Data Outpost
- Organizer
- MotherDuck
- Category
- Vendor & industry
- Website
- dataoutpost.ai
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- San Francisco, United States
- Topics
- Generative AIData engineeringWarehouse & lakehouseMachine learningData scienceAnalytics engineeringBI & analyticsBusiness & leadership
AI + data conference in San Francisco run by MotherDuck. Formerly Small Data SF (2024, 2025; smalldatasf.com); renamed Data Outpost for 2026, described by MotherDuck as 'the next evolution of Small Data SF'. No Data Outpost-specific social accounts found; X/LinkedIn are the Small Data SF accounts (linked from smalldatasf.com), YouTube is MotherDuck's channel, which hosts the talk recordings. Not to be confused with unrelated companies/newsletters named 'Outpost'.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Partial or unverified list
3 of 3 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 4–5, 2026 | Data Outpost 2026 | San Francisco, United States | — | 11 | 37 | |
| Nov 4–5, 2025 | Small Data SF 2025 | San Francisco, United States | — | 7 | 33 | |
| Sep 23–24, 2024 | Small Data SF 2024 | San Francisco, United States | 260 | 11 | 19 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 3 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- Data Council0.17
- Modern Data Stack Conference0.15
- Coalesce0.13
- AI Engineer0.10
- DuckCon0.10
Sponsors over the years
Top 23 of 23 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Gold
- Other / unspecified