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sooraj shankar Memory Is a Data System: State, Search, and History for AI AgentsAI agent memory is often discussed as a prompting problem or a vector search problem. In production, it behaves much more like a data system. Agents need to store facts, preferences, decisions, intermediate notes, and shared organizational context. That memory has to be named, scoped, searched, updated, versioned, inspected, and eventually corrected. more
I am submitting for: Track 1 - Data engineering & infrastructure
Type of session: 30 mins talk
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Vivek Sinha High Concurrency & Low Latency Serving on Apache IcebergDescription Everyone is putting their data into Apache Iceberg; almost no one is serving sub-second queries directly from it. Once data lands in Iceberg, a familiar question arises: how do you power real-time experiences without duplicating it in yet another serving system? This challenge is especially sharp in observability workloads like RUM, clickstream, and APM, and in customer-facing analyti… more
I am submitting for: Track 1 - Data engineering & infrastructure
Type of session: 30 mins talk
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Siddhant Agarwal Your AI Agent is lying to you: Observability for LLM systems in productionYou have shipped your LLM-powered agent. Congrats. Now do you actually know what it is doing? Most teams flying blind in production only discover issues when users complain, by which point the damage is already done. This talk dives deep into the observability gap in GenAI systems: why traditional APM tools were never designed for non-deterministic, multi-step agentic workflows, and why bolting t… more
I am submitting for: Track 2 - Building & implementing AI tools & agents in production
Type of session: 30 mins talk
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Karthik Shashidhar How to drive adoption and derive value from your AI-for-data agentDescribe your session in 2 paragraphs Companies are struggling to get value from AI-for-data agents. They have invested considerable time and energy in onboarding such systems but found usage and adoption lacking. The reasons are manifold - business users lack confidence in the systems, providing the right context is a challenge, people simply don’t know what questions to ask. So rather than usin… more
I am submitting for: Track 2 - Building & implementing AI tools & agents in production
Type of session: 30 mins talk
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krishan goyal Optimizing Data Ingestion in Apache PinotOptimizing Data Ingestion in Apache Pinot The Problem more
I am submitting for: Track 1 - Data engineering & infrastructure
Type of session: 30 mins talk
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Pramod Biligiri Editor, The Fifth Elephant 2024 & 2025 editions Session formats at The Fifth Elephant: Birds of Feather sessionsBirds of a Feather (BOF) sessions A Birds of a Feather session is a focused, practitioner-led conversation on a specific topic. It is not a talk, not a panel, and not a product demo. It is a room of people who share a problem, a craft, or a question — and want to think through it together. more
I am submitting for: Track 1 - Data engineering & infrastructure
Type of session: Birds of Feather (BOF) session
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