Data Reboot: Lightning Talks & Mixer

​Your Day 0 Destination Before Data Council 2025

​Hey data folks! We're putting together a fun evening of lightning talks and mingling the night before Data Council kicks off. This is our chance to hear some cool ideas, including those that might not have made it onto the main conference agenda.

​What to expect

• ​Food & drinks: Door at 5pm

• ​Lightning Talks start at 5:45pm

• ​Hang out

​Lightning Talks

​Format: rapid fire 5-minute talks (slides if you want, but not required. and yes, we'll unplug you after 300 seconds!)

• ​Johan Baltzar @ Steep - Why I became obsessed with Metrics-First BI

• ​Snehaal Dhruv @ pyc.ai - Because your IP deserves royalties, not robbery 🧩💸

• ​Stephen Sciortino @ Database Tycoon - We tried to build an open-source stack (and why we got stuck)

• ​Simon Tiu @ Vertex Ventures - Hard Truths in Building Data Startups

• ​Shivam @ Structured Labs - Are tools like Preswald a serious threat to data engineering careers, as seen on reddit

• ​Dori @ Recce - Product Analytics for Invisible Products

​Hosted by

​Recce - We're solving the data context problem, starting with code review for dbt. We help data teams spot blind spots and work better with stakeholders.

​Structured Labs - We build smarter ways for humans to explore and reason with data, making complex information more useful.

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