Speeding Up the Future: Overcoming Challenges in Data Pipelines with Automation and AI
Executive Dinner
Visionaries
Steve Zalewski
Former CISO
Levi Strauss & Co.
About Me
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.
Andrew Yu
VP of Engineering
Okta
Diana Smith
Automation Solution Strategist
Broadcom
About Me
Diana has worked with global organizations for more than 20 years to help them achieve
significant business objectives through Information Technology projects and initiatives. She
currently specializes in orchestrating and automating critical data and business processes
across the enterprise through world-class workload automation solutions at Broadcom.
Sai Kumar Arava
Head of CDP ML Application
Adobe
Dave Kellermanns
Global Advisor
Broadcom
About Me
Dave Kellermanns is a Global Advisor for Workload at Broadcom. In the past he has worked with a
variety of Fortune 100 companies to review and strategize around their automation strategy and start
innovating for the benefit of the business. As companies need to automate at a rapid pace in order to
innovate, in his role as Advisor he provides a bigger picture on automation, addressing silos and seeing if
manual processes exist that could or should be automated and ultimately freeing up teams to better use
their skills and to develop them further for the benefit of the business. He truly believes that “keeping
the lights on” should not be the primary function of IT.
Andrew Yu
VP of Engineering
Okta
Sai Kumar Arava
Head of CDP ML Application
Adobe
EVENT DETAILS
March 26, 2025
Agenda
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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