2026-06-08 –, Kesselhaus
AI agents have quietly become some of the most demanding users of modern data platforms and most weren't built with them in mind. In this panel, leaders from Snowflake, Elastic, ClickHouse, and Xata share what agentic workloads actually look like in production: what broke, what had to be rebuilt, and where the architecture is heading.
Autonomous AI agents are becoming first-class users of data infrastructure and most data platforms weren't designed for them. This panel brings together engineers from Snowflake, Elastic, ClickHouse, and Xata to have an honest conversation about what that collision looks like in practice.
Each platform brings a different angle: cloud-scale warehousing, search and observability, real-time analytics, and Postgres. They'll explore what it concretely means to make a data platform agent-ready, from query reliability to access control to the performance characteristics that agentic loops require.
Note: I confirmed with a few guest, but once the panel is approved, I can confirm with other leaders from data platforms to join the panel.
If we can schedule it on Monday, the Head of devrel from Elastic is able to join.
She is the founder and CEO of Xata, a Postgres platform for modern development, backed by Index Ventures and the founders of Elastic, Confluent, Vercel, and Netlify. Before Xata, she founded Packetbeat, an open source network monitoring solution that was acquired by Elastic in 2015. At Elastic, Packetbeat became Beats, the observability data shipper that surpassed 300 million downloads in its first two years and is used by organizations of all sizes worldwide.
Monica is also the founder of Tupu.io, a non-profit providing free mentorship to underrepresented people breaking into tech.
Danica began her career as a software engineer in financial services and pivoted to developer relations, where she focussed primarily on open source technologies under the Apache Software Foundation umbrella such as Apache Kafka and Apache Flink. She now leads the open source advocacy efforts at Snowflake, supporting Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris (incubating). She can be found on X (Bluesky and Mastodon), talking about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.
Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for over ten years, Philipp is now the head of Developer Advocacy at Elastic — the company behind the Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in the heart of San Francisco, he is close to the cutting edge of technology without getting lost in the latest hype.