Analytics of Today and the Future

About the event

• Date: 2024/11/20 (Wednesday) 18:00 (starts 18:30)
• Location: Didžioji str. 28, Vilnius (Wix Town Hall Office)
• Language: English

Agenda
6:00 p.m. – Welcome to Wix.com: doors open; treat yourself with drinks & snacks
6:30 p.m. – Analytical Data at Scale: Challenges of managing 800+ analytical datasets from 40+ data teams by Justas Mikaliūnas
7:10 p.m. – History of SQL and the future of AI powered NLQ by Yossi Goldstein
8:00 p.m. – Follow-up networking

About the talks

Analytical Data at Scale: Challenges of managing 800+ analytical datasets from 40+ data teams by Justas Mikaliūnas

In this meet-up Justas will give an overview of how Wix Data Organisation is translating 30 billion data events daily into domain oriented tables. He will give a high level overview of Wix data infra, problems we face with data and how we choose to handle those problems to bring value to business.

History of SQL and the future of AI powered NLQ by Yossi Goldstein

The world is changing, it's pretty clear by this point. With the advent of large language models (LLMs) and generative Al, we are witnessing the boundaries constantly being pushed what is possible for a machine to understand and do, simply by using words. This revolution is not only reshaping technological possibilities but also redefining people's. expectations. However, while this revolution happening, our dear old friend SQL is officially celebrating its 50th birthday, proving itself once more as a survivor in the world of data. So what is it going to be? Who will control the future of data? Words or SQL?Let's take a journey into the past, present and future of querying data. We will talk about how SQL became so popular, how it survived for so long and what is still making it so sticky 50 years later.

We will talk about the LLM revolution, the challenges of leveraging Al to transition from SQL to NLQ (Natural language querying) and some hints to the technologies that could get us closer such as RAG, Semantic Layers and Knowledge Graphs. Lastly we will peek into the crystal ball and try to figure out what the future might bring, how it might change the way we see modern data platforms and data self service, and what all of this might mean for us data professionals.

The data and culture guy. Leading the Big Data Platform R&D at Wix. Josef has over a decade of experience building data intensive SaaS applications and growing the awesome teams that make them. He believes that the secret sauce for creating sustainable complex systems is good design practices, effective communication between people, and automating everything. In his day to day he works tirelessly on building the culture necessary to support these values and propagate them to others, one pep-talk at a time.