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Speakers

Adi Polak

Employers on the program

  1. 2024–2025Confluent10 talks
  2. 2019–2023Treeverse3 talks
  3. 2022Microsoft1 talk

Bluesky: @adipolak.bsky.social

Events14
Conferences7
Talks161 keynote
Years active2019–2025
Miles between events42,01613 in-person events · 4 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • DataEngBytes
  • QCon
  • Data Council
  • Data Day Texas
  • AI By the Bay
  • Data Outpost
  • SQLBits

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Dec 16, 2025QCon AI New York 2025QConspeakerBeyond 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 less

As 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, 2025Small Data SF 2025Data OutpostspeakerProjection Pushdown vs Predicate Pushdown: Rethinking Query Efficiency
as Confluent
Video
Apr 7, 2025QCon London 2025QConspeakerAchieving 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, 2024QCon San Francisco 2024QConspeakerStream 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 less

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 their time optimizing it or fixing downstream output by handling bad data at the lake.

Oct 4, 2024DataEngBytes 2024 AucklandDataEngBytesspeakerCharting a New Course: The Transformative Journey of Shift-Left in Data Infrastructure
as Confluent

$23

Oct 1, 2024DataEngBytes 2024 MelbourneDataEngBytesspeakerCharting a New Course: The Transformative Journey of Shift-Left in Data Infrastructure
as Confluent

$1e

Oct 1, 2024DataEngBytes 2024 MelbourneDataEngBytespanelistThe future of Machine Learning panel
as Confluent
Sep 27, 2024DataEngBytes 2024 PerthDataEngBytesspeakerNavigating Streaming Infrastructure
as Confluent

$1c

Sep 24, 2024DataEngBytes 2024 SydneyDataEngBytespanelistFuture of Machine Learning Panel
as Confluent
Video
Sep 24, 2024DataEngBytes 2024 SydneyDataEngBytesspeakerNavigating Streaming Infrastructure
as Confluent

$12

Jan 27, 2024Data Day Texas + AI 2024Data Day TexasspeakerDemystifying the next advancements of LLMs: RAG: Retrieval-augmented generation
Have 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 less

Have 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, 2023Data Day Texas 2023Data Day TexaskeynoteEngineering 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 less

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 techniques.

Mar 23, 2022Data Council Austin 2022Data CounciltalkGet Ready for ML! Level Up Your Data Lake with Delta and lakeFS Warehouse & lakehouse
as Treeverse
Mar 8, 2022SQLBits 2022 (Arcade)SQLBitsspeakerRedesigning 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, 2021Scale By the Bay 2021AI By the BayspeakerRethinking scalable machine learning with Spark ecosystemVideo
Nov 12, 2019Data Council New York City 2019Data CounciltalkBuilding Efficient ML Pipelines and Responsible AI Solutions ML & MLOps
as Treeverse

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Joe Reis7—2025
Chip Huyen422024
Juan Sequeda312024
Benn Stancil3—2025
Holden Karau3—2025
Barr Moses2—2025
Dennis Pilarinos2—2025
Gwen Shapira2—2025
Hien Luu2—2025
Karthik Ramgopal2—2025
Meryem Arik2—2025
Moumita Bhattacharya2—2025
Roland Meertens2—2025
Steef-Jan Wiggers2—2025
Tyler Jewell2—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.