Data Council 2024 - Austin | Data Council | 26 March 2024 | AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705, USA

Why Attend:

Speakers Who Keep You Awake!:
Our guest speakers are leading data scientists and engineers from top organizations like Facebook, Netflix, Lyft, Salesforce, Stanford, WeWork, MIT & many more.

Covering the Whole Stack
We cover the entire data journey. From Data Infrastructure, to Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, and Data Analytics, we cover the entire stack with rich and deeply technical content from experts.

Networking That Works:
Data Council consistently attracts the best and brightest minds of data. Network with startups, find your dream job, discover new OSS, chat with investors and be inspired by our amazing, geeky attendees.

Born to Be Open Source:
We believe in Open Source; code, content and mentality. We invite top open source contributors behind the most interesting data-related projects and tools. Afterwards, we publish all content for the community, for free.

Community-Powered:
We are a diverse group of geeks, coders, scientists, analysts, and more. We care deeply about local data communities, no big $/€ sponsors here, just data nerds, like you & I.

Interactive Sessions:
Enjoy the opportunity to interact with great people and companies: our sessions typically give a lot of space to interaction and Q&A. This can also be a great chance to connect with your future co-workers!

2024 Speakers

Wes McKinney
Principal Architect, Posit, PBC

DJ Patil
Former U.S Chief Data Scientist

Ce Zhang
CTO, Together

Zhamak Dehghani
Founder & CEO, Nextdata

Emmanuel Ameisen
Research Engineer, Anthropic

Nick Schrock
Founder & CTO, Dagster Labs

Ville Tuulos
CEO, Co-Founder, Outerbounds

Joe Spisak
Product Director - Llama, Meta

Noy Twerski
Co-Founder & CEO, Sherloq Data

Ofer Mendelevitch
Head of Developer Relations, Vectara

Laura Cosgrove
Senior Data Scientist, Microsoft

Michael Eastham
Chief Architect, Tecton

Jonathan Talmi
Manager of Technical Staff, Cohere

Brent Cohn
Data Scientist, Stripe

Dhruv Singh
Co-founder & CTO, HoneyHive

Daniel Olmedilla
Sr. Engineering Director, Trust, Privacy and Responsible AI, LinkedIn

Benn Stancil
Field CTO, ThoughtSpot

Chad Sanderson
CEO, Gable.ai

Mahendra Kutare
Founder & CEO, Deeptrail

Bart Palmer
CTO, Cardagraph

Dash Desai
Lead Developer Advocate, Snowflake

Eric Warner
Senior Manager, AI Engineering, Collibra

Ryanne Dolan
Senior Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn

Chang She
Co-founder and CEO, LanceDB

Jordan Volz
Head of Field Engineering, Voltron Data

Matt Helm
Head of Analytics, Materialize

Franziska Bell
SVP, Digital Technology, bp

Solomon Kahn
Founder & CEO, Delivery Layer

Nico Acosta
Co-Founder & CEO, Propel

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
Senior Staff Research Engineer, MongoDB

Matthieu Humeau
Senior Data Scientist, MongoDB

Elkhan Dadashov
Staff Software Engineer, Apple

Colleen Tartow
Field CTO & Head of Strategy, VAST Data

Kenny Wong
Software Engineer, Coda

Harel Shein
Engineering Manager, Data Lineage, Datadog

Michelle Ufford Winters
Distinguished MTS, Data & Analytics, eBay

Kyle Weller
Head of Product, Onehouse

Lindsay Murphy
Head of Data, Secoda

Iaroslav Zeigerman
Co-founder & Chief Architect, Tobiko

Miriah Peterson
Software Engineer, MX

Jake Thomas
Manager, Data Foundations, Okta

Julien Le Dem
Open Lineage Project Lead, LFAI & Data

Abhi Sivasailam
CEO/Founder, Levers Labs

Andrew Lamb
Staff Engineer, InfluxData

Matthew Rocklin
CEO, Coiled

Aaron Taylor
Chief Architect, Nalej

Kirit Basu
Head of Product, Metaphor

Alex Martin
Head of Product, Tinybird

Micah Wylde
Co-founder & CEO, Arroyo Systems

Deepyaman Datta
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Voltron Data

Tyler Dunn
Co-founder & CEO, Continue

Eric Hansander
Co-founder & CEO, Twirl

Elijah Ben Izzy
CTO/Co-founder, DAGWorks Inc.

Ashwin Ramesh
Machine Learning Engineer, Continual

Slater Stich
Partner, Bain Capital

Adam Cimarosti
Senior Software Engineer, QuestDB

Tobias Lunt
Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist, Development Data Lab

Andrew Dworschak
CEO/Co-Founder, Yakoa

Caitlin Hudon
Data Scientist, Figma

Marck Vaisman
Senior Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Ernie Ostic
Chief Evangelist, Manta (an IBM company)

Sheeri Cabral
Product Manager, Collibra

Hope Wang
Developer Advocate, Alluxio

Yevgeny Pats
Founder & CEO, CloudQuery

C.J. Jameson
Engineering Manager, Monte Carlo

Tim Castillo
Data Engineer / Developer Advocate, Dagster Labs

Joe Karlsson
Data Engineer, Tinybird

Amber Roberts
ML Engineer & Community Leader, Arize AI

Ryan Worl
Co-founder & CTO, WarpStream

David Margulies
Sales Engineer, Tinybird

Alex Wood-Doughty
Data Science Engineer, Monocle

Kord Campbell
Founder & Developer, Mitta AI

Emilio Tamez
Director of Data & Analytics, Beam

Zoe Steinkamp
Developer Advocate, InfluxData

Celina Wong
CEO, Data Culture

Tony Kau
Partner Solutions Architect, Cube

Samantha Lohier
Senior Analytics Engineer, Data Culture

Paco Valdez
Solutions Architect, Cube

Ryan Dolley
VP of Product Strategy, GoodData

Jan Soubusta
Distinguished Engineer, GoodData

Timothy Chan
Head of Data, Statsig

Brenna Buuck
Subject Matter Expert: Databases & Datalakes, MinIO

Noelle Saldana
Director of Product Management, Data Science & Analytics

2024 Sponsors

• Cloud Query
• Cube
• Good Data
• Tiny Bird
• Warpstream
• Continual
• Monte Carlo
• One House
• Prospective
• Rudder Stack
• Satori