Kiyu Gabriel is Field CTO at IBM, where he works with teams across the company to bring AI-native tools, architectures, and techniques to organizations modernizing their data foundations for the age of AI. Prior to IBM, he spent more than 11 years at DataStax in senior technical and leadership roles spanning Search & AI, enterprise architecture, partnerships, and platform engineering. Kiyu brings a practical perspective on what it takes to make enterprise data usable, governed, and trustworthy for AI-powered applications and agents.