Session #1

Lakehouse Catalogs 101 - Governing and Transporting your Iceberg, Delta and Hudi tables

Explore one of the most critical frontiers in the lakehouse ecosystem: catalogs. Alex will demystify leading catalog solutions such as Apache Polaris (incubating), Nessie, Unity Catalog, Gravitino, Dremio Catalog, and AWS Glue, and guide you through navigating this evolving landscape to effectively manage your lakehouse.

Alex Merced

Senior Tech Evangelist, Dremio

LinkedIn

Session #2

AI Safety: Crafting Certainty in an Uncertain World

Unpack how robust design, user-centric interfaces, and regulatory collaboration can transform AI from a black-box risk into a predictable and valuable tool.

John Licato

Founder & CEO, Actualization.ai

LinkedIn

Session #3

The Great Analytics Data Strategy Heist!

Learn to refine problems and apply iterative systems thinking, drive continuous improvement for data initiatives, and develop successful data strategies to reach business analytics objectives.

Pradnya Chavan

VP Decision Science, JPMorganChase

LinkedIn

Session #4

Defense as a Market: Overcoming Barriers for Tech Innovation in DoD

Uncover insights surrounding Data, AI, and delivering game changing solutions to the DoD.

Jim Smith

Former Acquisition Executive for the United States Special Operations Command

LinkedIn

Casey Johnson

VP of Business Development, Certus Core

LinkedIn

Daniella Diaz

VP of Revenue and Marketing at Lumina AI

LinkedIn

Rocio Frej Vitalle

CEO, Improving Aviation

LinkedIn

Session #5

Using Top-Level Ontology for Better Governance - A Vendor Risk Case Study

Explore how top-level ontologies align disparate data sources to address governance challenges in knowledge graphs.

Tim Toohill

CTO & Co-Founder, Certus Core

LinkedIn

Joe Blankenship

CDO, Certus Core

LinkedIn

Session #6

Mapping Ever Larger Data with PostGIS, DuckDB, GeoArrow and deck.gl.

Learn how to make a high performance geo workflow on large data through covering the four key aspects of the geospatial pipeline.

Jared Lander

CEO - Lander Analytics

LinkedIn

Session #7 - Keynote

From Data to Dominance: Navigating Edge and Enterprise Data Needs for Scalable Insights

In a world defined by data ubiquity, success hinges on the ability to align edge-based and enterprise-level data strategies. This talk explores the nuanced differences between edge and enterprise data needs and how semantic frameworks, AI, and edge-based processing can bridge the two. Learn how to harness data at the right place and time—enabling hyper-localized decision-making, predictive analytics at scale, and adaptive cyber defense to create resilient, value-driven organizations in an interconnected global ecosystem.

Lisa Costa

Former Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, U.S. Space Force | VC Partner

LinkedIn

Session #8

Driving Data Innovation in Telecom: Trends and Opportunities

Antra Malhotra

Associate Director of Software Development, Verizon

LinkedIn

Session #9

Prescription for Precision: Building Smarter Pharma Sales Forecasting Dashboards

Ensure your regional sales goals are on track while identifying problem areas in real-time.

Tanya Cashorali

Founder & CEO, TCB Analytics

LinkedIn