Conferences / Data Council
Data Council Austin '23
Mar 28–30, 2023 · AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, Austin, TX, United States
- Conference
- Data Council Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Mar 28, 2023 – Mar 30, 2023
- Venue
- AT&T Hotel and Conference Center
- Place
- Austin, TX, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- datacouncil.ai
- Recorded
- 34 sponsors · 102 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First three-day edition. Ticket prices were sold via Ticket Tailor and not shown on the archived pages. Speakers: all talks listed in the AI Council (formerly Data Council) past-events archive; affiliations as given there, which may reflect a speaker's title at a later date.
Ticket prices
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Sponsors 34
Platinum 1
Bronze 19
Community 2
- Data Mesh Learning · Community Partner
- The Data Stack Show · Community Partner
Speakers and talks 102
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry McCardel | Hex | Keynote | Hot or Not? Trends & Buzzwords in Data Other | — |
| Barry McCardel | Hex | Keynote | AI - The Future is Now GenAI & agents | — |
| DJ Patil | — | Keynote | The things I wish I knew -- What I've gotten right and wrong from startups to the White House, and the world ahead Strategy & culture | — |
| Drew Banin | dbt Labs | Keynote | Hot or Not? Trends & Buzzwords in Data Other | — |
| George Mathew | Insight | Keynote | AI - The Future is Now GenAI & agents | — |
| Gregory Larson | Jasper | Keynote | AI - The Future is Now GenAI & agents | — |
| Idan Gazit | GitHub | Keynote | AI - The Future is Now GenAI & agents | — |
| Julia Schottenstein | dbt Labs | Keynote | Hot or Not? Trends & Buzzwords in Data Other | — |
| Pedram Navid | Dagster Labs | Keynote | Hot or Not? Trends & Buzzwords in Data Other | — |
| Sean Owen | Databricks | Keynote | AI - The Future is Now GenAI & agents | — |
| Shirshanka Das | Acryl Data | Keynote | Building a Control Plane for Data Governance & security | — |
| Aaron Richter, PhD | formerly Squarespace | Talk | A deep dive into the dbt manifest Analytics engineering | — |
| Aaron Wroblewski | Zillow | Talk | The Data Infra Behind Zillow's 3x Growth in Experiment Volume Data science | — |
| Abhi Sivasailam | Levers Labs | Talk | Designing and Building Metric Trees Database internals | — |
| Ahmad Khan | Snowflake | Talk | Train, Deploy, and Run a ML model using Python, Snowpark and Streamlit ML & MLOps | — |
| Ahmed Elsamadisi | Narrator | Talk | How to End the Long-tail of Most Data Requests? Other | — |
| Alec Bialosky | Select Star | Talk | Modern Data Management - How to Set Your Data Team Up for Success Strategy & culture | — |
| Alex Merced | Dremio | Talk | Experiencing Data as Code with Dremio Arctic and Apache Iceberg Warehouse & lakehouse | — |
| Alice Leach | Whatnot | Talk | Extreme Self-Service: Turning Data Consumers into Data Constructors BI & semantic layer | — |
| Antoni Baum | Anyscale | Talk | HuggingFace + Ray AIR Integration: A Python Developer’s Guide to Scaling Transformers ML & MLOps | — |
| Ayush Patel | Censius | Talk | Evolving AI Laws and the Imperative to Build Safe, Compliant, and Risk-proof AI Governance & security | — |
| Ben Rogojan | Seattle Data Guy | Talk | What I Don’t Want To Exist In The Data World In 5 Years Strategy & culture | — |
| Chad Sanderson | Gable.ai | Talk | Data Contracts: Accountable Data Quality Data quality & observability | — |
| Curtis Northcutt | Cleanlab | Talk | Automatically Fix Data Issues & Label Errors in Most ML Datasets ML & MLOps | — |
| D. Sivakumar | Tonita | Talk | Generative AI for Search GenAI & agents | — |
| Dan Eisenberg | Hashboard | Talk | DataOps for Business Intelligence: How "Dashboards as Code" Can Help You Develop and Validate Your Analytics BI & semantic layer | — |
| Daniel Myers | Snowflake | Talk | The Story of DevRel at Snowflake: How We Got Here Strategy & culture | — |
| Daniel Selans | Streamdal | Talk | Real-time Schema Discovery Streaming | — |
| David Wilson | Hunch Tools | Talk | Latency is the Mind Killer: it’s Time to Reimagine Data Interactions Other | — |
| Dean Pleban | DagsHub | Talk | ML in Production – What Does “Production” Even Mean? ML & MLOps | — |
| Dennis Hume | Materialize | Talk | Streaming Analytics with dbt: The Fun Parts Streaming | — |
| DeVaris Brown | Meroxa | Talk | Creating Self Service, High Velocity Data Cultures Strategy & culture | — |
| Dr. Nile Wilson | Microsoft | Talk | Writing Unit Tests for Data Science Code Data science | — |
| Emily Curtin | Intuit | Talk | Extinguishing the Garbage Fire of ML Testing ML & MLOps | — |
| Emma Tang | — | Talk | The Road to Exceptional Data Correctness Data quality & observability | — |
| Erik Bernhardsson | Modal | Talk | Creating our own Kubernetes and Docker to run our data infrastructure Infrastructure & cost | — |
| Erik Edelmann | Hightouch | Talk | How to Make Marketing Fall In Love with Data Modeling Analytics engineering | — |
| Fedor Zhdanov | Toloka | Talk | How to Ensure Your Model Does Not Drift? From Human-In-The-Loop Concept to Building Fully Adaptive Ml Models Using Crowdsourcing ML & MLOps | — |
| Felipe Hoffa | Snowflake | Talk | The Story of DevRel at Snowflake: How We Got Here Strategy & culture | — |
| Frank McSherry | Materialize | Talk | How to Build a Streaming Database in Three Challenging Steps Streaming | — |
| Gaurav Rao | AtScale | Talk | A New Era of Applied AI: How to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of AI for Business Impact Strategy & culture | — |
| Greg Johnson | GlossGenius | Talk | Building a Business Review Program from Scratch Strategy & culture | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Decodable | Talk | ETL with Change Data Capture in 30 Minutes Data engineering | — |
| Gunnar Morling | Decodable | Talk | Change Data Streaming Patterns With Debezium & Apache Flink Streaming | — |
| Hamel Husain | Parlance Labs | Talk | Innovating on Software Development Other | — |
| Ian Schweer | Riot Games | Talk | MLOps for League of Legends - Heimerdinger Toolbelt ML & MLOps | — |
| Ian Whitestone | SELECT | Talk | The Missing Manual: Everything you need to know about Snowflake optimization Warehouse & lakehouse | — |
| Idan Gazit | GitHub | Talk | Designing for Intelligence at GitHub Next: Patterns and Practices for Making AI-powered Products GenAI & agents | — |
| Ivan Aguilar | Teleskope | Talk | Continuous Data Pipeline for Real-time Benchmarking & Data Set Augmentation Data engineering | — |
| J.J. Allaire | Posit | Talk | Publishing Jupyter Notebooks with Quarto Data science | — |
| Jean-Pierre Trou | mbue | Talk | Building a better world with AI, one architectural drawing at a time GenAI & agents | — |
| Jeffrey Chou | Sync Computing | Talk | How to Optimize Apache Spark Cloud Clusters for Cost and Runtime Goals with Sync Computing Infrastructure & cost | — |
| Jordan Tigani | MotherDuck | Talk | Big Data is Dead Strategy & culture | — |
| Julian Hyde | Talk | Cubing and Metrics in SQL, oh my! Analytics engineering | — | |
| Julien Le Dem | Datadog | Talk | Ten years of building open source standards: From Parquet to Arrow to OpenLineage Community & projects | — |
| Kartik Nagappa | Sync Computing | Talk | How to Optimize Apache Spark Cloud Clusters for Cost and Runtime Goals with Sync Computing Infrastructure & cost | — |
| Katie Bauer | GlossGenius | Talk | Building a Business Review Program from Scratch Strategy & culture | — |
| Katie Hindson | Lightdash | Talk | Data Products Aren't Just for Data Teams! Strategy & culture | — |
| Katrina Riehl | NumFOCUS | Talk | Behind the Curtain: What it Takes to Support the World's Most Popular Open Source Communities Community & projects | — |
| Kurt Steckel | Census | Talk | Like Legos, but better: An interactive workshop on the building blocks of user segmentation with reverse ETL Data engineering | — |
| Kyle Eaton | Great Expectations | Talk | Teamwork Makes the (Open Source) Dream Work: the Power of Cross-community Collaboration Community & projects | — |
| Kyle Kirwan | Bigeye | Talk | Incident Management for Data People Data quality & observability | — |
| Lauren Reeder | Sequoia Capital | Talk | How Investors Think About Data Strategy & culture | — |
| Leigh Marie Braswell | Founders Fund | Talk | How Investors Think About Data Strategy & culture | — |
| Maddie Schults | Crisis Text Line | Talk | Conversation Simulator: A Real Life Case Leveraging OpenAI's API GenAI & agents | — |
| Mady Mantha | Happypillar | Talk | This App Ends Tantrums: How ML, NLP, and Five Minutes of Playtime Help Parents, Caregivers, and Children Enjoy Life Together ML & MLOps | — |
| Maggie Hays | Acryl Data | Talk | URGENT! Help these Pets Find Homes: Working Across Teams in DataHub Governance & security | — |
| Maggie Hays | Acryl Data | Talk | Teamwork Makes the (Open Source) Dream Work: the Power of Cross-community Collaboration Community & projects | — |
| Margi Dubal | FreeWheel | Talk | How Freewheel Processes Billions of Ad-tech Events in Real-time Streaming | — |
| Mark Grover | Stemma | Talk | Feed The Alligators With the Lights On: How Data Engineers Can See Who Really Uses Data Strategy & culture | — |
| Mateo García, PhD | Crisis Text Line | Talk | Conversation Simulator: A Real Life Case Leveraging OpenAI's API GenAI & agents | — |
| Matt Forrest | CARTO | Talk | Using Spatial Indexes to perform geospatial analytics at massive scale Database internals | — |
| Matt Housley | Ternary Data | Talk | The End of History? Convergence of Batch and Realtime Data Technologies Data engineering | — |
| Matthew Topol | Voltron Data | Talk | Making Moves with Arrow Data: Introducing Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) Database internals | — |
| Max Mergenthaler | Nixtla | Talk | Hierarchical Forecasting in Python Data science | — |
| Meredith Adler | Hightouch | Talk | How to Make Marketing Fall In Love with Data Modeling Analytics engineering | — |
| Mikiko Bazeley | Featureform | Talk | The Fun-Sized MLOps Stack from Scratch ML & MLOps | — |
| Nan Ding | Uber | Talk | Scaling Uber Metric System from Elasticsearch to Pinot Operational databases | — |
| Niall Woodward | SELECT | Talk | The Missing Manual: Everything you need to know about Snowflake optimization Warehouse & lakehouse | — |
| Noelle Saldana | Data Science & Analytics | Talk | Hot Takes and Tragic Mistakes: How (not) to Integrate Data People in Your App Dev Team Workflows Strategy & culture | — |
| Pardis Noorzad | General Folders | Talk | The state of cross-company data exchange Governance & security | — |
| Paul Blankley | Zenlytic | Talk | LLM’s & Semantic Layer: Self-serve has Entered the Chat BI & semantic layer | — |
| Paul Logan | Acryl Data | Talk | URGENT! Help these Pets Find Homes: Working Across Teams in DataHub Governance & security | — |
| Pete Soderling | AI Council & Zero Prime Ventures | Talk | How Investors Think About Data Strategy & culture | — |
| Peter Lenz | Near | Talk | Everything I Know About Data Science I Learned From Model Railroading Data science | — |
| Rick Saporta | Entera | Talk | Data Product Success: Aligning with Data's Core Purpose - A Framework for Data Product Management for Increasing Adoption & User Love Strategy & culture | — |
| Robert Yi | Hyperquery | Talk | How to Be a 10x Analyst Strategy & culture | — |
| Ron Green | mbue | Talk | Building a better world with AI, one architectural drawing at a time GenAI & agents | — |
| Sarah Nagy | Seek AI | Talk | Generative AI and the Natural Language Interface for Data GenAI & agents | — |
| Shir Chorev | Deepchecks | Talk | Why People Started Testing Their Models and Data in CI / CD Pipelines Data quality & observability | — |
| Taylor Murphy | Meltano | Talk | From 1 to IPO: Growing the Data Team and Data Culture at GitLab Strategy & culture | — |
| Thomas Mickley-Doyle | Vercel | Talk | How Vercel Builds Dozens of Metrics from One Heterogenous Table Analytics engineering | — |
| Timo Walther | Confluent | Talk | CDC Stream Processing with Apache Flink Streaming | — |
| Timothy Chan | Statsig | Talk | Scaling Experimentation to 20 Billion Users Data science | — |
| Tino Tereshko | MotherDuck | Talk | Data Warehouses are Gilded Cages. What Comes Next? Warehouse & lakehouse | — |
| Tristan Zajonc | Continual | Talk | Generative AI for Product Builders GenAI & agents | — |
| Vino Duraisamy | Treeverse | Talk | Building an ML Experimentation Platform for Easy Reproducibility ML & MLOps | — |
| Wesley Faulkner | Amazon Web Services | Talk | Creating the Right Developer Community for Your Company Strategy & culture | — |
| Yaniv Ben Hemo | Memphis | Talk | Govern Your Data Clients - the Right Way to Scale Governance & security | — |
| Yupeng Fu | Uber | Talk | Scaling Uber Metric System from Elasticsearch to Pinot Operational databases | — |
| Zachary Klein | Whatnot | Talk | Data Contracts in the Modern Data Stack Data quality & observability | — |
| Zander Matheson | Bytewax | Talk | Getting Real(-Time): When to move from Batch to Streaming (and how to do it without hiring an entirely new team) Streaming | — |