
Aaryan Gupta
Senior Software Engineer

Antonio Momblan
Software Engineer

Chirag Agrawal
Senior ML Engineer


Elliot Marx
Co-Founder

Francisco Arceo
Senior Principal Software Engineer

Jim Dowling
CEO & Co-Founder

Mikael Ronström
Head of Data

Nikhil Kathole
Principal Software Engineer

Nilotpal Pramanik
Software Development Engineer III


Olamilekan Wahab
Engineering Manager

Paarth Chothani
Staff Software Engineer


Pengyu Hou
Staff Software Engineer


Rishabh Mehrotra
Co-founder and CEO of Pavo AI

Rodrigo Toscano
Data Platform Engineering Leader

Roman Grebennikov
Principal ML Engineer


Tom Kaltofen
AI Engineer

Varant Zanoyan
Co-Founder

Will Burstein
Head of Product


William Edwards
Staff Data Engineer


Yash Shukla
Software Development Engineer II


Yuli Han
Senior Software Engineer

- Oct 6, 03:30 PM UTC · 10 min · Opening
› Opening
Jim Dowling opens Feature Store Summit 2026.
- Oct 6, 03:40 PM UTC · 30 min · Presentation
› Beyond Feature Retrieval: Transformations and Composition in Feature Views
Why feature stores that stop at storing and retrieving features leave the model-ready feature vector on the table, and how Feature Views compose, join, and transform it.
- Oct 6, 04:10 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Feature Serving Beyond RAM
The long tail of online features sits in Redis at RAM prices. Murrdb, an open-source columnar cache, tiers hot to RAM, warm to NVMe, cold to S3.
- Oct 6, 04:30 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Taming the ML Firehose: Scaling Feature Consistency
Ranking and search models need fresh, consistent features. When production values drift from training, models degrade. How Uber keeps them in sync.
- Oct 6, 04:50 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Designing an Efficient Real-Time Feature Store at Zomato
Zomato's real-time feature store redesigned to serve ~40M RPM with lower cost and latency: protobuf, DynamoDB and caching-layer tuning, and request coalescing.
- Oct 6, 05:10 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Feature Store Isolation at Scale
Zalando runs thirteen dedicated Hopsworks clusters, one per team. When a shared feature store stops working, what isolation buys and costs, and how to run the fleet.
- Oct 6, 05:30 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› OpenAI-Compatible Agents with Governed Context: Feast, MLflow, and OGX
Most agent stacks stop at retrieval. This one closes the loop end to end with Feast, MLflow, and OGX: served context, traces, labels, and a fine-tuning set.
- Oct 6, 06:00 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Accelerating and Protecting Payments with Real-Time Data for ML
Adyen's ML models drive fraud detection, routing, and payouts. How the Feature Platform generates real-time data at global scale inside the payment engine.
- Oct 6, 06:20 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Real-Time Features without Streaming using RonDB
Real-time feature computations natively in RonDB: rolling aggregations at request time in single-ms latency, no Flink pipeline to operate.
- Oct 6, 06:40 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Random Access Parquet: Serving Point Queries Straight from the Data Lake
Look up a single key directly in the Parquet files you already have. An external index turns a lookup into one small ranged read instead of a scan.
- Oct 6, 07:00 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Review Loops for Agents Using Real-Time Context
Agents are only as reliable as the context they retrieve. A practical review loop: traces, scorecards, human plus LLM-as-judge, and release decisions.
- Oct 6, 07:20 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Online, Offline, n-Chaos: From Stored Features to Executable Definitions
Feature stores keep online and offline consistent inside their boundary. What reliability looks like outside it, when agents walk into n versions of a feature.
- Oct 6, 07:50 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› The Benchmark to Production Gap: Frontier Evaluations for Adaptive Personalization
Teams evaluate hundreds of ideas offline but deploy a handful, and conventional metrics pick losers. Frontier benchmarks lifted offline-online correlation from -0.4 to +0.8.
- Oct 6, 08:10 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Feast vs Chronon: Why Not Both?
Feast's developer experience and Chronon's production feature engine in one workflow, shown end to end with a running checkout-risk demo.
- Oct 6, 08:30 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› From Daily Batch to Real Time: An NRT Generative Recommender with Chronon
Two new Chronon capabilities, Push Mode and NRT Model Transform, that turn a model's output into just another feature, kept continuously fresh.
- Oct 6, 08:50 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› How to Know You've Outgrown Your Real-Time Feature Store
Feature stores rarely fail all at once. The warning signs of a structural platform problem, and a phased migration that reduces risk.
- Oct 6, 09:10 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Semantic IDs for Recsys with Chronon
A technical deep dive into semantic IDs in recommender systems: retrieval, ranking, cold-start, freshness, and avoiding training-serving skew with Chronon.
- Oct 6, 09:30 PM UTC · 20 min · Presentation
› Building Real-Time Context for Data Agents That Improve ML Models
Agents need more than raw data: feature definitions, lineage, model inputs and outputs, experiment results. How a shared real-time context layer lets agents trace predictions, spot missing signals, and propose the next experiment.
- Oct 6, 09:50 PM UTC · 10 min · Wrap up
› Wrap-up
Jim Dowling closes Feature Store Summit 2026.