6:30 pm | Welcome | Grab a drink, some food, and get settled in! Mingle with fellow attendees and get ready for an evening of insight, innovation, and connection. |
7:00 pm | Lightning Talks | Hear from TigerData, Cloudflare, and special guest Empromptu.ai on what's new, what's next, and what they're excited about. |
7:30 pm | Product Demos | Live demos from all three teams—plus an open mic for any attendees who want to showcase their own project. |
8:00 pm | Q&A + Developer Networking | Ask questions, share insights, and connect directly with the teams. |
Ajay Kulkarni
CEO and Co-founder
TigerData
Ajay is the CEO and Co-founder of TimescaleDB, an open-source time-series database packaged as an extension of PostgreSQL. Ajay's previous startup, communication data analysis company Sensobi, was acquired in 2011 by GroupMe/Skype/Microsoft. Ajay led the mobile team at GroupMe, which grew to millions of daily users and billions of monthly messages over a short period of time. His past experience includes roles at Microsoft, Citigroup, and several startups. He holds Bachelors, Masters degrees from MIT in Computer Science, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Marc Selwan
Cloudflare
Marc Selwan is a Senior Product Manager at Cloudflare working on Cloudflare's Data Platform including Pipelines, R2 Data Catalog, and R2 SQL. Prior to Cloudflare, Marc held product roles at Confluent and DataStax, working on storage engines and data infrastructure for Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, and Apache Iceberg.
Shanea Leven
Co-founder and CEO
Empromptu.ai
Shanea Leven is the co-founder and CEO of Empromptu.ai, where anyone can build production ready, AI native applications using AI. A seasoned product leader with 15 years of experience scaling developer tools and AI technologies, she previously founded and led CodeSee.io to a successful acquisition in 2024, and held senior product roles at Docker, Cloudflare, and Google. As a recognized thought leader in AI development and women in tech, Shanea bridges technical innovation with business strategy to solve the production reliability crisis plaguing the AI builder market.