Technical Talks

Barry McCardel is the CEO and co-founder of Hex.
He had previously worked at TrialSpark as a Senior Director, Operations & Strategy and at Palantir Technologies where he led teams at the intersection of product development and real-world impact.

Julia Schottenstein is the Product Manager at DBT Labs. Prior to this, she worked in Venture Capital as a Principal at NEA. 

Pedram is the Head of Data Engineering and DevRel at Dagster Labs where he manages the devrel, marketing, and data teams with the goal of helping developers be more successful with Dagster. He has built Dagster integrations, the Ask AI agent, and rewritten docs from the ground up. Prior to Dagster, he was the Head of Data at Hightouch, is an avid bird watcher, and a father of twin girls.

Drew Banin has built event collection systems that scaled to billions of events per month, implemented Markov-based marketing attribution models on millions of dollars of marketing spend, and dreams in NetworkX graphs.