AI at Data Day Texas 2025

Register for Data Day Texas at Eventbrite.
Visit datadaytexas.com for full details and speaker list.

AI is weaving itself into our lives. During one of our conversations, Claude asked me to share my thoughts on a particular topic. I replied that he would forget it at the end of the session, so I would save it for a day when, hopefully, we just have one long session. I then shared a quote from Jonathan Mugan from his 2017 talk on chatbots: "someday you’ll have your chatbot walk the path of life with you". Conversation ensued, and I shared the transcript of Jonathan’s talk with Claude. This launched a whole new conversation (same session). Claude had many questions for me - most of which I couldn’t answer - so I offered Claude the opportunity to ask Jonathan directly.

Jonathan will be giving the Closing AI Keynote:
What Superintelligence Will Look Like
For a preview, check out:
Claude's interview with Jonathan Mugan.

++++++++++++++

Chip Huyen will be giving the AI Engineering Keynote. Chip is author of the bestselling title, Designing Machine Learning Systems, and the just published - and already bestselling title - AI Engineering - both from O'Reilly

Vaibhav Gupta from Boundary will be giving the LLM Keynote:
LLMs in Production - How to Keep Them from Breaking

+++++++++++++++++++++++

WHAT CHANGES IN THE AGE OF AI?

Keith Belanger from SqlDBM will present:
Data Modeling in the Age of AI

Jessica Talisman from Adobe will present:
We Are All Librarians: Systems for Organizing in the Age of AI

The Future of Data Education and Publishing in the Era of AI
Jess Haberman - Anaconda
Michelle Yi - Women in Data
Hala Nelson - James Madison University

Register for Data Day Texas at Eventbrite.

++++++++++++++++++++++

MORE AI - RELATED SESSIONS

Improve your RAG pipelines with semantic re-ranking
Susan Shu Chang - Author of Machine Learning Interviews

GraphRAG Keynote
The Power of GraphRAG - Successful Architectures and Patterns
Michael Hunger - Neo4j

Moving Beyond Text-to-SQL: Reliable Database Access through LLM Tooling
Patrick McFadin - DataStax

Adopting AI in a Large Complex Organization- Aspiration vs Reality
Hala Nelson - James Madison University

All Your Base Are Belong To Us: Adversarial Attack and Defense
Michelle Yi - Women in Data

Escape the Data & AI Death Cycle, Enter the Data & AI Product Mindset
Anne-Claire Baschet - Mirakl
Yoann Benoit - Hymaïa

The Outcomes Economy: A Technical Introduction To AI Agentic Systems, Multi-Simulations, & Ontologies
Vin Vashishta - V Squared

Register for Data Day Texas at Eventbrite.

Elevating Data in the Business - Bring Data and AI Skills to Life
Jordan Morrow - AgileOne

Deployment at scale of an AI system based on custom LLMs : technical challenges and architecture
Arthur Delaitre - Mirakl

GraphBI: Expanding Analytics to All Data Through the Combination of GenAI, Graph, and Visual Analytics
Weidong Yang - Kineviz

Unleashing the Power of Multimodal GraphRAG: Integrating Image Features for Deeper Insights
David Hughes

Towards a sensory system for AI agents
Alex Dean - Snowplow

Validating LLM-Generated SQL Code: A mathematical approach
Ryan Wisnesky - Conexus

++++++++++++++++++++

Seriously....This is NOT the year to miss Data Day Texas.
Register for Data Day Texas before price goes up again.