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28-29, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Unlocking Scalable Distributed Training With Arrow Data Cache on Kubernetes - Ricardo Aravena, Snowflake & Andrey Velichkevich, Apple
Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST
G001-002
As the scale of AI models and training datasets grows, so does the complexity of efficiently feeding data into GPU-accelerated training workloads. Traditional I/O stacks are becoming a bottleneck—especially in cloud native environments—where elasticity and performance must go hand in hand. This talk introduces an open-source, Arrow-based data cache for distributed training workloads on Kubernetes and tabular datasets stored as Apache Iceberg tables.
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Ricardo Aravena

Software Engineer, Snowflake
Ricardo is making daily impactful contributions as an AI Infrastructure Lead at Snowflake. He's passionate about open source in various roles, such as co-chairing the CNCF TAG-Runtime and leading the Cloud Native AI Working Group. With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry... Read More →
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Andrey Velichkevich

Software Engineer, Apple
Andrey Velichkevich is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple and is a key contributor to the Kubeflow open-source project. He is a member of Kubeflow Steering Committee and a co-chair of Kubeflow AutoML and Training WG. Additionally, Andrey is an active member of the CNCF WG AI. He... Read More →
Thursday August 28, 2025 11:50 - 12:15 CEST
G001-002
  Breakout Sessions, Scalability and Cloud-Native AI

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