NVIDIA GTC Side Event: Next-Gen Data Infra for the Agentic Era
About the Event 🎊
As we transition into the Agentic Era, the bottleneck has shifted from the model to the Infrastructure. The critical question is no longer just "which LLM to use," but: How do we build data layers that are scalable, reliable, and governed?
Join the Data for AI Community for an exclusive evening during GTC week. We’re bringing together pioneers from NVIDIA, Neo4j, and Fivetran to discuss the Next-Gen Data Infrastructure required to turn raw data into actionable context for enterprise-grade AI Agents.
Agenda 🌟
🤖 Technical Talks 🤖
Building Agents with Apache Iceberg: Turning Data into Context for AI Systems
Andrew Madson – Founding Head of DevRel @ Fivetran
Architecting Context: How to Structure Knowledge to Make Your Agents Smarter
Nyah Macklin – DevRel & AI Engineering Leader @ Neo4j
Why Your AI Agents Can't Find the Data They Need, And What to Do About It
Building the AI-Agent-Native Data Platform
Junling Hu – Sr Director of Agentic Platform @ PayPal
GNNs & LLMs in PyG
Rishi Puri – Leading GNN+LLM & PyG @ NVIDIA
🎤 Deep Dive Panel 🎤
Topic: Data Strategy in the Agentic Era
We are thrilled to bring together a powerhouse lineup to discuss the future of data infrastructure and AI agents:
Junling Hu – Sr Director of Agentic Platform @ PayPal
Aravind Suresh – Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAI
Andrew Madson – Founding Head of DevRel @ Fivetran
Ron Gonzalez – VP, AI/ML & Data Lakehouse @ WEX
What we’ll cover:
Challenges: The "governance nightmare" of discovery, management, and security.
Opportunities: Is the traditional stack ripe for industry-wide disruption?
Future Trends: The Unstructured Revolution, vendor freedom, and the shift beyond tables.
Networking & Refreshments 🍕
We’ll provide food, drinks, and high-signal networking opportunities with global builders, architects, and founders visiting for GTC.
Community & Partners 🤝
About Data for AI Community
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About Datastrato
Datastrato is building the open data fabric platform to accelerate trusted AI. The company is the original creator of Apache Gravitino, unified metadata platform for AI - multi-cloud, multi-engine and multi-modal.Try Apache Gravitino on GitHub | ➕ Follow Datastrato on LinkedIn
About Neo4j:
Neo4j Graph Intelligence Platform transforms data into knowledge, powering dynamic, personalized, and autonomous AI systems and intelligent applications so organizations can act faster with confidence.➕ Follow Neo4j on LinkedIn
About VeloDB:
Real-time analytics and search database for diverse workloads.Try Apache Doris on GitHub | ➕ Follow VeloDB on LinkedIn
About JJLake
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