Srini Cheemalapati
Sr. Director AI Transformation
Philadelphia, New York, United States
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Srini Cheemalapati is a technology executive and Enterprise AI Architect who has spent over two decades building systems that scale — and the last five years making them intelligent. From architecting wealth platforms managing $15B+ in assets to launching AI-driven healthcare and transportation solutions, Srini specializes in turning data into measurable business impact.
He has led teams of engineers and data scientists, implemented enterprise AI governance in highly regulated industries, and delivered AI platforms that generated $20M+ in revenue and multimillion-dollar savings. Today, he focuses on generative AI, agentic systems, and spec-driven engineering — helping organizations move from AI curiosity to AI capability.
Area of Expertise
RAG to Riches: From Document Graveyard to AI Gold
Building a Conversational AI Assistant with RAG
What if you could turn your company’s scattered documents into a conversational AI assistant—without training a single model?
In this session, I’ll show how we built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that transforms internal company knowledge into accurate, context-aware answers through an AI assistant chat interface.
We’ll explore how retrieval and generation work together, how to keep responses grounded in real documents, and what it takes to move from AI hype to practical business impact.
You’ll learn how organizations can make their internal knowledge truly usable by connecting AI with existing documentation, knowledge bases, and internal content.
The session also includes a live demo of an AI assistant chat system answering real questions using indexed company documents.
If you're curious about how to make your company’s knowledge accessible, searchable, and actually useful, this talk will show you how.
Spec-Driven Development - BMAD Way
Spec-Driven Development with the BMAD Method
Most software issues don’t start in code—they start with misunderstood requirements. Teams often move quickly into implementation, only to discover later that the problem was never clearly defined. Spec-Driven Development addresses this challenge by placing clear, shared specifications at the center of the development process so teams can build the right thing before focusing on building the thing right.
In this session, we’ll explore how the BMAD Method helps teams create living, structured specifications that actively guide development instead of becoming static documentation that is quickly forgotten. By using structured specs, teams can align developers, product managers, and stakeholders around a shared understanding of the system before major development begins.
You’ll learn how spec-first thinking reduces ambiguity, improves collaboration, and helps teams make better technical decisions earlier in the process. We’ll also discuss how structured specifications can support implementation, testing, and validation throughout the entire development lifecycle.
The session includes a live demo using VS Code, Anthropic Claude, and the BMAD framework to show how specifications can drive real development workflows. You’ll see how developers can move from requirements to architecture, from architecture to implementation, and from implementation to validation with specifications acting as the central source of truth.
If you’re looking for a practical way to bring clarity, alignment, and discipline to modern software projects—especially when working with AI-assisted development—this session will give you a hands-on starting point. 🚀
Stop Vibe Coding. Start Spec Coding.
Everyone loves fast AI coding… until production breaks.
In this session, we explore Spec-Driven Development using Kiro, where requirements aren’t an afterthought they’re the engine of the entire development process. Instead of jumping straight into code, structured specifications guide every step of the system.
You’ll see how combining well-defined specs with AI assistance transforms development from chaotic experimentation into a disciplined workflow that produces production-ready systems instead of demo-ware.
By grounding development in specifications, teams can reduce rework, improve clarity, and maintain alignment between requirements, architecture, and implementation.
This talk includes a live end-to-end demo showing how to move through the full development lifecycle using Kiro:
Specification → Architecture → Implementation → Validation
We will also explore key Kiro capabilities, including:
• Kiro Docs – Managing structured specifications and documentation that guide development
• Steering – Defining direction and constraints so AI and developers stay aligned with system goals
• Hooks – Automating workflows and enforcing rules throughout the development lifecycle
• MCP Servers – Integrating external capabilities and tools into the development process
If you’ve ever said, “We’ll fix it later,” this session is for you.
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