AI + Apache Iceberg: The more things change the more they stay the same

The rise of AI and the Lakehouse paradigm is transforming the data landscape, but some fundamentals remain the same. With Iceberg and LLM agents reshaping workflows, how should Data & AI Engineers adapt?

In this session, Charles Giardina, VP of Engineering at Airbyte, breaks down why ELT still reigns over ETL, how unstructured data is reshaping AI workloads, and why data lakes are more critical than ever. Learn how to ensure trustworthy, reproducible AI-driven analytics and navigate this new era with confidence.

20 Mar

09:20 am

09:30 am PST

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Charles Giardina

I am a technology leader with a decade of experience building large-scale data systems. As a founding engineer at Airbyte, I helped grow our open-source data integration platform into a vibrant community of over 6,000 members, with more than 16,000 deployments, raising over $180M from top investors including Accel, Altimeter, Benchmark, Coatue, and YC. Previously, at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), I scaled data movement systems handling petabytes daily. Today, I'm dedicated to defining how data and high-performance engineering teams evolve in the age of AI.

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