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Siby
Alappatt
VP, Engineering
Instacart
Siby Alappatt is Vice President of Engineering at Instacart, leading the Platform organization responsible for the mission-critical systems powering consumer, retailer, and enterprise experiences. With over 20 years of engineering leadership experience, he has led global teams across large-scale SaaS platforms, cloud infrastructure, commerce, and AI-driven services. Previously, he was Executive Director of Engineering at IBM, where he led a global team of 200+ engineers. Siby is passionate about building scalable, reliable technology, accelerating innovation, and developing high-performing engineering teams. At Instacart, he is helping advance AI-powered grocery commerce, platform modernization, and developer productivity.
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29 October 2026 16:00 - 16:30
Continual learning in production: Keeping models current without retraining from scratch
Most production models are static. The world keeps moving, data distributions shift, and the system you deployed starts quietly degrading. Full retraining is expensive and slow. Doing nothing is quietly catastrophic. The teams who've solved this are using continual learning strategies that keep models current without starting from zero every time. This session covers the practical approaches engineering teams are using to handle model drift, incorporate new data, and maintain performance over time. Key takeaways: - How to detect model drift before it surfaces as visible degradation in production - The continual learning strategies that don't require full retraining cycles - How to structure your data pipeline to support ongoing model updates at reasonable cost