Nikhil Benesch
Employers on the program
- 2026turbopuffer3 talks
- 2023Materialize1 talk
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
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
- Coalesce
- Data Council
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2026 | AI Engineer New York 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Can Your AI Analyst Keep a Secret? as turbopuffer To be useful, an AI agent must be able to search *all* the data its user can access—and none they can’t. This is straightforward when the corpus is small. On…Show lessTo be useful, an AI agent must be able to search *all* the data its user can access—and none they can’t. This is straightforward when the corpus is small. On millions of documents with overlapping and frequently changing permission scopes, it becomes a serious systems problem that prevents many enterprise agents from reaching prod. | |
| May 12, 2026 | AI Council 2026 | Data Council | keynote | Born Different: How AI Natives Build Startups Strategy & culture as turbopuffer | |
| May 12, 2026 | AI Council 2026 | Data Council | talk | Building the Database for Trillion-Scale AI Search Operational databases as turbopuffer | |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Coalesce 2023 San Diego | Coalesce | speaker | Operationalizing Ramp’s data with dbt and Materialize as Materialize Traditional data warehouses excel at churning through terabytes of data for historical analysis. But for real-time, business-critical use cases, traditional…Show lessTraditional data warehouses excel at churning through terabytes of data for historical analysis. But for real-time, business-critical use cases, traditional data warehouses can’t produce results fast enough—and they still rack up a huge bill in the process. | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allie Howe | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Benn Stancil | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Izzy Miller | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Paul Blankley | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aaron Linsky | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Alex Mashrabov | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Brie Wolfson | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Silas Alberti | 1 | 1 | 2026 |
| Ryan Delgado | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
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.