Fabiane Nardon
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Data Expert, Java Champion & Data Platform Director @totvs
Fabiane Bizinella Nardon is a tech executive with 20+ years architecting large-scale data systems. She currently leads Data Intelligence at TOTVS, Brazil's largest tech company, where her team designs data platforms and engineering strategies for the AI era — enabling LLM and agent-driven products with strong foundations in governance, security, and cost-efficient operation, including token usage optimization and trustworthy retrieval.
Previously, she was CTO at Tail (acquired by TOTVS in 2020), where she led data and ML systems processing 4B+ new records per day. Her PhD focused on Ontologies and Semantic Data Models, and she was an early practitioner of RDF and semantic technologies — foundations now critical for grounded AI systems.
Fabiane is a Java Champion and co-founder of SouJava. She hosted the Architecture in the Age of AI track at QCon London 2026 and has served on program committees for QCon London and QCon San Francisco.
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Architecting the Data Layer for AI Agents: From Transactional Systems to MCP and Semantic Models
Most conversations about production AI agents focus on the agent itself — the prompts, the orchestration, the framework. But the moment you put an agent in front of real enterprise data, a different problem dominates: the data layer wasn't designed for this consumer.
