Conferences / Data Day Texas
Data AI Weekend 2026 (Austin)
Oct 10–11, 2026 · AT&T Hotel and Conference Center (AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin), Austin, TX, United States
- Conference
- Data Day Texas Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 10, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026
- Venue
- AT&T Hotel and Conference Center (AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin)
- Place
- Austin, TX, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No attendance figure published. Eventbrite listing shows the event as completed with sales ended.
- Website
- dataaiweekend.com
- Recorded
- 11 sponsors · 25 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Successor to Data Day Texas, announced in Lynn Bender's essay 'The Evolution of Data Day Texas' (Aug 14, 2026) as the 'beta edition': a two-day, heavily curated event of discussions, a few presentations and workshops, grown out of the Sunday 'Data Discussions' day of 2025-2026. Billed at first as 'Data Weekend' (Data Weekend ATX), renamed 'Data AI Weekend'. Same Eventbrite event (1984522656688) earlier titled 'Data Discussions (AI Discussions)' and 'Data Weekend - Discussions / Presentations / Workshops'. Speakers are called 'Animateurs'; every session on the official sessions page is recorded, plus Juan Sequeda's session that appears only on the (tentative) schedule. Winfried Etzel was listed as a featured animateur with no session. Sessions were discussion-style, with no recordings linked. Sponsors: the event pages show the organizer's 'Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons' sidebar, not tiered event sponsorship; Databricks hosted the Saturday happy hour. Affiliations come from the animateur bios; Thais Cooke (Senior Data Analyst), Winfried Etzel and Jessica Freasier have none given. Matthew Housley also held a book signing (O'Reilly) on Sunday. Ticket tiers were not captured. The site mentions early-bird pricing, but the only price found is a third-party aggregator listing.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listed ticket price (aggregator) | $507 | — | Single price shown by the HappeningNext aggregator for the Eventbrite listing (checked Nov 2026); tier name unknown and may include fees. | happeningnext.com |
Sponsors 11
Other 11
- Credible Data · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- Databricks · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons (also hosted the Saturday happy hour)
- Franz Inc · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- G.V() · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- It's About Data · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- MotherDuck · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- Numeract · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- PuppyGraph · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- Streamkap · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- Tom Sawyer Software · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
- Zenlytic · Global Data Geeks Friends and Patrons
Speakers and talks 25
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Black | O'Reilly | Speaker | What does "creation" mean in the age of AI? | — |
| Aaron Black | O'Reilly | Speaker | What is teaching and what is learning in the age of AI? | — |
| Alexandra Pasi | Lucidity Sciences | Speaker | Culture and technology, a dynamical system: what the hell is even happening anymore? | — |
| Alexandra Pasi | Lucidity Sciences | Speaker | AI as Mathematician: how it works, when it doesn't, and what it means for other disciplines | — |
| Annie Nelson | GitLab | Speaker | Does your reporting data layer live in 5 different tools? | — |
| Bill Inmon | Forest Rim Technology | Workshop | Getting Business Value From AI : A Workshop | — |
| Bill Inmon | Forest Rim Technology | Speaker | Getting Business Value From AI : pt 2 / AMA | — |
| Jessica Freasier | — | Speaker | Through the Context Glass: A Deep Dive on Principles | — |
| Juan Sequeda | ServiceNow | Speaker | Scar Tissue: Lessons from 20 Years of Building Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs | — |
| Karl Ivo Sokolov | Specific AI | Speaker | Between the Strategy Deck and the Invoice: Data Platform and AI Economics for 2027 | — |
| Kierra Dotson | Further | Speaker | Between the Strategy Deck and the Invoice: Data Platform and AI Economics for 2027 | — |
| Matt Housley | Halfpipe Systems | Speaker | Agents of Chaos | — |
| Matthew Mullins | Coginiti | Speaker | Will the real semantic layer please standup | — |
| Matthew Mullins | Coginiti | Speaker | Hot take, the only data migration that makes sense is to Apache Iceberg, but what comes next after you've chosen your storage layer? | — |
| Ryan Boyd | MotherDuck | Speaker | AI makes us wrong faster. How does that help the business? Who succeeds the most in this environment? | — |
| Ryan Boyd | MotherDuck | Speaker | How does data infrastructure need to evolve when agents drive the queries? | — |
| Scott Haines | Databricks | Speaker | The Future of Distributed Data Systems | — |
| Scott Haines | Databricks | Speaker | What does Openness in Open Source mean nowadays? | — |
| Serg Masís | Syngenta | Speaker | Who should own an AI agent's memory? | — |
| Serg Masís | Syngenta | Speaker | Can smaller models make agents more trustworthy? | — |
| Thais Cooke | — | Speaker | How can a company measure whether AI is being used well? GenAI & agents | — |
| Thais Cooke | — | Speaker | Where does AI actually belong in the workflow? | — |
| Tim Frazer | Trust & Will | Speaker | If AI stops us breaking things, where does judgement come from? | — |
| Tim Frazer | Trust & Will | Speaker | If AI eats the junior work, how does anyone get in the long way round? | — |
| Winfried Etzel | — | Speaker | — | — |
Sources
- https://dataaiweekend.com/
- https://globaldatageeks.org/events/2026-dataaiweekend-atx/2026-dataaiweekend-atx.html
- https://globaldatageeks.org/events/2026-dataaiweekend-atx/2026-daiw-atx-sessions.html
- https://globaldatageeks.org/events/2026-dataaiweekend-atx/2026-daiw-atx-schedule.html
- https://globaldatageeks.org/events/2026-dataaiweekend-atx/2026-daiw-atx-topics.html
- https://globaldatageeks.org/events/2026-dataaiweekend-atx/2026-daiw-atx-bill-inmon.html
- https://globaldatageeks.org/blogs/bender/20260814-evolution-of-data-day-texas.html
- https://globaldatageeks.org/patrons/patrons.html
- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-ai-weekend-tickets-1984522656688
- https://happeningnext.com/event/data-weekend-discussions-presentations-workshops-eid1ef0kudprlla
- https://motherduck.com/events/data-weekend-atx-2026-2026/
- https://blog.safnet.com/2026/10/12/data-ai-weekend-2026/