2025-12-09 –, General Track
Advances in large language models (LLMs) have propelled a recent flurry of AI tools for data management and operations. For example, AI-powered code assistants leverage LLMs to generate code for dataflow pipelines. RAG pipelines enable LLMs to ground responses with relevant information from external data sources. Data agents leverage LLMs to turn natural language questions into data-driven answers and actions. While challenges remain, these advances are opening exciting new opportunities for data scientists and engineers. In this talk, we will examine recent advances, along with some still incubating in research labs, with the goal of understanding where this is all heading, and present our perspective on what’s next for AI in data management and data operations.
Dr. Lisa Amini leads IBM's Data & AI Platforms Research efforts globally, along with IBM's AI Horizons Network. She is also an IBM Distinguished Engineer (DE). The mission of the Data & AI Platforms Research theme is to infuse generative and agentic AI throughout IBM's Data Platform, to make it more intelligent, self-service, and autonomous, and to optimize its performance on AI workloads.