Evolve NYC 2023 was an intense event with a ton of speakers, sessions, topics and cool people.
The quickest summary (I did not use GenAI for this):
Apache Iceberg drives scalable Hybrid Lakehouse
Real-Time Streaming and Generative AI are colliding in what will yield massive data streams and data
Apache NiFi for unstructured data streaming is critical for many Generative AI Flows
WatsonX.AI for fast streams with Generative AI is a supercharged stable option
Vectors everywhere!
IBM, Intel, AWS, Cloudera and Dell solve the problems of massive data and data pipelines linked with AI
Breakfast, Snacks, Lunch, Snacks, Dinner, Cocktails, Meetup, Gifts
My talk is here:
Ryan Blue and Bill Zhang gave some great talks on Apache Iceberg. If you haven’t started using Iceberg, now is the time. Joe Grasso talked about some interesting things in the energy space. Yuijan Tang from Zilliz and Milvus did an excellent discussion on vector databases and AI. IBM had some next level demos and discussions on GenAI, I recommend looking for other talks by Robert Stanich. It was great to see Merv Adrian again, five minutes of his time is like getting a master’s degree. Greg Phillips did a nice GenAI talk following mine on the main stage showing the depth of the solution provided by Cloudera for Machine Learning, Deep Learning, AI and Generative AI.
I wish they gave Carolyn Duby time for a full talk as her streaming cyber talks are awesome and I learn something every time.
There were a ton of other great speakers including Abhas, Charles Sansbury, Frank O’Dowd, Gerd Leonhard, Mahendra Devu, Malcolm deMayo, Stephen Horn and many more.
If you can I recommend you attend an Evolve if you are near the remaining events, if not keep your eyes peeled for 2024.
