Matei Zaharia

Matei is a legend of open source: he started the Apache Spark project in 2009, co-founded Databricks, and worked on other widely used data and AI software, including MLflow and Delta Lake. This will be a conversation covering the latest and greatest of UC and AI governance.

If the DevConnect Meetup shows as full, please still come to the event and join the onsite standby line so we can get you into the meetup if/when space opens up. The DevConnect Meetup is a multi-track event dedicated to exploring the latest innovations shaping the future of data, AI, and agentic systems. This technical meetup series offers distinct data engineering, applied AI, and AI research tracks that bring together developers, researchers, and innovators across the ecosystem. This event will dive deep into GenAI and agentic applications, highlighting how intelligent systems can reason, plan, and act autonomously across real-world data workflows. Sessions connect practitioners from academia, startups, and industry to share insights, tackle implementation challenges, and showcase the next generation of data-to-AI architectures. Attendees will gain firsthand perspectives from engineers and researchers driving progress in agentic AI, from dynamic orchestration of data pipelines to the deployment of self-directed, real-world AI agents. To view the schedule for the day, please head to bit.ly/devconnect-dais-26

Matei is a legend of open source: he started the Apache Spark project in 2009, co-founded Databricks, and worked on other widely used data and AI software, including MLflow, Delta Lake, and Dolly. His most recent research is about combining large language models (LLMs) with external data sources, such as search systems, and improving their efficiency and result quality. This will be a conversation coverering the latest and greatest of UC, Data Intelligence, AI Governance, and more.