The AI Efficiency Imperative: Balancing Performance, Cost, and Sustainability Goals in Databases
As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, they face an urgent paradox: the demand for more compute collides with rising costs and energy constraints. How can organizations innovate responsibly while maintaining efficiency, scalability, and sustainability accountability?
Join Rob Feldman, Chief Legal Officer at EDB, and Lizzy Nguyen, a Director of Product Marketing at EDB, in a fireside chat exploring how database optimization plays a critical role in balancing performance, cost, and environmental responsibility while pursuing AI goals. Drawing on insights from EDB’s latest efficiency report, they’ll unpack how data infrastructure inefficiency translates into business risk—and how rethinking your data architecture can unlock measurable cost savings, reduce emissions, and support sustainable AI growth.
What you’ll learn:
How AI growth is constrained by energy and cost challenges—and what that means for enterprise data strategy
Why optimizing your database architecture is both a financial and ESG imperative
How EDB Postgres AI is helping organizations reduce emissions by up to 87% while improving performance
Speakers:
Rob Feldman
Chief Legal Officer, EDB
Rob Feldman is EDB’s Chief Legal Officer. Rob is responsible for the worldwide legal and compliance functions. An experienced executive and lawyer, Rob builds high-performing legal teams to support growing technology companies in dynamic business and regulatory environments. Most recently, Rob led a 45-person legal team at Citrix Systems, Inc. as its General Counsel, including through its +$16 billion take-private transaction in 2022. Prior to Citrix, Rob spent more than a decade in private practice as a technology company litigator, focused in securities fraud defense, intellectual property disputes and government and internal investigations.
Lizzy Nguyen
Director of Product Marketing, EDB
Lizzy Nguyen is a dynamic product marketing leader currently serving as the Director of Product Marketing at EDB. In this role, she leverages her expertise to drive the go-to-market strategy for EDB Postgres AI, with a focus on key areas such as database modernization, performance, ESG initiatives, and hybrid solutions. Her work is centered on helping customers grow efficiently and optimize their data and AI environments.
Her career journey includes significant product marketing roles at well-known companies, including VIZIO, where she was a Senior Manager, and a notable period at Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS).