Conferences / Data Con LA
Data Con LA 2025
Nov 8, 2025 · California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, United States
- Conference
- Data Con LA Data science & ML
- Dates
- Nov 8, 2025
- Venue
- California State University, Long Beach
- Place
- Long Beach, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Recap gives 45 speakers and 25 sessions and says attendance grew ~50% year over year, but no headcount.
- Website
- dataconla.com
- Recorded
- 9 sponsors · 45 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 13th annual event; four tracks incl. new Data Career Development. Founder Subash D'Souza stepped down from active organizing after this edition. 'Sponsors' tier mapped to other. Tickets on Ticket Tailor with a student discount (prices not archived).
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 9
Title / headline 1
Community 4
- AI LA · Community Partners
- ISSA-LA · Community Partners
- OWASP Los Angeles · Community Partners
- Women in Data · Community Partners
Other 4
- Tabsdata · Sponsors
- UC San Diego Rady MSBA · Sponsors
- UCLA · Sponsors
- Ware Valley · Sponsors
Speakers and talks 45
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrienne Lahens | Infinite Studios | Keynote | It May Be Too Late: AI has Changed Hollywood Forever ... and Now it is Coming for the Creator Economy | — |
| Anita Sengupta, PhD | Hydroplane Ltd | Keynote | Data Con LA 2025 Keynote | — |
| Ed Clark, PhD | California State University, Long Beach | Keynote | Data Con LA 2025 Keynote | — |
| Eric Shamlin | Firebringer AI | Keynote | It May Be Too Late: AI has Changed Hollywood Forever ... and Now it is Coming for the Creator Economy | — |
| Hernan Lopez | Owl & Company | Keynote | It May Be Too Late: AI has Changed Hollywood Forever ... and Now it is Coming for the Creator Economy | — |
| Sara Nourazari, PhD | California State University, Long Beach | Keynote | Data Con LA 2025 Keynote | — |
| Subash D'Souza | California State University, Long Beach | Keynote | Data Con LA 2025 Keynote | — |
| Suhaib Rangoonwala | Altman Solon | Keynote | It May Be Too Late: AI has Changed Hollywood Forever ... and Now it is Coming for the Creator Economy | — |
| Xavier Kochhar | XKE Capital and Advisory | Keynote | It May Be Too Late: AI has Changed Hollywood Forever ... and Now it is Coming for the Creator Economy | — |
| Alex Rasmussen, PhD | Bits on Disk, Inc | Speaker | The Tip of the Iceberg | — |
| Alison Bunce | Meta | Speaker | Designing with Data: Making Information Clear, Actionable, and Beautiful | — |
| Annie Flippo | Urgently, Inc | Panelist | Women in AI | — |
| Arvind Prabhakar | Tabsdata | Speaker | Pub/Sub for Tables: Shift Left for Data Integration | Video |
| Basil Latif | ParagonTech | Panelist | Is Data Science Still a Job? | — |
| Bogdan Rau, MPH | Thinqpoint | Panelist | Bridging Data, Design & Delivery: Transforming Health Systems with Analytics, AI & Operational Insight | — |
| Brendan Hu | Dave | Speaker | Building an End-to-end ML Platform | Video |
| Cambron Carter | Outsmart | Panelist | Is Data Science Still a Job? | — |
| Chris Smith | Crexi | Panelist | Is Data Science Still a Job? | — |
| David Edison | Dave | Speaker | Building an End-to-end ML Platform | Video |
| Devyn Miller | TP-Link Systems | Speaker | Cross-Disciplinary Advantage: Build a Data Career That Stands Out | — |
| Ellie Albertson, PhD | CVS Health | Speaker | Beyond Correlation: A Practical Guide to Causal Inference in Data Science | Video |
| Frederic Schoenberg | UCLA | Speaker | Training-Free Multi-Agent Language Models | — |
| Irina Kukuyeva, PhD | Kukuyeva Consulting | Speaker | Tell me What you Want, What you Really, Really Want: How to Identify the Real Business Question | — |
| James Lott, PsyD, MBA | CSU Long Beach | Panelist | Bridging Data, Design & Delivery: Transforming Health Systems with Analytics, AI & Operational Insight | — |
| Jon Morra | Zefr | Panelist | Is Data Science Still a Job? | — |
| Kapil Poreddy | Walmart | Speaker | From Fragments to Full Story - Replaying History from Snapshots and Streams | — |
| Kunal Sonalkar | Nordstrom | Speaker | Elevating Search Relevance with SigLIP: The Power of Multimodal Retrieval | — |
| Lihao Chu, PhD | Rubicon Founders | Panelist | Bridging Data, Design & Delivery: Transforming Health Systems with Analytics, AI & Operational Insight | — |
| Lishuang Shen | Childen's Hospital Los Angeles | Speaker | “Millions-to-One, Words-to-Terms” - Generative AI in Action for Rare Disease Diagnosis and Clinical Data Harmonization | — |
| Madhumitha Karthikeyan | IEEE Computer Society | Speaker | AI in Risk and Antifraud Domain | Video |
| Manu Mehra | Databricks | Speaker | Human-First Data Careers in the Gen AI World | Video |
| Matthew Lee, RN, PhD | NVIDIA | Panelist | Bridging Data, Design & Delivery: Transforming Health Systems with Analytics, AI & Operational Insight | — |
| Michelle Dunivan, PhD | Best Friends Animal Society | Speaker | Data Under Pressure: Orchestrating Multi-Platform Emergency Response During the LA Wildfires | — |
| Odessa Reyno | Women in Data | Panelist | Women in AI | — |
| Pooja Tekchandani | Teck Law | Panelist | Women in AI | — |
| Robert Hodges | Altinity | Speaker | What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack? | — |
| Sayantan Ghosh | Speaker | Data Debt : The Hidden Malaise Impacting Your Business | — | |
| Sebastian Vasquez | Speaker | Swerve! A Career-Pivot Story: From Comms to Data | — | |
| Shadnaz Asgari, PhD | California State University, Long Beach | Panelist | Women in AI | — |
| Sunita Koppar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Strands and AgentCore | Video |
| Tiffany Deaton | Best Friends Animal Society | Speaker | Data Under Pressure: Orchestrating Multi-Platform Emergency Response During the LA Wildfires | — |
| Tina Wang | Meshy | Speaker | From Intern to Head of Data Analytics: Launching and Leading a Career in Data | Video |
| Vincent Nijs, PhD | Rady School of Management, UC San Diego | Panelist | Is Data Science Still a Job? | — |
| Weixiang Chen, PhD | Geminos Software | Panelist | Women in AI | — |
| Xiaowu Dai | UCLA | Speaker | Training-Free Multi-Agent Language Models | — |