In this session, discover how effective data movement is foundational to successful GenAI implementations. As organizations rush to adopt AI technologies, many struggle with the infrastructure needed to manage the massive influx of unstructured data these systems require. Jim Kutz, Head of Data at Airbyte, draws from 20+ years of experience leading data teams at companies like Grafana, CircleCI, and BlackRock to demonstrate how modern data movement architectures can enable secure, compliant GenAI applications. Learn practical approaches to data sovereignty, metadata management, and privacy controls that transform data governance into an enabler for AI innovation. This session will explore how you can securely leverage your most valuable asset—first-party data—for GenAI applications while maintaining complete control over sensitive information. Walk away with actionable strategies for building an AI-ready data infrastructure that balances innovation with governance requirements.

ABOUT THE TALK: At Lyft, Mark Grover built the Amundsen data catalog so data scientists could navigate hundreds of thousands of tables to distinguish trustworthy data from sandboxed, out-of-date data. When he took Amundsen open source, he helped dozens of data teams support a variety of demands to make data discoverable and self-serve. Mark frequently sees processes that seem “good enough” come back to bite data teams. In this talk, Mark takes us deep into query logs and APIs to see where all of that metadata lives, and he'll demonstrate how to use it so you don’t lose any fingers during your next data change.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Mark Grover is the co-founder/CEO of Stemma - a modern data catalog for building self-serve data culture used by Grafana, iRobot, SoFi, Convoy and many others. He is the co-creator of the leading open-source data catalog, Amundsen, used by Lyft, Instacart, Square, ING, Snap and many more! ​Mark was previously a developer on Apache Spark at Cloudera and is a committer and PMC member on a few open-source Apache project. He is a co-author of Hadoop Application Architectures.

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