“It Boils Down to Moving, Merging & Centralising Data” | Boris Jabes, Fivetran @ Big Data LDN

In this vox pop, EM360Tech's Shubhangi Dua, Podcast Producer and Tech Journalist, interviews Boris Jabes, Senior Director at Fivetran, formerly CEO at Census. They discuss the emerging trends at Big Data LDN 2025 from agentic AI to data modelling and quantum computing.

Data links continue to grow as an architecture, Jabes says and “we’re all benefiting from the competition for any compute.”

What makes it valuable is that earlier, customers could only get different workloads on the same data and different-sized warehouses by staying within the framework of a single company.

“But now, Iceberg allows you to have some workloads on Databricks, for instance, and some workloads on Snowflake,” stated Jabes.

To overcome key challenges, Jabes says, “It boils down to moving data, merging data and centralising data.”