Speakers | MDS Fest 2023

Abhi Sivasailam

CEO, Levers Labs

GAAP for data and the SOMA standard

Artyom Keydunov

CEO, Cube

Semantic Layer: The Backbone of AI-powered Data Experiences

Britton Stamper

Co-founder, Push.ai

Making metrics work for you

Chad Sanderson

CEO, Gable.ai

Are we in the post-modern data stack era?

Chetan Sharma

CEO, Eppo

Where does product analytics fit in the modern data stack?

Chris Chin

Communications Coach, The Hidden Speaker

Why Most Data Presentations Flop: The Secret Equation for Storytelling

Chris Hloros

Manager of Analytics, Trainual

How a design-thinking approach creates smoother, faster modeling practices

David Jayatillake

CEO, Delphi

What are semantic layers and why you need them

Dennis Hume

Data Engineer, Materialize

Never be the bottleneck: data engineering and DevEx

Dmitry Anoshin

Data Engineer, Surfalytics

Gentle vs hardcore data engineer

Elena Dyachkova

Associate Drector of Data Science, Spring Health

Where does product analytics fit in the modern data stack?

Eric Callahan

Principal, Data Solutions

Foundations first: getting data quality right

Etai Mizrahi

CEO, Secoda

Are we in the post-modern data stack era?

Eva Schreyer

Analytics Manager, Data Leader

How to win friends and influence people when migrating to dbt

Felippe Felisola Caso

Sr. Analytics Manager, Loft

A journey to personal analytics with the modern data stack

Gabi Steele

CEO, Preql

Women founders in data

Gleb Mezhanskiy

CEO, Datafold

What it means to really follow software engineering best practices in data testing

Hugo Lu

CEO, Orchestra

How to build your own reverse ELT app

Jacob Matson

VP of Finance & Operations, Simetric

Using dbt & sql server for operational use cases

Jerrie Kumalah

Analytics Engineer, SeatGeek

Data modelling surround sound: Are we hearing the same language?

João Vitor de Camargo

Data Analyst, Dialogue

Communication as a means of better data governance

Joe Reis

CEO, Ternary Data

Are we in the post-modern data stack era?

Jonathan Talmi

Data, Cohere

How AI will reshape analytics engineering

Karthik Narayanan Venkatesh

Managing Partner, Wisdom Schema Analytics

Enterprise migration to the MDS

Katie Hindson

Head of Product & Data, Lightdash

Data dev-neXt: how data as code will change the data developer experience

Leah Weiss

CEO, Preql

Women founders in data

Lindsay Murphy

Head of Data, Secoda

Move over, LLMs; doing more with less using process optimization

Marielle Dado

Data Analytics Engineer

How to win friends and influence people when migrating to dbt

Mark Freeman

Founder, On the Mark Data

Translating between engineering and data

Mehdi Ouazza

Data Engineer, MotherDuck

The art of dancing your way through the pathless data career

Mico Yuk

Community Manager, DataHub

Women founders in data

Miriama Křížková

Analytics Lead, Slido

Three years of analytics engineering at Slido

Monica Kay Royal

Founder & Chief Data Enthusiast, nerdnourishment

Data security for data professionals

Nicholas Yager

Principal Analytics Engineer, HubSpot

From overgrown to thriving: scaling your dbt project like a gardener

Noel Gomez

Co-founder, Datacoves

Accelerating data stack maturity at Orrum

Omar Salloum

Head of Engineering, Holidu

Extending dbt Core

Pádraic Slattery

Analytics Engineer, Xebia

CI for dbt: beyond the basics

Pedram Navid

Professional bird watcher

Maybe the real MDS was the open source tools we found along the yay

Pete George

Principal, Crack the Data

Introduction to process control for data pipelines

Peter Fishman

CEO, Mozart Data

The state of the MDS: The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated

Phoenix Millacy Jay

Analytics Engineer, K Health

Data modeling surround sound: are we hearing the same language

Rachel Herrera

Head of Customer Success, Kubit

Where does product analytics fit in the modern data stack?

Rohan Thakur

Staff Analytics Manager, Collectors

Lessons collected from an enterprise rollout of dbt & Lightdash

Sarah Yazouri

CEO, StratusHawk

Data contracts: vitamin or painkiller?

Scott Breitenother

CEO, Brooklyn Data

Are we in the post-modern data stack era?

Shona Uphof

Analytics Engineer, Slido

How a data team of 3 manages to support a company of +250

Sonny Nguyen

Data Engineer, Dataroots

Sheesh, stop building in Production!

Stefan Krawczyk

CEO, DAGworks

Maintaining complex python within dbt python models

Stefania Olafsdottir

CEO, Avo

Women founders in data

Stephane Burwash

Data Ops Engineer, Potloc

Best practice starter kit

Sung Won Chung

Sr. Solutions Engineer

Data engineers are becoming software engineers

Taylor Brownlow

Head of Product, Count

The power of radical transparency

Tim Castillo

Data Engineer & Developer Advocate, Dagster

Using your usage: tips for optimizing for cloud spend

Timo Dechau

Founder, Deepskydata

Going from event data to business activities

Will Sweet

Principal Data Scientist, Big Time Data

The why and how of saying no

Zack Ober

Analytics Lead, HourWork

Create a data-driven culture with business writing