Sessions

Keynotes

Data Con LA 2025 Keynote

Keynote
Ed Clark, PhDSubash D'SouzaSara Nourazari, PhDAnita Sengupta, PhD

Keynote Panels

It May Be Too Late: AI has Changed Hollywood Forever ... and Now it is Coming for the Creator Economy

Keynote Panel
Xavier KochharHernan LopezAdrienne LahensEric ShamlinSuhaib Rangoonwala

Panels

Women in AI

Panels
Shadnaz Asgari, PhDWeixiang Chen, PhDAnnie FlippoOdessa ReynoPooja Tekchandani

Bridging Data, Design & Delivery: Transforming Health Systems with Analytics, AI & Operational Insight

Panels
Lihao Chu, PhDMatthew Lee, RN, PhDJames Lott, PsyD, MBABogdan Rau, MPH

Is Data Science Still a Job?

Panels
Cambron CarterBasil LatifJon MorraVincent Nijs, PhDChris Smith

Talks

AI in Risk and Antifraud Domain

AI/ML & Data Science Intermediate
Madhumitha Karthikeyan
https://youtu.be/FWaJqhYLDoc

From Fragments to Full Story - Replaying History from Snapshots and Streams

Business Analytics & Reporting Intermediate
Kapil Poreddy

Human-First Data Careers in the Gen AI World

Data Career Development Intermediate
Manu Mehra

What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?

Data Engineering Intermediate
Robert Hodges

“Millions-to-One, Words-to-Terms” - Generative AI in Action for Rare Disease Diagnosis and Clinical Data Harmonization

AI/ML & Data Science Intermediate
Lishuang Shen

Data Under Pressure: Orchestrating Multi-Platform Emergency Response During the LA Wildfires

Business Analytics & Reporting Intermediate
Tiffany DeatonMichelle Dunivan, PhD

Tell me What you Want, What you Really, Really Want: How to Identify the Real Business Question

Data Career Development Beginner
Irina Kukuyeva, PhD

The Tip of the Iceberg

Data Engineering Intermediate
Alex Rasmussen, PhD

Building an End-to-end ML Platform

AI/ML & Data Science Intermediate
David EdisonBrendan Hu

Pub/Sub for Tables: Shift Left for Data Integration

Data Engineering Intermediate
Arvind Prabhakar
https://youtu.be/XAE-rlOx1wk

Training-Free Multi-Agent Language Models

AI/ML & Data Science Intermediate
Xiaowu DaiFrederic Schoenberg

Data Debt : The Hidden Malaise Impacting Your Business

Data Engineering Advanced
Sayantan Ghosh

Designing with Data: Making Information Clear, Actionable, and Beautiful

Business Analytics & Reporting Beginner
Alison Bunce

Elevating Search Relevance with SigLIP: The Power of Multimodal Retrieval

AI/ML & Data Science Intermediate
Kunal Sonalkar

From Intern to Head of Data Analytics: Launching and Leading a Career in Data

Data Career Development Beginner
Tina Wang
https://youtu.be/vPJgqkZR_o4

Beyond Correlation: A Practical Guide to Causal Inference in Data Science

AI/ML & Data Science Intermediate
Ellie Albertson, PhD
https://youtu.be/MpSWuZ7dAlI

Cross-Disciplinary Advantage: Build a Data Career That Stands Out

Data Career Development Beginner
Devyn Miller

Strands and AgentCore

AI/ML & Data Science Intermediate
Sunita Koppar
https://youtu.be/EJrGzul6_JE

Swerve! A Career-Pivot Story: From Comms to Data

Data Career Development Beginner
Sebastian Vasquez

Others

Event Registration

General

Lunch

General

Networking Event

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