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Speakers

Ken Obata

Employers on the program

  1. 2026Lyft2 talks
Events2
Conferences2
Talks2
Years active2026
Miles between events4,9152 in-person events · 2 countries

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.

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Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

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  • Airflow Summit
  • PyData

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Aug 31, 2026Airflow Summit 2026Airflow SummittalkSelf-Service DAGs: Event-Driven Design for GitHub Actions and Airflow at Lyft
as Lyft
At Lyft, driver pay configs on GitHub must be validated through Airflow DAGs before merging. However, Scientists and Analysts who change configs are not…Show less

At Lyft, driver pay configs on GitHub must be validated through Airflow DAGs before merging. However, Scientists and Analysts who change configs are not familiar with Airflow.

SlidesVideo
Jun 5, 2026PyData London 2026PyDatatalkBeyond Spark MLlib: Deduplicating Common Crawl at Scale
as Lyft
Training large language models requires massive, high-quality text corpora—but web-scale datasets like Common Crawl contain significant near-duplicate content…Show less

Training large language models requires massive, high-quality text corpora—but web-scale datasets like Common Crawl contain significant near-duplicate content that degrades model performance and wastes compute.

Frequent co-speakers

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