Conferences / Data Outpost
Small Data SF 2025
Nov 4–5, 2025 · Convene 100 Stockton, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- Data Outpost Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 5, 2025
- Venue
- Convene 100 Stockton
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Site says '2 Days IRL, 26 Speakers, 8 Workshops'; no 2025 headcount found.
- Website
- smalldatasf.com
- Recorded
- 7 sponsors · 33 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Held as Small Data SF (predecessor name of Data Outpost). Nov 4: 8 hands-on workshops; Nov 5: talks. Main-day talks with YouTube recordings from smalldatasf.com/2025/talks. Workshop titles were not published in text (only an image); the 9 speakers with null talk_title appear on the 2025 speaker list but not on the Nov 5 agenda, so they presumably led workshops (unconfirmed). Benn Stancil listed as 'Former Co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer at Mode' (no current affiliation). Sam Alexander listed as Extended Play in Oct 2025 snapshot, Knapsack on current site. Some talk titles changed between the Oct 2025 agenda and the recordings page (e.g. Benn Stancil 'The end of small data'); recordings-page titles used.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-day all-access pass (early bird) | $295 | Aug 4, 2025 | motherduck.com | |
| Two-day all-access pass | $379 | — | Price shown Oct 2025 | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 7
Title / headline 1
- MotherDuck · Presented By (organizer)
Other 3
- Airbyte · Presented By
- Dagster Labs · Presented By
- Hex · Presented By
Speakers and talks 33
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Reis | Deeplearning.ai | Keynote | The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents and Beyond | Video |
| Jordan Tigani | MotherDuck | Keynote | The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data | Video |
| Adi Polak | Confluent | Speaker | Projection Pushdown vs Predicate Pushdown: Rethinking Query Efficiency | Video |
| Barr Moses | Monte Carlo | Panelist | Panel: Don't duck up the Numbers: Where AI Hype Meets BI Reality | Video |
| Barry McCardel | Hex | Panelist | Panel: Don't duck up the Numbers: Where AI Hype Meets BI Reality | Video |
| Becca Bruggman | Omni | Speaker | — | — |
| Benn Stancil | — | Panelist | Panel: Is the Future Small? | Video |
| Benn Stancil | — | Speaker | In the long run, everything is a fad | Video |
| Brian Douglas | Continue | Speaker | — | — |
| Colin Zima | Omni | Panelist | Panel: Don't duck up the Numbers: Where AI Hype Meets BI Reality | Video |
| Dennis Hume | Dagster Labs | Speaker | — | — |
| Elvis Kahoro | Chalk | Speaker | — | — |
| George Fraser | Fivetran | Speaker | Building Distributed DuckDB Processing for Lakes | Video |
| George Fraser | Fivetran | Panelist | Panel: Is the Future Small? | Video |
| Glauber Costa | Turso | Speaker | Small data, big features: we are rewriting SQLite! | Video |
| Holden Karau | Fight Health Insurance | Speaker | When not to use Spark? | Video |
| Jacob Matson | MotherDuck | Workshop | Serverless lakehouse from scratch with DuckLake | — |
| Joe Reis | Deeplearning.ai | Panelist | Panel: Is the Future Small? | Video |
| Jordan Tigani | MotherDuck | Panelist | Panel: Don't duck up the Numbers: Where AI Hype Meets BI Reality | Video |
| Ravin Kumar | Speaker | From 1 parameter model to 100 billion parameter models. How progress on one benefits all | Video | |
| Russ Garner | Omni | Speaker | — | — |
| Sahil Gupta | DoSomething.org | Speaker | Doing More with our Data at DoSomething.Org: a Nonprofit’s Small Data Story | Video |
| Sam Alexander | Knapsack | Speaker | Uncharted: Building a Semantic Layer + MCP to Map 1.7M Songwriter Connections with Claude Code. | Video |
| Scott Haines | Buf | Speaker | 4 Lessons Learned the Hard Way and How Thinking Small Saved the Day | Video |
| Shelby Heinecke | Salesforce | Speaker | Better Data, Smaller Models, Bigger Impact | Video |
| Shelby Heinecke | Salesforce | Panelist | Panel: Is the Future Small? | Video |
| Tahlia DeMaio | Hex | Speaker | — | — |
| Teague Sterling | 23andMe | Speaker | Explore23: Web application for exploration of a large genomic research cohort | Video |
| Thierry Jean | dltHub | Speaker | — | — |
| Tristan Handy | dbt Labs | Panelist | Panel: Don't duck up the Numbers: Where AI Hype Meets BI Reality | Video |
| Upal Saha | bem | Speaker | — | — |
| Zain Hasan | Together AI | Workshop | — | — |
| Zulfikar Qureshi | Estuary | Speaker | — | — |
Sources
- https://www.smalldatasf.com/
- https://www.smalldatasf.com/2025/talks
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251006002507/https://smalldatasf.com/
- https://motherduck.com/blog/announcing-small-data-sf-2025/
- https://motherduck.com/blog/small-data-sf-recap-2025/
- https://motherduck.com/events/small-data-sf-workshop-day-2025/