Michel is the co-founder and CEO @ Airbyte. He has been working in data engineering for the past 15 years. As head of integrations and engineering director at Liveramp (NYSE: RAMP), he grew the team responsible for building and scaling the data ingestion and data distribution connectors, syncing 100s TB every day. In 2020, he co-founded Airbyte, the new open-source data integration platform, with the vision to commoditize data integration pipelines across all industries and organizations. After just 1 year, Airbyte grew a community with more than 6k members, got deployed over 16k times and raised over 180M from Accel, Altimeter, Benchmark, Coatue and YC.
Ken Wong is a Senior Director of Product Management at Databricks responsible for their warehousing and analytics product lines. Prior to joining Databricks, he was Co-founder / CEO of Datajoy - an analytics startup that Databricks acquired in 2022. Ken is passionate about the democratization of data and has spent the bulk of the last two decades building analytic products at places like Tableau and Business Objects. He holds a Master of Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lives in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia.
Alex Merced is a developer advocate for Dremio and has worked as a developer and instructor for companies like GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard and General Assembly. Alex is passionate about technology and has put out tech content on outlets such as blogs, videos and his podcasts Datanation and Web Dev 101. Alex Merced has contributed a variety of libraries in the Javascript & Python worlds including SencilloDB, CoquitoJS, dremio-simple-query and more.
A data analyst with a conventional background: former CPA, change management director, marketing ops specialist, and consultant to influencers selling self-help books. A punk with a corporate job who still tells himself: you can change the system far quicker when you are within it. Don't Lose Touch.
Anna Geller is a Data Professional and Technical Writer with past experience as a Data Engineering consultant. She’s currently working as a Product Lead at kestra.io. She loves writing on her Medium blog and sharing memes on social media.
Artyom is the Co-founder & CEO of Cube, a semantic layer for data apps. Prior to Cube, he co-founded Statsbot, a data platform, and has had over seven years of hands-on experience in data engineering. With a passion for science and technology, Artyom is considered a thought leader in the datasphere with expertise in building solutions that unite the modern data stack.
I love simplifying data workflows and helping companies find real value in their data. Whether it be by reducing Snowflake costs or helping develop models to detect fraud, improve customer segmentation or help answer which features a company should invest in. I also create content to help companies learn how to drive value with their data in my newsletter(7000 Readers). https://seattledataguy.substack.com/p/why-data-strategies-and-initiatives As well as put out videos on Youtube to help new data engineers break into the space(27,000 Subscribers).
Benn Stancil is ThoughtSpot’s Field CTO. He joined ThoughtSpot in 2023 as part of its acquisition of Mode, where he was a Co-Founder and CTO. While at Mode, Benn held roles leading Mode’s data, product, marketing, and executive teams. He regularly writes about data and technology at benn.substack.com. Prior to founding Mode, Benn worked on analytics teams at Microsoft and Yammer.
Bobur is a developer advocate and speaker specializing in software engineering and leading developer audiences. With over 10- years of experience in IT, he blogs about open-source technologies and the community around them. Bobur works with companies at different scales to build awareness, drive adoption, and engage with the community for developer-targeted products. He also creates inspiring content, design, and code use cases, projects, and demo apps to boost learning products.
Hi there, I’m Boris. I’m the founder and CEO of Census, a service that helps companies sync customer data across business systems. Previously I founded Meldium, a YC-backed password manager for teams, which was acquired by LogMeIn. I enjoy speaking about technology, helping other startup founders, and angel investing. I grew up in Canada & France before eventually moving to the US. Before settling in San Francisco, I lived in Seattle & Pittsburgh. I moonlight as an amateur tour guide if you’re visiting. Someday, I hope to recreate the magic of HyperCard.
Brian is the Founder and CEO of Unstructured, where his team is building the first ingestion and preprocessing platform for Large Language Models (LLMs). Unstructured has quickly emerged as a critical capability in the LLM ecosystem, with several million downloads in its first several months. Previously, Brian helped build another machine learning companym Primer, serving as President of its federal business. During his four years at Primer, he grew its business, formulated strategies across product development and engineering, and led multi-year, classified AI/ML development projects. Brian's experience also extends to the investment banking sector, having worked at Harris Williams & Co., where he executed mergers and acquisitions transactions across a range of industry verticals. While in government, Brian served as the Iraq Country Director on the National Security Council, advising President Obama and Vice President Biden on foreign policy matters concerning Iraq, ISIS, and the Middle East. Brian also served as an Intelligence Analyst and Briefer at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he completed multiple war zone tours. Brian has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BA/MA in Political Science from the University of California, Davis.
Subject matter expert of hands-on and leadership experience within the data science industry which resides in the design and engineering of scalable AI as well as the efforts necessary to capture, stream, transform, and serve data. His experiences exhibit data science as an enabler of success in industries such as ecommerce / retail, marketing, engineering, energy, and banking. He has experience building, scaling, and leading high-performance programs and teams in these areas to be better than they ever believed possible. He is exceptionally qualified in the efforts necessary to digitally transform an enterprise and industry. His team will challenge the status quo, when necessary, and identify / prioritize a portfolio of data science opportunities that ensure we see short-term tangible impacts and guarantee long-term shareholder value. He works exceptionally well under pressure / ambiguity and is proficient in the design and execution of end-to-end data science products, quickly. Some of his professional goals are to become Chief Analytics Officer / Chief Data Scientist of a Fortune 500 company, teach university AI courses, and own a data sciences investment and consulting operation focused on global venture philanthropy. Love Purple, Live Gold!
Drew Banin is the co-founder and former Chief Product Officer at dbt Labs, a Philadelphia startup pioneering the practice of modern analytics engineering. dbt is used by over 9,000 companies every week to organize, catalog, and distill knowledge in their data warehouses. Drew works with open source maintainers, contributors, and users to build dbt and strike fear in the hearts of database optimizers.
Evan Tahler is an Engineering Manager for multiple teams at Airbyte. Prior to that, he was the CTO and co-founder of Grouparoo, which was acquired by Airbyte. Evan's expertise lies in building the technical side of digital products, as well as growing the teams required to do so. He’s helped companies like Disney, TaskRabbit, ModCloth, and Airbus launch new global digital initiatives, and has co-founded multiple startups. He is named on a number of patents focusing on mobile interactions and digital entertainment. Evan is an open-source innovator, and frequent speaker at software development conferences focusing on Product Management, Node.JS, Typescript, Rails, and DevOps. Evan holds a Masters in Entertainment Technology and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. You can learn more about Evan at www.evantahler.com
Hubert Dulay is the author of “Streaming Data Mesh.” He is a veteran engineer with over 20 years of experience in big and fast data and MLOps. Hubert has compiled his experiences with data from his time while consulting for many financial institutions, healthcare organizations, and telecommunications companies, providing simple solutions that solved many data problems.
Joe Reis is a “recovering data scientist,” CEO of Ternary Data, and a business-minded data nerd who’s worked in the data industry for 20 years. His responsibilities have ranged from statistical modeling, forecasting, machine learning, data engineering, data architecture, and everything else in between. He hosts the popular data show and podcast, the Monday Morning Data Chat, interviews the top thought leaders in data on The Data Nerd Herd, and runs several multi-thousand member meetups, including The Utah Data Engineering Meetup and SLC Python. Joe also teaches at the University of Utah and is the co-author of the O’Reilly book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering. When he’s not busy running a company, teaching, or creating content, Joe often finds himself DJing/making music, rock climbing, or trail running in the mountains around Salt Lake City, Utah.
Laurie Voss is VP of Developer Relations at LlamaIndex, the framework for connecting your data to LLMs. He has been a developer for 27 years and was co-founder of npm, Inc.
Mehdi (aka mehdio) is a data enthusiast with nearly a decade of experience in data engineering for companies of all sizes. He's not your average data guy, injecting humor and fun into his work to make complex topics easier to digest. When he's not actively contributing to the data community through his blog, YouTube, and social media, you can find him off-beat, marching to the beat of his own data drum. Recently, Mehdi joined Motherduck as a developer advocate, bringing his expertise to supercharge DuckDB.
Nico is the co-founder and CEO of Propel, a Serverless Analytics Platform to power customer-facing analytics, dashboards, and reports in web and mobile applications. Before Propel, Nico spent a decade building API, data, and AI products at Twilio, where he joined as an early employee and was the Director of Product.
Pete joined Elementl as head of engineering in early 2022, and took over the reins as CEO in November of that year. Pete was previously co-founder and CEO of Smyte, an anti-abuse provider that was acquired by Twitter. Prior to his Pete led Instagram’s web team, built Instagram’s business analytics products, and helped to open source Facebook’s React.js.
Pradnesh is the co-founder and CEO of Altimate AI - the creators of DataPilot, aimed at reducing Snowflake costs and accelerating dbt development through the dbt-power-user VS Code extension. Before founding Altimate AI, he built several key enterprise products, which were loved by thousands of users worldwide, during his many years of career as an engineering and product leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. Outside of work, you might find Pradnesh either riding his motorcycle on Highway 1, fishing in San Diego or Alaska, or tending to his Cichlid tank at home.
Started as a software engineer in Finance. Then did data work for a manufacturer. Also taught analytics to CS students. Now co-founder at getdot.ai and sled.so.
Ryan is a Co-founder at MotherDuck, a data analytics infrastructure company. He's a data and authNZ geek who has spent the last 15 years working with databases, data infrastructure, APIs and other cloud infrastructure at Google, Neo4j and Databricks.
MiT Alum and former Customer Facing Data Scientist and early team member at Looker, a BI software and the core of Google Cloud's Analytics Stack (acquired by Google for $2.6Billion in December of 2019).
Sigal Shaharabani is a Technical Leader and a Group Leader in Tikal, with a great passion for backend and data systems. She started her technological career way back in 1996, working for the government, a variety of corporations, and small start-ups. Her favorite programming language is Kotlin, and will love any excuse to talk about it. In her spare time she enjoys swimming and Israeli folk dancing.
Re-thinking operations and organizational governance • Balancing business needs with what is algorithmically possible • Iterative problem-solving via what humans and algorithms do best
Tanya Bragin leads product at ClickHouse, the fastest open source analytical database. She has over 20 years of experience in the data space, ranging from data analytics, to search, to security and network analytics. She started her career in consulting and sales engineering, and spent the last decade and a half growing product organizations from early stages to maturity at three data analytics startups, ExtraHop, Elastic, and now ClickHouse.
Tejas Manohar is the co-founder/co-CEO of Hightouch. Prior to founding Hightouch, Tejas was an early engineer at Segment, the leading company in the Customer Data Platform (CDP) space that was acquired by Twilio for $3.2B. At Segment, Tejas realized that many of the challenges of building a best-in-class CDP would be better solved on top of the data warehouse and a modern data stack and hence, he founded Hightouch. When Tejas isn’t thinking about data, he likes running and playing competitive table tennis.
I'm passionate about technology and finance and how intelligence arises in distributed systems. I have a deep knowledge of Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Python and love applying these to novel data sets. By day I ply my trade in trying to gain insights into one of the most complex anthropic systems, the global financial markets. By night I enjoy discussing the latest developments at local Machine Learning meetups.
With more than 14 years of product & engineering leadership experience, Vishal Singh is passionate about exploring, understanding, and solving customers' problems. Vishal started his career as a big data software engineer and transitioned into product leadership over the years. Vishal drives and delivers for customers' pain points while mentoring, scaling, and growing a diverse product team. Vishal is currently Head of Products for Data Products, Data Governance & Python at Starburst and is committed to helping customers unlock business value with their Data Products & Data Mesh strategy.
