Speeding Up the Future: Overcoming Challenges in Data Pipelines with Automation and AI

Executive Dinner

March 26, 2025 - San Jose, CA

Visionaries

Steve Zalewski Levi Strauss & Co.
Steve Zalewski

Former CISO

Levi Strauss & Co.

Dinner

Mr. Zalewski currently provides CISO, security consulting and security advisory services. These include: • International cybersecurity advisor and trainer. • Executive advisory board member for security startups, providing guidance on security market direction and product requirements. • CISO advisory board member for venture capital firms internationally. • vCISO for companies requiring temporary or part-time CISO expertise. Services also include guidance and solutions to address incident response, security program design, security assessment, security due-diligence, vendor/supplier due-diligence, security architecture review, board reporting and other key security leadership requirements. Operational experience in Healthcare, Utilities and International Retail verticals. Key Strengths: •Organizational Management •Strategic Planning & Execution •Enterprise Security Architecture/Strategy •Executive and BOD Security Governance/Reporting •Cybersecurity Incident Response •Security Risk & Compliance Management Additionally, I co-hosts the CISOSeries Defense-in-Depth Podcasts and am a frequent speaker and panel moderator at industry events.

Alok Arora Google
Alok Arora

Head, AI/ML Customer Engineering at Google Cloud

Google

Dinner

Alok Arora, currently the Head of AI/ML Customer Engineering at Google Cloud, brings over 20 years of expertise in the AI and ML domain, focusing on image processing, natural language processing, and enhancing customer value. Alok is passionate about spearheading digital transformations through innovative multi-agent architecture. His experience spans various leadership roles in large-scale digital transformations, IT strategy, solution delivery, and product management. Alok's comprehensive experience and international exposure have been instrumental in driving growth strategies across various facets. These include demand generation, product launches, sales enablement, and consistently prioritizing customer needs.

March 26, 2025

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5:30 PM-9:00 PM

Speeding Up the Future: Overcoming Challenges in Data Pipelines with Automation and AI

With their internal approach to automation solutions, new technologies, like cloud-based data pipelines, should be considered an island of automation. They must be woven into a business-centric automation layer (which Forrester and EMA call fabric and Gartner call BOAT). Key to this is the value of Unified Observability, Multi-Cloud Orchestration and Automation Intelligence, which provides a complete 360-degree view of the business process, modularity to adjust for ever-changing technologies and its improvement potential. But how does AI factor in this? AI is a data pipeline exercise that needs to be managed and ideally automated.

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