Lydia

Ray

A data and AI technologist based between Liverpool and London. I help tech platforms become best friends, build better ecosystems, and design architectures that don't break in production.

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ABOUT ME

Born and raised in Indonesia, now building in England. 10+ years across startups and Fortune 100s, with stops at Accenture, Slalom, AWS, and now Databricks. Day to day, I focus on the messy work behind AI: clean data, real governance, and helping tech platforms work together. Outside of that, I advocate for Responsible AI, mentor women in tech, teach pragmatic AI, and speak at major conferences. I’m currently writing on what it really takes to govern autonomous AI in production. Organizing an event, looking for a keynote, or collaborating on a podcast or lecture? Let’s talk.

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Notes on data and responsible AI, tech partnerships, and navigating tech as a woman. Plain talk, zero hype.

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The Data Strategy Show by Datazum Season 4 Ep 19: Lydia Ray

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The Truth About The AI Takeover with Lydia Ray | DevOps Society

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Importance of human centricity in data & AI | Amazon Web Services

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Agentic AI Beyond Proof of Value to Scale your Journey | Amazon Web Services

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Streamlining Data & AI Workflows with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | AWS

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TechShift Series: Generative AI for Software Companies | AWS for Software

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    • Beyond the Spend Dashboard: The Evolution of Intelligent Procurement | Big Data LDN | London, UK | September 2026

    • Beyond Go-Live: Keeping Data and AI Trustworthy in Production | Business Analysis Conference Europe by IRM UK | London, UK | September 2026

    • Making the Data Lake Ready for Agentic AI | Procurement Data Unlocked: From Spend to Strategy by Konnecthouse | New York, USA | September 2026

    • Artifical Intelligence and Future Career Opportunities for FBTI Students (Guest Lecturer) | Catholic University of Indonesia Atma Jaya | Jakarta, Indonesia | June 2026

    • Where Responsibility Starts When Developing Responsible AI Solutions | One Tech World by We Are Tech Women | March 2026

    • Women's Voices: Career Growth in STEM fields | Panel discussion by The HotSpot | March 2026

    • Keep it Alive! Monitoring & Sustaining Procurement Data | Procurement Data Unlocked by Konnecthouse | January 2026

    • Integrate and orchestrate data workflows with AWS Glue & managed Apache Airflow | AWS Re:Invent | Las Vegas, USA | December 2025

    • Building Responsible AI The Lean Way: Embedding Trust from Day One | Responsible AI Discussion Panel by Lean Startup Co. | November 2025

    • Keynote - Advancing Equity Through and In AI: From Promise To Practice | Responsible AI for a Diverse Future | Dublin, Ireland | October 2025

    • Data Foundations: The Key to Unlocking Insights and Agentic AI Potential | AWS Gen AI and Data Day | London, UK | October 2025

    • Data Foundations: The Key to Unlocking Insights and Agentic AI Potential | AWS Cloud Day | Dublin, Ireland | September 2025

    • Why AI/ML Solutions Fail and What It Takes to Build Ones That Last | Packt ML Summit, Global | July 2025

    • Unlocking Next-Level Streaming & Personalization At Scale with AWS | AWS Summit | London, UK | April 2025

    • Streamlining Data & AI Workflows with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | AWS AI & Data Conference | Kilkenny, Ireland | March 2025

    • Data Governance in The Age of AI: Balancing Innovation with Responsibility | Online Panel Discussion by Thoughtworks and AWS | November 2024

    • Keynote - Responsible AI: Dimension and ID&E Consideration | Innovate & Empower by AWS and Workday | Dublin, Ireland | October 2025

    • Responsible AI: Dimension & ID&E | AWS Cloud Day | Dublin, Ireland | October 2024

    • Build Scalable & Cost-Optimized Managed Kafka & Flink Pipelines on AWS | AWS Business Transform with AI & Data | London, UK | September 2024

    • Best Practices for Analytics & generative AI on AWS | AWS Summit | London, UK | April 2024

    • Modern Data Streaming on AWS | AWS AI & Data Conference | Kilkenny, Ireland | March 2023

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