Conferences / DataEngBytes
DataEngBytes 2025 Melbourne
Jul 24–25, 2025 · The Glasshouse, Olympic Park Oval, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Conference
- DataEngBytes Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Jul 24, 2025 – Jul 25, 2025
- Venue
- The Glasshouse, Olympic Park Oval
- Place
- Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —2026 sponsorship prospectus: 'close to 800 attendees across Sydney and Melbourne' in 2025 (the 2025 archive page says '1000+ Attendees'); per-city figure not published.
- Website
- dataengbytes.com
- Recorded
- 11 sponsors · 45 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Two-day format: Day 1 Data Engineering, Day 2 ML & GenAI, preceded by a workshop day (23 July) and with a Leaders Forum. Only Sydney and Melbourne ran in 2025. Agenda from the site's 2025 schedule/sessions/users JSON (workshop facilitators included, role 'workshop'); affiliation parsed from the position field. YouTube 2025 playlist is not split by city, so a recording is attached to every 2025 edition that ran that talk. The 2025 archive index lists the venue as 'Melbourne Convention Centre' but the Melbourne page and Ticket Tailor list The Glasshouse, Olympic Park.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early bird (2-day) | A$299 | Dec 24, 2024 | Ticket Tailor listing: 'early-bird tickets remaining at $299 (Save $200!)'; early bird ends 24 Dec 2024 or when allocation exhausted. Implies a $499 standard price (not stated explicitly). | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 11
Speakers and talks 45
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lena Hall | Droid AI | Keynote | New Era of Intelligence: Why Data and AI Engineering is More Critical Than Ever | — |
| Andrew Foad | — | Speaker | A Brief Introduction to Hook | — |
| Anthony O'Flaherty | RACT | Speaker | Convergence of BI, Knowledge Management and Geospatial Data Science | — |
| Arpit Bhardwaj | Snowflake | Workshop | Accelerate AI Success with Snowflake Masterclass | — |
| Carine Oliveira | EasyGo | Speaker | Surviving the Growth: How We Redesigned a Modern Data Platform for a Rapidly Scaling Multi-Region Business | — |
| Darren Wood | — | Workshop | Mastering GraphRAG with Neo4j | — |
| Eric Lin | Snowflake | Speaker | Snowflake Cortex AISQL - What, Why and How | — |
| Geoffrey Huntley | — | Speaker | Building Code-Editing Agents: The Emperor Has No Clothes | Video |
| Geoffrey Huntley | — | Speaker | The future belongs to people who can just do things | Video |
| Guang Xu | New Aim | Speaker | Data Platform Journey of Australia's leading B2B eCommerce platform: from on-prem to Modern Data Stack | — |
| Jake Kerr | Versent | Speaker | PromptSQL - Using LLMs for Query Optimisation | — |
| James Gollan | Confluent | Workshop | Unlocking Real-Time, Reliable, and Reusable Data | — |
| Jaswanth Manigundan | Culture Amp | Speaker | Beyond the Buzzwords: Building a Practical AI Playground | — |
| Joe Reis | — | Speaker | The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents | — |
| John Giles | Country Endeavours | Speaker | Career survival for Data Engineers: Personal creativity versus corporate conformity | — |
| John Uiterwyk | Ab Initio | Speaker | How Metadata-enabled Agentic AI Accelerates Enterprise Value | Video |
| Juan Sequeda | data.world | Panelist | Survival Tips for Data Engineers in the Age of GenAI | — |
| Juan Sequeda | data.world | Speaker | The Missing Layer: Why Semantics and Knowledge Graphs Are Essential for AI-Ready Data Systems | Video |
| Juan Sequeda | data.world | Speaker | From Pipelines to Purpose: What Data Engineers Should Know About Data Governance | Video |
| Juan Sequeda | data.world | Panelist | The Future of GenAI: Where We're Heading and What to Focus On | — |
| Kamesh Sampath | Snowflake | Speaker | Escape Vendor Lock-in: Streaming Analytics with Apache Polaris | — |
| Kamesh Sampath | Snowflake | Speaker | Mission Analytics: Building Autonomous Data Intelligence | Video |
| Lena Hall | Droid AI | Panelist | The Future of GenAI: Where We're Heading and What to Focus On | — |
| Lena Hall | Droid AI | Panelist | Survival Tips for Data Engineers in the Age of GenAI | — |
| Lester Martin | Starburst | Speaker | Building Trino data pipelines with SQL or Python | Video |
| Lester Martin | Starburst | Workshop | Implementing the medallion architecture with Starburst | — |
| Mangesh Jathar | — | Speaker | Hunting PI in the Data Haystack: A Streamlit in Snowflake Detective Story | Video |
| May Hu | Pet Circle | Speaker | Automate Your Metadata, Deliver a Data Catalogue (by accident) | — |
| Michael Markieta | Starburst | Workshop | Implementing the medallion architecture with Starburst | — |
| Michael Markieta | Starburst | Speaker | Vector data lakes and SQL-based AI workflows with Starburst Data | — |
| Nigel Quinlan | MYOB | Speaker | Hunting PI in the Data Haystack: A Streamlit in Snowflake Detective Story | Video |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Panelist | Survival Tips for Data Engineers in the Age of GenAI | — |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Speaker | Bringing stories to life with AI, data streaming and generative agents | Video |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Panelist | The Future of GenAI: Where We're Heading and What to Focus On | — |
| Peter Hanssens | — | Workshop | Real-Time Data Analytics Workshop: From Batch to Stream | — |
| Prashant Yadav | Snowflake | Workshop | Accelerate AI Success with Snowflake Masterclass | — |
| Prerna Tiwari | Confluent | Speaker | Shifting Complexity Away from Data Pipelines with Tableflow | — |
| Satish Pamarthi | Block | Speaker | Designing Cost-Efficient, Metadata-driven Kafka Processing Systems at Scale | — |
| Siddhant Agarwal | Neo4j | Speaker | Agents, Assemble! Unleashing Agentic RAGs with Knowledge Graphs | — |
| Tas Rohila | — | Speaker | How AI Agents Are Reshaping the Future of Work | — |
| Unni Krishnan | Block | Speaker | Designing Cost-Efficient, Metadata-driven Kafka Processing Systems at Scale | — |
| Yikai Gong | Block | Speaker | Designing Cost-Efficient, Metadata-driven Kafka Processing Systems at Scale | — |
| Zoe Steinkamp | ClickHouse | Speaker | Engineering the Future: Real-Time, Vector-Powered Analytics with ClickHouse | Video |
| Zoe Steinkamp | ClickHouse | Workshop | High-Speed Data Engineering with ClickHouse | — |
| Zoe Steinkamp | ClickHouse | Speaker | From the Engine Room: Building the Future of Analytics at Scale | — |
Sources
- https://dataengbytes.com/2025/melbourne/
- https://dataengbytes.com/2025/
- https://dataengbytes.com/data/2025/schedule.json
- https://dataengbytes.com/data/2025/sessions.json
- https://dataengbytes.com/data/2025/users.json
- https://dataengbytes.com/data/2025/sponsors.json
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250514091219/https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dataengbytes
- https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dataengbytes/1465498
- https://dataengbytes.com/prospectus/DEB-2026-Flagship-Sponsorship-Prospectus.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL06aF1xtjRaGM9umFEu1OiT_L1sNEJ4R2