Company
Date Published
June 28, 2024
Author
Charles Wang, Sydney Ceccato
Word count
1424
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Fivetran was a key presence at Data + AI Summit 2024, showcasing its strategic partnership with Databricks. The company's team led or participated in several sessions, including a customer session on National Australia Bank's infrastructure modernization journey and a presentation by Kelly Kohleffel on building data legacy. Fivetran emphasized the importance of infrastructure modernization, highlighting four key lessons from National Australia Bank's Project Ada, which include changing business-led initiatives, clear communication and management, rewarding successes, and focusing on basics such as risk management. The company also discussed its capabilities in supporting hybrid environments and data readiness for innovation and generative AI. Additionally, Fivetran participated in a panel discussion on generative AI with industry leaders, discussing barriers to success and steps to ensure quality, deterministic results. Anjan Kundavaram, Fivetran's new CPO, emphasized the importance of user-facing simplicity and performant, reliable solutions for handling diverse data sources. The company also launched its Managed Data Lake Service, which supports large data volumes and AI workloads in a flexible, scalable, and secure platform.