Artificial Intelligence

Presenters Aleksandr Pinaev Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🔥 MCP Servers on Fire: Securing the AI Revolution’s Control Layer Hey there, tech enthusiasts! Aleksandr Pinaev, founder of Swordfish Security, recently ignited a crucial conversation about the security landscape of Multi-Capability Protocol (MCP) servers in cloud systems. While the excitement around MCP is absolutely justified – it makes AI systems incredibly useful by connecting them to real tools, data, and workflows – Aleksandr challenged us to look beyond the hype. His central question was simple yet profound: When MCP becomes part of cloud architecture, where does the real security risk come from? ...

Presenters Gautham Paspala Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Fighting the $48 Billion “Friendly” Problem: How AI and Cloud-Native Tech Are Redefining Fraud Detection 🚀 In the world of financial services, not all fraud involves shadowy hackers in hoodies. Sometimes, the threat comes from a legitimate customer making a legitimate purchase. Gautham Paspala, a Stack Software Engineer at ServiceNow, is tackling one of the most expensive and elusive challenges in the banking industry: Friendly Fraud. ...

Presenters Purushotham Jinka Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 The Database Revolution: How Cloud-Native Architectures are Learning to Think for Themselves! 🚀 Hello, tech enthusiasts! Have you ever wondered how the databases powering our increasingly dynamic digital world keep up? For decades, we built our data systems on assumptions of stability: predictable workloads, fixed infrastructure, and manual tuning. But as Purushotham Jinka, a Vice President at Citi focusing on large-scale data and cloud platforms, brilliantly explains, those days are over. We are now witnessing a profound shift in database design, moving from rigid, on-prem models to intelligent, self-optimizing cloud-native architectures. ...

Presenters Murtuza J Merchant Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Stablecoins: The Cloud-Native Payment Infrastructure Revolution 🚀 Are you tired of the slow, expensive, and clunky traditional payment systems? Imagine sending money from London to Jakarta not in two to five business days with fees between $20 and $40, but in under 5 seconds for less than a tenth of a cent. This isn’t a futuristic dream; it’s the reality stablecoins offer today, and they’re rapidly becoming the first cloud-native payment infrastructure. ...

Presenters Matt Pocock Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Why Software Fundamentals are Your Superpower in the Age of AI Do you feel like your hard-earned engineering skills are losing their value in a world dominated by LLMs? Matt Pocock has a comforting, yet provocative message for you: software fundamentals matter now more than they ever have. While many believe we are entering a specs-to-code era where we can simply ignore the implementation, the reality is much messier. If you treat code as a disposable byproduct, you fall into the trap of vibe coding. You run the compiler, get garbage, run it again, and get even worse garbage. ...