Tanya Bragin leads product at ClickHouse, a popular 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.

Adi Polak

Adi Polak is an experienced software engineer and people manager. For most of her professional life, she dealt with data and machine learning for operations and analytics. As a data practitioner, she developed algorithms to solve real-world problems using machine learning techniques and leveraging expertise in Apache Spark, Kafka, HDFS, and distributed large-scale systems. As a manager, she led teams, and together they embarked on innovative journeys in the ML space and came back with staggering insights and learnings. Adi has taught Spark to thousands of students and is the author of the successful book Scaling Machine Learning with Spark. Earlier this year, she began a new adventure with data streaming, specifically Flink and ML inference, and is hooked.

Chip Huyen

I’m Chip Huyen, a writer and computer scientist. I grew up chasing grasshoppers in a small rice-farming village in Vietnam. I’m currently at Voltron Data, working on GPU-native data processing and open data standards (Ibis, Apache Arrow, Substrait). Previously, I built machine learning tools at NVIDIA, Snorkel AI, and Netflix. I also founded Claypot AI, which was acquired. I graduated from Stanford University, where I taught CS 329S: Machine Learning Systems Design. The lectures became the foundation for the book Designing Machine Learning Systems, which is an Amazon #1 bestseller in AI (very proud)! My new book AI Engineering will (hopefully) come out late 2025.

Eevamaija Virtanen

Eevamaija’s journey started in the skies as a flight attendant, followed by a long stretch in BPO project management and innovative business and product development. She then let her creative side lead in roles like music video director and photographer before diving into the world of data engineering. With this background, Eevamaija brings a down-to-earth, practical and highly curious approach to tackling data challenges and improving team communication. She’s all about continuous learning and building real, authentic connections - principles that have shaped her path in data engineering. Eevamaija believes in embracing imperfections, asking for help when needed, and keeping it real - because that’s what it really takes to succeed in this ever-changing field.

Joe Reis

Joe Reis, a seasoned data professional with over two decades of experience, is a globe-trotting author and speaker. Known as a "recovering data scientist," his expertise encompasses data engineering, architecture, and machine learning. As co-author of Fundamentals of Data Engineering, he helped define the field of data engineering. He contributes regularly to his blog and Practical Data Modeling, and hosts popular data podcasts like "The Monday Morning Data Chat" and "The Joe Reis Show." He also keynotes major data and tech conferences around the world. In his spare time, Joe is passionate about authoring new books and articles, continuously striving to push the boundaries of the data industry.

Tyler Hannan

Tyler Hannan is an experienced technologist with a passion for human interaction. With a career that has spanned the private and public sectors, large enterprises, consulting, and startups of varying success, he has maintained a focus on data persistence and analysis. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, called on to provide commentary about market trends impacting the design and deployment of database solutions and distributed systems.

Amr Awadallah

Prior to founding Vectara, Amr served as the VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Amr co-founded Cloudera where he led the development of enterprise tools to ingest and extract value from big data. Before Cloudera, Amr served as VP of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo after Yahoo acquired his first startup Aptiva, a search engine company. Amr holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a MA from Cairo University.

Sean Falconer

Sean Falconer, PhD in Computer Science, with a Postdoc in Bioinformatics from Stanford University, brings over 15 years of experience in research, engineering, product, developer relations, and marketing. Prior to Skyflow, he contributed to projects with the World Health Organization, founded Proven.com, and led developer relations engineering for Google's Business Communication products. At Skyflow, Sean leads marketing and developer relations, actively engaging with communities through building, writing, speaking, and fostering discussions on engineering and data privacy.

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Adi Polak

Data Streaming & AI/ML @ Confluent | Author of Scaling Machine Learning Systems (O'Reilly)

Navigating Streaming Infrastructure

Sydney

Perth

Melbourne

Auckland

Adrian Cole

Principal engineer at Elastic

Where are we going with observability?

Sydney

Andrew Montgomery

Data Evangelist, GTM Manager, Coalesce.io, ANZ

Agile Data Platforms : Innovate at the speed of thought

Sydney

Chip Huyen

AI founder | Open source | GPU optimization

Unified dataframe API for different data backend

Sydney

Perth

Melbourne

Auckland

Darren Wood

Field Engineering @ Neo4j

Knowledge Graphs : Adding a New Dimension to Vector Search and Generative AI

Sydney

David Levy

Head of Field Engineering, APAC

Beyond LLMs and Maturing RAG use cases

Sydney

Eevamaija Virtanen

Senior Data Engineer, Partner @ Invinite, Founder @ DataTribe, Co-Founder @ Helsinki Data Week

Breaking into Data Engineering

Sydney

Perth

Emily Melhuish

Lead Engineer at Multitudes

How to NOT build a data integration

Sydney

Joe Reis

Best-selling author, "recovering data scientist", data engineer and architect.

The future of Data Engineering panel

Sydney

Perth

Melbourne

Auckland

Juan Sequeda

Principal Scientist, Head of AI Lab at data.world and Co-Host of Catalog & Cocktails, honest no-bs data podcast

Increasing the LLM Accuracy for Question Answering on Structured Data: Knowledge Graphs to the Rescu

Sydney

Lars Klint

Llama Wrangler - Home Automation Nerd - Microsoft MVP

Welcome to DataEngBytes Sydney

Sydney

Perth

Melbourne

Auckland

Mike Dias

Principal Engineer at Atlassian

The journey of Data Mesh and Compliance in a Multi-Regional Data Lake at Atlassian

Sydney

Patrick Cuba

Solution Architect

Data Mesh & Data Vault on Snowflake

Sydney

Melbourne

Paul Ashley

Principal Software Engineer - Atlassian

The journey of Data Mesh and Compliance in a Multi-Regional Data Lake at Atlassian

Sydney

Piotr Katolik

REA Group - Lead Data Engineer

Beyond the Build: Unleashing the Hidden Value in Your Data Platforms

Sydney

Richard Gutierrez

Data Engineer at SafetyCulture

Data Integration at SafetyCulture: Implementing Protobuf for Efficient Data Contracts

Sydney

Roopa Venkatesh

Principal Consultant & AWS Community Builder

Building a Consistent and Accurate Transactional Data Lake with Apache Iceberg

Sydney

Scott Shellien-Walker

Data Transformer

Agile Data Platforms : Innovate at the speed of thought

Sydney

Simon O'Toole

AAO Macquarie, Head of Research Data & Software

The future of Data Engineering panel

Sydney

Sundeep Kaur

Data Engineer @ nib group

Tag! You're I.T.

Sydney

Suneeta Mall

Bringing AI to production | Head of AI Engineering | Author of "Deep Learning at Scale"

Future of Machine Learning Panel

Sydney

Thiago Baldim

Lead Data Engineer at SafetyCulture

Data Integration at SafetyCulture: Implementing Protobuf for Efficient Data Contracts

Sydney

Tyler Hannan

Senior Director, Developer Advocacy at ClickHouse

Rethinking Status Quo: Open Source and the Cloud Data Warehouse

Sydney

Perth

Victor Korabelnikoff

Data Engineer @ nib group

Tag! You're I.T.

Sydney

Yousry Mohamed

Lead Consultant at Cuusoo

Software Engineering Skills for Data Engineers

Sydney

Zach Wilson

Founder @ DataExpert.io

How I built an entire data platform by myself that thousands of data engineers use in one year

Sydney

Perth

Melbourne

Auckland

Aiden Ziegelaar

Lead Consultant @ Cognizant Servian

Securely Democratising Data

Perth

Ash Smith

Building Data Teams and Platforms at South32

The future of Data Engineering panel

Perth

Jonathan Neo

Senior Data Platform Engineer at Canva

Blueprints for Scaling: Practical Steps for Scaling Your Data Platform to Handle Exponential Growth

Perth

Lee McDonald

Data Vanguards - Founder and Principle Engineer

Moving Towards Real-Time OLAP - With First Principle Thinking and Guided by Access Patterns

Perth

Amey Khedekar

Senior Data Engineer, Block Inc

Serving a multi-platform Data Lake via Delta, Iceberg, Unity and Glue

Melbourne

Amr Awadallah

CEO & Co-Founder at Vectara

Advanced Enterprise RAG Systems

Melbourne

Auckland

Ankita Saha

Senior Data Engineer, Block Inc

Serving a multi-platform Data Lake via Delta, Iceberg, Unity and Glue

Melbourne

Gaurav Thadani

DiUS Computing - Lead Consultant

Craft events mindfully - navigating the event driven journey with caution (EDA)

Melbourne

Gunu Diamond

Principal Data Architect at Vista

Data, It’s a People Problem: Understanding the Sociotechnical Elements of a Data-Driven Organization

Melbourne

Harmeet Sokhi

Data Engineer, ThoughtWorker

Rethinking Data Catalogs: The Promise and Pitfalls

Melbourne

Jatin Solanki

CEO - Decube | We help deliver data trust

Text2SQL - Behind the scene

Melbourne

Jenn Junod

Has Shit2TalkAbout, Learning Live on Teach Jenn Tech, and DevRel at Aiven

Dear Podcast, Can You Help Me? Leveraging OpenSearch and LangChain to ask a podcast for advice

Melbourne

May Hu

Senior Data and Analytics Engineer at Pet Circle

Who Really Uses Dataform? Spoiler: We Do, and Here’s Why!

Melbourne

Ned Letcher

Lead data science engineer at Thoughtworks

A quack of all trades: DuckDB, a versatile analytical database to keep in your toolkit

Melbourne

Prerna Tiwari

Confluent, Snr Solutions Engineer, ANZ

Garbage In, Garbage Out: Elevating AI with High-Quality Data

Melbourne

Rebecca Cavallo

Senior Data Scientist

The future of Machine Learning panel

Melbourne

Sean Falconer

Head of Developer Relations at Skyflow

The future of Machine Learning panel

Melbourne

Auckland

Siddhant Agarwal

Developer Relations Lead APAC at Neo4j

GraphRAG: Powering Up LLMs with Knowledge Graphs

Melbourne

Simon Aubury

Data geek

A quack of all trades: DuckDB, a versatile analytical database to keep in your toolkit

Melbourne

Stu Johnstone

Data Consultant @ Mantel

Building the Ultimate Databricks Environment

Melbourne

Tanya Bragin

VP Product, ClickHouse

How open source is re-shaping the cloud data warehouse landscape

Melbourne

Auckland

Vishal Srivastava

Data & AI Consultant - Thoughtworks

Rethinking Data Catalogs: The Promise and Pitfalls

Melbourne

Will Falconer

Principal Engineer, Media & Attachments Platform at Atlassian

How Atlassian is migrating 40PB data with 99.99% reliability

Melbourne

Yash Sharma

Senior Engineering Manager, Storage Platform at Atlassian

How Atlassian is migrating 40PB data with 99.99% reliability

Melbourne

Anna Choi

Senior Data Engineer at Tracksuit

Measuring Success - Observability and More!

Auckland

Chuan-Zheng Lee

Head of Data, Kami

From Start-Up to Scale-Up: Building a Data Team at a High-Growth Global Ed-Tech Company

Auckland

Elaine Gao

Machine Learning Engineer at Mantel Group

Supercharge Information Extraction with Vision-Based LLMs

Auckland

Emma MacDonald

Director for the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

Data Ethics Panel

Auckland

Gaurang Deshpande

Engineering Manager - Data

Data Platforms Transformation - Why and How

Auckland

Jessica Chunyao Zhang

Les Mills International, Senior Data Engineer

Data Ethics Panel

Auckland

Lauren Peate

CEO & founder at Multitudes

Data Ethics Panel

Auckland

Sahil Bahl

Lead Data Scientist

Supercharge Information Extraction with Vision-Based LLMs

Auckland

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