/SIMD, etc.) available in today’s cloud environments.

In this session, DataPelago CEO Rajan Goyal will outline the shortcomings of current data processing architectures and introduce attendees to the Universal Data Processing Engine, a software solution that sits between a data lake and query engine. Overcoming the shortcomings of traditional processing models, the UDPE is designed to handle all types of data (structured, unstructured, semi-structured) and work on top of any hardware. Integrating seamlessly into any tech stack, it accelerates data processing speed by 2-3x while cutting processing costs by 30-60% — enabling organizations to utilize all of their data for lakehouse analytics and AI workloads.

Speakers

Rajan Goyal

CEO & Co-founder, DataPelago

Rajan is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DataPelago, the company revolutionizing data processing for the accelerated computing era. His expertise and visionary approach have been instrumental in shaping the future of data infrastructure and processing. A seasoned innovator... Read More →

Friday September 5, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks DataWeek, OPEN Session, Data Tools / Technology and Management (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:00pm PDT

PRO Session (DataWeek): Compute for Your AI Model: GPUs, LPUs, TPUs and Beyond..

Friday September 5, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT

DataWeek -- Main Stage

Kushaagra Goyal, Rubrik, Tech Lead

In the rapidly evolving landscape of computing, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Language Processing Units (LPUs), and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) play pivotal roles in accelerating complex tasks, particularly in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

GPUs are renowned for their parallel processing capabilities, making them ideal for rendering graphics and handling large datasets. LPUs are specialized for optimizing natural language processing tasks, enhancing efficiency in understanding and generating human language. TPUs, developed by Google, are tailored specifically for training and inference of machine learning models, offering significant performance advantages for large-scale AI applications.

As we explore these technologies, we'll also look at emerging processing units designed for specific AI use-cases and the future of computational advancements.

Join me to dive into the intricacies of these processing units, their applications, and what lies ahead in the world of computing technology.

Speakers

Kushaagra Goyal

Tech Lead, Rubrik

Kushaagra Goyal is an accomplished technology leader with deep expertise in engineering and AI infrastructure. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2016), and a Master’s degree from Stanford University, where he developed a strong foundation... Read More →

Friday September 5, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks DataWeek, AI Models and Management (DataWeek), Data Science and Machine Learning (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PDT

PRO Session (DataWeek): Securing Multi-Tenant Data Warehouses: How Federated Learning Revolutionizes Privacy

Friday September 5, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

DataWeek -- Main Stage

Jayant Tyagi, Salesforce, Lead Member of Technical Staff

Enterprises are being forced to reconsider how they manage sensitive data in cloud data warehouses due to data privacy laws and security incidents. In multi-tenant settings, traditional centralized analytics techniques are becoming more and more susceptible, putting businesses at risk for data leaks and regulatory issues.
In this session, we'll look at how federated learning is transforming data warehouse security while preserving analytical capabilities. Attendees will learn how businesses can use safe federated ways that preserve sensitive data while still obtaining insightful information, based on current research in privacy-preserving technologies.

Speakers

Jayant Tyagi

Lead Member of Technical Staff, Salesforce

Jayant Tyagi is a seasoned full-stack engineer with 13 years of experience in designing and developing high-scale applications. As a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, he has played a pivotal role in building and optimizing enterprise applications, spearheading innovations... Read More →

Friday September 5, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks DataWeek, Data Warehousing and Storage (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PDT

OPEN Session (DataWeek): Transforming Seller Onboarding in Retail: Responsible AI, RAG, and Risk Management

Friday September 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT

DataWeek -- Main Stage

Banani Mohapatra, Walmart, Senior Manager, Data Science
Bhavnish Walia, Amazon, Senior Risk Manager AI/ML

Onboarding new sellers onto retail platforms like Walmart and Amazon involves a complex, multi-step process designed to mitigate fraud and ensure compliance with global regulations. One of the most critical and cumbersome steps is Know Your Customer (KYC) verification, requiring sellers to upload documentation for identity verification, business registration, and compliance checks. This manual review process often leads to long approval times and delays, frustrating legitimate sellers and creating operational bottlenecks for compliance teams.
To address these challenges, we leveraged foundational models with custom prompting strategies, in-document summarization, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to ground responses in trusted data sources, powered by open-source LLM APIs. By automating document analysis and augmenting human reviewers with AI outputs, we reduced overall onboarding time by more than 20 percent, improving seller experience and operational efficiency.
However, deploying AI into a regulated process like KYC required a robust responsible AI framework combining scalability with governance. We implemented guardrail models to flag edge cases and ensure human oversight, enforced strict data anonymization protocols to protect sensitive information, and applied privacy-preserving techniques for model training. We also established a rigorous validation pipeline to test outputs against regulatory standards, mitigating risks such as hallucinations and interpretability gaps.
This talk offers actionable insights for data scientists, compliance officers, regulators, and machine learning practitioners working at the intersection of AI, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Presented by Bhavnish Walia, Senior Risk Manager at Amazon, and Banani Mohapatra, Senior Data Science Manager at Walmart, attendees will walk away with a practical framework for deploying AI in sensitive domains—covering risk management strategies, scalable AI architectures aligned with compliance, and key lessons on balancing innovation with accountability.

Speakers

Banani Mohapatra

Senior Manager, Data Science, Walmart

Banani Mohapatra is a data science leader with 12+ years of experience in e-commerce, payments, and real estate, specializing in machine learning, generative AI, LLMs, and causal AI. She leads a global data science team at Walmart, driving subscription growth with multi-billion-dollar... Read More →

Bhavnish Walia

Senior Risk Manager AI/ML, Amazon

Bhavnish Walia is a Senior Risk Manager at Amazon, where he leads AI Risk Management efforts focused on developing large language model (LLM) frameworks for data governance and regulatory compliance. He ensures the safe and compliant deployment of AI systems at scale. With over 12... Read More →

Friday September 5, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
DataWeek -- Main Stage

DataWeek

Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks DataWeek, OPEN Session, Data Governance and Security (DataWeek)
In-Person/Virtual In Person