Data Engineer Things Newsletter #16
Sharing Xinran's DEML Summit 2024 playlist.
Hello there,
The Data Engineering and Machine Learning (DEML) Summit 2024 is happening tomorrow and Friday (Oct 3rd - Oct 4th)!
Before the conference, I would like to share a few sessions I plan to attend myself. Hopefully, you will find some of these topics interesting too.
🎧 Xinran’s DEML Summit 2024 Playlist
1. Opportunity to Advance Data Engineering in the Environmental Sector
Speaker: Prashank Mishra, Analytics & Data Engineer at Seirify Data
Time: 8:00 am Thu, Oct 3rd (PT)
Why I’m attending: I’ve heard someone joking that most data professionals today are working on getting more people to click on ads. Regardless of how true this joke is, I definitely noticed a lack of visibility in data engineering work in other fields, such as the environmental sector. I’m curious to learn about how Prashank solves challenges in the water utility space through data engineering.
2. Data Management for LLMs
Speaker: Abi Aryan, Author and Founder at Abide A.I.
Time: 9:00 am Thu, Oct 3rd (PT)
Why I’m attending: As more teams are adopting LLMs into their products, so will they need support from data engineers and ML engineers for managing backend data, and the data requirements will look different from those of traditional ML models. I’d like to hear Abi’s perspectives on how data engineering and ML engineering will shift in the LLM world.
3. Event Tracking Redefined: A Data Engineer's Guide to Creating Actionable Insights
Speaker: Saurabh Mishra, Staff Software Engineer at ThredUP Inc
Time: 2:00 pm Thu, Oct 3rd (PT)
Why I’m attending: The best data quality strategy focuses on prevention: in other words, establishing programmatic data contracts to stop data regressions from releases. How do you implement a technical solution and people process that can scale for constant product innovation? That’s a question I think about everyday. I want to hear about how Saurabh and his team are tackling this problem.
4. 10 Most Neglected Data Engineering Tasks
Speaker: Veronika Durgin, VP of Data at Saks
Time: 10:00 am Fri, Oct 4th (PT)
Why I’m attending: As a data engineering team, you often have to juggle between business priorities and less visible work that offers long-term value. Securing time and resources for the latter can be hard. I’m curious to hear Veronika’s strategy addressing those common yet neglected tasks.
4. Unified Data + AI Governance with Unity Catalog
Speaker: Victoria Bukta, Member Of Technical Staff at Databricks
Time: 2:00 pm Fri, Oct 4th (PT)
Why I’m attending: Likely you have already heard about the biggest data news of the year: Databricks acquiring Tabular. How will the existing open-source catalog frameworks evolve to support table format unification and AI? I’m hoping to get insights from Victoria’s talk on Unity Catalog.
🗓 Full Agenda and Registration
Check out the complete conference agenda here and explore other sessions. Sign up for DEML Summit 2024 for free at demlsummit.com/signup.
(Special thanks to Databricks for sponsoring the conference!)
Have a great week and see you next time! 🦆
Cheers,
Xinran Waibel (LinkedIn)
Aside from the session I'm co-hosting with Alex Freberg, my playlist looks a lot like yours! See you in the comments section :)
Hi, I hope you're doing well! I was wondering if the sessions will be recorded, as I'm based in Australia and may not be able to attend live due to the time difference.