DataConnect Conference (Women in Analytics)
At a glance
- Next event
- Not announcedLast: Oct 29–30, 2026
- Audience
- 2,000 expected2025 · organizer estimate
- Tickets
- Not published
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- No sponsor lists
- Program freshness
- Not enough talk titles
- Similar conferences
- MIT CDOIQ Symposium, ODSC, Cassandra Summit
- Organizer
- Women in Analytics (WIA); co-hosted with Women in Data in 2025
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- dataconnectconf.com
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- Columbus, United States
- Topics
- Generative AIMachine learningBusiness & leadershipData scienceData engineeringBI & analytics
Annual data, analytics and AI conference in Columbus, Ohio, founded as the Women in Analytics Conference (first held 2018) and renamed DataConnect Conference in 2022; speakers are women, attendance open to everyone. Usually two days plus pre-conference workshops, at the Hyatt Regency Columbus through 2024. A one-day DataConnect West (DCCWest) ran in Portland (2023, 2024) and San Francisco (2025), recorded as id_suffix 'west'. The 2019 edition (reported as March 21-22, 2019, Columbus) is not recorded because no archived primary source was found; the 2020 edition was cancelled/moved online; no 2021 in-person edition was found. 2027 is announced for fall at The Ohioan Hotel & Event Center (Lewis Center, OH), no exact dates. X and LinkedIn are the conference's own accounts; Facebook/Instagram/YouTube are Women in Analytics'. Sponsors are not recorded: the site's sponsor page lists all past sponsors without years.
Speakers it attracts
The 135 people who spoke at DataConnect Conference (Women in Analytics) in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Chip Huyen · Tep StudioKeynoted 4 other conferences, spoke at 10: ODSC (Open Data Science Conference), PyTorch Conference, Data Day Texas…
- Dipti Borkar · MicrosoftKeynoted 3 other conferences, spoke at 5: Microsoft Fabric Community Conference (FabCon), Coalesce, PrestoCon…
- Wendy Turner Williams · TheAssociation.ai & CulstrataKeynoted 2 other conferences: Disney Data & Analytics Conference, Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ)
- Susan Laine · QuestKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 4: Data Summit (DBTA), Data + AI Summit, Gartner Data & Analytics Summit…
- Kierra Dotson · FurtherKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: MLCon (ML Conference), MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon, Data Day Texas
- Sol Rashidikeynote here · ExecutiveAIKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 3: Data Day Texas, ElasticON (Elastic{ON} Tour), AI Native Summit
- Valerie Logan · The Data LodgeKeynoted 1 other conference, spoke at 2: Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, MIT CDOIQ Symposium
- Cindi Howson · ThoughtSpotSpoke at 4 other conferences: CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Officer) Summits, Big Data LDN, Snowflake Summit…
- Eve Psalti · MicrosoftKeynoted 1 other conference: ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)
- Jana Eggerskeynote here · Nara LogicsKeynoted 1 other conference: Data Universe
- Jigyasa Grover · Bordo AISpoke at 4 other conferences: PyCon (national Python conferences), Data Innovation Summit, MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon…
- Lindsay MurphySpoke at 4 other conferences: Data Council, Coalesce, Data Day Texas…
Activity by year
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No sponsor lists recorded
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29–30, 2026 | DataConnect Conference 2026 | Columbus, United States | — | — | 30 | |
| Oct 2–3, 2025 | DataConnect Conference 2025 | Columbus, United States | 2,000 | — | 27 | |
| May 20, 2025 | DataConnect West 2025 (DCCWest) | San Francisco, United States | — | — | 19 | |
| Jul 10–12, 2024 | DataConnect Conference 2024 | Columbus, United States | — | — | 65 | |
| May 8, 2024 | DataConnect West 2024 (DCCWest) | Portland, United States | — | — | 19 | |
| Jul 20–21, 2023 | DataConnect Conference 2023 | Columbus, United States | — | — | 56 | |
| Jun 2–3, 2022 | DataConnect Conference 2022 | Columbus, United States | — | — | 5 | |
| Aug 19–21, 2020 | Women in Analytics Conference 2020 | Columbus, United States | Cancelled | — | — | — |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 1 of 8 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
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Sponsors over the years
No sponsors recorded