[ October 6, 2026 · Virtual ]
Agenda
Feature Stores and Real-time Context for Agents. Talks and timing for this year's summit.
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- 03:30 PM UTC · 10 min

› Opening
Jim Dowling
- 03:40 PM UTC · 30 min

› Beyond Feature Retrieval: Transformations and Composition in Feature Views
Jim Dowling
- 04:10 PM UTC · 20 min

› Feature Serving Beyond RAM
Roman Grebennikov

- 04:30 PM UTC · 20 min


› Taming the ML Firehose: Scaling Feature Consistency
Paarth Chothani · Chirag Agrawal

- 04:50 PM UTC · 20 min


› Designing an Efficient Real-Time Feature Store at Zomato
Nilotpal Pramanik · Yash Shukla

- 05:10 PM UTC · 20 min
› To be announced
- 05:30 PM UTC · 20 min

› OpenAI-Compatible Agents with Governed Context: Feast, MLflow, and OGX
Nikhil Kathole
// break · 10 min
- 06:00 PM UTC · 20 min


› Accelerating and Protecting Payments with Real-Time Data for ML
Vitalii Zhebrakovskyi · Antonio Momblan
- 06:20 PM UTC · 20 min

› Real-Time Features without Streaming using RonDB
Mikael Ronström
- 06:40 PM UTC · 20 min

› Random Access Parquet: Serving Point Queries Straight from the Data Lake
William Edwards

- 07:00 PM UTC · 20 min

› Review Loops for Agents Using Real-Time Context
Will Burstein

- 07:20 PM UTC · 20 min

› Online, Offline, n-Chaos: From Stored Features to Executable Definitions
Tom Kaltofen
// break · 10 min
- 07:50 PM UTC · 20 min

› The Benchmark to Production Gap: Frontier Evaluations for Adaptive Personalization
Rishabh Mehrotra
- 08:10 PM UTC · 20 min

› Feast vs Chronon: Why Not Both?
Francisco Arceo
- 08:30 PM UTC · 20 min


› From Daily Batch to Real Time: An NRT Generative Recommender with Chronon
Pengyu Hou · Yuli Han

- 08:50 PM UTC · 20 min

› How to Know You've Outgrown Your Real-Time Feature Store
Aaryan Gupta
- 09:10 PM UTC · 20 min

› Semantic IDs for Recsys with Chronon
Varant Zanoyan
- 09:30 PM UTC · 20 min

› Building Real-Time Context for Data Agents That Improve ML Models
Elliot Marx
- 09:50 PM UTC · 10 min

› Wrap-up
Jim Dowling