Conferences / Data Day Texas
Data Day Texas + AI 2026
Jan 24, 2026 · AT&T Hotel and Conference Center (University of Texas at Austin), Austin, TX, United States
- Conference
- Data Day Texas Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Jan 24, 2026
- 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
- 23 sponsors · 45 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. 16th and billed as the final Data Day Texas (the official sessions page: "As Data Day Texas closes its final chapter"). Followed on Sun Jan 25 by separately ticketed "Sunday Data Discussions and Workshops" (Sunday-only sessions not recorded). Sponsors are shown as one "Patrons and Partners" wall without tiers. Ticket tiers not captured; only Eventbrite aggregate low/high prices incl. fees. Sponsorship prospectus not public (2026-partners page directs to partners@globaldatageeks.org). Lynn Bender's Aug 2026 essay gives attendance caps (1,000 in 2018-2020, 600 from 2023) but no actual 2026 headcount.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest ticket price (Jan 2026) | $407 | — | Eventbrite aggregate low price including fees; ticket tier names not captured. | web.archive.org |
| Highest ticket price (Jan 2026) | $707 | — | Eventbrite aggregate high price including fees. | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 23
Media 3
- It's About Data · Media Partners
- Super Data Brothers · Media Partners
- The Joe Reis Show · Media Partners
Other 20
- CelerData · Patrons and Partners
- Cloudflare · Patrons and Partners
- Count · Patrons and Partners
- Data Lakehouse Hub · Partners
- DataGalaxy · Patrons and Partners
- Franz Inc · Patrons and Partners
- G.V() · Partners
- Gable.ai · Patrons and Partners
- GoodData · Patrons and Partners
- Inferred Edge · Patrons and Partners
- Kineviz · Patrons and Partners
- MotherDuck · Patrons and Partners
- Numeract · Patrons and Partners
- PuppyGraph · Patrons and Partners
- Sequentum · Patrons and Partners
- Streamkap · Patrons and Partners
- Tabsdata · Patrons and Partners
- Tom Sawyer Software · Patrons and Partners
- VeloDB · Patrons and Partners
- Zenlytic · Patrons and Partners
Speakers and talks 45
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Miles | G.V() | Keynote | "Who Needs a Chart When You Can Just Chat?" - the role of data visualization in a post-LLM world | — |
| Patrick McFadin | IBM | Keynote | The Skills that Matter When Everything Changes | — |
| Winfried Adalbert Etzel | — | Keynote | Data Governance Keynote: Existence over Essence? Data Governance in times of AI | — |
| Aaron Black | — | Speaker | How Ideas Become Books: Inside O'Reilly and Data Thought Leadership | — |
| Adriano Vlad-Starrabba | Prometheux | Speaker | The Enterprise of the Future Runs on Ontologies: Making AI Agents Actually Work | — |
| Alex Merced | Dremio | Speaker | Designing an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse: From Requirements to a Stakeholder-Ready Architecture | — |
| Alexandra Pasi | Lucidity Sciences | Speaker | Learning Beyond Language: A New Geometric Paradigm for Better ML | — |
| Amalia Child | — | Speaker | Think Like a Librarian: Fresh Perspectives for Data Teams from a Time-Honored Tradition | — |
| Arthur Bigeard | G.V() | Speaker | Building G.V(): Why Graph Databases Desperately Need Better Tools | — |
| Arvind Prabhakar | Tabsdata | Speaker | I Built Pipelines. I Don’t Trust Them Anymore | — |
| Bill Inmon | — | Speaker | Generative AI and Business Value: Why Corporate Deployment Falls Short | — |
| Casey O'Neill | Sequentum | Speaker | Agentic AI Without the Lawsuits: What Actually Works for Web Automation | — |
| Chris Brousseau | Veox | Speaker | Local AI Saves People (Not Clickbait) | — |
| Ciro Greco | — | Speaker | AI wants to do your data engineering work for you. Should you let it? | — |
| Clair Sullivan | Clair Sullivan and Associates | Speaker | Your Skills, Your Business: Layoff-Proof Your Career through Solopreneurship | — |
| Dylan Anderson | Atombit | Speaker | Beyond the Tech Stack: Navigating the Complete Data Ecosystem | — |
| Glauber Costa | Turso | Speaker | Rewriting SQLite in Rust. Here's What We've Learned | — |
| Hannes Mühleisen | DuckDB Labs | Speaker | The Joy of SQL - If Properly Implemented | — |
| Jans Aasman | Franz Inc | Speaker | The Future Cognitive OS Uses a Knowledge-Based Semantic Layer | — |
| Jean-Georges Perrin | Actian | Workshop | Hands-on Data Product: let's build a data product in 30 minutes (hands-on workshop) | — |
| Jenna Jordan | Ratio PBC | Speaker | Think Like a Librarian: Fresh Perspectives for Data Teams from a Time-Honored Tradition | — |
| Joe Reis | — | Speaker | — | — |
| Jon Haddad | Rustyrazorblade Consulting | Speaker | Stop Guessing, Start Measuring: A Decade of Database Experimentation and Tuning | — |
| Jonathan Ellis | Brokk | Speaker | Brokk: Context Engineering for Large Codebases | — |
| Jonathan Mugan | DeUmbra | Speaker | LLMs Expand Computer Programs by Adding Judgment | — |
| Juan Sequeda | ServiceNow | Speaker | Scar Tissue: Lessons from 20 Years of Building Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs | — |
| Kierra Dotson | IBM | Speaker | The Engineer's Guide to AI Strategy: Bridging the Gap Between Business and Technical Reality | — |
| Lena Hall | Droid AI | Speaker | Context > Prompts: Context Engineering Deep Dive | — |
| Mark Freeman II | Gable.ai | Speaker | Code: The Untapped Metadata Source Driving Most Data Failures | — |
| Matthew Housley | Ternary Data | Speaker | — | — |
| Matthew Mullins | Coginiti | Speaker | DataOps Is Culture, Not a Toolchain | — |
| Matthew Sharp | Flexion | Speaker | How to Hack An Agent in 10 Prompts: and other true stories from 2025 | — |
| Paul Blankley | Zenlytic | Speaker | Agents are eating the semantic layer | — |
| Prashanth Rao | LanceDB | Speaker | — | — |
| Russell Spitzer | Snowflake | Speaker | What Apache Iceberg is Bad At …. For Now | — |
| Ryan Boyd | — | Speaker | AI for Business Analytics: the Time is Now | — |
| Sanjeev Mohan | SanjMo | Speaker | 2026 Trends: Building Foundations That Endure | — |
| Sarah McKenna | Sequentum | Speaker | Agentic AI Without the Lawsuits: What Actually Works for Web Automation | — |
| Shachar Meir | — | Speaker | The $1M Data Professional | — |
| Shane Gibson | — | Speaker | How to gather data requirements in 30 minutes or less - the Information Product Canvas | — |
| Thais Cooke | — | Speaker | The Human Layer of Data: Why Trust Lives in the Work Behind the Numbers | — |
| Tim Berglund | Confluent | Speaker | Streams of Future Past | — |
| Trey Blalock | — | Speaker | The Weaponization of AI, Its Impact on Organizations, and How to Respond | — |
| Vaibhav Gupta | Boundary | Speaker | Building a new programming language in 2026 - A BAML AMA Session with Vaibhav Gupta | — |
| Weimo Liu | PuppyGraph | Speaker | Context Trace/Graph: Observability for AI Agents | — |
Sources
- https://datadaytexas.com/2026/sessions
- https://datadaytexas.com/2026/speakers
- https://datadaytexas.com/2026/schedule
- https://datadaytexas.com/2026/venue
- https://datadaytexas.com/2026-partners
- https://datadaytexas.com/2026/sunday
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260120201809/https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-day-texas-ai-2026-tickets-1232401368669?utm_campaign=35352733-Data%20Day%20Texas%202026&utm_content=365978015&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-64446352
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-data-discussions-and-workshops-tickets-1316875763859