Nate Stewart
Employers on the program
- 2026Materialize3 talks
- 2022–2023Cockroach Labs3 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- RoachFest
- AWS re:Invent
- Current (formerly Kafka Summit)
- Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | lightning talk | Building a live context layer at Crane Worldwide Logistics (Sponsored by Materialize) as Materialize Crane Worldwide Logistics serves 10,000+ clients across six continents, where a single international shipment can touch hundreds of systems. | |
| Nov 4, 2026 | Current San Francisco 2026 | Current (formerly Kafka Summit) | speaker | Powering Interactive Agents with Live Context as Materialize How do you keep an agent's understanding of the world fresh enough for it to act on? Interactive agents need current context about the customers, orders,…Show lessHow do you keep an agent's understanding of the world fresh enough for it to act on? Interactive agents need current context about the customers, orders, inventory, accounts, and other entities they reason about. But assembling that context from constantly changing operational systems is complex, forcing teams to choose between stale data, expensive recomputation, or complex pipelines. This talk will show how to build continuously updated context in SQL that is trustworthy enough for agents to rely upon. You'll learn how to transform operational data into agent-ready representations, keep attributes and relationships up to date as the underlying data changes, and propagate those changes to search indexes and embeddings when needed. Attend if you're deploying AI agents to production and want to give them fresher, more complete context and tighten their read-act-react loop. By attending this session, your contact information may be shared with the sponsor for relevant follow up for this event only. | |
| Mar 9, 2026 | Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026 (Orlando) | Gartner Data & Analytics Summit | speaker | Materialize: Real-World Context Engineering: AI Agents in the Enterprise as Materialize Modern AI applications require more than historical data - they need live, continuously updated context. This session examines how enterprises are enabling AI…Show lessModern AI applications require more than historical data - they need live, continuously updated context. This session examines how enterprises are enabling AI systems with fresh, trustworthy data to improve accuracy, relevance, and reliability. Using a real-world example inspired by production deployments, we’ll show how teams build scalable, secure context pipelines that evolve with changing data and business needs. | |
| Oct 3, 2023 | RoachFest 2023 (New York) | RoachFest | keynote | 2023: CPO Nate Stewart's vision for CockroachDB as Cockroach Labs | |
| Sep 20, 2022 | RoachFest 2022 (New York) | RoachFest | panelist | Cockroach Labs Executive Town Hall as Cockroach Labs | |
| Sep 20, 2022 | RoachFest 2022 (New York) | RoachFest | keynote | CockroachDB Serverless + Vercel, Vault, Terraform as Cockroach Labs |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Kimball | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Andrew Lee | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Anton Aleksandrov | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Barr Moses | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Brian Martin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Dipankar Mazumdar | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ethan Ding | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jason Berkowitz | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Nihar Sheth | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Patricia Moore | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ryan Seaman | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Santiago Giraldo | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Sean Falconer | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Shikha Verma | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Steven Miller | 2 | — | 2026 |
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.