Yury Izrailevsky is the co-founder and president of product and technology at ClickHouse, where he helps lead one of the world’s fastest open-source analytics databases. Before ClickHouse, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Google and Netflix, and earlier worked at Yahoo, building deep expertise in cloud platforms, developer tools, and large-scale infrastructure.

Nikita Shamgunov is a veteran database entrepreneur and technologist who co-founded Neon, the serverless Postgres company acquired by Databricks in 2025. He previously co-founded SingleStore, where he helped grow the business into a major database platform, and earlier in his career worked on SQL Server at Microsoft.

Dwarak Rajagopal is the Vice President and Head of AI Engineering at Snowflake, where he leads efforts to build scalable, production-ready AI systems for the company’s data platform. Before Snowflake, he held senior AI and engineering leadership roles at Google, Meta, Uber, Apple, and AMD, with deep experience spanning AI frameworks, platform engineering, and large-scale infrastructure.

Jamin Ball is an Investment Partner at Altimeter. Some of his investments include Tabular, Clickhouse, LiveKit, dbt Labs, Inngest, Elorian, among others. He also authors the Clouded Judgement blog.  Prior to joining Altimeter in 2021, Mr. Ball was a vice president at Redpoint Ventures (2016-2020) on their growth fund, focused on Series B and later stage investments. Prior to Redpoint, he was an analyst at Morgan Stanley on their investment banking technology team covering software (2014 - 2016). Mr. Ball received a B.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University (2014). He played on the varsity men’s tennis team all four years, serving as captain in his senior season