Look to MariaDB for a Full Range of Your Needs in an AI World

## Details

AGENDA
5:00 - 5:30 PM - Networking
5:30 - 5:35 PM - Announcements
5:35 - 7:25 PM - Speaker
7:25 - 7:30 PM - Door Prize Drawings

TOPIC ABSTRACT
Look to MariaDB for a Full Range of Your Needs in an AI World
The enterprise landscape is currently navigating an "AI Inflection Point" where traditional data architectures struggle to meet the velocity and complexity required for autonomous AI agents and workflows. Organizations frequently fall victim to the "Frankenstein Stack"—a fragmented infrastructure of separate vector databases, complex ETL pipelines, and third-party orchestration frameworks that often results in high TCO, significant security risks, and project failure. MariaDB Community Server serves as a robust foundation for rapid innovation and testing. In this presentation, Kathy will discuss the way to increase AI-readiness by optimizing distance calculations for high-dimensional vectors and matryoshka embeddings, as well as discussing how RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) applications scale with maximum efficiency and zero latency penalty.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Kathy Gibbs
Kathy has 30 years of experience with relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB). She has over 16 years of experience with the cloud and migrating commercial databases to open-source databases. She has worked in many industries including Financial, Public Sector, Retail and cloud providers. She has presented 100s of times at various user groups to large events like AWS re:Invent. Kathy currently manages the NAMER SE Team at MariaDB.

OUR SPONSORS
Website Sponsor: Gary Hessler
Venue: East Library Community Room
Door Prize Sponsors: Jetbrains (http://www.jetbrains.com) - Software license (Several products to choose from)
Training Sponsor: Agile Learner (http://agilelearner.com) - Technical training donated by Venkat Subramanium