Speakers

Thomas Vander Wal is Chief Architect for the AI Factory at Lockheed Martin, where he leads the design and delivery of the company’s GenAI and MLOps platforms. Since joining Lockheed Martin in 2018 and becoming part of the AI Factory team in 2021, he has leveraged his cross‑cutting expertise in data engineering, software development, and systems architecture to drive innovative, secure AI solutions across the enterprise.

Dr. Einat Orr is the CEO and Co-Founder of lakeFS, the open-source data version control platform. With a PhD in Computer Science and deep expertise in distributed systems, Dr. Orr has spent her career building scalable data infrastructure. Before founding lakeFS, she led engineering teams at companies building petabyte-scale data platforms.

Matthew Miller is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of experience in the industry. His background spans diverse sectors, including automotive, chemical, defense, energy, financial, information technologies, insurance, intelligence, retail, manufacturing, and telecommunications, where he has supported federal/state institutions, private organizations, and Fortune 500 companies.

Throughout his career, he has held roles as a developer (covering traditional and embedded IoT), systems administrator (including high performance), consultant, and security engineer, AI platform architect working with customers both CONUS and OCONUS. This extensive experience provides him with a comprehensive DevSecAIOps background and a deep understanding of application development and security.

Paul Gillin is a writer, speaker and technology journalist, and the author of five books and more than 400 articles. Paul has been a technology journalist for 30 years. Since 2014, he has served as Enterprise Editor of the tech news site SiliconAngle.  He was the founding editor-in-chief of B2B technology publisher TechTarget. Previously, he was editor-in-chief and executive editor of the technology weekly Computerworld. He is a Senior Research Fellow and Director at the Society for New Communications Research and a member of the Procter & Gamble Digital Advisory Board.

Paul is the creator of InfluxDB. He has helped build software for startups, large companies, and organizations like Microsoft, Google, McAfee, Thomson Reuters, and Air Force Space Command. He is the series editor for Addison Wesley’s Data & Analytics book and video series. In 2010, Paul wrote the book Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails for Addison-Wesley. In 2009, he started the NYC Machine Learning Meetup, which now has over 13,000 members. Paul holds a degree in computer science from Columbia University.

Oz Katz is the CTO and Co-founder of lakeFS, an open source platform that delivers resilience and manageability to object-storage based data lakes. Oz engineered and maintained petabyte-scale data infrastructure at analytics giant SmilarWeb, which he joined after the acquisition of Swayy.

Joe Pringle is VP of Customer Success at lakeFS. He works with enterprise customers across defense, automotive, healthcare, financial services, and energy, helping technical and business leaders adopt data version control for production AI/ML pipelines in complex, regulated environments. His focus is on translating real-world data challenges into practical strategies for data reliability, lineage, and governance at scale.

Joe brings 15+ years of experience helping enterprises plan, design, and deploy data and AI systems for high-stakes use cases in highly regulated industries. He spent 6.5 years as an AI Specialist at AWS, where he partnered with hundreds of customers to evaluate and adopt AI/ML platforms, architect production systems, and navigate complex build-vs-buy decisions across the data and AI stack — from traditional ML and computer vision to generative AI, RAG, and agentic workflows. He also held leadership roles at CARTO (geospatial analytics) and Socrata (government data platforms), driving platform adoption and customer impact across healthcare, financial services, public sector, defense, and education technology.

Joe holds an MS in Environmental Science from UNC and a BS in Chemistry from Washington & Lee University.