Data Council | San Francisco 2019

Hedi Razavi

Co-Founder & COO

Keewi

Igor Canadi

Software Engineer

Rockset

Jin Hyuk Chang

Software Engineer

Lyft

Kishore Gopalakrishna

Stealth

Founding Engineer

Austin Wilt

Head of Product Analytics

Slack

Amit Ramesh

Software Engineer

Yelp

Spencer Barton

Data Scientist

Branch International

Andrew Hoh

Product Manager

Airbnb

Daragh Sibley

Director of Data Science

Stitch Fix

Anitha Kannan

AI Researcher

Curai

Luke Merrick

Data Scientist

Fiddler Labs

Alex Ratner

Author of Snorkel

Stanford University

Dan Robinson

CTO

Heap

Tao Feng

Software Engineer

Lyft

Ali Hamidi

Lead Data Engineer at Heroku

Salesforce

Catherine Tarsney

Analytics Director

Democratic National Committee

Bonnie Barrilleaux

Data Science Manager

LinkedIn

Durgam Vahia

Product Manager

LinkedIn

Praneeth Vepakomma

Researcher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ryan Smith

Data Scientist

Wootric

Andrew Colombi

Co-Founder & CTO

Tonic

Eric Colson

Chief Algorithms Officer

Stitch Fix

Nishith Agarwal

Senior Software Engineer

Uber

Karthik Ranganathan

Co-Founder & CTO

YugaByte

Johannes Leppä

Data Engineer

Komodo Health

Josh Ferguson

co-founder and Chief Architect

Mode

Ethan Guo Yihua

Software Engineer

Uber

Kai Brusch

Data Scientist

Airbnb

Arun Krishnaswamy

Lead Data Scientist

Workday

Rupa Parameswaran

Security Architect

Demandbase

Edwin Ong

Technical Partner

TinyData

Gian Merlino

Co-Founder & CTO

Imply

Paul Cothenet

Co-founder & CTO

MadKudu

Robert Nishihara

Machine Learning Researcher

UC Berkeley

Anish Doshi

Machine Learning Engineer

Trifacta

Sid Choudhury

VP, Product

YugaByte

Matt Seal

Senior Software Engineer

Netflix

Andy Eschbacher

Senior Data Scientist

Carto

Carl Gold

Chief Data Scientist

Zuora

Pete Soderling

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."

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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.

	Data Council	QCon.ai	O'Reilly Strata	Gartner® Data
Super Early Bird Ticket PriceLowest published price without any discounts, coupon codes etc.	€479	€1,620	€1,645	€3,700
2 Full Days of EventsMinimum length of the conference or event.
Food & Drinks IncludedIs some form of food, drinks or snacks provided.
Multiple Unique TracksAre multiple unique tracks with separate content offered. These tracks can be shorter than the full length of the conference or event.
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.
Open Call for SpeakersAre the speaker submission, review & acceptance process open to or including 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).	Nope
Upsells you on extrasOffers extra workshops, tracks, recordings, sessions or other additions which are charged separately from the conference or event ticket price.	Absolutely not
Full of non-technical peopleDoes the conference or event publically invite non-technical data engineers or scientists.	Definitely not

	Data Council
Early Bird Ticket PriceLowest published price without any discounts, coupon codes etc.	$799
2 Full Days of EventsMinimum length of the conference or event.
Food & Drinks IncludedIs some form of food, drinks or snacks provided.
Multiple Unique TracksAre multiple unique tracks with separate content offered. These tracks can be shorter than the full length of the conference or event.
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 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).	Nope
Upsells you on extrasOffers extra workshops, tracks, recordings, sessions or other additions which are charged separately from the conference or event ticket price.	Hell no!
Swarming with sales peopleDoes the conference or event publically invite non-technical data engineers or scientists.	Definitely not!

	Qcon.ai
Early Bird Ticket PriceLowest published price without any discounts, coupon codes etc.	$1,620
2 Full Days of EventsMinimum length of the conference or event.
Food & Drinks IncludedIs some form of food, drinks or snacks provided.
Multiple Unique TracksAre multiple unique tracks with separate content offered. These tracks can be shorter than the full length of the conference or event.
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 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.

	O'Reilly Strata
Early Bird Ticket PriceLowest published price without any discounts, coupon codes etc.	$1,645
2 Full Days of EventsMinimum length of the conference or event.
Food & Drinks IncludedIs some form of food, drinks or snacks provided.
Multiple Unique TracksAre multiple unique tracks with separate content offered. These tracks can be shorter than the full length of the conference or event.
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 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
2 Full Days of EventsMinimum length of the conference or event.
Food & Drinks IncludedIs some form of food, drinks or snacks provided.
Multiple Unique TracksAre multiple unique tracks with separate content offered. These tracks can be shorter than the full length of the conference or event.
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 event. (After that we offer to transfer your ticket to a colleague or a future Data Council event). Additionally we unfortunately cannot retroactively apply any special rates, coupons or discounts once the ticket has been purchased.

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.

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