Conferences / Disney Data & Analytics Conference
DDAC 2026
Sep 14–16, 2026 · Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL, United States
- Conference
- Disney Data & Analytics Conference Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Sep 14, 2026 – Sep 16, 2026
- Venue
- Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
- Place
- Lake Buena Vista, FL, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —Homepage: 'over 2,500 executives, managers and analysts representing more than 250 organizations' (generic marketing copy).
- Website
- disneydataconference.com
- Recorded
- 52 sponsors · 43 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Sept 14 Training Day, main conference Sept 15-16. Keynotes include Matt Parker, Eric Siegel and Coca-Cola/Disney partnership marketing leads. Speakers: all speakers on the official speakers page (Sept 10, 2026 snapshot); affiliations derived from titles; abstracts truncated. Sponsor tiers (Platinum Plus, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Showcase, Exhibitor) listed without prices; details on request.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super Early Bird (individual and group) | $2,499 | Mar 6, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Group Early Bird per person (3+) | $2,599 | Jul 31, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Early Bird (individual) | $2,799 | Jul 31, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Training Day (one course) | $825 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Training Day (two courses) | $1,500 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Group per person (3+) | $2,799 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Individual (regular) | $2,999 | — | After Jul 31, 2026 | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 52
Gold 10
Other 28
- Accenture · Showcase
- Alteryx · Showcase
- Amazon Web Services · Showcase
- Argano · Showcase
- Artefact · Exhibitor
- Braze · Showcase
- Databricks · Exhibitor
- dbt Labs · Showcase
- Domino Data Lab · Showcase
- Elastic · Showcase
- Factory · Showcase
- Factspan · Showcase
- Fivetran · Showcase
- Globant · Showcase
- Hightouch · Showcase
- Knit · Showcase
- LTM · Showcase
- Meltwater · Showcase
- Metric Insights · Showcase
- MongoDB · Showcase
- Monte Carlo · Showcase
- Optomi · Showcase
- Palo Alto Networks · Showcase
- Qlik · Showcase
- Recognizant IO · Exhibitor
- Revenue Management Solutions · Showcase
- Tunnl · Exhibitor
- WVU John Chambers College · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 43
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amir Rozwadowski | AT&T | Keynote | The Invisible Blueprint - How Data, Connectivity and Trust Power Tomorrow's Experiences | — |
| Chase Abraham | The Coca-Cola Company | Keynote | Refreshing Adventure Awaits: Disney & Coca-Cola | — |
| Chris Lisciandro | The Walt Disney Company | Keynote | Refreshing Adventure Awaits: Disney & Coca-Cola | — |
| Eric Siegel | Columbia University | Keynote | Predictive AI’s Big Moment: How It Makes Generative AI Reliable | — |
| Josh Nations | The Coca-Cola Company | Keynote | Refreshing Adventure Awaits: Disney & Coca-Cola | — |
| Marc Wilson | Appian | Keynote | Bridging the Operational Intelligence Gap | — |
| Matt Parker | — | Keynote | Adventures in Writing Terrible Code | — |
| Prabhath Nanisetty | Snowflake | Keynote | Bridging the Operational Intelligence Gap | — |
| Tim Finley | Couchbase | Keynote | Blurred Lines and Clear Vision: The Future of Data and Analytics | — |
| Alexander Volfovsky | Duke University | Featured | The Christmas Movie Playbook for Green-Lighting Analytical Projects | — |
| Angela Alexander | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | Disney Compass: Charting a New Course in Data Collaboration and Audience Insights | — |
| Ben Thompson | Cursor | Featured | Move Faster with Agentic Data Workflows | — |
| Beth Albright | Pixar Animation Studios | Featured | The Human Behind the Science: Judgment, Creativity and Perspective in Human-Centered Analytics | — |
| Bianca Pryor | NVIDIA | Featured | The Private Artificial Intelligence Blueprint: Accelerating Enterprise Deployment with Cloudera, Dell and NVIDIA | — |
| Bill Rand | North Carolina State University | Featured | Level Up Your Coding: Productization in the World of Artificial Intelligence | — |
| Bj Price | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | The Society of Curious Analysts Presents: A Field Guide to AI Curiosities, Artifacts and Nonsense | — |
| Brandon Ramsey | ESPN | Featured | From Heuristics to Modern ML: ESPN's Incremental Path to Intelligent Recommendations | — |
| Celia Gomez | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | The Human Behind the Science: Judgment, Creativity and Perspective in Human-Centered Analytics | — |
| Chad Cooper | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | Everything I Know Is Wrong, Trust Me | — |
| Chris Szydlo | Disney Institute | Featured | Disney's Approach to Employee Engagement | — |
| David Dichmann | Cloudera | Featured | The Private Artificial Intelligence Blueprint: Accelerating Enterprise Deployment with Cloudera, Dell and NVIDIA | — |
| Emily Kubicek | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | Disney Compass: Charting a New Course in Data Collaboration and Audience Insights | — |
| Gary Crupi | IBM | Featured | Game, Set, Data: The Architecture Behind Real-Time Insights at the U.S. Open | — |
| Jaclyn Mathai | Disney Entertainment | Featured | The Human Behind the Science: Judgment, Creativity and Perspective in Human-Centered Analytics | — |
| Jacob Benoit | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | Large Language Model Evaluation and Guardrails: Building Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems | — |
| Jeff Camm | Wake Forest University | Featured | Large Language Model Evaluation and Guardrails: Building Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems | — |
| John Lopus | Anthropic | Featured | The Arc Toward Managed Agents: Running Artificial Intelligence Agents as Infrastructure | — |
| Julie Holt Bentham | Disney Publishing | Featured | The Human Behind the Science: Judgment, Creativity and Perspective in Human-Centered Analytics | — |
| Katerina Iliakopoulou-Zanos | ESPN | Featured | From Heuristics to Modern ML: ESPN's Incremental Path to Intelligent Recommendations | — |
| Kristen Swerzenski | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | I'm Not a Data Scientist...Right? A Field Guide for 'Unofficial' Data Professionals | — |
| Kyle Lindsey | World Wide Technology | Featured | The Architecture of an Intelligent Venue | — |
| Max Benton | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | The Christmas Movie Playbook for Green-Lighting Analytical Projects | — |
| Michelle McGuire | Deloitte | Featured | How Deloitte Brings Magic to the Olympic and Paralympic Games | — |
| Paul Parkinson | Oracle | Featured | Memories are the Magic: Building AI that Remembers | — |
| Peter Manta | Informatica | Featured | The Agentic Data Contract: Redefining Data Readiness for Autonomous Decision-Making | — |
| Rachel Chung | Carnegie Mellon University | Featured | The Society of Curious Analysts Presents: A Field Guide to AI Curiosities, Artifacts and Nonsense | — |
| Rebecca Godsil | Disney Institute | Featured | Disney's Approach to Employee Engagement | — |
| Rebekah Lindborg | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | I'm Not a Data Scientist...Right? A Field Guide for 'Unofficial' Data Professionals | — |
| Rick Houlihan | Oracle | Featured | Memories are the Magic: Building AI that Remembers | — |
| Shayde Christian | Cloudera | Featured | The Private Artificial Intelligence Blueprint: Accelerating Enterprise Deployment with Cloudera, Dell and NVIDIA | — |
| Tae Hong Min | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | Large Language Model Evaluation and Guardrails: Building Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems | — |
| Tara Steuber | The Walt Disney Company | Featured | Level Up Your Coding: Productization in the World of Artificial Intelligence | — |
| Vasudha Khare | Confluent | Featured | Your Model is Fine, Your Context Might Be Broken | — |
Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260918021835/https://disneydataconference.com/sponsors/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260910125832/https://disneydataconference.com/speakers/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260414153521/https://disneydataconference.com/register/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260616020215/https://disneydataconference.com/training/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260910125856/https://disneydataconference.com/faq/
- https://www.epam.com/about/who-we-are/events/2026/disney-data-and-analytics-conference-2026
- https://disneydataconference.com/sponsors/