As generative AI has quickly gained trajectory, the developer tooling we’ve seen sitting on the IDEs and benches of machine learning engineers have grown more and more niche. Even within the data infrastructure world, there has been tooling and operational silos that are making it harder than ever to facillitate collaboration between other teams. In an era where everything is jumbled into each other, redundancy is at an all time high, and everyone is insistent on platforms, where do we start? In this session we invite the Members’ Summit to discuss the emergence and dominance of machine learning and data intensive applications, and what it means to effectively ‘jump on the wagon’.