Conferences / Data Outpost
Data Outpost 2026
Nov 4–5, 2026 · Convene 100 Stockton, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Conference
- Data Outpost Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Nov 4, 2026 – Nov 5, 2026
- Venue
- Convene 100 Stockton
- Place
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- dataoutpost.ai
- Recorded
- 11 sponsors · 37 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First edition under the Data Outpost name; successor to Small Data SF. Nov 4: 11 hands-on workshops; Nov 5: talks and panels. Speakers: full list (37) from the official agenda. Joe Reis listed only as 'Co-Author of O'Reilly Fundamentals of Data Engineering' (no company); Shreya Shankar listed as 'Incoming Assistant Professor @ CMU'. Tristan Handy listed as 'Fivetran + dbt Labs'.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two-day pass (workshops + talks) | $499 | — | Same $499 price shown in Sept 2026 Wayback snapshot and on the live site; no early-bird tier found | dataoutpost.ai |
Sponsors 11
Title / headline 1
- MotherDuck · Presenting
Other 10
- Airbyte · Partners
- Basedash · Partners
- Braintrust · Partners
- Estuary · Partners
- Hex · Partners
- Polytomic · Partners
- Prefect · Partners
- Reducto · Partners
- Sigma Computing · Partners
- Vercel · Partners
Speakers and talks 37
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Tigani | MotherDuck | Keynote | Episode IV: A New Hope for Data | — |
| Alex Monahan | MotherDuck | Workshop | Lakehouses for Robots: Scaling DuckLake and Iceberg for Agent Workloads | — |
| Alexis Weill | Perplexity | Panelist | Data + AI Product Leadership: The Data Stack After Agents | — |
| Ameya Bhatawdekar | Braintrust | Speaker | From Evals to Active Observability: The Continuous Improvement Loop for AI Agents | — |
| Andy Lui | Reducto | Workshop | From Unstructured Documents to Agent-Ready Data | — |
| Arnav Mishra | Doss | Speaker | Delivering Self-Serve Intelligence in a Composable System of Record | — |
| Ben Holtzman | AheadComputing | Speaker | Thinking Ahead: Everyone Deserves Better Data | — |
| Benn Stancil | OpenAI | Speaker | Welcome to Guess Town | — |
| Colton Padden | Vercel | Workshop | Build a Data Agent with eve | — |
| Dumky de Wilde | MotherDuck | Workshop | What to Move, What to Fix, What to Leave Behind: Migrating to MotherDuck | — |
| Edward Park | Prefect | Workshop | Give Your Agents the Tools it Needs with FastMCP | — |
| Izzy Hurley | Braintrust | Workshop | The Agent Loop: From Traces to Patterns to Better Agents | — |
| Jacob Matson | MotherDuck | Workshop | The Next Data Stack Has No UI: Building End-to-End Analytics with Agents and Ducks | — |
| Jake Hannan | Sigma Computing | Panelist | Data + AI Product Leadership: The Data Stack After Agents | — |
| Joe Reis | — | Speaker | Machinery, Meaning, and Agency: Data Engineering for AI | — |
| John Wasserman | Estuary | Workshop | From Scheduled Syncs to Real Time Data Using Change Data Capture: A Hands-On Lab | — |
| Julia Silge | Posit | Speaker | The SQL Agent Harness We Didn’t Mean to Build | — |
| Leanne Fretz | Mercury | Panelist | Data + AI Product Leadership: The Data Stack After Agents | — |
| Lucie Thimus | Opto Investments | Speaker | Understanding Comes Before Modeling: A Data Engineer's Philosophy for the Age of AI Extraction | — |
| Matt Martin | State Farm | Workshop | Lakehouses for Robots: Scaling DuckLake and Iceberg for Agent Workloads | — |
| Mehdi Ouazza | MotherDuck | Workshop | The Next Data Stack Has No UI: Building End-to-End Analytics with Agents and Ducks | — |
| Michael Rhee | Fleetio | Speaker | Finding a Seat at the Table for Your Agent | — |
| Michael Sermersheim | Airbyte | Workshop | Turning Your Data Into AI Context, Powered by Airbyte | — |
| Palak Agarwal | Reducto | Workshop | From Unstructured Documents to Agent-Ready Data | — |
| Richelle Herrli | Airbyte | Workshop | Turning Your Data Into AI Context, Powered by Airbyte | — |
| Sam Redfern | Canva | Speaker | Automating the Creation of the Semantic Layer | — |
| Shreya Shankar | Carnegie Mellon University | Panelist | AI at Scale Inside Real Companies | — |
| Spencer Seale | Braintrust | Workshop | The Agent Loop: From Traces to Patterns to Better Agents | — |
| Stefanie Tignor | Clay | Panelist | Data + AI Product Leadership: The Data Stack After Agents | — |
| Sudeep Das | DoorDash | Panelist | AI at Scale Inside Real Companies | — |
| Tomasz Tunguz | Theory Ventures | Panelist | AI at Scale Inside Real Companies | — |
| Tosh Rayadhurgam | Stripe | Panelist | AI at Scale Inside Real Companies | — |
| Tristan Handy | Fivetran | Moderator | Data + AI Product Leadership: The Data Stack After Agents | — |
| Tyler Johnson | Sigma Computing | Workshop | See it Live: A Hands-On Sigma + MotherDuck Lab | — |
| Upal Saha | bem | Speaker | Your Compliance Team Was Right: Why Regulated Firms Must Own Their Data+AI Stack | — |
| Zain Hasan | Together AI | Workshop | LLM Inference for the World of Agents | — |
| Zalak Trivedi | Sigma Computing | Workshop | See it Live: A Hands-On Sigma + MotherDuck Lab | — |
Sources
- https://www.dataoutpost.ai/
- https://www.dataoutpost.ai/page.md
- https://motherduck.com/blog/announcing-data-outpost-conference/
- https://motherduck.com/blog/data-outpost-2026-agenda/
- https://motherduck.com/events/data-outpost-2026-2026/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260911115951/https://www.dataoutpost.ai/?trk=public_profile__posts-text