Balancing Broad Data Access with Usability at Scale

Slack faces a data challenge common in many growing companies: as the company grows and more people in increasingly distant functions need reliable access to data, how do we balance access with the need for stewardship? How do we do this at scale?

We’ll explore how Slack is using people, tools, curation, and access controls to evolve the broadly accessible and un-curated data warehouse of our past into a robust data engine built to power the Slack data needs of the future.