Applied AI, Data & Analytics meetup (technical, lightning talks)

## 🚀 Data, Analytics & AI Meetup @ Google

We’re excited to bring together the worlds of Data Engineering, analytics and AI in this upcoming in-person meetup hosted at Google Zurich on June 3rd 2025.
This meetup blends the foundations of modern data infrastructure, analytics with the emerging wave of AI-assisted workflows. Whether you’re building scalable pipelines, experimenting with LLMs for analytics, or creating tools to bridge both—this event is for you!

🎤 Format: Lightning Talks
Expect fast-paced, 5-minute talks from hands-on practitioners. These aren’t vendor pitches—we’re aiming for pragmatic stories, lessons learned, and real-world demos. Each speaker will deliver sharp insights in a short window, so we stay energetic and diverse throughout the evening.
Note: While lightning talks are often 5 minutes, we’re allowing up to 10 minutes per talk to allow for deeper context while keeping things punchy.

🗣️ Want to present?
We’re still accepting lightning talks! If you’re working on something interesting in the space of data engineering, analytics + AI, and want to share your learnings (no sales pitches!), let us know.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZdpQL3XGhQdytC4vzhiLsSW1TYmPcOgLlgVvgyuVgGzLzOQ/viewform?usp=dialog

✅ Talks (so far)

• SQL Meets GenBI: AI-Powered Dashboards in a Declarative World Simon Späti (Freelance Technical Author & Data Engineer)
• Building a Future-Proof Data Stack for Fast-Moving AI by Julien Hurault (Freelance data engineer @ BoringData.io)
• Close the Loop: Faster Data Pipelines with MCP, DuckDB & AI by Mehdi Ouazza (data eng & devrel @ MotherDuck)
• TBD: Omar Sanseviero
• Using Gemini in BigQuery - Dawid Ostrowski

📅 Agenda :

• 6:00 PM – Doors Open & Registration
• 6:30 PM – Welcome & Opening Remarks
• 6:40 PM – Lightning Talk Block #1 (5 talks)
• 7:15 PM – Food & Networking Break
• 7:45 PM – Lightning Talk Block #2 (5 talks)

8:20 PM - 9 PM – Open Networking & Social