Build bigger with small data and AI
2025 in Pictures
2 Days IRL
26 Speakers
8 Workshops
2025 Speakers
2025 Agenda
Check-in
The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents and Beyond
Joe ReisDeepLearning.AI
The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data
Jordan TiganiMotherDuck
Projection Pushdown vs Predicate Pushdown: Rethinking Query Efficiency
Adi PolakConfluent
Panel: Don't duck up the Numbers: Where AI Hype Meets BI Reality
Barr MosesMonte Carlo
Barry McCardelHex
Jordan TiganiMotherDuck
Colin ZimaOmni
Jordan TiganiMotherDuck
Tristan Handydbt Labs
In the long run, everything is a fad
Benn Stancil
Lunch
When not to use Spark?
Holden KarauFight Health Insurance
From 1 parameter model to 100 billion parameter models. How progress on one benefits all
Ravin KumarGoogle DeepMind
Building Distributed DuckDB Processing for Lakes
George FraserFivetran
Uncharted: Building a Semantic Layer + MCP to Map 1.7M Songwriter Connections with Claude Code.
Sam AlexanderKnapsack
Small data, big features: we are rewriting SQLite!
Glauber CostaTurso
Doing More with our Data at DoSomething.Org: a Nonprofit’s Small Data Story
Sahil GuptaDoSomething
Explore23: Web application for exploration of a large genomic research cohort
Teague Sterling23andMe
Better Data, Smaller Models, Bigger Impact
Shelby HeineckeSalesforce
4 Lessons Learned the Hard Way and How Thinking Small Saved the Day
Scott HainesBuf
Panel: Is the Future Small?
Networking Reception
Local-First. Cloud-Free. Future-Ready.
From the community
We champion the power of Small Data and smart AI, believing that less is truly more. Modern hardware is powerful enough—keep it simple, utilize local compute, and remember that single machines rule. Small models drive huge impact!
Simplicity is scalable: chaos and complexity are not.
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Small Data. Huge Impact.
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