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Speakers

Benn Stancil

Employers on the program

  1. 2026OpenAI1 talk
  2. 2019–2026Mode13 talks
Events16
Conferences6
Talks18
Years active2019–2026
Talk freshness986 different talks in 6 · 1 circuit, 24 monthsMiles between events11,68014 in-person events · 1 country

The 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecData CouncilData CouncilCoalesceCoalesceData OutpostData Outpost
Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Coalesce
  • Data Council
  • Data Outpost
  • Chill Data Summit
  • Modern Data Stack Conference (MDSCon)
  • Snowflake Summit

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 4, 2026Data Outpost 2026Data OutpostspeakerWelcome to Guess Town
as OpenAI
Sep 15, 2026dbt Summit 2026CoalescespeakerHow to have ideas
as Mode

Benn Stancil uses an AI agent security incident to explain why the most useful ideas come from the weirdest connections.

Video
May 12, 2026AI Council 2026Data CounciltalkBenchmarking AI Agents Against Realistic Analytical Tasks with ADE-bench GenAI & agents
as Mode
Nov 4, 2025Small Data SF 2025Data OutpostspeakerIn the long run, everything is a fadVideo
Nov 4, 2025Small Data SF 2025Data OutpostpanelistPanel: Is the Future Small?Video
Oct 13, 2025Coalesce 2025CoalescespeakerBenn Stancil introduces a scorecard for measuring which robots work well with dbt

We built a new benchmark to test how well LLMs and AI products perform when trying to complete dozens of different analytics and data engineering tasks.

Video
Sep 23, 2024Small Data SF 2024Data OutpostspeakerBI's Big Lie
as Mode
Video
Mar 26, 2024Data Council Austin 2024Data CouncilpanelWTF Are We Doing?
as Mode
Feb 6, 2024Chill Data Summit 2024: Ready for Impact, Iceberg EditionChill Data SummitspeakerUntitled

Redefining what a database means in the era of the data lakehouse.

Oct 16, 2023Coalesce 2023 San DiegoCoalescespeakerA data-driven look at our most divisive and least consequential debates
as Mode
Data engineers build critical pipelines that underpin the computational infrastructure that powers our global economy. Analytics engineers translate impossibly…Show less

Data engineers build critical pipelines that underpin the computational infrastructure that powers our global economy. Analytics engineers translate impossibly complex business semantics into precise frameworks that give modern companies digital eyes and ears, making them the most agile and responsive organizations ever created.

Video
Oct 16, 2023Coalesce 2023 San DiegoCoalescespeakerIt’s petty, let’s fight: A data-driven look at our most divisive and least consequential debates
as Mode
Data engineers build critical pipelines that underpin the computational infrastructure that powers our global economy. Analytics engineers translate impossibly…Show less

Data engineers build critical pipelines that underpin the computational infrastructure that powers our global economy. Analytics engineers translate impossibly complex business semantics into precise frameworks that give modern companies digital eyes and ears, making them the most agile and responsive organizations ever created.

Jun 26, 2023Snowflake Summit 2023Snowflake SummitfeaturedUntitled
as Mode
Apr 4, 2023Modern Data Stack Conference 2023Modern Data Stack Conference (MDSCon)speakerThe modern data stack is dead, long live the modern data stack!
as Mode
Oct 17, 2022Coalesce 2022 New OrleansCoalescespeakerMoney, Python, and the Holy Grail: Designing Operational Data Models
as Mode

Most analysts don’t become analysts to build dashboards. We don’t become analysts to do data pulls, or clean up messy data, or put together pitch decks.

Video
Mar 23, 2022Data Council Austin 2022Data CounciltalkThe Return of the OLAP Cube BI & semantic layer
as Mode
Dec 6, 2021Coalesce 2021CoalescespeakerThe modern data experience
as Mode

We’ve spilled a lot of ink on the modern data stack. We talk about its architecture, which tools fit where, and how to organize our teams to support it.

SlidesVideo
Dec 7, 2020Coalesce 2020CoalescespeakerBeyond the Modern Data Stack: dbt Cloud Metadata in Mode
as Mode
Benn Stancil discusses new ways to align the optimal application boundaries in the modern data stack, providing a set of guidelines for determining how and…Show less

Benn Stancil discusses new ways to align the optimal application boundaries in the modern data stack, providing a set of guidelines for determining how and where to draw the lines between your many tools.

Video
Nov 12, 2019Data Council New York City 2019Data CounciltalkBuilding an End-to-End Data Stack in Thirty Minutes Analytics engineering
as Mode

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Tristan Handy9—2026
George Fraser622026
Emily Hawkins5—2026
Jeremy Cohen5—2026
Jordan Tigani5—2026
Jason Ganz412026
Barr Moses412025
Emilie Schario4—2026
Grace Goheen4—2026
Jake Hannan4—2026
Lindsay Murphy4—2024
Joe Reis312026
Sarah Catanzaro312026
Anders Swanson3—2026
Chang She3—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.