Conferences / DataEngBytes
DataEngBytes 2024 Melbourne
Oct 1, 2024 · Rydges Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Conference
- DataEngBytes Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 1, 2024
- Venue
- Rydges Melbourne
- Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Tour total 1,156 attendees across the 4 cities (2025 sponsorship prospectus); per-city figure not published.
- Website
- dataengbytes.com
- Recorded
- 19 sponsors · 27 speaker appearances
- Notes
- One-day conference, part of the four-city 2024 tour (Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Auckland; first New Zealand edition). Agenda and speaker taglines from the Sessionize data embedded in the archived 2024 sessions page; affiliation inferred from taglines. MC Lars Klint (welcome/closing slots omitted). Sponsor list is tour-wide (no per-city split shown). Videos matched by title to the city's YouTube playlist.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First batch | A$220 | — | Tickets page (Jul 2024) shows 'First batch tickets are now available!' with AUD $220 and AUD $250; $220 read as the current first-batch price. | web.archive.org |
| Standard (higher listed price) | A$250 | — | Second price shown next to the first-batch price, presumably the full price. | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 19
Title / headline 1
- ClickHouse · Headline Sponsor
Gold 14
- Aiven · Gold Sponsors
- Api Connects · Gold Sponsors
- Coalesce · Gold Sponsors
- Confluent · Gold Sponsors
- Databricks · Gold Sponsors
- Decube · Gold Sponsors
- Elastic · Gold Sponsors
- Mantel Group · Gold Sponsors
- Neo4j · Gold Sponsors
- Omnata · Gold Sponsors
- Snowflake · Gold Sponsors
- Thoughtworks · Gold Sponsors
- Vectara · Gold Sponsors
- Versent · Gold Sponsors
Silver 3
- Data Divers · Silver Sponsors
- Data Vanguards · Silver Sponsors
- REA Group · Silver Sponsors
Other 1
- Cloud Shuttle · Organiser (copyright holder of site)
Speakers and talks 27
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adi Polak | Confluent | Speaker | Charting a New Course: The Transformative Journey of Shift-Left in Data Infrastructure | — |
| Adi Polak | Confluent | Panelist | The future of Machine Learning panel | — |
| Amey Khedekar | Block | Speaker | Serving a multi-platform Data Lake via Delta, Iceberg, Unity and Glue | Video |
| Amr Awadallah | Vectara | Speaker | Advanced Enterprise RAG Systems | — |
| Ankita Saha | Block | Speaker | Serving a multi-platform Data Lake via Delta, Iceberg, Unity and Glue | Video |
| Chip Huyen | — | Panelist | The future of Machine Learning panel | — |
| Chip Huyen | — | Speaker | Unified dataframe API for different data backend | — |
| Gaurav Thadani | DiUS Computing | Speaker | Craft events mindfully - navigating the event driven journey with caution (EDA) | — |
| Gunu Diamond | Vista | Speaker | Data, It’s a People Problem: Understanding the Sociotechnical Elements of a Data-Driven Organization | Video |
| Harmeet Sokhi | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Rethinking Data Catalogs: The Promise and Pitfalls | Video |
| Jatin Solanki | Decube | Speaker | Text2SQL - Behind the scene | — |
| Jenn Junod | Aiven | Speaker | Dear Podcast, Can You Help Me? Leveraging OpenSearch and LangChain to ask a podcast for advice | Video |
| Joe Reis | — | Panelist | The future of Data Engineering panel | — |
| Joe Reis | — | Speaker | Mixed Model Arts | — |
| May Hu | Pet Circle | Speaker | Who Really Uses Dataform? Spoiler: We Do, and Here’s Why! | Video |
| Ned Letcher | Thoughtworks | Speaker | A quack of all trades: DuckDB, a versatile analytical database to keep in your toolkit | Video |
| Patrick Cuba | — | Speaker | Data Mesh & Data Vault on Snowflake | — |
| Prerna Tiwari | Confluent | Speaker | Garbage In, Garbage Out: Elevating AI with High-Quality Data | Video |
| Rebecca Cavallo | — | Panelist | The future of Machine Learning panel | — |
| Sean Falconer | Skyflow | Speaker | Stop Making Your Data Team the 'Data Police' | — |
| Siddhant Agarwal | Neo4j | Speaker | GraphRAG: Powering Up LLMs with Knowledge Graphs | Video |
| Simon Aubury | — | Speaker | A quack of all trades: DuckDB, a versatile analytical database to keep in your toolkit | Video |
| Stu Johnstone | Mantel Group | Speaker | Building the Ultimate Databricks Environment | Video |
| Tanya Bragin | ClickHouse | Speaker | How open source is re-shaping the cloud data warehouse landscape | — |
| Vishal Srivastava | Thoughtworks | Speaker | Rethinking Data Catalogs: The Promise and Pitfalls | Video |
| Will Falconer | Atlassian | Speaker | How Atlassian is migrating 40PB data with 99.99% reliability | Video |
| Yash Sharma | Atlassian | Speaker | How Atlassian is migrating 40PB data with 99.99% reliability | Video |
Sources
- https://dataengbytes.com/2024/melbourne/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20241001130947/https://dataengconf.com.au/sessions
- https://web.archive.org/web/20241001131017/https://dataengconf.com.au/sponsors
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240718012316/https://dataengconf.com.au/tickets
- https://dataengbytes.com/prospectus/DEB-2025-Sponsorship-Prospectus.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL06aF1xtjRaE3GfwpXS62XTDaT2Osy6pG