Conferences / Data Outpost
Small Data SF 2024
Sep 23–24, 2024 · Convene 100 Stockton (40 O'Farrell St), San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- Data Outpost Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Sep 23, 2024 – Sep 24, 2024
- Venue
- Convene 100 Stockton (40 O'Farrell St)
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 260smalldatasf.com/2024 'By the numbers': '260+ attendees, 19 speakers, 08 sponsors, 07 workshops'; MotherDuck recap: 'more than 250 attendees'.
- Website
- smalldatasf.com
- Recorded
- 11 sponsors · 19 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Inaugural edition, held as Small Data SF and co-hosted by MotherDuck with Turso and Ollama. Mon 9/23: half-day hands-on workshops (DuckDB/MotherDuck/dbt, Tigris+Ollama+Fly.io, Fireworks.ai, Quarto/Posit, Outerbase, Turso, Evidence+DuckDB; presenters not named, so not recorded as speakers). Tue 9/24: talks. Kathleen Kenealy (Google, Gemma 2) was on the pre-event agenda at 2:00 PM but the final agenda/recordings show George Fraser's fireside chat in that slot; she is omitted. Richard Wesley shown as 'DuckLabs' on the site (links to duckdblabs.com).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference ticket (workshops + talks) | $329 | — | Price shown Jul-Sep 2024; MotherDuck blog offered $100 off with a promo code; 250 tickets total | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 11
Title / headline 3
- MotherDuck · Host
- Ollama · Host
- Turso · Host
Other 8
- Cloudflare · Sponsor
- dltHub · Sponsor
- Essence VC · Sponsor (workshops)
- Evidence · Sponsor
- Omni · Sponsor
- Outerbase · Sponsor
- Posit · Sponsor
- Tigris Data · Sponsor
Speakers and talks 19
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Tigani | MotherDuck | Keynote | Big is Not a Number: Dispelling the Myths of Big Data | Video |
| Benn Stancil | Mode | Speaker | BI's Big Lie | Video |
| Celina Wong | Data Culture | Panelist | PANEL - Data Minimalism: Delivering Business Value for the 99% | Video |
| Chris Laffra | PySheets | Speaker | PySheets: The spreadsheet UI for Python | Video |
| Gaurav Saxena | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Know thy customer: Why TPC is not enough | Video |
| George Fraser | Fivetran | Speaker | Small Data by the Numbers: Fireside Chat with George Fraser | Video |
| Gilad Lotan | BuzzFeed | Speaker | Where Data Science Meets Shrek: How BuzzFeed leverages AI to Captivate Audiences Worldwide | Video |
| Glauber Costa | Turso | Speaker | Give every user their own database! Unleashing the untapped power of small data | Video |
| Jake Thomas | Okta | Panelist | PANEL - Data Minimalism: Delivering Business Value for the 99% | Video |
| James Winegar | CorrDyn | Panelist | PANEL - Data Minimalism: Delivering Business Value for the 99% | Video |
| Jeffrey Morgan | Ollama | Speaker | Build Bigger with Small AI: Running Small Models Locally | Video |
| Josh Wills | DatologyAI | Panelist | PANEL - Data Minimalism: Delivering Business Value for the 99% | Video |
| Julia Schottenstein | LangChain | Speaker | An evolving DAG for the LLM world | Video |
| Junran Yang | University of Washington | Speaker | Enhancing the Scalability and Usability of Visualization Toolkits | Video |
| Lindsay Murphy | Hiive | Speaker | Squeezing Maximum ROI out of Small Data | Video |
| Ravit S. Jain | The Ravit Show | Moderator | PANEL - Data Minimalism: Delivering Business Value for the 99% | Video |
| Richard Wesley | DuckDB Labs | Speaker | Paddling in Circles: The Return of Edge Computing | Video |
| Søren Bramer Schmidt | Prisma | Speaker | Building Large Apps with Tiny Databases | Video |
| Wes McKinney | Posit | Speaker | Retooling for a Smaller Data Era | Video |
Sources
- https://www.smalldatasf.com/2024
- https://www.smalldatasf.com/2024/talks
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240921183839/https://www.smalldatasf.com/2024
- https://motherduck.com/blog/small-data-sf-workshops-agenda/
- https://motherduck.com/blog/small-data-sf-recap/
- https://motherduck.com/events/small-data-sf-2024/