THE FUTURE OF APPLIED AI
IN THE ENTERPRISE

Miami, FL | September 17, 2025

DSS MIAMI | Schedule

Wednesday, September 17th

 

8:00 – 9:30am ET

Registration

9:30 – 9:40am ET

Introduction
Anna Anisin - Founder, Data Science Salon

9:40 – 10:10am ET

Scaling Real-World AI in Tokenized Loyalty
Laura Gabrysiak - VP AI and Data Strategy at gennius xyz

10:10 – 10:40am ET

Making Applied AI Real: A Fireside Chat on Strategy, Risk & Scale in Finance

Anna Anisin (Moderator) - Founder at DSS, Laura Gabrysiak - VP AI and Data Strategy at gennius xyz, Flavian Peccin - Director of AI and ML at VISA

Abstract is Coming Soon

10:40 – 11:00am ET

Driving ROI with High-Performance Data Infrastructure for AI
Srini Srinivasan - Founder and CTO at Aerospike

Go beyond AI pilots—learn how leading companies like PayPal, Barclays, Wayfair, and Myntra achieve massive ROI by scaling predictive, generative, and agentic AI. Discover best practices for deploying AI in fraud detection, recommendations, and customer 360, with insights from proven, enterprise-scale success stories.

11:00 – 11:30am ET

Building an Enterprise Data Strategy in the age of Gen AI

Prithvi Shivashankar - Product Manager, Data at HEB

As Generative AI transforms how organizations create, consume, and act on data, traditional data strategies are being pushed to their limits. In this session, I’ll share how enterprises can rethink their data foundation to support scalable, secure, and trustworthy AI adoption.
Drawing from real-world experience leading supply chain analytics and data product strategy at H-E-B, this talk covers:
• Key pillars of a modern data strategy tailored for Gen AI
• How to bridge the gap between legacy data systems and AI readiness
• Data governance, quality, and privacy frameworks in the Gen AI context
• Organizational alignment: turning data chaos into AI enablement

11:50 – 12:20pm ET

Revolutionizing Healthcare: How Distributed Systems Are Transforming Patient Care Delivery

Sachin Telalwar - Senior Software Engineer at Zocdoc

Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented challenges in managing exponentially growing patient data, with the average hospital now generating over 50 petabytes of data annually. Traditional monolithic architectures have proven inadequate, with 76% of healthcare CIOs reporting scalability issues and 68% experiencing system downtime that directly impacts patient care.
This presentation explores how distributed systems are revolutionizing healthcare delivery by addressing these critical challenges. With microservices architecture adoption in healthcare growing at 24% annually since 2020, the industry is witnessing a fundamental shift in how digital health platforms are designed and deployed.
Our analysis of 150+ healthcare institutions that transitioned to distributed systems reveals compelling outcomes: 87% reported improved system uptime (from 99.1% to 99.97%), 63% reduced infrastructure costs through targeted scaling, and 92% experienced faster innovation cycles—reducing new feature deployment time from months to days.
We’ll examine how horizontal scaling enables healthcare platforms to accommodate 30-40% annual increases in patient data volume without performance degradation. Case studies will demonstrate how fault tolerance mechanisms have reduced critical system downtime by 94%, ensuring continuous access to patient records even during regional outages or cyberattacks.
Additionally, we’ll explore how load-balancing techniques have improved response times for critical healthcare applications by 72%, with appointment booking systems handling 5x more concurrent users during peak periods without degradation.
For healthcare technology leaders navigating this transition, this session provides a roadmap to implementing distributed architectures that enhance scalability, reliability, and interoperability—ultimately delivering superior patient experiences across the care continuum.

12:20 – 1:30pm ET

Lunch

1:30 – 1:50pm ET

AI Agents in Action: Building Smart Customer Support That Never Sleeps
Nitin Kumar - Director Data Science, GenAI at Marriott International
Customer support teams are drowning in email volume while customers expect faster, more personalized responses. This talk introduces a revolutionary approach using AI agents to transform traditional customer care into an intelligent, proactive system that works around the clock.

I’ll demonstrate how to an end-to-end AI-powered customer support pipeline that monitors incoming emails, automatically extracts and analyzes content for sentiment and key issues, then intelligently searches your knowledge management system to find relevant solutions. The system doesn’t just analyze—it takes action by drafting contextual responses for human agents to review and customize, ensuring quality while dramatically reducing response times.

Beyond individual case handling, the AI agent continuously feeds categorization data into real-time trending systems, enabling support leaders to identify emerging issues before they become widespread problems. Attendees will learn the technical architecture behind this system, including LLM integration strategies, prompt engineering for consistent outputs, and human-in-the-loop workflows that maintain quality control.

Whether you’re managing a support team of five or five hundred, you’ll leave with actionable insights on implementing AI agents that amplify human capabilities, creating a customer care experience that’s both more efficient and more empathetic.

1:50 – 2:20pm ET

Towards 360° Intelligent Observability: A Framework for LLM-Powered Infrastructure Monitoring
Vipin Kataria - Lead Architect at Picarro

Modern infrastructure monitoring faces critical challenges: alert fatigue from false positives, reactive firefighting approaches, and siloed systems that fail to correlate cross-platform incidents. Traditional rule-based monitoring cannot keep pace with dynamic cloud environments and complex distributed systems, leaving organizations vulnerable to cascading failures and extended downtime.
This talk presents a approach to infrastructure monitoring through self-learning LLM agents that provide comprehensive 360° visibility across multi-system environments. Our solution combines reactive real-time anomaly detection with proactive predictive intelligence, creating a continuous learning loop that improves accuracy and reduces operational overhead.
The architecture leverages Large Language Models to understand log semantics rather than relying on static pattern matching. The agent ingests logs from applications, infrastructure, security, and network systems, using vector embeddings and natural language processing to identify anomalies and correlate incidents across disparate platforms. Machine learning algorithms analyze historical patterns to predict potential failures before they impact users.
The self-learning mechanism continuously evolves through human feedback loops, incident resolution outcomes, and dynamic baseline adjustments. When operations teams validate alerts or resolve incidents, the agent incorporates this knowledge to improve future predictions, priority scoring, and correlation accuracy. This creates an intelligent system that adapts to organizational patterns and infrastructure changes without manual retraining.
The system transforms monitoring from reactive alerting to predictive intelligence, enabling teams to shift from firefighting to strategic infrastructure optimization. Key architectural components include multi-format log ingestion, LLM-powered semantic analysis, machine learning correlation engines, and feedback-driven continuous improvement mechanisms.
This session provides technical insights into LLM agent architecture, design principles, and implementation strategies for deploying intelligent monitoring systems. Attendees will learn practical approaches to building self-improving observability platforms that scale with modern infrastructure complexity while addressing the organizational and technical considerations required for successful adoption.

2:20 – 3:05pm ET

Panel: From Hype to Impact: What It Really Takes to Operationalize AI in the Enterprise

Cheriene Floyd (Moderator) - Chief Data Officer at City of Miami, Jagbir Kaur - Global Product Manager - Strategy & Operations at Google, Mrunal Gangrade - VP Data and Gen AI at JP Morga Chase, Jay Kachhadia - Data Science Manager at Paramount+, Raimundo Rodulfo - Director, Innovation and Technology at City of Coral Gables

As generative and agentic AI evolve from buzzwords to real business enablers, the biggest question facing enterprise leaders is: how do we move from experimentation to scaled impact? This panel brings together senior leaders from Google, JPMorgan Chase, RCCL, and the City of Coral Gables to explore what it really takes to deploy and scale AI in complex enterprise environments.

We’ll dig into the infrastructure, governance, and cross-functional collaboration models that separate successful AI initiatives from stalled pilots. Panelists will share candid insights from both public and private sector implementations—ranging from agentic AI for operations to regulatory compliance, customer experience, and data infrastructure modernization. Whether you’re driving innovation at a large enterprise or charting your AI roadmap, this conversation will unpack the real challenges and key enablers of operationalizing AI at scale.

3:05pm – 3:30pm ET

Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:00pm ET

From Insight to Impact: Leveraging Data Science and Experimentation for Business Performance Improvement

Deeksha Mishra - Data Science Manager at Meta

Many companies pursue product or performance improvements without fully understanding how those changes impact user behavior or business value. This talk explores how organizations can apply data science and experimentation to more effectively connect digital experience enhancements—on websites or apps—to top-line outcomes like revenue, engagement, and retention. We’ll discuss how to frame performance changes as testable hypotheses, run targeted experiments, and analyze results to uncover the causal relationships between operational metrics and business impact. A key focus will be on developing and using transfer functions to quantify how improvements in key performance indicators translate into enterprise value. Attendees will learn how to use these techniques not just for one-off experiments, but as a scalable framework for continuous optimization and goal tracking across teams.

4:00 – 4:20pm ET

Architecting Federated Personalization Pipelines for Privacy Centric AI at Scale
Jagbir Kaur - Global Product Manager - Strategy & Operations at Google
Imagine tailoring offers, search results, or ad creative for millions of users while their raw data never leaves their phones. That’s the promise of federated learning pipelines, which can help highly regulated industries to modernize personalization without compromising user trust for their AI driven use cases. This talk will cover how to flip the model: by moving the learning to the user, keeping data local, and still raising click-through rates all under GDPR and DMA scrutiny. You’ll follow the journey from an early proof of concept on a dozen devices to a fleet-wide rollout serving millions, discovering the architectural pivots that make it possible. We’ll explore the real-world decisions, trade-offs, and performance wins that make it work under tight latency budgets and strict privacy regulations. If you’re wrestling with the question “Can we comply and still personalize?”

4:20 – 4:40pm ET

Bridging the Gap Between Black-Box Models and Business Risk: Explainable AI in Regulated Industries
Mrunal Gangrade - VP Data and Gen AI at JP Morgan Chase

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in healthcare systems, the challenge is no longer just about building accurate models — it’s about building responsible ones. This talk explores how AI can be applied thoughtfully to improve both clinical decision-making and healthcare operations, without compromising patient trust, privacy, or safety.

Drawing on real-world examples from healthcare and financial services, Mrunal Gangrade will share insights into how machine learning is being used to predict patient outcomes, streamline workflows, and flag anomalies — while navigating the ethical complexities of algorithmic bias, data governance, and regulatory compliance.

Attendees will learn strategies for designing AI systems that are not only intelligent but also transparent, equitable, and resilient. The session will also address the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration between data scientists, clinicians, and security professionals in ensuring that innovation in healthcare remains human-centered.

4:40 – 4:45pm ET

Closing Remarks

4:45pm – 7:00pm ET

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