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Kelly Kohlleffel

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Kelly Kohlleffel

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Sr Global Director, Partner Sales Eng Fivetran

Kelly Kohlleffel leads the Fivetran Global Partner Sales Engineering organization, working with technology and consulting services partners on modern data product and solution approaches. He also hosts the Fivetran Data Podcast, where leaders discuss their data journeys, visions, and challenges. Prior to Fivetran, he held roles at Hashmap, NTT DATA, Hortonworks, and Oracle.

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Sponsored by: Fivetran | Scalable Data Ingestion: Building custom pipelines with the Fivetran Connector SDK and Databricks

Organizations have hundreds of data sources, some of which are very niche or difficult to access. Incorporating this data into your lakehouse requires significant time and resources, hindering your ability to work on more value-add projects. Enter the Fivetran Connector SDK- a powerful new tool that enables your team to create custom pipelines for niche systems, custom APIs, and sources with specific data filtering requirements, seamlessly integrating with Databricks. During this session, Fivetran will demonstrate how to (1) Leverage the Connector SDK to build scalable connectors, enabling the ingestion of diverse data into Databricks (2) Gain flexibility and control over historical and incremental syncs, delete capture, state management, multithreading data extraction, and custom schemas (3) Utilize practical examples, code snippets, and architectural considerations to overcome data integration challenges and unlock the full potential of your Databricks environment.

Sponsored by: Fivetran | Raw Data to Real-Time Insights: How Dropbox Revolutionized Data Ingestion

Dropbox, a leading cloud storage platform, is on a mission to accelerate data insights to better understand customers’ needs and elevate the overall customer experience. By leveraging Fivetran’s data movement platform, Dropbox gained real-time visibility into customer sentiment, marketing ROI, and ad performance-empowering teams to optimize spend, improve operational efficiency, and deliver greater business outcomes.Join this session to learn how Dropbox:- Cut data pipeline time from 8 weeks to 30 minutes by automating ingestion and streamlining reporting workflows.- Enable real-time, reliable data movement across tools like Zendesk Chat, Google Ads, MySQL, and more — at global operations scale.- Unify fragmented data sources into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to reduce redundancy, improve accessibility, and support scalable analytics.