Generative AI for Search | Tonita

ABOUT THE TALK: D. Sivakumar discusses the evolving -- and immensely powerful -- role that generative AI methods, especially in NLP and Vision, play in Search, broadly construed. Through a number of anecdotes and organizing principles, he highlights a handful of key challenges and promising directions. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: D. Sivakumar (Siva) is co-founder and CEO of Tonita.co, whose mission is to bring fluent natural-language search to every search box on the Web. Prior to founding Tonita in 2021, he worked in the research organizations at Google, Yahoo!, and IBM. His research has spanned algorithms and complexity, web search, and deep learning. ABOUT DATA COUNCIL: Data Council (https://www.datacouncil.ai/) is a community and conference series that provides data professionals with the learning and networking opportunities they need to grow their careers. Make sure to subscribe to our channel for the most up-to-date talks from technical professionals on data related topics including data infrastructure, data engineering, ML systems, analytics and AI from top startups and tech companies. FOLLOW DATA COUNCIL: Twitter:   / datacouncilai   LinkedIn:   / datacouncil-ai   - 🎟️ GET YOUR TICKET TO AI COUNCIL 2026 🎟️ Meet the world's top AI infrastructure minds where architects of AI share what works. Three days of high-quality technical talks and meaningful interactions. → https://aicouncil.com/sf-2026 ⚡ FIND US: X: https://x.com/AICouncilConf LinkedIn:   / aicouncilconf   Website: https://aicouncil.com/