AI ENGINEER SHANGHAI 2026
Lux Li
Head of AI Product
TiDB / PingCAP
Talk
Nobody Planned AI Infra: How AI Builders Pushed a Database Beyond the Database
November 5 · 16:40-17:00 · Main stage →
Shanghai time (UTC+8) · Changes will be communicated.
AI builders keep asking for capabilities that stretch a database beyond its original boundaries: one database per agent, memory across sessions and state that survives disposable sandboxes. This talk follows the production needs that drove those changes, and the resulting choices around isolation, consistency, recovery and observability.
About the speaker
Lux Li leads TiDB's AI business and products, focusing on product innovation and real-world deployment for AI-native applications and agents. He advances TiDB as a unified data infrastructure for AI applications, combining distributed transactions, databases for agents at scale, vector and full-text search, and persistent workspaces. His work helps teams simplify their data architecture and build stable, scalable, production-grade AI applications faster.