The Data Day Texas 2025 Schedule
8:00 am
Registration and Morning Coffee (2nd Floor Lobby)
9:00 am
Opening Keynote
Ole Olesen-Bagneux : Meta Grid - metadata management as an understanding of what already is and embracing it - 3rd Floor - Salon C
10:00 am
Ai Engineering Keynote
Chip Huyen : From ML Engineering to AI Engineering - 3rd Floor - Salon C
Chris Tabb : The Force multiplier effect. How data platform foundations drive efficiency - 3rd Floor - Salon D/E
William Lyon : WTF Is A Triple? My Journey From Neo4j To Dgraph - 2nd Floor - Classroom 201
Adam Sroka : Optimisation Platforms for Energy Trading - 2nd Floor - Classroom 202
Malcolm Hawker : Data Governance – It’s Time to Start Over - 2nd Floor - Classroom 203
Juan Sequeda : How to Start Investing in Semantics and Knowledge: A Practical Guide - 2nd Floor - Amphitheatre 204
10:50 am
Eevamaija Virtanen : Bridge Skills: The Hardest Problem Tech Still Can’t Solve - 3rd Floor - Salon C
Andrew Nguyen : Context Engineering: A Framework for Data Intelligence - 3rd Floor - Salon D/E
Weidong Yang : GraphBI: Expanding Analytics to All Data Through the Combination of GenAI, Graph, and Visual Analytics - 2nd Floor - Classroom 201
Arthur Delaitre : Deployment at scale of an AI system based on custom LLMs : technical challenges and architecture - 2nd Floor - Classroom 202
Michelle Yi : All Your Base Are Belong To Us: Adversarial Attack and Defense - 2nd Floor - Classroom 203
11:40 am
Annie Nelson : The human side of data: Using technical storytelling to drive action - 3rd Floor - Salon C
Serg Masís : Harvesting Trust: A Case Study on Developing Dependable Specialist Chatbots - 3rd Floor - Salon D/E
Lisa Cao : History and Future of Iceberg REST Catalogs - 1st Floor - Classroom 201
Max De Marzi : Modeling in Graph Databases - 2nd Floor - Classroom 202
TBA - 2nd Floor - Classroom 203
Vaibhav Gupta : LLMs in Production - How to Keep Them from Breaking - 2nd Floor - Amphitheatre 204
12:20 pm
Main Lunch - Tejas Room (2nd floor)
Women in Graph Lunch - 1st Floor - Room 107
Data Engineering Lunch - 1st Floor - Room 103
1:10pm
Mark Freeman II : Introduction to Data Contracts - 3rd Floor - Salon C
Alex Dean : Towards a sensory system for AI agents - 3rd Floor - Salon D/E
Patrick McFadin : Moving Beyond Text-to-SQL: Reliable Database Access through LLM Tooling - 1st Floor - Classroom 202
Amy Hodler / Michelle Yi : Workshop (90 mins) - Causal Graphs in Practice - 2nd Floor - Classroom 203
Bill Inmon : TBA - 2nd Floor - Amphitheatre 204
2:00pm
Jordan Morrow : Elevating Data in the Business - Bring Data and AI Skills to Life - 3rd Floor - Salon C
Hala Nelson : Adopting AI in a Large Complex Organization- Aspiration vs Reality - 3rd Floor - Salon D/E
Clair Sullivan : Empowering Change: Building and Sustaining a Data Culture from the Ground Up - 2nd Floor - Classroom 201
Ryan Wisnesky : Validating LLM-Generated SQL Code: A mathematical approach - 2nd Floor - Classroom 202
Susan Shu Chang : Improve your RAG pipelines with semantic re-ranking - 2nd Floor - Amphitheatre 204
2:50pm
Vin Vashishta : The Outcomes Economy: A Technical Introduction To AI Agentic Systems, Multi-Simulations, & Ontologies - 3rd Floor - Salon C
TBA - 3rd Floor - Salon D/E
Lisa Cao : Fundamentals of Data Ops - 2nd Floor - Classroom 201
Jessica Talisman : We Are All Librarians, Systems for Organizing in the Age of AI - 2nd Floor - Classroom 202
David Hughes : Unleashing the Power of Multimodal GraphRAG: Integrating Image Features for Deeper Insights - 2nd Floor - Classroom 203
Jean-Georges Perrin : Data Mesh is the Grail, Bitol is your Journey - 2nd Floor - Amphitheatre 204
3:30pm
Afternoon Break
Open Bar 2nd Floor Lobby
Open Bar - 3rd Floor Lobby
4:20pm
Yoann Benoit / Anne-Claire Baschet : Escape the Data & AI Death Cycle, Enter the Data & AI Product Mindset - 3rd Floor - Salon C
Michael Hunger : The Power of GraphRAG - Successful Architectures and Patterns - 3rd Floor - Salon D/E
Keith Belanger : Data Modeling in the Age of AI - 2nd Floor - Classroom 201
Jess Haberman / Hala Nelson / Michelle Yi : Panel : The Future of Data Education - 2nd Floor - Classroom 202
Clair Sullivan : From Office Cubicles to Independent Success: How to Create a Career and Thrive as a Freelance Data Scientist - 2nd Floor - Classroom 203
Bethany Lyons : Automating Financial Reconciliation with Linear Programming and Optimization - 2nd Floor - Amphitheatre 204
5:10pm
Joe Reis / Matt Housley : Data Town Hall 2st Floor - Amphitheatre 204
Closing AI Keynote
Jonathan Mugan : What Superintelligence Will Look Like - 3rd Floor - Salon C
Ryan Wisnesky : Ontologies vs Ologs vs Graphs - 2nd Floor - Classroom 201
6:30pm
The GraphGeeks party
Sponsored by Kineviz
Location: Gabriel's Cafe - AT&T Conference Hotel Lower Level.
