Streaming Success: Capital One’s Data Management Tips for the Modern Enterprise

Nisha Paliwal is a mother to two beautiful girls, a dreamer, and visionary technologist with a mission to bring human-centered thinking to everything she does. Nisha rejoined Capital One in March 2022 leading data platforms. Prior to this, Nisha spent 6 years at Capital One Card Tech, Finance Tech, and Small Business Tech. Nisha is currently leading the build and adoption of data platforms.

Will LaForest is Field CTO for Confluent. In his current position, Mr. LaForest works with customers across a broad spectrum of industries and government enabling them to realize the benefits of a data in motion architecture with event streaming. He is passionate about data technology innovation and has spent 26 years helping customers wrangle data at massive scale. His technical career spans diverse areas from software engineering, NoSQL, data science, cloud computing, machine learning, and building statistical visualization software but began with code slinging at DARPA as a teenager. Mr. LaForest holds degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Virginia.