Sep. 23-24, 2024 San Francisco

BUILD BIGGER

BUILD

WITH SMALL DATA

BIGGER WITH

SMALL DATA

AND AI

AND AI

Big Data now fits on a single machine -

It’s time to simplify our work.

Think small, develop locally, ship joyfully.

Manifesto

It’s time to think small.

We believe in the Simple Joys of Small Data.

It’s finally possible to hold Big Data in the palm of your hand.

Is that Big Data or Small Data? That’s for you to decide.

Local-first development is more powerful than you think.

Modern hardware is a beast.

Small models drive huge impact.

Small data, smart AI.

Think small, develop locally, ship joyfully.

More Data ≠ Better Results.

Our data is subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Most data we use is recent data.

Recent data is the most valuable slice of our data.

Bigger data has an opportunity cost: Time.

Machine Learning on large data is expensive, and small models deliver huge impact.

Less is more.

Single Machines are Efficient and Powerful.

Simplicity is scalable: chaos and complexity are not.

Scale-up workflows are highly efficient, with 400X more memory than 10 years ago.

Let’s focus on delightful user experiences instead of fumbling with complex infrastructure.

We can save distributed compute for when we really need it most.

Single machines rule.

Developing Locally Just Works.

Local dev delivers instant results, while local + edge computing unlock powerful new experiences.

Ditch the distributed complexity when you don’t need it.

Not everything we build should require inefficient containers or a round-trip to the cloud.

Hardware and laptops are 100X more powerful, yet we leave this compute dormant and unused.

We believe in developing locally and shipping to prod with the same software.

Together, we can end the cloud hangover and support local analytics.

Small data and AI is more valuable than you think.

Something Small is Happening

Small Data SF is a day for developers and data practitioners to come together and engage in productive community discussions on making the most of ‘small data’ volumes to build useful, meaningful analytics and AI experiences.

Computers are now one hundred times more powerful than when the early hype of the Big Data movement was in full swing.
Let’s focus on the underrated joys and untapped potential of using laptops, cloud machines, and edge computing to their full potential to create simple, scalable analytics workflows, applications, and machine learning models.

The Small Data Movement is already underway. Are you in?

Agenda

9:00 AM

Big is Not a Number: Dispelling the Myths of Big Data

Jordan Tigani | MotherDuck

9:20 AM

Retooling for a Smaller Data Era

Wes McKinney | Posit, Pandas

9:40 AM

An evolving DAG for the LLM world

Julia Schottenstein | LangChain

10:30 AM

Give every user their own database! Unleashing the untapped power of small data

Glauber Costa | Turso

10:50 AM

Build Bigger with Small AI: Running Small Models Locally

Jeff Morgan | Ollama

11:10 AM

Squeezing Maximum ROI out of Small Data

Lindsay Murphy | Women Lead Data

11:30 AM

BI's Big Lie

Benn Stancil | Mode

1:00 PM

Know thy customer: Why TPC is not enough

Gaurav Saxena | AWS

1:20 PM

Paddling in Circles: The Return of Edge Computing

Richard Wesley | DuckDB Labs

1:40 PM

PySheets: The spreadsheet UI for Python

Chris Laffra | Pysheets

2:00 PM

Small Data by the Numbers: Fireside Chat with George Fraser

George Fraser | Fivetran

2:30 PM

Where Data Science Meets Shrek: How BuzzFeed leverages AI to Captivate Audiences Worldwide

Gilad Lotan | BuzzFeed

3:20 PM

Building Large Apps with Tiny Databases

Søren Bramer Schmidt | Prisma

3:40 PM

Enhancing the Scalability and Usability of Visualization Toolkits

Junran Yang | University of Washington

4:00 PM

PANEL - Data Minimalism: Delivering Business Value for the 99%

Ravit Jain | The Ravit Show
Jake Thomas | Okta
Celina Wong | Data Culture
James Winegar | CorrDyn
Josh Wills | DatologyAI

BUILD BIGGER

WITH SMALL

DATA AND AI

SEPTEMBER
23-24
2024

Speakers

From the community

"I attend a lot of conferences, but Small Data SF was on another level. The lineup was unbeatable, the content was razor-sharp, and the people were next-level inspiring."

JOIN THE

MOVEMENT

On September 23th and 24th, 2024,

250 champions gathered in San Francisco to

officially kick off the Small Data movement.

We’re just getting started:

Are you ready to build bigger together?

By the numbers

02
days irl
19
speakers
08
sponsors
07
workshops
260+
attendees

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