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Stage 1
Keynote
May 5
10:00 AM
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Opening keynote
MDS Fest 3.0 opening ceremonies
Sarah Bazal
Creative and Operations Lead, MDS Fest
Etai Mizrahi
CEO and co-founder, Secoda
May 5
10:30 AM
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Leadership, career growth and skills development
Reborrowing agentic system concepts to reboot your data team
Georgios Ntanakas
Director of Data Engineering, GWI
May 5
11:00 AM
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Modern data architecture and engineering
Enabling high scale redshift data warehouse via dbt
Adelaine Gelain
Analytics Engineer, Tractive
May 5
11:30 AM
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Data storytelling
What happens when data conflicts stories we want to tell ourselves? A journey into the hearts of the film industry
Stephen Follows
Founder, Catsnake: The Story Agency
May 5
12:00 PM
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Leadership, career growth and skills development
Version control for humans: iterating your people into analysts
Kelly Burdine
Senior Director of Data Science and Analytics, Wellthy
May 5
12:30 PM
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Data governance and strategy
Governance frameworks for harmonizing qual & quant insights
Chen-Hui Bergl
Founder & Partner, Fully Analytics
May 5
1:00 PM
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AI, analytics and business intelligence
Sentiment analysis in media publication
Vinoth Nageshwaran
Data Engineer IV, Business Insider
May 5
1:30 PM
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Data governance and strategy
The ethics of emotional AI: should machines build consumer trust?
Cecilia Dones
Founder, Chief Data Officer, 3 Standard Deviations
May 5
2:00 PM
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Data storytelling
Empower data storytelling: innovate and harness the power of generative ai
Jordan Morrow
Senior Vice President of Data and AI Transformation, AgileOne
May 5
3:00 PM
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Leadership, career growth and skills development
Data teams 2.0: Building teams that lead and not just support
Sajay Suresh
Senior Director, Data & Applied Science, Microsoft
Stage 2
Partners
May 5
2:30 PM
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AI, analytics and business intelligence
Ai decisioning: applying reinforcement learning agents to lifecycle marketing to optimize engagement and conversions
Rishabh Anand
Head of Product, AI Decisioning, Hightouch
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May 5
3:30 PM
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Modern data architecture and engineering
Abstractions: enabling data teams through reduced complexity
Colton Padden
Data Engineer & Developer Advocate, Dagster Labs
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Stage 3
Startups
May 5
4:00 PM
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Modern data architecture and engineering
Data processing for AI: Building Daft for blazing fast I/O on structured & unstructured data
Kevin Wang
Founding Engineer, Eventual Computing
ChanChan Mao
Developer Relations, Eventual Computing
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May 5
4:30 PM
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AI, analytics and business intelligence
AI agents for data analytics
Dylan Watt
Founder, Kadre LLC
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