Ava Chawla

Field CTO, Data & AI

Ava Chawla is Field Chief Technology Officer, Data & AI at EDB. She brings more than 15 years of experience leading enterprise AI, data, and hybrid cloud initiatives across startups, the public sector, and Fortune 500 organizations. Her work centers on turning emerging technologies into scalable execution, customer impact, and measurable growth, while embedding strong governance, cybersecurity, and operational discipline. She is also the author of Orchestrating Intelligence: The AI Playbook, a guide to helping organizations build lasting advantage in the era of AI.

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Business Transformation

When AI Agents Act on Their Own, Where Does the Damage Stop?

A recent AI agent hacking incident is raising urgent questions about agentic AI security. Here's how row-level access control, RBAC, and audit trails contain autonomous AI risk — before it becomes an AI governance problem.
EDB Labs

Why the World’s Most Stable OS Demands a High-Performance Data Foundation

RHEL gives enterprises a strong foundation for modernization, but that support does not automatically extend to the database. This blog looks at the risk that emerges when organizations pair enterprise-grade infrastructure with self-supported community Postgres, especially in high-stakes production environments.