Generative AI: A Data Platform Architecture

Tue, Mar 12 2024, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PDT              Generative AI: A Data Platform Architecture 1 Generative AI: A Data Platform Architecture 2


This talk will explore the power of Google Cloud’s AlloyDB Omni, a groundbreaking database technology poised to shape 2024’s technological landscape using analytics acceleration and built-in machine learning for optimizing performance and managing complex workloads. This technology enables data platforms for dynamic business analytics and cutting-edge Generative AI (Gen AI) applications, and is compatible with the widely popular PostgreSQL open source database.

This presentation will discuss how these platforms are deployed seamlessly across the Edge and Data Center Core on the Lenovo platform, and with Google Cloud for optimizing online transaction processing (OLTP) and real-time data analytics. Extensive vendor-neutral information will be shared as well. There will also be a deep dive into the fascinating realm of state-of-the-art Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) using Vector Databases. The talk will conclude with a live demonstration showcasing both Basic and Advanced RAG functionalities.


Generative AI: A Data Platform Architecture 4About the speaker,  Prasad Venkatachar of Pliops

Prasad Venkatachar is Senior Director for Product|Solutions at Pliops, a critical player in the data storage industry. He has over 20 years of experience in product strategy, management, marketing, solution architecture, and IT services, including launching databases, data warehouses, cloud deployments, data lakes, and AI/ML products.

Prasad’s work has included collaborations with Microsoft, IBM, Google, Oracle, MongoDB, and Cloudera, and he is a member of Microsoft’s Data and AI Partner Advisory Council. He has spoken at Microsoft Ignite, Oracle Open World, IBM Think Conference, Flash Memory Summit, and Oracle User Group events, and he is Azure AI- and Gen AI-certified in Deep Learning. Prasad has a Bachelors in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bangalore Univ., and an MBA from Jack Welch Management Institute.


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