Data Day Texas + AI 2026

Launched in 2011, and quite possibly the longest running big data conference in the world, Data Day Texas returns in January with an international list of marquee presenters.

The core focus of this year's edition will be careers - becoming resilient in uncertain times.

Details and registration at Data Day Texas website.

This year's speakers include:

Joe Reis - co-author of bestselling Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Bill Inmon - father of the Data Warehouse (Wikipedia)

Abi Aryan - author of LLMOps: Managing Large Language Models in Production

Jessica Talisman - creator of the Ontology Pipeline

Chris Brousseau - co-author of LLMs in Production: From language models to successful products

Alex Merced - co-author of Apache Iceberg : The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly) and the upcoming Apache Polaris (O'Reilly)

Jean-Georges Perrin - author of Spark In Action, and co-author of Implementing Data Mesh (O'Reilly)

Lena Hall - Data / AI Engineer - Host of AI with Lena Hall and Droid AI

Vaibhav Gupta - co-founder / CEO of Boundary, and creator of BAML - the first language for building agents.

Mark Freeman - co-author of Data Contracts (O'Reilly)

Jonathan Ellis - co-founder of DataStax, and OG shepherd of Cassandra.

Adriano Vlad-Starrabba - creator of Prometheux

Thais Cooke - Linkedin Learning Instructor (SQL for Healthcare Professionals)

Weimo Liu - CEO and co-founder / creator of PuppyGraph

Sarah McKenna - CEO of Sequentum
Matthew Mullins CTO at Coginiti
Russell Spitzer
Matthew Sharp - co-author of LLMs in Production.
Dipankar Mazumdar - Dev Advocate at Cloudera.

Also speaking:

Sanjeev Mohan
Kierra Dotson
Trey Blalock
Prashanth Rao
Joshua Shinavier
Arthur Bigeard
Shane Gibson
Jon Haddad
Jenna Jordan
Tim Berglund
Clair Sullivan
Jans Aasman
Lisa Cao
Juan Sequeda
Matthew Housley
Jonathan Mugan
and many more. For a complete list of speakers, visit datadaytexas.com.