Conferences / Data Con LA
Data Con LA 2026
Aug 22, 2026 · California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, United States
- Conference
- Data Con LA Data science & ML
- Dates
- Aug 22, 2026
- Venue
- California State University, Long Beach
- Place
- Long Beach, CA, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 620Organizer recap: 'More than 620 people registered' (registrations, not confirmed headcount).
- Website
- dataconla.com
- Recorded
- 17 sponsors · 54 speaker appearances
- Notes
- 14th annual event: 52 speakers, 39 sessions across seven tracks in six rooms, first lightning talks. FAQ says General Admission $100 was the only tier still open (Early Bird and Advance had closed; their prices not stated). Session recordings on YouTube where linked.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Admission | $100 | — | Early Bird and Advance tiers existed but had closed; prices not shown. | dataconla.com |
Sponsors 17
Title / headline 1
Community 12
- AI LA · Community Partners
- California Fedora · Community Partners
- DevITJobs · Community Partners
- ISSA-LA · Community Partners
- openSUSE · Community Partners
- Orange County AI · Community Partners
- OWASP Los Angeles · Community Partners
- Posit · Community Partners
- PyBeach · Community Partners
- PyCon · Community Partners
- Scale AI · Community Partners
- Women in Big Data · Community Partners
Other 4
- Amazon Web Services · Sponsors
- UCLA · Sponsors
- UCLA MDSH · Sponsors
- Ware Valley · Sponsors
Speakers and talks 54
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Morra | Zefr | Keynote | Compression is Caring | Video |
| Weston LaBar | V52 | Keynote | The Good, the Bad, and the Exciting: The Real Role of AI Now and in the Future | Video |
| Andrew Kou | OWL AI | Panelist | No Permission Required: Turning a Data Problem Into a Product | Video |
| Anuj Bhalla | serviceMob, Inc | Lightning | The Customer Service Metric We’ve Been Getting Wrong for Decades | Video |
| Arti Annaswamy | Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products | Speaker | Improvising Analytics Delivery: One UPC, Three Problems | Video |
| Brendan Ng | Yoh | Panelist | Building a Data Career: Navigating the Data Job Market in the Age of AI | Video |
| Chris Sean Dabatos | Fly.io | Speaker | Fixing AI Memory: A Deterministic, Hallucination-Free Architecture | Video |
| Christian Entezari | Entezari Management Consulting | Speaker | When the Clock Is Public: Designing Analytics for High-Stakes Decisions Under Scrutiny | Video |
| Christina Karaba | yourcore corp | Panelist | Women in Data & AI | Video |
| Devyn Miller | TP-Link Systems | Speaker | Weak-to-Strong Generalization for Better Retrieval and Reranking | Video |
| Dusan Bosnjakovic | Intuit | Speaker | Personas of the Labs: A Tool for Studying LLM Behavioral and Belief Signatures | Video |
| Erin Shaw | Pasadena City College | Lightning | Low Cost/Low Commitment Opportunities for Engaging Students in Data Science | Video |
| Guang Cheng | UCLA | Speaker | Arbitrage and Insider Trading in Polymarket: Evidence and Implications | — |
| Heather Sit | AI LA | Panelist | Women in Data & AI | Video |
| Irina Kukuyeva, PhD | Kukuyeva Consulting | Lightning | Everything Everywhere Needs Automation? | Video |
| Jaime Gutierrez | Long Beach Workforce Innovation Network | Panelist | Building a Data Career: Navigating the Data Job Market in the Age of AI | Video |
| Jake Boggan | Forgetmenaut | Speaker | When the Delete Act Bites: CCPA Enforcement and the 2026 Data Landscape | Video |
| James Webb | Skechers | Lightning | The RAG Tax | Video |
| Johnathan Joseph | Outfitted AI | Panelist | No Permission Required: Turning a Data Problem Into a Product | Video |
| Joseph Cox | Hadrian | Speaker | Beyond Chatbots: Agentic Systems as Cybernetic Control Loops | Video |
| Joshua Cook | Caltech | Speaker | Extraction Trees: Reliable Structured Data from Messy Text | Video |
| Justin Miller | LanceDB | Speaker | Embeddings at Scale: Lessons from LanceDB and the Lance Format | Video |
| Jyotika Singh | Oracle | Speaker | Building Reliable Text-to-SQL Agents with LLMs | Video |
| Katya Ogai | Builder.io | Panelist | Building a Data Career: Navigating the Data Job Market in the Age of AI | Video |
| Lucy Abboud | DataFi Consulting Services | Panelist | Women in Data & AI | Video |
| Mahima Sachan | Microsoft | Speaker | Why Half of AI Projects Die After the Demo | Video |
| Meena Chokkalingam | Zillow | Speaker | Domain Modeling in the Age of AI: Why the Semantic Layer Is the New Bottleneck | — |
| Melody Rose | Legal Ark AI | Panelist | No Permission Required: Turning a Data Problem Into a Product | Video |
| Michael Jenkins | Managed Kaos | Speaker | Machine Learning with Time-Series Data: From Notebook to Production | Video |
| Michael Neang | Wintrust Specialty Finance | Speaker | What AI Actually Changes About Being a Data Analyst | Video |
| Mike Mull | Ekadanta Labs | Speaker | Reading the Tea Leaves: Query Optimization with Postgres and AI | Video |
| Monika Faulkner | Trustpilot | Lightning | Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: A Better Job for the Robot | Video |
| Neal Fultz | NJNM, UCLA, Tatari | Speaker | Who Is the Data Science Consultant? An Analysis of the CNSL Directory | Video |
| Odessa Reyno | Women in Big Data | Panelist | Women in Data & AI | Video |
| Pooja Doctor | Stellar Development Foundation | Speaker | From Zero to Insights: Building Reliable AI driven Analytics from Scratch | Video |
| Rae Wang | Optum | Speaker | From Analyst to Systems Thinker: Building Scalable Healthcare Analytics by Design | Video |
| Ramakrishna Devulapalli | Larnya LLC | Lightning | Practical AI: The Judgment Call Behind a 50% Faster Data Pipeline | Video |
| Randall Chalawsky | Great Land Media Group | Panelist | No Permission Required: Turning a Data Problem Into a Product | Video |
| Reza Rassool | Kwaai | Panelist | Decentralized AI: Safer, Faster, and Greener | Video |
| Richard Kelly | UC Irvine | Lightning | The Context Window Ate My Steering File | Video |
| Rishov Chatterjee | Curology | Lightning | Raw Pixels Are a Liability: Building Privacy-First Computer Vision Agents | Video |
| Riya Bhatia | California State University, Long Beach | Panelist | Building a Data Career: Navigating the Data Job Market in the Age of AI | Video |
| Samah Afifi | Pitchtape | Panelist | Decentralized AI: Safer, Faster, and Greener | Video |
| Saritha Ivaturi | Code For Good | Speaker | Closing the Gap: Getting New Grads from Classroom-Ready to Market-Ready | Video |
| Soroush Mirzaee | California State University, Long Beach | Panelist | No Permission Required: Turning a Data Problem Into a Product | Video |
| Suman Debnath | Crusoe | Speaker | The Physics of LLM Inference: From First Principles to Cluster Scale | Video |
| Suman Debnath | Crusoe | Panelist | Decentralized AI: Safer, Faster, and Greener | Video |
| Therese Suarez | FOX | Panelist | Building a Data Career: Navigating the Data Job Market in the Age of AI | Video |
| Wael Breich | Pinnacle Group LLC | Lightning | Less Data, Better Insights: Predicting Churn Using Customer Engagement Only | Video |
| William Collins-Broza | Companion Intelligence | Panelist | Decentralized AI: Safer, Faster, and Greener | Video |
| William Collins-Broza | Companion Intelligence | Lightning | Connecting your Agents to Spatial Data | Video |
| William Luong | Edwards Lifesciences | Lightning | Harness Engineering: Data Modeling with AI Coding Agents | Video |
| Xavier Kochhar | XKE Capital and Advisory | Panelist | No Permission Required: Turning a Data Problem Into a Product | Video |
| Yurii Nosov | UCLA | Speaker | Arbitrage and Insider Trading in Polymarket: Evidence and Implications | — |