Data Council | Barcelona 2021

Pete Soderling is currently the founder & CEO of Data Council. As a former software engineer, serial founder and investor in data-backed startups, his passion is in building valuable resources and community for data scientists, engineers, analysts and product managers. Previously Pete founded Hakka Labs (a social network for software engineers), Stratus Security (an early cloud-based enterprise API platform) and mechanikal (a software development consultancy in NYC). A graduate of New York University, Pete has served as a mentor for 500 Startups, has been a TEDx, O’Reilly Strata and QCon speaker and has worked with technical founders across the globe.

Alberto Betella

For the past two decades Alberto has been working in and speaking about tech, innovation and science. He has an extensive technical and scientific background, which he leverages to solve real-world business problems. He is the Chief Technology Officer at Alpha Health, a moonshot backed by Telefonica with the goal of improving life for billions of people. Alpha was created to address some of the biggest problems in society by delivering radical solutions and breakthrough technology. Prior to that, he worked as CTO at Badi, a startup where he crafted the tech and the team that built it from the ground up. During his time at Badi, he scaled up from 0 to 1+ million users and he directly contributed to secure $45M VC funding in Europe and US. Alberto holds a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies with a specialization in Affective Computing and Empathic Systems.

Robert Winslow

Robert is a seasoned software consultant with a decade of experience shipping great products. He thrives in early-stage startup environments, and works primarily in Go, Python, and Rust. He has led back-end development at companies like RankScience and Spot.com; created a rigorous, open-source time-series benchmarking suite for InfluxData; and rapidly prototyped software in a skunkworks-type product lab. He’s taught graduate statistics at GalvanizeU and mentored at the Stanford d.school. He helps maintain Google’s FlatBuffers project, one of the world’s fastest serialization libraries. A colleague once described him as “the developer equivalent of ‘The Wolf’ from Pulp Fiction."

Core Data Engineering Read more: Our Core Data Engineering track gives practical examples of full-stack data architectures, data pipelines and plumbing systems, and reference examples of ETL functions & workflow schedulers. The track explores the stories behind the challenges faced by experienced engineers when building modern data infrastructures and features key open sources projects our speakers are keen to share with the community.
Data Science & AI Impact on Life Read more: This track focuses on the impact of data science on human beings and our environment. We look for applied science that will augment our interactions in the world and help us make informed decisions on issues that are relevant or urgent in order to make measurable improvements in our quality of life. The speakers in this track are selected for their abilities to address a relevant unmet need, and to provide an in-depth technical explanation of a novel data-driven solution in the areas of health & wellness, social interactions, learning, and economics.
Streaming Systems Read more: This track looks at various tooling used to build real-time applications and the underlying data infrastructure that supports the movement of data to computation. Examples of talks include case studies on how applications use messaging systems, how applications maintain consistency and correctness while ingesting large amounts of data, and computational frameworks for processing data with low latency. This is a practical track for engineers looking to design the backbone of a data intensive application architecture.
Data Science & AI Impact on Business Read more: This track addresses the major challenges faced when applying DS/ML/AI to corporate data with an emphasis on the common aspects data teams face: identifying the data you have, deciding how to organize and clean it, building the actual algorithmic models themselves, and ultimately, integrating the models into an application and scaling it into the organization’s IT systems.

We aim to keep attendees lower than 500 attendees for any Data Council event or conference. We've been there too, and we know the reason you attend conferences is not to be sold to or lose yourself in a massive sea of attendees.

Aiming for less than 500 attendees ensures that you have a fair chance to engage with speakers 1:1 on your favorite track during Speaker Office Hours. It's worth noting that this is not a watered-down "mega-conference," but an intentional community-powered conference for engineers & scientists, by engineers & scientists, like yourself!

Generally, our conferences attract between 300-500 people depending on the season, location, and speakers.

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No Bullshit Guarantee* (See below)	✔	✔	✔	✔

	Super Early Bird On Sale €499
Access to the Entire Event + All Tracks	✔
Free Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks & Drinks	✔
Access to Breakout Sessions	✔
Access to Speaker Office Hours	✔
Free Event After-Party	✔
Early Access to Conference Recordings	✔
No Bullshit Guarantee* (See below)	✔

	Early Bird Sold Out!
Access to the Entire Event + All Tracks	✔
Free Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks & Drinks	✔
Access to Breakout Sessions	✔
Access to Speaker Office Hours	✔
Free Event After-Party	✔
Early Access to Conference Recordings	✔
No Bullshit Guarantee* (See below)	✔

	Regular Bird Sold Out!
Access to the Entire Event + All Tracks	✔
Free Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks & Drinks	✔
Access to Breakout Sessions	✔
Access to Speaker Office Hours	✔
Free Event After-Party	✔
Early Access to Conference Recordings	✔
No Bullshit Guarantee* (See below)	✔

	Late Bird Sold Out!
Access to the Entire Event + All Tracks	✔
Free Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks & Drinks	✔
Access to Breakout Sessions	✔
Access to Speaker Office Hours	✔
Free Event After-Party	✔
Early Access to Conference Recordings	✔
No Bullshit Guarantee* (See below)	✔

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2 days & 40+ insightful talks by leading data scientists, engineers and machine intelligence researchers from top organizations like Facebook, Criteo, Yara, Spotify, Google, WeWork, Uber, Stitch Fix, Datadog, Segment and many more.
Multiple unique tracks to be announce later.
All-new content including our brand new Founders Panel of top startup founders in the AI space.
Max 500 attendees, the best attendee:speaker ratio in the business.

Extensive networking opportunities at the event, or connect with speakers & attendees at our after-party between event days.
Small group Speaker Office Hours following each talk with an opportunity to dive deeper into the subject matter 1:1 with the speaker.
Enjoy meeting attendees that are highly-technical data scientists, engineers, analysts & technical startup founders from top tech, media, and banking companies around Barcelona & Europe.
Connect with our great partner companies at Sponsor Spotlight to discover their available data jobs, open-source projects and latest product developments.
Inspiring keynotes and practical, information-rich sessions, tutorials, and speakers office hours exploring the latest advances, case studies, and best practices.
Fun evening event and more, giving you more face time with attendees and speakers.

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Free Community PartyIs there an event after-party offered (dinners not included)
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Free Community PartyIs there an event after-party offered (dinners not included)
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Free Community PartyIs there an event after-party offered (dinners not included)
Offers a Refund PolicyYou get your ticket refunded up to 45 days before the conference
Has a dedicated "Sponsors Track"Does the event or conference force all sponsors into one unique track where all sponsors give talks (labeled or not).
Upsells you on extrasOffers extra workshops, tracks, recordings, sessions or other additions which are charged separately from the conference or event ticket price.
Swarming with sales peopleDoes the conference or event publically invite non-technical data engineers or scientists.

	Gartner® Data
Early Bird Ticket PriceLowest published price without any discounts, coupon codes etc.	$3,700
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Community PoweredDoes this conference represents a global community of attendees engaged in monthly branded meetups around the world. AND Is the vetting process democratized, or otherwise open to the public.
Speaker Office HoursDoes the conference or event offer Speakers Office Hours or similar product.
Open Call for SpeakersAre the speaker submission process open to the public.
Max 500 AttendeesIs the conference limited to under 500 attendees, in order to maximize the value for attendees.
Free Community PartyIs there an event after-party offered (dinners not included)
Offers a Refund PolicyYou can get your ticket refunded up to 45 days before the conference
Has a dedicated "Sponsors Track"Does the event or conference force all sponsors into one unique track where all sponsors give talks (labeled or not).
Upsells you on extrasOffers extra workshops, tracks, recordings, sessions or other additions which are charged separately from the conference or event ticket price.
Swarming with sales peopleDoes the conference or event publically invite non-technical data engineers or scientists.

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We want you to feel good about buying a ticket for Data Council so that's why we offer a full refund up until 45 days prior to the conference start date. After that, we offer to transfer your ticket to another person OR exchange it for a ticket for a future Data Council conference of your choice.

We truly believe in authentic and deeply technical community events and we want you to enjoy them as much as we do. We want you to learn, grow, build, engage, launch, laugh and maybe cry (depending on what kind of repositories you follow on GitHub) but most of all we want you to feel good about attending Data Council.

We are good at detecting bullshit, but in case we missed it, just let us know at community@datacouncil.ai and we will make it right!

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Talks That Keep You Awake!

Multiple Unique Tracks

Max - 500

Born to Be Open Source

Community-Powered

Networking That Works

Track Hosts

Jordi Vitria

Santi Seguí

Paula M. Petrone

Previous Barcelona Speakers

Wouter de Bie

Ramon Gras Alomà

Yizhar Toren

Xaquín G.V.

Markus Ludwig

Xavier Gumara Rigol

Arnau Tibau Puig

Nikolas Goebel

Malte Sandstede

Ananth Packkildurai

Alexander Kudryashov

Petia Radeva

Carmen Herrero

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Steve Coppin-Smith

Agata Lapedriza

Miguel Alvarez

Aureli Soria-Frisch

Maria Crosas Batista

Jackson Argo

Karina Gibert

Gerard Maas

Vicente Valls Rios

Tiago Henriques

Tamás Németh

Andrea Spina

Albert Franzi Cros

Timo Walther

Gergely Krasznai

Lewis Hemens

Joerg Schad

Alessandro Pregnolato

Fernando Cucchietti

Pau Garcia

Joan Albert d’Escofet

Bring your team and save!

We want to invite not just you, but your team and colleagues as well. So if you purchase 3 tickets together you will receive 1 complimentary conference pass.

Look out for the "Buy 3 - Get 1 Free" pass at checkout.((Just pay ticketing fees))

Committee Chair

Pete Soderling

Previous Committee Co-Chairs

Alberto Betella

Robert Winslow

Previous Conference Tracks

Core Data Engineering

Data Science & AI Impact on Life

Streaming Systems

Data Science & AI Impact on Business

Previous Conference Schedule

Day 1Oct 2

Day 2Oct 3

Max 500: We are not a “mega-conference”

Speaker Office Hours: Meet your crowd

Our Place In Barcelona in 2019

Featured Barcelona Talks

Data Council Barcelona 2020 Pricing

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Welcome, announcements & track host intros (Pete Soderling)

Keynote 1

Talk 1

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Day 1
Oct 2

Day 2
Oct 3

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Senior Software Engineer
Stitch Fix

PMC Member Apache Flink & Apache Beam
Independent Contractor @ Google