| Aaron Cutshall | — | Talk | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Aaron Cutshall | — | Talk | An Enterprise Data Architecture Framework | — |
| Aaron Wilkerson | — | Talk | What No One Told You About Advancing Your Data Career | — |
| Alex Noonan | Dagster Labs | Talk | Building a Better Data Engineering Feedback Loop | — |
| Allison Baker | Databricks | Talk | Transforming Business with Databricks: Real-World Customer Success Stories and AI Innovations | — |
| Amy Kauppila | InfoWorks, Inc. | Talk | From Avoidance to Advantage: The Power of Embracing What you Dread | — |
| Armelle LE GUELTE | Xsolis | Talk | Structured Meets Generative: The Future of Reliable AI in Healthcare. | — |
| Barkha Herman | — | Talk | Iceberg Ahead: Navigating the Future of Data Lakes Without Sinking | — |
| Ben Miller | DBAduck | Talk | Building a SQL Server Recovery Strategy | — |
| Brian Dill | — | Talk | DuckDB 101 - zero to 500 million in less than a second | — |
| Bryce Embry | — | Talk | How To Work With Brilliant People | — |
| Byron McClain | Rōnin Consulting | Talk | The Autonomous Coding Agent: Running AI Coding Agents | — |
| Cassandra Cardases | — | Talk | Death by Delivery: How Ineffective Storytelling Is Killing Your Deliverables | — |
| Cecilia Brusatori | Magna Data | Talk | Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, or Both? Building Analytics Solutions | — |
| Cecilia Brusatori | Magna Data | Workshop | From Zero to SQL: A Hands-On Query Writing 1-day Workshop | — |
| Cedric Clyburn | Red Hat | Talk | Structuring the Unstructured: Advanced Document Parsing for AI Workflows | — |
| Charlie Apigian | Data Inspire | Workshop | Mastering AI Strategy and Agentic Workflows | — |
| Chris Carter | — | Talk | Has AI Actually F@ed With Your Mind? The Truth About AI, Your Job, and the Future of Work | — |
| Chris Gambill | Gambill Data | Workshop | Modernizing Your Databricks Engineering: Using Lakeflow & Declarative Pipelines | — |
| Chris Gambill | Gambill Data | Talk | Adapt or Be Automated: Continuous Learning in the Age of AI and Data Engineering | — |
| Chris Hyde | Hydrate Technologies LLC | Talk | Microsoft Fabric: Ask the Experts | — |
| Chris Hyde | Hydrate Technologies LLC | Workshop | Modern Data Warehousing with Microsoft Fabric: Patterns, Practices, and Pitfalls | — |
| Christian Trujillo | — | Talk | Driving Value with Red Hat OpenShift AI | — |
| CL Kao | Recce | Talk | A Practical Playbook for Building Data Agents (That Don't Break Your Pipeline) | — |
| Clay Chaffins | — | Talk | From Raw Data to AI-Powered Insights: An End-to-End Journey with Snowflake | — |
| Dan Roth | Oracle | Talk | Reasoning and Retrieving LLMs: Myths, Merits, and How to Move Forward | — |
| Darwin Fu | HCA Healthcare | Talk | Unscripted Data: Improvising your Data Story | — |
| Derek Reader | — | Talk | Driving Value with Red Hat OpenShift AI | — |
| DHA | — | Talk | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| DHA | — | Talk | An Enterprise Data Architecture Framework | — |
| Dustin Dorsey | phData | Talk | Modernizing Data Transformations with dbt | — |
| Elizabeth Wade | Ankura | Talk | Unlocking Data Simplicity: Empowering Business & IT with Sigma | — |
| Emma Supica | — | Talk | Unscripted Data: Improvising your Data Story | — |
| Erik Darling | — | Talk | For a Few Rows More: Mastering Row Goals in SQL Server | — |
| Erik Darling | — | Workshop | Advanced T-SQL Triage: The Art of Fixing Terrible Code | — |
| Gilma Adunas-Rivas | TennCare | Talk | Predictive Analytics for a Healthier Tomorrow: Forecasting Hospital Readmissions using Claims Data | — |
| Hasan Savran | Progressive Insurance Company | Talk | Data modeling strategies in NoSQL databases | — |
| Jacob Matson | MotherDuck | Talk | Clone, Code, Ship: Multiplying Your Data Engineering Throughput with MotherDuck and AI | — |
| Jason King | — | Talk | The Clockwork Annotator: Labeling with Foundational Models | — |
| Jason Romans | — | Talk | The Data Professional's Power Toolkit: Free Tools to Supercharge Your Workflow | — |
| John Kerski | Client First Technologies | Talk | DataOps 101 – A Better Way to Develop and Deliver Data Analytics | — |
| Jonathan Stewart | Aimpoint Digital | Talk | Building Scalable Data Warehouses with Microsoft Fabric: | — |
| Jonathan Wihl | — | Talk | Building Right-Time Data Pipelines for AI | — |
| Joshua Higginbotham | — | Talk | Unlocking the Power of Data Agents and Copilot in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Jurnell Cockhren | Civic Hacker, LLC | Talk | AI in Action: How Higher Ed and Agentic AI Are Shaping Tomorrow’s Workforce | — |
| Kevin Bradley | Apex Systems | Talk | Five ways to structure data for Tableau, and one that got me yelled at by a DBA | — |
| Kevin Feasel | Catallaxy Services, LLC | Talk | Implementing Multivariate Anomaly Detection in Python | — |
| Kiersten Stokes | — | Talk | Building an Open Data Lakehouse with Presto and Apache Iceberg | — |
| Kristyna Ferris | P3 Adaptive | Talk | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Kristyna Ferris | P3 Adaptive | Workshop | Modern Data Warehousing with Microsoft Fabric: Patterns, Practices, and Pitfalls | — |
| Kristyna Ferris | P3 Adaptive | Talk | Microsoft Fabric: Ask the Experts | — |
| Kunal Marwah | Databricks | Talk | Transforming Business with Databricks: Real-World Customer Success Stories and AI Innovations | — |
| Lawrence Lockhart | — | Talk | It's FIne to Start with Vibes: Just Don't End There! How to go from CLI to Prod | — |
| Legare Kerrison | Red Hat | Talk | Structuring the Unstructured: Advanced Document Parsing for AI Workflows | — |
| Lena Winfree | R+W Data Analytics Consulting | Talk | AI in Action: How Higher Ed and Agentic AI Are Shaping Tomorrow’s Workforce | — |
| Louis Davidson | — | Talk | Sharing is Caring and Writing is Sharing | — |
| Louise Domeisen | — | Talk | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| Matthew Housley | Halfpipe Systems | Talk | Thoughts on the Future of Data | — |
| Matthew Housley | Halfpipe Systems | Workshop | Techniques in Data Engineering for AI | — |
| Michael Hewitt | — | Talk | Demystifying DAX: An Introduction to Data Analysis eXpressions | — |
| MSHI | — | Talk | Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026: The Fight for Control | — |
| MSHI | — | Talk | An Enterprise Data Architecture Framework | — |
| Ram Singh | — | Talk | Not Your Models, Not Your Data? Private Local AI for the Cautious Data Practitioner | — |
| Richard Hoehn | Aerton | Talk | Reward-Driven Decision Making: Using Reinforcement Learning (RL) to Optimize Routes | — |
| Roger Fried | Snowflake | Talk | From Hallucination to Trust: Grounding Enterprise LLMs with the Semantic Layer | — |
| Sarah Peters | Georgetown University | Talk | From Concert Hall to Code Review, Symphony to Software | — |
| Scott Haines | — | Talk | From Streaming Anxiety to Streaming Confidence: Hands-On with Spark Structured Streaming | — |
| Sekou Tyler | — | Talk | Beyond Requirements: Building Trust Between BI Developers and Stakeholders | — |
| Shantanu Seth | Axtria | Talk | Multi-Touch Attribution for Pharma: Designing Robust Models That Drive Marketing ROI | — |
| Simon Ward | Tranquility AI | Talk | Targeted Behavior Removal in Large Language Models with Abliteration | — |
| Sireesha Pulipati | Shopify | Talk | Modern Data Engineering on BigQuery: From Pipelines to Intelligence | — |
| Stephen Sciortino | Database Tycoon | Talk | The (More) Modern Data Stack: Building Analytics with Open Source Tools | — |
| Tessa Burg | — | Talk | From Insights to Impact: Rewiring How Data Teams Lead Innovation That Drives Growth | — |
| Tim Wilson | facts & feelings | Workshop | Stop Shipping Dashboards. Start Driving Outcomes. | — |
| Tim Wilson | facts & feelings | Talk | Effective Data Visualization: Neuroscience-Based Techniques | — |
| Tyler Sanders | Red Oak Strategic | Talk | Dashboards, Data Lakes, and Data-Driven Decision Making | — |
| Valerie Kroll | facts & feelings | Talk | The Analyst’s Most Valuable Data: Human Ideas | — |
| Valerie Kroll | facts & feelings | Workshop | Stop Shipping Dashboards. Start Driving Outcomes. | — |
| Yorgos Askalidis | Spotify | Talk | Shaping Insight in an Age of Abundance: Data Science Beyond the Tools | — |