From AI Ambition to Production Reality – Trust, Resilience & Global Scale
Week 14 pushes the Data Innovation Summit XI Edition deeper into the realities of building, governing, and scaling AI and data systems in production. This week’s updates spotlight resilience, sovereignty, compliance, and real-world value creation, where architectural ambition meets operational truth.
New Speakers
A major highlight this week is the addition of Mallika Rao, Engineering Manager at Netflix, joining the Data Engineering and DataOps Stage with a deeply technical session on designing self-healing, AI-ready data and knowledge pipelines. As AI systems increasingly depend on real-time, multimodal, and high-quality data, Mallika’s session explores how pipelines must evolve from brittle ETL workflows into adaptive, intelligent infrastructure. Drawing inspiration from large-scale search and recommendation platforms, the talk offers a practical blueprint for building reliable, observable, and future-proof pipelines that reduce operational toil while enabling next-generation AI-driven analytics.
We also welcome Antonio Martiradonna, CISO at Orkla ASA, who brings a critical security and architecture perspective in his session “Cross-Border Sovereignty: Dreams and Wishes meet the Production Floor.” As organizations become more dependent on globally distributed data and compute, sovereignty is no longer theoretical. Antonio explores the real tensions between portability, compliance, uptime, and safety – particularly in manufacturing environments, offering a thought-provoking look at viable paths forward in an increasingly complex geopolitical and technological landscape.
On the governance and regulation front, Luis Martinez, AI Product Compliance Expert at ASSA ABLOY Group, joins the program with a highly practical session on the EU AI Act. “Blueprint for Trust: How to Turn AI Act Conformity into Competitive Advantage” reframes compliance as a growth lever rather than a bottleneck. The session shows how embedding AI conformity assessment, quality management systems, and risk controls directly into product development can accelerate certification, reduce audit fatigue, and strengthen customer trust without slowing innovation.
On the Industry Day coming from heavy industry and field operations, we are excited to welcome Luba Weissmann, AI & Data Director, and Christel Füllenbach, Global Operations Manager at Epiroc. Their joint session shares the real journey of scaling an AI-powered Service Technician Copilot from pilot to global deployment. With both business and AI leadership on stage, the session dives into adoption, collaboration models, and how measurable productivity gains were achieved in a regulated, industrial environment.
We also welcome Milap Patel, Head of AI Transformation at Ericsson, who brings a sharp commercial execution lens to the program with the session “Transforming towards Intelligent and Autonomous Pre-Sales (B2B).” in the Telco Industry Day Stage. The session explores how an Agentic AI framework is reshaping enterprise pre-sales by orchestrating customer insights into precision-crafted proposals at scale. Moving beyond basic automation, Ericsson demonstrates how Generative AI can transform proposal generation from an administrative bottleneck into a strategic, value-capturing capability, balancing speed, compliance, and brand integrity.
New Partners
Finally, we are pleased to welcome new partners strengthening the XI Edition ecosystem: Teradata and Lenovo who will be joining more than 105 technology providers during the event days.
With deep technical engineering insights, production-grade AI governance, sovereignty realities, and proven industrial-scale AI deployments, Week 14 reinforces a central theme of DIS26: moving from AI ambition to trusted, scalable, and impactful execution.
Stay tuned, more to come soon!
See you in Stockholm
The Data Innovation Summit Team