Session

DevConnect Meetup

Overview

ExperienceIn Person
TypeMeetup
Duration240 min

The DevConnect Meetup is a multi-track event designed to explore the latest news, innovations, and trends in the data, analytics, and AI ecosystem. This technical meetup series focuses on GenAI and agentic systems by connecting researchers, engineers, and industry leaders to share insights, discuss challenges, and showcase cutting-edge developments from data pipelines to AI architectures.

 

Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from researchers and engineers representing academic institutions, startups, and enterprises at the forefront of AI innovation.

Agenda: 5:30 PM - 6:10 PM Registration & Mingling You, Your Data, and AI (208)6:10 PM - 6:20 PM Welcome Remarks by Matei Zaharia (Co-founder + CEO, Databricks) You, Your Data, and AI (208) 6:20 PM - 6:40 PM K Prize, Terminal-Bench, and the Noble Quest for Hard, Relevant Benchmarks by Andy Konwinski (co-founder of Databricks, Perplexity, and Laude Ventures) You, Your Data, and AI (208) 6:40 PM - 7:00 PM Housekeeping/Transition to breakout sessions You, Your Data, and AI (208) 7:00 PM- 8:40PM You, Your Data, and AI (208) Breakout Sessions:Evaluation and Measurement - Room 206 LLMOps and Productionizing AI- Room 213GenAI Infrastructure- Room 2098:40 PM - 8:50 PM Closing Remarks with Jonathan Frankle (Chief AI Scientist, Databricks)You, Your Data, and AI (208) 8:50 PM- 9:30 PM Networking Reception You, Your Data, and AI (208)

Session Speakers

Denny Lee

/PM Director, Developer Relations
Databricks

Matei Zaharia

/Original Creator of Apache Spark™ and MLflow; Co-founder and CTO
Databricks

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Andrew Shieh

/Software Engineer
Databricks

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Jonathan Frankle

/Chief Scientist - Neural Networks
Databricks

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Jasmine Collins

/Research Scientist
Databricks

Pallavi Koppol

/Research Scientist
Databricks

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Daya Khudia

/Technical Lead
Databricks

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Alexander Trott

/Senior Research Scientist
Databricks

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Asfandyar Qureshi

/Software Engineer
Databricks

Brandon Cui

/Senior Research Scientist
Databricks

Yuki Watanabe

/Senior Software Engineer
Databricks

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Andrew Drozdov

/Research Scientist
Databricks

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Erich Elsen

/Principal Research Scientist
Databricks

Tejas Sundaresan

/Sr. Product Manager
Databricks

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Jonathan Chang

/Databricks

Cathy Yin

/Engineering Manager
Databricks

Tomu Hirata

/Software Engineer
Databricks

Ivan Zhou

/Senior Research Engineer
Databricks

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