Data Council 2025: Meet the Track Hosts

Hey there, data geeks! We're going all-in on technical depth for Data Council 2025. Meet the industry leaders who‘ll be curating the most cutting-edge tracks in data & AI. No fluff, no marketing talks – just pure technical content from the trenches. Here's who’s crafting your learning experience at our SF Bay Area event this April 22-24.

Scott Breitenother - Founder & CEO @ Brooklyn Data Co.

Scott Breitenother is an investor and advisor who specializes in building data-driven organizations. He is Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Data Co., a full-stack data and analytics consultancy, and Chief Data Officer of Velir, a leading digital experience agency.

Shawn (Swyx) Wang - Founder @ Smol AI

Swyx/Shawn Wang has built dev tools and communities at AWS and three unicorns (Netlify, Temporal, Airbyte). Known for his work on AI Engineering, his technical insights reach hundreds of thousands through the Latent Space newsletter and podcast.

Sean Taylor - Co-Founder & Chief Scientist @ Motif

Sean built data science teams at Lyft and Meta where he cracked some of tech's hardest causality problems. He is a self-proclaimed stats nerd with a PhD from NYU Stern who loves borrowing ideas across fields – from economics to ML – to solve messy business problems.

Carlos Aguilar - Founder @ & CEO @ Hashboard

Carlos started and ran the data insights team at Flatiron Health for five years. Carlos previously worked on warehouse-automating distributed robots at Amazon/ Kiva and machine learning + robotics at Cornell’s Computational Synthesis Lab.

Tristan Zajonc - Cofounder & CEO @ Continual

Tristan built and sold Sense to Cloudera, where he led ML engineering. Tristan is a former economist who spent a decade applying data science at World Bank and Harvard (PhD) before jumping into AI.

Daniel Francisco - Director of Product Management @ Meta

Daniel has built AI products that have reached hundreds of millions, specializing in search and recommendation systems. Passionate about scaling ML applications that solve real user problems. Ex-Head of Product (Search) at Google.

Sai Srirampur - Product Leader @ Clickhouse

Sai is a Postgres enthusiast who's helped hundreds of companies get the most out of their databases. He built Postgres tools at Microsoft and was an early Citus Data employee (acquired by Microsoft). Now building better ways to move data out of Postgres and into warehouses without the usual headaches.

Maggie Hays - Founding Community PM @ DataHub

Maggie is the Community Product Manager for DataHub and part of the Founding Team at Acryl Data. She is passionate about building resources that allow data to be accessible and impactful for end-users. You can find her organizing data-focused hackathons, design sprints, mentoring programs and more.

Sean Anderson - Head of Product Marketing @ Vectara

Sean has helped shape how we use data, from the early days of cloud databases at Rackspace to data science at Cloudera and DataOps at StreamSets. Now tackling LLM hallucinations and building better retrieval systems. Known for translating complex tech into practical solutions and teaching others how to do the same.

Each track host is curating technical deep-dives from speakers who are building and scaling real systems. Look forward to hearing about concrete architectures, implementation details and real-life stories from the data & AI trenches.

Early bird tickets are live (and they’ll go fast), so register today!

See you at DC’25,

Team Data Council 🧠💡