AI Launchpad 2025: Tower

Serhii Sokolenko and Brad Heller share insights from Tower's elegant 2-layer data stack where all compute engines coexist harmoniously, exploring how to run Python frameworks from ETL to inference on scalable single-node compute with Iceberg open storage. These Snowflake alumni and Big Tech veterans offer valuable perspectives on building simple yet powerful architectures that enable seamless collaboration between different processing engines without complexity overhead.