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Sumita
Palanisamy
Lead Director, AI and Automation
CVS Health
Sumita Palanisamy is Lead Director of AI and Automation at CVS Health, where she leads the delivery of enterprise AI applications and drives the development of scalable, production-ready solutions. With more than 15 years of experience spanning software engineering, machine learning, automation, and product development, she has built and led high-performing engineering teams across healthcare, automotive technology, and SaaS. Previously a Director of Engineering at CarGurus, she championed AI adoption, modernized engineering workflows, and developed impactful AI-powered products. Sumita is a passionate advocate for responsible AI, agentic workflows, and customer-centric innovation, and regularly speaks, mentors, and contributes to the broader technology community.
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29 October 2026 11:00 - 11:30
Synthetic data: The unfair advantage most engineering teams are sleeping on
The best AI teams in production aren't waiting for labelled data. They're generating it. Synthetic data has moved from a research curiosity to a core production strategy, and the teams who've figured this out are fine-tuning domain-specific models, building better evals, and closing capability gaps at a fraction of the cost and timeline of traditional annotation. Most teams haven't made this move yet. That gap is exactly the opportunity. This session breaks down how leading engineering teams are running synthetic data pipelines today: what to generate, how to filter for quality without manual review at scale, and how to use frontier model outputs to train smaller, faster, cheaper models you actually own. It also covers where pipelines break down and how to catch failures before they compound. This is one of the highest-leverage moves available to an AI engineering team right now. The question is whether you make it before your competitors do.