Join Us on April 24th in Palo Alto for the AI Data Readiness Forum

Unstructured data is the fuel for AI—but fragmented systems, inconsistent quality, and siloed data often stand in the way of high-performing enterprise AI.

On April 24, MLtwist and Vectara are teaming up to host the AI Data Readiness Forum, a high-impact, in-person event in Palo Alto focused on helping business leaders turn raw data into AI-ready assets.

This is your chance to connect with AI practitioners, data leaders, and enterprise innovators as they share field-tested strategies to scale generative AI across organizations.

📍 Location: Vectara HQ, 395 Page Mill Rd. #275, Palo Alto, CA
🕒 Time: 3:00 – 6:15 PM including post-event mixer
🔗 RSVP: Reserve your seat — space is limited!

Forum Schedule

3:15 PM – Best Practices for Building AI-Ready Data Pipelines
Speaker: David Smith, MLtwist

3:30 PM – Governing RAG in the Age of AI Agents: Preventing Sprawl in Enterprise Deployments
Moderated by Ofer Mendelevitch, Vectara

Panelists:

• – Eileen Filmus, Brex

• – Piyush Lakhawat, Salesforce

• – Manu Shukla, Capgemini

4:00 PM – How to Evaluate RAG Systems
Speaker: Donna Dong, Vectara

4:15 PM – The Role of Synthetic Data, Labeling, and Real-Time Processing in AI Success
Moderated by Karin Golde, GraphIQ

Panelists:

• – Sai Kumar Arava, Adobe

• – Ravi Shankar, Overstock

• – Anurag Awasthi, Google

• – Audrey Smith, MLtwist

5:00 PM – Building AI Companies
Moderated by Cedric Vidal, Microsoft

Panelists:

• – David Smith 

• – Eva Nahari, Vectara

5:30 PM – Social Mixer

6:15 PM – End of Event

Meet the Speakers

• Sai Kumar Arava – GenAI Engineer at Adobe, author and patent holder in LLMs

• Anurag Aswathi– AI Expert at Google

• Donna Dong – Senior PM at Vectara, ex-Apple Siri leader

• Eileen Filmus – Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance at Brex

• Karin Golde – Chief Data Officer at GraphIQ, ex-AWS, PhD in Linguistics

• Piyush Lakhawat – AI Safety Expert at Salesforce, PhD in Computer Engineering

• Ofer Mendelevitch – Head of Developer Relations at Vectara, author of Hands-on RAG for Production

   

• Eva Nahari – Chief Product Officer at Vectara

• Ravi Shankar – ML Manager at Overstock, 10+ years in personalization AI

• Manu Shukla – Enterprise AI Strategist at Capgemini

• Audrey Smith – Chief Data Officer at MLtwist, formerly at Google, Amazon

• David Smith – CEO of MLtwist, ex-Google and Oracle

• Cedric Vidal – Principal AI Advocate at Microsoft, ex-CTO of AI fintech