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Gaurav Saxena

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Gaurav Saxena

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Director of Engineering Automotive Industry

Gaurav Saxena is an engineering leader in the field of platform and cloud engineering with over 20 years of experience. His technical expertise includes Stream-based architectures, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Observability.

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Ursa: Augment Your Lakehouse With Kafka-Compatible Data Streaming Capabilities

As data architectures evolve to meet the demands of real-time GenAI applications, organizations increasingly need systems that unify streaming and batch processing while maintaining compatibility with existing tools. The Ursa Engine offers a Kafka-API-compatible data streaming engine built on Lakehouse (Iceberg and Delta Lake). Designed to seamlessly integrate with data lakehouse architectures, Ursa extends your lakehouse capabilities by enabling streaming ingestion, transformation and processing — using a Kafka-compatible interface. In this session, we will explore how Ursa Engine augments your existing lakehouses with Kafka-compatible capabilities. Attendees will gain insights into Ursa Engine architecture and real-world use cases of Ursa Engine. Whether you're modernizing legacy systems or building cutting-edge AI-driven applications, discover how Ursa can help you unlock the full potential of your data.

Unlock the potential of AI with high-performance, scalable lakehouses using BigQuery and Apache Iceberg. This session details how BigQuery leverages Google's infrastructure to supercharge Iceberg, delivering peak performance and resilience. Discover BigQuery's unified read/write path for rapid queries, superior storage management beyond simple compaction, and robust, high-throughput streaming pipelines. Learn how Spotify utilizes BigQuery's lakehouse architecture for a unified data source, driving analytics and AI innovation.

In the era of multimodal generative AI, a unified governance-focused data platform powered by Gemini becomes paramount. Join this session to learn how BigQuery fuels your data and AI lifecycle from training to inference, by unifying structured and unstructured data such as text, images and audio, while encompassing security and governance. Learn how Priceline is using BigQuery and Vertex AI to reinvent customer experiences and lead the industry in data and AI innovation.

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