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Data Con LA

Organizer
Data Con LA (volunteer community organization; founded by Subash D'Souza)
Category
Data science & ML
Website
dataconla.com
Social
LinkedIn · YouTube
Typical place
Los Angeles, United States
Topics
Data engineeringData scienceMachine learningGenerative AIBusiness & leadership

Southern California's longest-running community data conference, run by volunteers. Started in 2013 as Big Data Camp LA (~250 attendees), Big Data Day LA 2015-2017 (Big Data Camp LA 2014 per the archive nav), renamed Data Con LA in 2018. Held at USC (2019, 2022, 2023), virtual in 2020 and 2021 (hybrid in 2022), and at California State University, Long Beach since 2024. Founder Subash D'Souza stepped down from active organizing after 2025. Low-cost tickets ($50 in 2019, $100 GA in 2026). Social accounts are the conference's own (footer of the site). No 2027 date announced as of 2026-11-08.

Events82019–2026
Next event—None announced
Sponsoring companies86127 sponsorships
Speaker appearances583

Activity by year

Sponsors

Sponsor companies per year

Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.

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Speakers

Speakers per year

Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.

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Events

DatesEventPlaceFormat / statusAttendanceSponsorsSpeakers
Aug 22, 2026Data Con LA 2026Long Beach, United States6201754
Nov 8, 2025Data Con LA 2025Long Beach, United States—945
Nov 16, 2024Data Con LA 2024Long Beach, United States4501034
Aug 12, 2023Data Con LA 2023Los Angeles, United States5001044
Aug 13, 2022Data Con LA 2022Los Angeles, United States1,0001573
Sep 17–19, 2021Data Con LA 2021United StatesOnline1,00017163
Oct 23–25, 2020Data Con LA 2020United StatesOnline1,0008116
Aug 17, 2019Data Con LA 2019Los Angeles, United States2,0004154

Attendance over time

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Reported attendance for 7 of 8 events; figures are as published by the organizer.

Most frequent speaker companies

California State Univers…17City of Los Angeles16Amazon Web Services15Accenture10UCLA8XKE Capital and Advisory7USC5MongoDB5Oracle5Diamond5Google4University of California…4Databricks4IBM4Kaskada4

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.

  1. Data Day Texas0.06
  2. KDD0.06
  3. Data Streaming Summit0.06
  4. AWS re:Invent0.06
  5. DataWorks Summit0.06

3 Cluster: Google · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft crowd →

Sponsors over the years

Top 25 of 86 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.

  • Title / headline
  • Platinum
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Community
  • Other / unspecified
20192020202120222023202420252026AI LAAI LAopenSUSEopenSUSEUSCUSCUCLAUCLAOWASP Los AngelesOWASP Los AngelesRMDS LabRMDS LabCalifornia State University…California State University, Long BeachArchangel Technology Consul…Archangel Technology ConsultantsData 4 GoodData 4 GoodISSA-LAISSA-LAMountainTop DataMountainTop DataWomen in Big DataWomen in Big DataAccentureAccentureDataStaxDataStaxMariaDBMariaDBSignify TechnologySignify TechnologyLA Tech4GoodLA Tech4GoodAmazon Web ServicesAmazon Web ServicesWare ValleyWare ValleySplunkSplunkSouthern California EdisonSouthern California EdisonXcalarXcalarBoomiBoomiBright DataBright DataDISQODISQO

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