2025 Talk Recordings

The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents and Beyond
Joe Reis

The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data
Jordan Tigani

Projection Pushdown vs Predicate Pushdown: Rethinking Query Efficiency
Adi Polak
PanelPanel: Don't duck up the Numbers: Where AI Hype Meets BI Reality
Barr Moses, Barry McCardel, Colin Zima, Jordan Tigani, Tristan Handy

In the long run, everything is a fad
Benn Stancil

When not to use Spark?
Holden Karau

From 1 parameter model to 100 billion parameter models. How progress on one benefits all
Ravin Kumar

Building Distributed DuckDB Processing for Lakes
George Fraser

Uncharted: Building a Semantic Layer + MCP to Map 1.7M Songwriter Connections with Claude Code.
Sam Alexander

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

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

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

Better Data, Smaller Models, Bigger Impact
Shelby Heinecke

4 Lessons Learned the Hard Way and How Thinking Small Saved the Day
Scott Haines
PanelPanel: Is the Future Small?
Joe Reis, Benn Stancil, Shelby Heinecke, PhD, George Fraser