Ben Lerner
Employers on the program
- 2024–2026Espresso AI3 talks
Events3
Conferences2
Talks3
Years active2024–2026
Miles between events4,4553 in-person events · 1 countryThe year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- Coalesce
- New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | dbt Summit 2026 | Coalesce | speaker | Most of your dbt models aren't in a hurry: how to stop paying for the whole DAG as Espresso AI Most models in a dbt DAG aren't on the critical path. Espresso AI and Authentic Insurance on turning that slack into real savings. | Video |
| Aug 26, 2025 | The New York Data Science & AI Conference 2025 | New York R Conference (now The New York Data Science & AI Conference) | talk | AI with ROI: How to Use ML to Cut Your Snowflake Bill in Half as Espresso AI | SlidesVideo |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Coalesce 2024 | Coalesce | speaker | Faster, Cheaper, Easier: Choose 3 - Automatically optimize dbt at scale as Espresso AI Espresso AI uses two main techniques to run dbt workloads substantially faster and cheaper on data warehouses: better job scheduling and automatically…Show lessEspresso AI uses two main techniques to run dbt workloads substantially faster and cheaper on data warehouses: better job scheduling and automatically incrementalizing queries. | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anders Swanson | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ben Kramer | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Benoit Perigaud | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Bishal Gupta | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Chris Merrick | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Erica Louie | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Gordon Curzon | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Grace Goheen | 2 | — | 2026 |
| James Dorado | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jason Ganz | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jeremy Cohen | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Neela Kulkarni | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Nick Heron | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Reuben McCreanor | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Sarah Levy | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.