Monica Sarbu

Monica Sarbu

Xata

She is the founder and CEO of Xata, a Postgres platform for modern development, backed by Index Ventures and the founders of Elastic, Confluent, Vercel, and Netlify. Before Xata, she founded Packetbeat, an open source network monitoring solution that was acquired by Elastic in 2015. At Elastic, Packetbeat became Beats, the observability data shipper that surpassed 300 million downloads in its first two years and is used by organizations of all sizes worldwide.
Monica is also the founder of Tupu.io, a non-profit providing free mentorship to underrepresented people breaking into tech.

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The Agent Era: How AI Agents Are Reshaping Data Platforms

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AI agents have quietly become some of the most demanding users of modern data platforms and most weren't built with them in mind. In this panel, leaders from Snowflake, Elastic, ClickHouse, and Xata share what agentic workloads actually look like in production: what broke, what had to be rebuilt, and where the architecture is heading.