The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents and Beyond
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💡 The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents and Beyond
🗓️ Friday 28th November
⏰ 15:00 PM GMT
🗣️ Joe Reis, Data Engineer and Architect
For years, data engineering was a story of predictable pipelines: move data from point A to point B. But AI just hit the reset button on our entire field. Now, we're all staring into the void, wondering what's next. While the fundamentals remain unchanged, data continues to pose challenges in traditional areas such as security, data governance, management, and modeling. Everything else is up for grabs.
This talk will cut through the noise and explore the future of data engineering in an AI-driven world. We'll discuss how our focus must shift from building dashboards and analytics to architecting for automated action. The reset button has been pushed. It's time for us to invent the future of our industry.
Joe Reis, a "recovering data scientist" with 20 years in the data industry, is the co-author of the best-selling O'Reilly book, "Fundamentals of Data Engineering." He’s also the instructor for the wildly popular Data Engineering Professional Certificate on Coursera, in partnership with DeepLearning.ai and AWS.
Joe’s extensive experience encompasses data engineering, data architecture, machine learning, and more. He regularly keynotes major data conferences globally, advises and invests in innovative data product companies, writes at [Practical Data Modeling](https://practicaldatamodeling.substack.com/) and his [personal blog](https://joereis.substack.com/), and hosts the popular data podcast "[The Joe Reis Show.](https://open.spotify.com/show/3mcKitYGS4VMG2eHd2PfDN?si=3d3fde23fc1c4a33)" In his free time, Joe is dedicated to writing new books and articles and thinking of ways to advance the data industry.
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