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Meet the QCon AI New York 2025 Committee Members

Our program committee members are always software leaders working on in-production projects. Get the chance to engage and network with professionals driving change and innovation inside the world’s most innovative software shops.
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QCon AI New York 2025 Committee Member

Adi Polak

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Director, Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering @Confluent, Author of "Scaling Machine Learning with Spark" and "High Performance Spark 2nd Edition"

Adi is an experienced Software Engineer and people manager. She has worked with data and machine learning for operations and analytics for over a decade. As a data practitioner, she developed algorithms to solve real-world problems using machine learning techniques while leveraging expertise in distributed large-scale systems to build machine learning and data streaming pipelines. As a manager, Adi builds high-performance teams focused on trust, excellence, and ownership.

Adi has taught thousands of students how to scale machine learning systems and is the author of the successful book Scaling Machine Learning with Spark and High Performance Spark 2nd Edition.

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