DataEngBytes 2026 Melbourne

Name: DataEngBytes 2026 Melbourne
Start: 2026-07-23
End: 2026-07-24
Location: Collins Square Business & Events Centre

Jul 23–24, 2026 · Collins Square Business & Events Centre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Conference: DataEngBytes Vendor & industry
Dates: Jul 23, 2026 – Jul 24, 2026
Venue: Collins Square Business & Events Centre
Place: Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Format: In person
Status: Past
Attendance: —
2026 archive page: '4 Cities, 70 Speakers, 80 Sessions, 1200 Attendees' for the whole tour; per-city figure not published.
Website: dataengbytes.com
Recorded: 8 sponsors · 20 speaker appearances
Notes: Two-day flagship conference (Day 1 Data Engineering, Day 2 ML/GenAI) with a Leaders Day the day before. Agenda from the site's 2026 schedule JSON joined to /api/2026/sessions and /api/2026/users (Town Hall sessions omitted; unscheduled placeholder sessions in the API ignored). Sponsors per city from data/2026/sponsors.json; Databricks appears as Gold on the 2026 sponsors page but not in the JSON, so it is listed on every 2026 city without a city split. YouTube 2026 playlist is not split by city; a recording is attached to every edition that ran that talk.

Ticket prices

Ticket	Price	Valid until	Notes	Source
Foundation Series 2-Day Pass (early bird)	A$299	—	Early-bird offer on Ticket Tailor listing ('Save $200').	web.archive.org
Standard 2-Day Pass	A$499	—	Flagship cities full-priced ticket $499 (DataEngBytes tickets page).	web.archive.org
Data Leaders forum (separate ticket)	A$999	—	Executive roundtable; complimentary with 10+ conference tickets.	web.archive.org

Sponsors 8

Title / headline 1

ClickHouse · Headline

Gold 6

Other 1

Cloud Shuttle · Organizer

Speakers and talks 20

Speaker	Company	Role	Talk	Links
Carine Oliveira	EasyGo	Speaker	Your Data Platform Isn't Broken. Your Team Structure Is. Why ownership, roles, and platform layers matter more than tools	Video
Darren Ware	RMIT University	Speaker	Guidelines and Guardrails: The practices and community powering RMIT's Data Mesh Transformation	—
Emily Melhuish	Independent	Speaker	Fire and Ice: Building a data platform to power solar operations	Video
Eric Lin	Snowflake	Speaker	The Scalable Data Architecture: Slashing Latency and Costs with Snowflake CoCo	Video
Fanghua (Joshua) Yu	GraphWay	Speaker	Generative Knowledge Modeling: Engineering Repeatable, Auditable GraphRAG Pipelines	—
Frank Munz	Databricks	Speaker	Spark Declarative Pipelines in Action: Live Avionics Streaming from 40,000 Aircraft Overhead	—
Ignatius Soputro	Xero	Speaker	Scalable Data Products with Terraform, Jinja and Python	Video
Irfan Elahi	Databricks	Speaker	One Stream, Many Contracts: Kafka-to-Kafka Republishing Without the Sprawl	—
Jordan Simonovski	ClickHouse	Speaker	Kill the Three Pillars: Observability in the next decade is wide events	—
Kanishka Mohaia	Sonder	Speaker	The Trust Gap: Why the Next Wave of AI Won’t Be Won on Capability Alone	—
Luke Parker	Anomaly	Speaker	Practical Tips for Vibe Coding & Agent Workflows	Video
Muhammad Ali	ClickHouse	Speaker	Rethinking Lock-in in the Age of AI Data	—
Nick Pinfold	Wellington City Council	Speaker	Flipping the data team - A new way of working	—
Peter Hanssens	Cloud Shuttle	Speaker	The AI Gateway: Your Organisation's Most Underrated Data Source	—
Rick Gao	Alkera AI	Speaker	Agents versus data pipelines: failure modes of coding agents on real data engineering work, and what it takes to close the gap	—
Sarah Taylor	RMIT University	Speaker	Guidelines and Guardrails: The practices and community powering RMIT's Data Mesh Transformation	—
Shehan Madusanka	RACT	Speaker	Synthetic Data in the Age of AI: Testing Models and Applications	—
Shreya Sharma	Databricks	Speaker	The 7 Stages of AI Engineering Grief	—
Srinivasan Venkatadri	Independent	Speaker	Validation-First Data Engineering: Designing Regulated Analytics Pipelines That Are Compliant by Construction	—
Travis Murphy	Snowflake	Speaker	Ultimate Guide to Vibe Engineering on Snowflake	—