Derek Slager

Derek Slager

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Amperity

Derek co-founded Amperity to create a tool that would give marketers and analysts access to accurate, consistent and comprehensive customer data. As CTO, he leads the company’s product, engineering, operations and information security teams to deliver on Amperity’s mission of helping people use data to serve customers. Prior to Amperity, Derek was on the founding team at Appature and held engineering leadership positions at various business and consumer-facing startups, focusing on large-scale distributed systems and security.

Resources featuring Derek Slager

Illustration of a young woman shopping on her phone while carrying shopping bags down a snowy street.

Blog

Nov 18

Holiday 2025: Why This Season Will Redefine How Retailers Use AI and Customer Data

In 2025, winning the holidays means using real-time data and AI to deliver relevance at scale - driving higher conversions and long-term customer impact.

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Blog

Oct 23

The Immediate AI Opportunities Transforming Hotel and Airline Brands

Discover five AI use cases helping hotels and airlines boost revenue, loyalty, and personalization, powered by unified customer data.

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Blog

Oct 9

How CDPs are Helping Travel Brands Achieve AI Breakthroughs

Companies with CDPs are twice as likely to be taking full advantage of AI in their organization.

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Derek Slager is on the NVIDIA AI podcast

Blog

Sep 4

How AI Is Transforming Data Workflows and Developer Productivity

Discover how AI is reshaping data workflows, developer productivity, and customer insights in the NVIDIA AI Podcast with Amperity’s CTO.

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Derek Slager, Co-founder and CTO of Amperity, against a dark teal data wave background with the NVIDIA logo

Podcast

Amperity Reimagines Data & Developer Workflows with AI

Derek Slager explores how agentic AI and vibe coding are reshaping enterprise data management and the developer experience on the NVIDIA AI Podcast.

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Hurdles to reaching success with AI

Blog

Aug 21

Three Hurdles to AI Success — and How to Clear Them

Most companies are racing to adopt AI, but without leadership, alignment, and clean data, their transformations risk failure before they start.

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A graph depicting the connection strength of various identifiers (first and last name, email address, physical address) of one customer.

Blog

May 1

Introducing Amperity’s Identity Resolution Agent

Amperity’s Identity Resolution Agent meets your toughest data challenges at the source and lays the foundation for truly effective AI initiatives.

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Martech Therapy hosts Derek Slager, Co-founder & CTO of Amperity

Podcast

Has the CDP category failed? Amperity’s CTO Derek Slager weighs in.

In this episode of Martech Therapy, Matthew Niederberger sits down with Derek Slager to dive deep into the evolution (and limitations) of CDPs.

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An image of the Amperity Lakehouse CDP user interface showing someone setting up a Bridge connection to share data between the CDP and the lakehouse.

Blog

May 16

The Lakehouse CDP: Data Quality and Governance Without the Silos

Now users can easily share customer data among tools and platforms without having to copy data or build and manage connections.

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Woman at monitor with many different screens showing Data Sources, AmpID resolution, ROI analysis, and audience segmentation

Blog

Dec 13

Generative AI and Personalization won’t work without a Customer Data Operations strategy

Building, maintaining, and managing change in your customer data foundation is far more involved than many might think.

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Podcast

Adapting to the Digital Marketing Landscape: Navigating Generational Shifts and Data Privacy Regulations

How the evolving data privacy environment is changing the digital marketing landscape and how to deal with it.

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Hero image for Customerland podcast "Navigating Customer Engagement in the age of CDPs and AI" with Amperity CTO Derek Slager

Podcast

Navigating Customer Engagement in the Age of CDCs and Generative AI

Amperity CTO Derek Slager joins the Customerland podcast to talk about customer data and generative AI.

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