GENAI AND INTELLIGENT AGENTS
IN THE ENTERPRISE
San Francisco | November 6, 2025
Madhura Raut
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at WorkDay
Madhura Raut is a Principal Data Scientist at Workday, where she leads the design of large-scale machine learning systems for labor demand forecasting. Her work integrates time series modeling, AI, and reinforcement learning to enable real-time workforce optimization. She is the lead inventor on two U.S. patents related to advanced time series techniques, and her ML product has been recognized as a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive. With over nine years of experience spanning enterprise machine learning and applied research, Madhura is passionate about building intelligent, production-grade systems that address complex operational challenges. Besides her professional work, she also serves as an IEEE Senior Member and mentor, actively contributing to the broader AI and data science community. Madhura has been keynote speaker at many prestigious data science conferences including KDD 2025 and has served as judge and mentor to several codecrunch hackathons.Watch in-person: November 6
AI Agents in Time Series Forecasting: Replacement, Conjunction, or Revolution?This talk explores the rapidly evolving role of AI agents in the forecasting world and whether these new capabilities are poised to replace traditional ML models. This talk will also cover how they can work in conjunction with existing systems to unlock new efficiencies, and the revolutionary implications for data scientists and business operations.