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Data That Drives and AI That Transforms: Highlights from the ACM Seattle KDD Summit
REDMOND, WA — The ACM Seattle Community on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) hosted its Summit on May 1st 2026, bringing together a cross-disciplinary roster of data practitioners for an evening that spanned the intersecting frontiers of finance, cybersecurity, warehouse automation, and AI systems. Featuring two keynote addresses and five lightning talks, the Summit drew professionals from Amazon, Apple, Honeywell, Microsoft and across the Pacific west’s technology corridor for a program that was as intellectually diverse as it was practically grounded. The event was chaired and convened by data science leaders Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao from Amazon and Sravani Lingam from Infor.
