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DataEngBytes 2025 Sydney
Jul 29–30, 2025 · ILUMINA Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Conference
- DataEngBytes Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Jul 29, 2025 – Jul 30, 2025
- Venue
- ILUMINA Sydney
- Place
- Sydney, NSW, 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
- 12 sponsors · 46 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Two-day format: Day 1 Data Engineering, Day 2 ML & GenAI, preceded by a workshop day (28 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.
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 12
Title / headline 3
- ClickHouse · Headline
- Snowflake · Headline
- Starburst · Headline
Silver 1
Other 1
- Cloud Shuttle · Organising Sponsor
Speakers and talks 46
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lena Hall | Droid AI | Keynote | New Era of Intelligence: Why Data and AI Engineering is More Critical Than Ever | — |
| Zhamak Dehghani | Nextdata | Keynote | Autonomous Data Products for the Autonomous Era: Rethinking Data Architecture for GenAI | — |
| Andrew Foad | — | Panelist | Why model data? | Video |
| Anima Acharya | — | Speaker | Deploying Data Models with Confidence: A CI/CD Approach in Data Engineering | — |
| Anthony O'Flaherty | RACT | Speaker | Convergence of BI, Knowledge Management and Geospatial Data Science | — |
| Arpita Agarwal | Confluent | Speaker | Real-Time Financial Crime Detection: Architecting Streaming AML (anti-money laundering) Pipelines for Instant Insights | — |
| Avinash Idnani | Rokt | Speaker | Why We Built Our Own Feature Store (and How It Scales ML at Rokt) | Video |
| Darren Wood | — | Workshop | Mastering GraphRAG with Neo4j | — |
| 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 |
| Harpreet Singh | Rokt | Speaker | Spark Structured Streaming Autoscaling | — |
| James Gollan | Confluent | Workshop | Unlocking Real-Time, Reliable, and Reusable Data | — |
| Joe Reis | — | Speaker | The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents | — |
| John Uiterwyk | Ab Initio | Speaker | How Metadata-enabled Agentic AI Accelerates Enterprise Value | Video |
| Juan Sequeda | data.world | Panelist | Why is Open Source So Important in Data Engineering? | — |
| 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 |
| Kaarthik Andavar | Tracksuit | Speaker | AI Doesn't Speak SQL. Maybe You Shouldn't Either. | Video |
| Kamesh Sampath | Snowflake | Speaker | Escape Vendor Lock-in: Streaming Analytics with Apache Polaris | — |
| Kamesh Sampath | Snowflake | Speaker | Mission Analytics: Building Autonomous Data Intelligence | Video |
| Kanishka Mohaia | — | Panelist | ML/AI Panel: Bringing AI to Production | — |
| Kanishka Mohaia | — | Speaker | RAG or Fine-Tune? Customizing LLMs with LoRA and MCP | Video |
| Kirk Mower | Solstice Energy | Speaker | Beyond Isolated Data: Agentic Orchestration of Multi-Domain Knowledge for Predictive Analytics with MCP | Video |
| Lena Hall | Droid AI | Panelist | Why is Open Source So Important in Data Engineering? | — |
| Lester Martin | Starburst | Workshop | Implementing the medallion architecture with Starburst | — |
| Lester Martin | Starburst | Speaker | Building Trino data pipelines with SQL or Python | Video |
| Marcel van Vliet | Tracksuit | Speaker | AI Doesn't Speak SQL. Maybe You Shouldn't Either. | Video |
| Michael Markieta | Starburst | Speaker | Vector data lakes and SQL-based AI workflows with Starburst Data | — |
| Michael Markieta | Starburst | Workshop | Implementing the medallion architecture with Starburst | — |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Panelist | Why is Open Source So Important in Data Engineering? | — |
| Olena Kutsenko | Confluent | Speaker | Bringing stories to life with AI, data streaming and generative agents | Video |
| Patrick Cuba | Snowflake | Panelist | Why model data? | Video |
| Peter Hanssens | — | Workshop | Real-Time Data Analytics Workshop: From Batch to Stream | — |
| Phill Radley | Westpac | Speaker | The Agentic Data Engineer - friend or foe ? | Video |
| Raul Bermejo | Versent | Speaker | Autonomy in the Agentic Era | Video |
| Rishu Saxena | Snowflake | Workshop | Accelerate AI Success with Snowflake Masterclass | — |
| Sam Harley | Elastic | Speaker | Beyond Keywords: Building Intelligent Search with LLMs and Elasticsearch | — |
| Samko Yun | — | Speaker | Building Enterprise Recommendation Systems with Neo4j: From Data to Personalised Insights | Video |
| Somy Ayazi | Atlassian | Panelist | ML/AI Panel: Bringing AI to Production | — |
| Steven MacLeod | Occam.Works | Speaker | Everything we've been doing with data has been a prototype. Where to from here? | — |
| Suneeta Mall | Harrison.ai | Panelist | ML/AI Panel: Bringing AI to Production | — |
| Travis Murphy | Snowflake | Workshop | Accelerate AI Success with Snowflake Masterclass | — |
| Yash Sharma | Atlassian | Speaker | When Systems Break Beautifully: How Atlassian Builds Resilient Platforms | Video |
| Zoe Steinkamp | ClickHouse | Workshop | High-Speed Data Engineering with ClickHouse | — |
| Zoe Steinkamp | ClickHouse | Speaker | Engineering the Future: Real-Time, Vector-Powered Analytics with ClickHouse | Video |
| Zoe Steinkamp | ClickHouse | Speaker | Catalogs, Iceberg, and Delta: Building the Foundation for Lakehouse Analytics | Video |
Sources
- https://dataengbytes.com/2025/sydney/
- 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/1465496
- https://dataengbytes.com/prospectus/DEB-2026-Flagship-Sponsorship-Prospectus.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL06aF1xtjRaGM9umFEu1OiT_L1sNEJ4R2