Conferences / Vendor & industry

Data Day Texas

Organizer: Global Data Geeks (Lynn Bender)
Category: Vendor & industry
Website: datadaytexas.com
Social: LinkedIn
Typical place: Austin, United States
Topics: Generative AIData engineeringMachine learningStreaming

Independent (non-vendor) industry data conference; category 'vendor' is used for independent industry events. Launched January 2011 as one of the first NoSQL / Big Data conferences; a one-day Saturday event held each January at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center on the University of Texas campus in Austin since 2013, with Graph Day run as a track inside it. 2021 was postponed (no virtual edition); the 2022 edition, first set for Jan 22, 2022, was rescheduled to Mon June 13, 2022. Branded 'Data Day Texas + AI' from 2024; 2025 and 2026 added a separate Sunday 'Data Discussions' day. The January 2026 edition (16th, hit by an ice storm) was billed as the Final Edition. In 'The Evolution of Data Day Texas' (Aug 14, 2026) Lynn Bender explained that post-pandemic sponsorship economics no longer supported a 1,000-person one-day conference, and that the Sunday 'Data Discussions' day had grown into a successor: 'Data Weekend', renamed 'Data AI Weekend' (also promoted as Data Weekend ATX), a curated two-day event of discussions, presentations and workshops. Its beta edition ran Oct 10-11, 2026 at the same AT&T conference center, and is recorded in this series as edition 2026 with id_suffix 'data-weekend'. The essay says 'There's more coming in 2027', but no 2027 dates or city had been announced as of Nov 2026. The successor is promoted on globaldatageeks.org (dataaiweekend.com redirects there). LinkedIn is the conference's own page; no conference-specific X/YouTube account was found.

Events92019–2026

Next event—None announced

Sponsoring companies89164 sponsorships

Speaker appearances421

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Events

Dates	Event	Place	Format / status	Attendance	Sponsors	Speakers
Oct 10–11, 2026	Data AI Weekend 2026 (Austin)	Austin, United States		—	11	25
Jan 24, 2026	Data Day Texas + AI 2026	Austin, United States		—	23	45
Jan 25, 2025	Data Day Texas + AI 2025	Austin, United States		—	17	49
Jan 27, 2024	Data Day Texas + AI 2024	Austin, United States		—	24	63
Jan 28, 2023	Data Day Texas 2023	Austin, United States		—	20	63
Jun 13, 2022	Data Day Texas 2022	Austin, United States		—	19	50
Jan 23, 2021	Data Day Texas 2021	Austin, United States	Cancelled	—	—	—
Jan 25, 2020	Data Day Texas 2020	Austin, United States		—	30	68
Jan 26, 2019	Data Day Texas 2019	Austin, United States		—	20	58

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