22-25 April 2026 
Darshna Shah
Darshna is the Chief AI Officer at Elastacloud, with a PhD in Neuroscience and over 10 years of experience delivering enterprise AI solutions across Finance, Legal, Energy, and Sustainability. Proven track record in building machine learning solutions, multi-agent AI systems, aligning AI strategy with business goals, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver measurable commercial impact. Recognised Microsoft AI MVP (5years), mentor, established conference speaker (Tech(K)now, Microsoft conferences (Future Decoded, Build, Ignite), DPS Days, Cloud Brew, UK Azure meetup, SQL Bits), and community leader (organiser of Data Science London, 10k+ members). Passionate about responsible AI, sustainability, and translating cutting-edge research into real-world impact.
Darshna Shah's Sessions
From Documents to Decisions: Unlocking Trustworthy Data Retrieval in High-Stakes Legal AI workflowsSQLBits 2026
Building trustworthy AI in law isn’t about model choice, but data. This session shares lessons from designing and evaluating retrieval systems over complex legal documents, comparing RAG, knowledge graphs, and agentic search to improve accuracy, traceability, and trust.
RAG Rewired: Building and Evaluating Connected Intelligence with Knowledge GraphsSQLBits 2026
Competitive AI isn’t won by model choice, but by how domain knowledge is extracted, structured, and evaluated. This talk explores RAG, Graph RAG, and agentic search experiments, showing how data extraction and evaluation turn retrieval into connected, high-stakes intelligence.
Securing the Future with AISQLBits 2020
During this session we will a look at some of the AI approaches adopted by security teams and attackers to, respectively, secure and infiltrate organisations.