Data + AI Architecture Meetup @ AWS re:Invent

​About the Event

​Join us for an evening of innovation, insight, and community — designed for data and AI practitioners who are building the next generation of data platforms. Whether you're a data engineer, data scientist, ML engineer, AI researcher, product leader, or technical executive, you'll gain valuable perspective on how lakehouses, graph analytics, and Rust-native platforms are shaping the future.

​What to Expect:

• ​Four deep technical talks from industry-leading engineers and product leaders
  

• ​Two major networking sessions (before & after talks) + product demos
  

• ​Real-world stories and architecture that bridge data engineering, AI, and scalable systems
  

• ​Opportunities to connect with co-host companies and plug into emerging technology trends

​Location

​The Hidden Crave (2nd floor of Whataburger)

​3752 S Las Vegas Blvd
Las Vegas, NV 89158

​Agenda

​6:00 – 6:15 PM: Opening Remarks by Tej Luthra, Global Head - Data & AI at AWS

6:15– 6:30 PM: Networking

​6:30 – 7:00 PM: Talk 1 - Alex Merced (Dremio) – From v3 to v4: What’s Next for Apache Iceberg

​7:00 – 7:30 PM: Talk 2 - Dhruvil Shah (PATHSDATA) – Building the Future of AI & ML with Rust-Powered Data Lakes

​7:30 – 8:00 PM: Talk 3 - Weimo Liu / Danfeng Xu (PuppyGraph) – Graph Analytics Over Lakehouses

​8:00 – 8:30 PM: Talk 4 - Kevin Shen (VeloDB) – Apache Doris 4.0: Real-Time Analytics + AI

​8:30 – 10:00 PM: Networking + Demos

​Speakers

• ​Alex Merced — Head of Developer Relations, Dremio
  

• ​Dhruvil Shah — Founder & CEO, PATHSDATA
  

• ​Weimo Liu / Danfeng Xu — Co-Founders, PuppyGraph
  

• ​Kevin Shen — Principal Product Manager, VeloDB

​🤝 Co-Host & Featured Company Bios

​About PATHSDATA

​PATHSDATA is a next-generation data and AI infrastructure company focused on building highly efficient, scalable, and reliable data platforms. Their flagship products — PATHSIQ and WAYPOINT — simplify and accelerate the journey from raw data to intelligence.

• ​PATHSIQ is a Rust-native AI Data Engineering Assistant, built on Apache Iceberg, DataFusion, and Ballista, automating data workflows and enabling high-performance, low-latency pipelines for ML.
  

• ​WAYPOINT is their consulting arm, helping organizations design, build, and operationalize cloud-native data, AI, and ML systems with real business impact.

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​About Dremio

​Dremio is the intelligent lakehouse platform built for the agentic AI era.

• ​Offers a unified lakehouse with zero-ETL federation, enabling query across lakes, warehouses, and databases without data movement.
  

• ​Features a deep semantic layer for AI, modeling business entities, metrics, and relationships usable by both humans and AI agents.
  

• ​Self-optimizing engine: uses autonomous clustering, query tuning, and metadata optimization to continuously improve.
  

• ​Built on open standards: Apache Iceberg, Polaris, and Arrow.
  

• ​Founded in 2015, based in Santa Clara, CA. Trusted by global enterprises like Shell, TD Bank, and Michelin.

​About VeloDB

​VeloDB is a modern, real-time data warehouse built on Apache Doris, founded by its original core contributors.

• ​Its cloud-native offering, VeloDB Cloud, features a compute-storage decoupled architecture for elastic scaling, cost-efficient storage, and on-demand compute.

• ​Supports sub-second ingestion (append + upsert), Kafka/CDC integration, and schema evolution.

• ​Can query external data lakes (Iceberg, Hudi), supports semi-structured types (Array, JSON, Map), and runs batch, real-time, and federated workloads.

• ​Fully compatible with Apache Doris (SQL, protocol) and contributes actively to its open-source community.

• ​Deployable via SaaS (cloud / BYOC) or self-managed (VM or Kubernetes).

• ​Security features: role-based access, encryption, monitoring.

• ​Founded in May 2023; ~70% R&D workforce with strong Doris roots.

​About PuppyGraph

​PuppyGraph is the first and only real time, zero-ETL graph query engine in the market, empowering companies to transform existing relational data stores into a unified graph model in under 10 minutes, bypassing traditional graph databases' cost, latency, and maintenance hurdles.

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