Why you should attend SOLIXEmpower 2025 on October 22-24, 2025?

Gain insights on enterprise data management and generative AI via user training, demonstrations, and exciting product announcements.
Learn from leaders in industry and academia why data management is the lynchpin for data science and engineering innovations - both now and into the future.

Key Event Topics & Takeaways:

  • Data management as the key to new data science and data engineering applications

  • Governance & security as fundamental to all data initiatives

  • Data Lake and lakehouse architectures to mine profits from new data types and sources

  • Network with industry leaders, academic thinkers and Solix users

 Our Previous SOLIXEmpower Speakers

  • Barry Rudolph

    Barry Rudolph
    CEO at Touch-A-Life Foundation and former VP at IBM, and Independent Board Member

  • Deb Barnes

    Dr. Deborah Barnes
    Head of Bank Data Management and Transformation
    USAA

  • Colin Cecil

    Colin Cecil
    Director Retirement and Archiving Center of Excellence
    Merck
    http://www.theitgarbageman.com

  • Ali Arsanjani

    Dr. Ali Arsanjani
    Director, Applied AI Engineering
    Google and Lecturer, UCSD

  • Dr. Bradley Voytek

    Dr. Bradley Voytek
    Professor
    Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI)

  • Dr. Frank Wuerthwein

    Dr. Frank Wuerthwein
    Director at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and
    Professor at the University of California San Diego

  • Dr. Haojian Jin

    Dr. Haojian Jin
    Assistant Professor at the
    Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI)

  • Dr. James Short

    Dr. James Short
    Lead Scientist and Director at the
    SPARK AI Consortium

  • Dr. Joe Lancaster

    Dr. Joe Lancaster
    VP of Product Management, Enterprise AI
    Solix Technologies, Inc.

  • Dr. Mark Flood

    Dr. Mark Flood
    Senior Research Scholar at the
    Center for Financial Policy

  • Dr. Mel Horwitch

    Dr. Mel Horwitch
    Visiting Scholar at
    MIT Sloan School

  • Dr. Rajesh Gupta

    Dr. Rajesh Gupta
    Interim Dean at the
    University of California College of Computing, Information and Data Science

  • Frederique De Letter

    Frederique De Letter
    Senior Director Analytics (Data + AI) at
    Keller Williams Realty

  • George Hall

    George Hall
    Former AVP IT Governance, Corporate Security & Strategy,
    American National Insurance and Independent Board Advisor

  • Govil Kumar

    Govil Kumar
    Director of Business Analytics & Planning
    Honeywell

  • Greg Thompson

    Greg Thompson
    Former CISO at
    ManuLife and Scotiabank

  • James Massa

    James Massa
    Senior Executive Director of Software Engineering and Architecture at
    JPMorganChase

  • Hon. Jerry McNerney

    Hon. Jerry McNerney
    Former Member US House of Representatives and Former Chair of the AI Congressional Caucus

  • Jim Lee

    Jim Lee
    VP, Data Services at
    Solix Technologies, Inc.

  • John Ottman

    John Ottman
    Executive Chairman at
    Solix Technologies, Inc.

  • Jonathan Behnke

    Jonathan Behnke
    CIO at the
    City of San Diego

  • Kalyan Manyam

    Kalyan Manyam
    VP Enterprise Workgroup Solutions
    Solix Technologies, Inc.

  • Keyur Desai

    Keyur Desai
    Former Chief Data Officer,
    TD Ameritrade

  • Kishore Gadiraju

    Kishore Gadiraju
    Vice President, Engineering
    Solix Technologies, Inc.

  • Mark Lee

    Mark Lee
    Senior Vice President
    Solix Technologies, Inc.

  • Michael Sossong

    Michael Sossong
    Chief Data Scientist at
    Lifevoxel

  • Michelle Hardwick

    Michelle Hardwick
    CDO of the
    University of California Riverside

  • Prasad Kaipa

    Prasad Kaipa
    Rtd. CEO Coach and Advisor

  • Rajesh Sunkineni

    Rajesh Sunkineni
    Director Professional Services
    Solix Technologies, Inc.

  • Sai Gundavelli

    Sai Gundavelli
    Founder & CEO at
    Solix Technologies, Inc.

  • Scott Kahn

    Scott Kahn
    Life & Health Sciences Executive, Board member, Former CIO
    Illumina

  • Scott Zoldi

    Scott Zoldi
    Chief Analytics Officer at
    FICO

  • Sravan Kasarla

    Sravan Kasarla
    Former Chief Data Officer at
    Thrivent

  • Steven Meltzer

    Steven Meltzer
    Partner at
    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

  • Dr. Timothy Mackey

    Dr. Timothy Mackey
    Director at the
    Global Health Policy and Data Institute and Professor at UCSD

  • Todd Henley

    Todd Henley
    Chief Data Governance and Privacy Officer at
    Northwest Bank

  • Tony Thurmond

    Tony Thurmond
    CA State Superintendent of Public Instruction at
    California State Department of Education

  • Valquir Correa

    Valquir Correa
    VP of Corporate Finance at
    Baha Mar

  • Veena Gundavelli

    Veena Gundavelli
    Founder & CEO at
    Emagia Corporation

  • Vinay Vijay Singh

    Vinay Vijay Singh
    Chief Financial Officer & Chief AI Officer at the
    U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

  • Vince Kellen

    Vince Kellen
    CIO at the
    University of California San Diego

  • Vincent Nelis

    Dr. Vincent Nelis
    Sr. Product Manager at
    IBM Watsonx

 Registration

  • SOLIX User Group + Main Conference

    1,599

    • 1 full event pass (OCT 22-24) with access to the following:
    • Keynotes
    • Panel Discussions
    • Networking Opportunity