Conferences / Data Day Texas
Data Day Texas + AI 2025
Jan 25, 2025 · AT&T Hotel and Conference Center (University of Texas at Austin), Austin, TX, United States
- Conference
- Data Day Texas Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Jan 25, 2025
- Venue
- AT&T Hotel and Conference Center (University of Texas at Austin)
- Place
- Austin, TX, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- datadaytexas.com
- Recorded
- 17 sponsors · 49 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Speakers: all sessions on the year's sessions page (includes the Graph Day / track sessions held within Data Day); affiliations as shown on the sessions page, or from the speaker bio on the speakers page when the sessions page gives none. A separate Sunday "Data Discussions" event (Jan 26, 9am-5pm; no presentations; limited to 200 Data Day attendees) followed. Sponsors from a March 2025 snapshot of the venue page (the live page now mixes in 2026 patrons).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registration (through 1/20) | $370 | Jan 20, 2025 | Face value before Eventbrite fees. | web.archive.org |
| Group discount (3 or more) | $317 | — | Face value before Eventbrite fees. | web.archive.org |
| Registration | $550 | — | Face value before Eventbrite fees. | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 17
Media 3
- GraphGeeks · Media Partners
- Super Data Brothers · Media Partners
- The Joe Reis Show · Media Partners
Other 14
- Caffé Medici · Official Coffee House
- DataGalaxy · Data / AI Governance Partner
- Elastic · Generative AI Partner
- Franz Inc · Graph Partners
- GoodData · AI Analytics Partner
- Instaclustr · Open Source Partner
- Kineviz · Graph BI Partner
- KNIME · Low Code Partner
- Neo4j · Graph Partners
- PuppyGraph · Graph Partners
- ScyllaDB · Database Performance Partner
- Snowplow · Analytics Partner
- Tom Sawyer Software · Visualization Partner
- Yellowfin · BI Partner
Speakers and talks 49
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chip Huyen | — | Keynote | From ML Engineer to AI Engineer | — |
| Jean-Georges Perrin | Expedia Group | Keynote | Data Mesh is the Grail, Bitol is your Journey | — |
| Jonathan Mugan | DeUmbra | Keynote | What Superintelligence Will Look Like | — |
| Mark Freeman | Gable.ai | Keynote | Introduction to Data Contracts | — |
| Michael Hunger | Neo4j | Keynote | The Power of GraphRAG - Successful Architectures and Patterns | — |
| Ole Olesen-Bagneux | — | Keynote | Meta Grid - metadata management as an understanding of what already is and embracing it | — |
| Vaibhav Gupta | Boundary | Keynote | LLMs in Production - How to Keep Them from Breaking | — |
| Adam Sroka | Hypercube | Speaker | Optimisation Platforms for Energy Trading | — |
| Alex Dean | Snowplow | Speaker | Towards a sensory system for AI agents | — |
| Amy Hodler | — | Workshop | Causal Graphs in Practice | — |
| Andrew Nguyen | Best Buy | Speaker | Context Engineering: A Framework for Data Intelligence | — |
| Anne-Claire Baschet | Mirakl | Speaker | Escape the Data & AI Death Cycle, Enter the Data & AI Product Mindset | — |
| Annie Nelson | GitLab | Speaker | The human side of data: Using technical storytelling to drive action | — |
| Arthur Delaitre | Mirakl | Speaker | Deployment at scale of an AI system based on custom LLMs : technical challenges and architecture | — |
| Bethany Lyons | Assured Insights | Speaker | Automating Financial Reconciliation with Linear Programming and Optimization | — |
| Bill Inmon | — | Speaker | How to become a hero - the journey to text | — |
| Chris Tabb | LEIT DATA | Speaker | The Force multiplier effect. How data platform foundations drive efficiency | — |
| Clair Sullivan | Clair Sullivan and Associates | Speaker | Empowering Change: Building and Sustaining a Data Culture from the Ground Up | — |
| Clair Sullivan | Clair Sullivan and Associates | Speaker | From Office Cubicles to Independent Success: How to Create a Career and Thrive as a Freelance Data Scientist | — |
| David Hughes | GraphAware | Speaker | Unleashing the Power of Multimodal GraphRAG: Integrating Image Features for Deeper Insights | — |
| Eevamaija Virtanen | Helsinki Data Week | Speaker | Bridge Skills: The Hardest Problem Tech Still Can’t Solve | — |
| Hala Nelson | James Madison University | Speaker | The Future of Data Education and Publishing in the Era of AI | — |
| Hala Nelson | James Madison University | Speaker | Adopting AI in a Large Complex Organization- Aspiration vs Reality | — |
| Jess Haberman | Anaconda | Speaker | The Future of Data Education and Publishing in the Era of AI | — |
| Jessica Talisman | Adobe | Speaker | We Are All Librarians: Systems for Organizing in the Age of AI | — |
| Joe Reis | — | Speaker | — | — |
| Jordan Morrow | AgileOne | Speaker | Elevating Data in the Business - Bring Data and AI Skills to Life | — |
| Juan Sequeda | data.world | Speaker | How to Start Investing in Semantics and Knowledge: A Practical Guide | — |
| Keith Belanger | SqlDBM | Speaker | Data Modeling in the Age of AI | — |
| Leann Chen | Diffbot | Speaker | Back to the basics of LLM pipeline for production | — |
| Lisa Cao | Datastrato | Speaker | History and Future of Iceberg REST Catalogs | — |
| Lisa Cao | Datastrato | Speaker | Fundamentals of DataOps | — |
| Malcolm Hawker | Profisee | Speaker | Data Governance – It’s Time to Start Over | — |
| Matthew Housley | Ternary Data | Speaker | — | — |
| Max De Marzi | maxdemarzi.com | Speaker | Modeling in Graph Databases | — |
| Michelle Yi | Women in Data | Workshop | Causal Graphs in Practice | — |
| Michelle Yi | Women in Data | Speaker | All Your Base Are Belong To Us: Adversarial Attack and Defense | — |
| Michelle Yi | Women in Data | Speaker | The Future of Data Education and Publishing in the Era of AI | — |
| Patrick McFadin | DataStax | Speaker | Moving Beyond Text-to-SQL: Reliable Database Access through LLM Tooling | — |
| Ryan Dolley | GoodData | Speaker | — | — |
| Ryan Wisnesky | Conexus | Speaker | Validating LLM-Generated SQL Code: A mathematical approach | — |
| Ryan Wisnesky | Conexus | Speaker | Ontologies vs Ologs vs Graphs | — |
| Serg Masís | Syngenta | Speaker | Harvesting Trust: A Case Study on Developing Dependable Specialist Chatbots | — |
| Susan Shu Chang | Elastic | Speaker | Improve your RAG pipelines with semantic re-ranking | — |
| Vin Vashishta | V-Squared | Speaker | The Outcomes Economy: A Technical Introduction To AI Agentic Systems, Multi-Simulations, & Ontologies | — |
| Weidong Yang | Kineviz | Speaker | GraphBI: Expanding Analytics to All Data Through the Combination of GenAI, Graph, and Visual Analytics | — |
| Will Lyon | Hypermode | Speaker | WTF Is A Triple? My Journey From Neo4j To Dgraph | — |
| Xinran Waibel | Netflix | Speaker | — | — |
| Yoann Benoit | Hymaïa | Speaker | Escape the Data & AI Death Cycle, Enter the Data & AI Product Mindset | — |
Sources
- https://datadaytexas.com/2025/sessions
- https://datadaytexas.com/2025/speakers
- https://datadaytexas.com/2025-discussions
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250319083912/https://datadaytexas.com/2025/venue
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250120215625/https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-day-texas-ai-2025-tickets-813239239457
- https://community.databricks.com/t5/austin/mark-your-calendar-data-day-texas-ai-2025-on-january-25/m-p/99550