Talks on real-time data, governance and AI economics.

Ved Prakash is a Principal Data Engineer at GitLab with 15+ years building enterprise data and AI platforms. He leads Project Siphon, GitLab's real-time CDC platform, owns AI governance and FinOps, and is one of 17 members of the global Snowflake Data Superhero Council.

Ved Prakash is a Principal Data Engineer at GitLab with 15+ years building enterprise data and AI platforms at petabyte scale. He leads Project Siphon, GitLab's real-time change data capture platform built on PostgreSQL, NATS JetStream, Apache Iceberg and Snowflake, and designed GitLab's company-wide governance framework for Snowflake Cortex AI. A multi-year Snowflake Data Superhero and one of 17 members of the global Data Superhero Council, he speaks at Snowflake Summit, Berlin Buzzwords and DSC Europe, and writes The DataAI Chronicles. He lives in Almere, Netherlands.

Ved Prakash is a Principal Data Engineer at GitLab, where he leads Project Siphon, the company's real-time change data capture platform. Siphon streams every database change from PostgreSQL through NATS JetStream and Go consumers into Apache Iceberg and Snowflake, across GitLab's SaaS, Self-Managed and Dedicated deployments, and delivers around $1M a year in value. Ved also owns GitLab's AI governance and FinOps: his framework for Snowflake Cortex, with role-level access, daily credit limits and an automated kill switch, prevents more than $100K a month in potential AI overruns and is used by over 500 people. He runs a cross-functional working council across seven functions and develops principal and staff engineers. Before GitLab, Ved spent eleven years at Infosys in India and the United Kingdom, where he led a team of ten and moved more than 100TB from an on-premise Kognitio MPP warehouse to Snowflake on AWS, one of the first Snowflake adoptions at that client. He is a multi-year Snowflake Data Superhero and one of 17 members of the global Data Superhero Council, a Snowflake Certified Architect and Developer, and a Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer. He speaks at Snowflake Summit, Berlin Buzzwords and DSC Europe, and writes The DataAI Chronicles, practical guidance on real-time data, Snowflake and FinOps for AI. He lives in Almere, Netherlands.