As AI adoption accelerates, many startups and scaleups are facing challenges:

Capital is more expensive than ever
AI and data workloads are growing exponentially
Cloud infrastructure costs are rising faster than revenue

Winning in this environment isn’t about cutting ambition. It’s about architectural discipline — reducing inefficiencies in the stack so teams can move faster and invest more in what actually drives differentiation.

This roundtable focuses on what technology leaders can control:

Architecture choices that improve price-performance
Reducing infrastructure cost and complexity
Accelerating AI adoption with enterprise grade security

We will show how eliminating unnecessary infrastructure spend and simplifying data and AI platforms can free up budget, engineering time, and execution capacity.

What we’ll cover

Cutting “data taxes”
Hidden costs from data movement, duplication, and inefficient pipelines that compound as systems scale
Scaling into regulated markets without re-platforming
How to meet data residency and sovereignty requirements across regions without building and operating a separate stack per country
Architecting for price-performance
Designing infrastructure so tech budget moves toward AI, product innovation and business expansion

Join a small group of technology leaders and OCI experts to see how future-ready tech companies are building for scale, efficiency, and AI.

This event will be Hybrid and in person.

Location: Level 23/ 52 Martin Place, Sydney

Room: 23.01

Thursday, 26 February · 12:00 – 13:00

Joining us online?

Time zone: Australia/Sydney

Google Meet joining info

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/jhs-bdia-aio

Or dial: ‪(AU) +61 3 8594 5496‬ PIN: ‪371 842 615‬#

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Oracle:

We’re a cloud technology company that provides organizations around the world with computing infrastructure and software to help them innovate, unlock efficiencies and become more effective. We also created the world’s first – and only – autonomous database to help organize and secure our customers’ data.

Meet our Speakers

Prachi Solomon, Principal Solution Consultant, Oracle

Prachi has a very rich experience of helping fast-growing companies turn cloud and AI into real competitive advantage. Her work spans AI, data platforms, automation, and secure cloud-native architectures—always focused on speed, scalability, and reducing operational drag.

She brings deep expertise in modern AI techniques like RAG and graph analytics , Database, and multi-cloud integration, giving startups a clear path to build smarter products and scale without burning resources.

Prachi is known for cutting through complexity, aligning quickly with a founder’s vision, and translating it into lean, scalable, high-impact architecture. She also mentors teams so startups build strong cloud and AI capability early—avoiding technical debt and accelerating growth.

Pijush Mukherjee, Director and Head of Digital Natives, APAC

Pijush has led technology consulting, delivery, and growth teams supporting multi-million-dollar enterprises worldwide. He has driven large-scale business transformation programs for numerous Fortune 500 companies. As Head of Digital Natives for Oracle across Asia Pacific, Pijush enables high-growth startups to scale by leveraging cutting-edge cloud technologies in data, AI, and infrastructure—supported by effective go-to-market strategies and ecosystem partnerships.

Contact the host of Scaling the Lean Way - Simplified Architecture. Optimized Infrastructure Cost. Faster AI Adoption.