API World + CloudX + DataWeek 2025: Full Schedule

9:30am PDT

PRO Session (CloudX): From Chaos to Control: Operationalizing ML Workflows in the Cloud with MLOps and GenAI

Thursday September 4, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT

Aditi Jain, Amazon SDE
Bhavani Sankar Telaprolu, Google, Software Engineer

As AI/ML adoption accelerates across industries, many teams face critical challenges in bringing models from prototype to production—especially in cloud environments. This session explores how MLOps practices, automation, and cloud-native tools can streamline the deployment and monitoring of both traditional ML and emerging GenAI models. Attendees will learn how to structure ML pipelines, manage data and model versioning, implement CI/CD for ML, and optimize cloud costs, all while ensuring reproducibility and governance. Drawing on real-world experiences, this talk offers actionable insights for making ML systems robust, scalable, and production-ready in the cloud.

Speakers

Aditi Jain

SDE, Amazon

As an experienced software developer and AI specialist, I've dedicated my career to implementing cutting-edge technologies across various platforms. My journey, spanning both industry and academia, has given me a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities of deploying... Read More →

Bhavani Sankar Telaprolu

Software Engineer, Google

Bhavani Sankar Telaprolu is a seasoned Cloud and AI Solutions Architect with over 5 years of experience designing and deploying scalable machine learning systems in the cloud. He specializes in MLOps, cloud-native architecture, and productionizing generative AI models. Bhavani has... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks CloudX, Managing AI/ML in the Cloud (CloudX), Cloud Infrastructure Design and Architecture (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

11:00am PDT

OPEN Session (CloudX): Empowering User-Controlled Encryption at Exabyte Scale

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Alok Ranjan, Dropbox, Software Engineering Manager

As enterprise security requirements intensify, empowering users with full control over encryption becomes paramount. In this session, I’ll reveal how Dropbox pioneers user-controlled encryption at exabyte scale with an innovative three-tiered scheme using AWS KMS. We’ll discuss how our approach grants teams complete control via Team Encryption Keys (TEKs) secured by Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), while an intermediate layer of Namespace Encryption Keys (NEKs) ensures rapid, secure file sharing—even across teams. Learn how practical strategies like key caching and efficient key rotation maintain exceptional performance and data integrity through a robust key chain of custody. This talk is ideal for professionals keen on leveraging AWS technologies to enhance security and scalability in cloud storage solutions.

Speakers

Alok Ranjan

Software Engineering Manager, Dropbox

Hello, I’m Alok Ranjan, an Engineering Manager at Dropbox overseeing the Storage Platform team in the infrastructure org. My team focuses on providing interfaces for file and block storage, along with encryption, compression, and verification of user data. With a master’s degree... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type OPEN Session
Tracks CloudX, Cloud Infrastructure Design and Architecture (CloudX), Security and Vulnerability Management (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PDT

PRO Session (CloudX): AI Data Center in a Box: The Future of Edge Computing

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Venkat Maddali, Medallia, Global Head - SRE

Data is growing at an unprecedented pace. Every transaction generates data, and with AI, this growth is accelerating. AI-driven automation introduces additional transactions, creating more data. As humans become more inquisitive about AI's operations, we add even more data through observability, logs, controls, and guardrails. Everything we do contributes to this data explosion.

This growth welcomes a new problem: The Challenge of AI and Data Ownership

The Challenge of AI and Data Ownership

Traditional solutions rely on commodity storage to handle data growth. However, AI is forcing industries to rethink data ownership. Many customers want to leverage AI but do not want to send their data to a hosted cloud, whether public, private, or hybrid. The question is: how do we enable AI while keeping data within a customer's control?

AI Data Center in a Box

The answer lies in AI-powered data centers in a box. This is not just a rack of servers but a compact, turnkey solution designed for edge computing. The key components of this AI-driven edge solution include:

Modular design to balance power, compute, networking, and security
Pluggable LLMs (Large Language Models) for customized AI processing
Integrated storage to handle large datasets efficiently
On-demand AI processing to enable offline and secure computations
Kill switch for ultimate control and security

Speakers

Venkat Maddali

Global Head - SRE, Medallia

At Medallia, (owned by Thoma Bravo), we empower organizations to deliver on their promises and make their customers feel the love! We turn signals into action with the world's leading experience management platform, helping companies around the globe deliver exceptional experiences.In... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks CloudX, Managing AI/ML in the Cloud (CloudX), Cloud Infrastructure Design and Architecture (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

2:00pm PDT

PRO Session (CloudX): Productize Your DevOps (Or “What I Really Learned from Playing with Legos”)

Thursday September 4, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT

CloudX -- Main Stage

Casey Morton, Pinnacle Solutions Group, Principal Consultant

In the early days of my career, a mentor once said to me "Everything is a product". He went on to say, "Its less about selling your software and more about creating well-defined (and documented), composable modules or Lego bricks..." This is a lesson that I keep close to my heart over 20 years later. In this session, we'll talk about how this mantra can apply to nearly everyone in IT and then we'll look at it, specifically as it applies to DevOps. What does it mean to "productize" something? Why does it matter? Why should I design for reuse even if I probably never will?We will talk through a couple of examples to better illustrate how to apply this to your daily work. Maybe its your CI/CD pipeline. Maybe its Terraform or Bicep scripts. Maybe its Helm Charts. Let's take a look at these very different scenarios and see how Productized DevOps can make your life easier and help make you more successful.

Speakers

Casey Morton

Principal Consultant, Pinnacle Solutions Group

I am a seasoned veteran of 20+ years as an IT Professional. I have worked with numerous development teams ranging from 4 developers to 200+. I started my career as an application developer. Starting with my very first college internships, nearly every team I was on, somehow I always... Read More →

Thursday September 4, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
CloudX -- Main Stage

CloudX

Talk Type PRO Session
Tracks CloudX, SRE / DevOps and Platform Engineering (CloudX), Cloud Infrastructure Design and Architecture (CloudX)
In-Person/Virtual In Person

1:30pm PDT

PRO Session (CloudX): Autoscaling in Cloud Native Kubernetes Environment

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

CloudX -- Main Stage

Geetha Anne, Pure Storage, Sr Manager, Customer Solutions Group

In this session, we’ll dive into the complexities of Kubernetes autoscaling, focusing on an essential aspect of distributed systems i.e, scaling. We'll begin by examining the built-in tools Kubernetes offers for each of these dimensions, and then move on to advanced open-source projects like KEDA, which provide greater flexibility and efficiency for various scaling scenarios.
Key takeaways for attendees include:
* Common challenges and solutions that enhance or replace traditional methods of scaling
* Strategies to evaluate application workloads and select the optimal tailored autoscaling strategy.
* Best practices to optimize deployments for dynamic workloads, ensuring peak performance while maintaining cost-efficiency.

Speakers

Geetha Anne

Sr Manager, Customer Solutions Group, Pure Storage

Geetha is a Solutions Architect and Customer Success professional specializing in big data management , storage , Kubernetes and Durable execution, with expertise in cloud-native and on-premises solutions. She ensures customer success and maturity by delivering effective, simplified... Read More →

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

CloudX