Conferences / DataEngBytes
DataEngBytes 2026 Sydney
Jul 28–29, 2026 · The Collider at Tech Central, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Conference
- DataEngBytes Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Jul 28, 2026 – Jul 29, 2026
- Venue
- The Collider at Tech Central
- Place
- Sydney, NSW, 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
- 10 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 10
Title / headline 1
- ClickHouse · Headline
Other 1
- Cloud Shuttle · Organizer
Speakers and talks 20
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anup Sethuram | DAZN Foxtel Group | Speaker | Beyond Cosine Similarity: Retrieval Engineering with Luminary | Video |
| 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 |
| Dr. Dalin Wang | Sonder | Speaker | Why Standard LLM Evals Fail in Mental Health (And What We Built Instead) | — |
| Frank Munz | Databricks | Speaker | Spark Declarative Pipelines in Action: Live Avionics Streaming from 40,000 Aircraft Overhead | — |
| Jonathan Carroll | Irregularly Scheduled Programming | Speaker | Your Notes Are a Graph. Just Not a Very Useful One. Let's Fix That. | — |
| 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 |
| Matt Yi | VeloDB | Speaker | One Engine for Production AI: Why AI Agents Need a Different Database? | — |
| Muhammad Ali | ClickHouse | Speaker | Rethinking Lock-in in the Age of AI Data | — |
| Nathan Long | Sonder | Speaker | Shipping Agentic AI: Orchestration Patterns That Survive Production | — |
| 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 | — |
| Rimma Shafikova | VGW | Speaker | Why Exactly LLMs are Non-Deterministic and Can We Tame This Probabilistic Beast? | — |
| Shilin Wu | VeloDB | Speaker | Real-Time Analytics & AI Observability: A Hands-on Walkthrough on APPs Enablement Path | — |
| Simon O'Toole | Macquarie University | Speaker | Data Pipelines for the Universe: What Data Engineering Can Learn from Astronomy | — |
| Tom Kunc | Optiver | Speaker | How to Win Trades and Understand Data: Unique Challenges of Data Engineering in High Frequency Trading | — |
| Travis Murphy | Snowflake | Speaker | Ultimate Guide to Vibe Engineering on Snowflake | — |
| Vaishnavi Mohan | Databricks | Speaker | Where Were We? Agentic Memory for Building Agents That Remember | — |
| Waleed Shahid | Optiver | Speaker | How to Win Trades and Understand Data: Unique Challenges of Data Engineering in High Frequency Trading | — |
| Yasamin Mokri | Databricks | Speaker | Metadata-Driven Frameworks in the Lakeflow Era: Modernising Without Rewriting | — |
Sources
- https://dataengbytes.com/2026/sydney/
- https://dataengbytes.com/2026/
- https://dataengbytes.com/2026/sponsors/
- https://dataengbytes.com/data/2026/schedule.json
- https://dataengbytes.com/api/2026/sessions
- https://dataengbytes.com/api/2026/users
- https://dataengbytes.com/data/2026/sponsors.json
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260310092057/https://www.tickettailor.com/events/dataengbytes
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260311075334/http://dataengbytes.com/tickets
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR4HpKmQbBjI