Small Data

Two Full Days, One All-Access Pass: $379
Nov. 04-05 2025 San Francisco
2 Days IRL
26 Speakers
8 Workshops
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building faster, simpler,
more cost-effective systems.

Agenda

8:30 AM
Registration
The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents and Beyond
The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data
Jordan Tigani

Jordan TiganiMotherDuck

Projection Pushdown vs Predicate Pushdown: Rethinking Query Efficiency
Adi Polak

Adi PolakConfluent

Panel: Don't duck up the Numbers: Where AI Hype Meets BI Reality
Barr Moses

Barr MosesMonte Carlo

Barry McCardel

Barry McCardelHex

Colin Zima

Colin ZimaOmni

Tristan Handy

Tristan Handydbt Labs

In the long run, everything is a fad
Benn Stancil

Benn Stancil

12:00 PM
Lunch
When not to use Spark?
From 1 parameter model to 100 billion parameter models. How progress on one benefits all
Ravin Kumar

Ravin KumarGoogle DeepMind

Building Distributed DuckDB Processing for Lakes
George Fraser

George FraserFivetran

Small Data vs Big Hits - Using Local Data Tools to Map the Songwriting Industry
Sam Alexander

Sam AlexanderExtended Play

Small data, big features: we are rewriting SQLite!
Glauber Costa

Glauber CostaTurso

Doing More with our Data at DoSomething.Org: a Nonprofit’s Small Data Story
Sahil Gupta

Sahil GuptaDoSomething

Explore23: Web application for exploration of a large genomic research cohort
Teague Sterling

Teague Sterling23andMe

Better Data, Smaller Models, Bigger Impact
Shelby Heinecke

Shelby HeineckeSalesforce

4 Lessons Learned the Hard Way and How Thinking Small Saved the Day
Scott Haines

Scott HainesBuf

Panel: Is the Future Small?
Benn Stancil

Benn Stancil

Shelby Heinecke, PhD

Shelby Heinecke, PhDSalesforce

George Fraser

George FraserFivetran

5:45 PM
Networking Reception

Speakers

From the community

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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.

Highlights of 2024

BUILD BIGGER

WITH SMALL

DATA AND AI

NOVEMBER
04-05
2025

Small Data. Huge Impact.

Snag your spot for Small Data 2025

Two Full Days, One All-Access Pass: $379
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