Adi Polak
Appearances by year
- DataEngBytes
- QCon
- Data Council
- Data Day Texas
- AI By the Bay
- Data Outpost
- SQLBits
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2025 | QCon AI New York 2025 | QCon | speaker | Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering and Memory Management for AI Systems at Scale as Confluent As AI agents evolve from stateless prompt-response tools into stateful, long-running systems, context - not just compute - becomes the true bottleneck. Yet most…Show lessAs AI agents evolve from stateless prompt-response tools into stateful, long-running systems, context - not just compute - becomes the true bottleneck. Yet most architectures today treat context retrieval as an afterthought, bolting vector stores onto LLMs and hoping for the best. | |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Small Data SF 2025 | Data Outpost | speaker | Projection Pushdown vs Predicate Pushdown: Rethinking Query Efficiency as Confluent | Video |
| Apr 7, 2025 | QCon London 2025 | QCon | speaker | Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents as Confluent In the race to harness the power of generative AI, organizations are discovering a hidden challenge: precision. | |
| Nov 18, 2024 | QCon San Francisco 2024 | QCon | speaker | Stream All the Things — Patterns of Effective Data Stream Processing as Confluent Data streaming is a really difficult problem. Despite 10+ years of attempting to simplify it, teams building real-time data pipelines can spend up to 80% of…Show lessData streaming is a really difficult problem. Despite 10+ years of attempting to simplify it, teams building real-time data pipelines can spend up to 80% of their time optimizing it or fixing downstream output by handling bad data at the lake. | |
| Oct 4, 2024 | DataEngBytes 2024 Auckland | DataEngBytes | speaker | Charting a New Course: The Transformative Journey of Shift-Left in Data Infrastructure as Confluent $23 | |
| Oct 1, 2024 | DataEngBytes 2024 Melbourne | DataEngBytes | speaker | Charting a New Course: The Transformative Journey of Shift-Left in Data Infrastructure as Confluent $1e | |
| Oct 1, 2024 | DataEngBytes 2024 Melbourne | DataEngBytes | panelist | The future of Machine Learning panel as Confluent | |
| Sep 27, 2024 | DataEngBytes 2024 Perth | DataEngBytes | speaker | Navigating Streaming Infrastructure as Confluent $1c | |
| Sep 24, 2024 | DataEngBytes 2024 Sydney | DataEngBytes | panelist | Future of Machine Learning Panel as Confluent | Video |
| Sep 24, 2024 | DataEngBytes 2024 Sydney | DataEngBytes | speaker | Navigating Streaming Infrastructure as Confluent $12 | |
| Jan 27, 2024 | Data Day Texas + AI 2024 | Data Day Texas | speaker | Demystifying the next advancements of LLMs: RAG: Retrieval-augmented generationHave you ever asked an AI language model like ChatGPT about the latest developments on a certain topic, only to receive this response:" I'm sorry, but as of my…Show lessHave you ever asked an AI language model like ChatGPT about the latest developments on a certain topic, only to receive this response:" I'm sorry, but as of my last knowledge update in January 2022, I don't have information on the topic at hand.."If you have, you've encountered a fundamental limitation of large language models. | |
| Jan 28, 2023 | Data Day Texas 2023 | Data Day Texas | keynote | Engineering Data Systems for the next 10 years of growth as Treeverse For most of my professional life, I dealt with data. As a data practitioner, I developed algorithms to solve real-world problems leveraging machine learning…Show lessFor most of my professional life, I dealt with data. As a data practitioner, I developed algorithms to solve real-world problems leveraging machine learning techniques. | |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Data Council Austin 2022 | Data Council | talk | Get Ready for ML! Level Up Your Data Lake with Delta and lakeFS Warehouse & lakehouse as Treeverse | |
| Mar 8, 2022 | SQLBits 2022 (Arcade) | SQLBits | speaker | Redesigning Scalable Machine Learning with the open source Apache Spark as Microsoft Building End to End machine learning workflow at scale with open source technologies on Azure | |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Scale By the Bay 2021 | AI By the Bay | speaker | Rethinking scalable machine learning with Spark ecosystem | Video |
| Nov 12, 2019 | Data Council New York City 2019 | Data Council | talk | Building Efficient ML Pipelines and Responsible AI Solutions ML & MLOps as Treeverse |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Reis | 7 | — | 2025 |
| Chip Huyen | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Juan Sequeda | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Benn Stancil | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Holden Karau | 3 | — | 2025 |
| Barr Moses | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Dennis Pilarinos | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Gwen Shapira | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Hien Luu | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Karthik Ramgopal | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Meryem Arik | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Moumita Bhattacharya | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Roland Meertens | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | 2 | — | 2025 |
| Tyler Jewell | 2 | — | 2025 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.