About two years ago I had several conversations with business leaders who felt the default state of data teams was failure. And through my various consulting projects, I've been brought on to some situations where data teams were struggling, overwhelmed by ad-hoc requests, disconnected from the business, or buried under a mountain of unused dashboards and broken pipelines.

But I’ve also seen these teams turn things around.

In this talk, I’ll walk through real examples of what causes data teams to fail, and more importantly, what helps them succeed. 

Whether you're inheriting a struggling team or just trying to avoid common pitfalls, this session will give you practical strategies to reset, rebuild, and get your data team back on track.

There was a post on the data engineering subreddit recently that discussed how difficult it is to keep up with the data engineering world. Did you learn Hadoop, great we are on Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks now. Just learned Airflow, well now we have Airflow 3.0. And the list goes on. But what doesn’t change, and what have been the lessons over the past decade. That’s what I’ll be covering in this talk. Real lessons and realities that come up time and time again whether you’re working for a start-up or a large enterprise.

Ben Rogojan, aka Seattle Data Guy, needs no introduction. He's a force of nature in the data engineering content world.

We chat about his origin story (sort of like a superhero), content creation, consulting, cooking, and much more.

ABOUT THE TALK: Whether consulting or working as an employee there are certain tools, patterns and practices many of us would like to disappear in the next few years. Many of them delay projects, frustrate data engineers and yet we continue to rely on them. Whether it be transferring data via SFTP or joining teams without coding standards, some companies, even those that may be considered cutting edge, still have these patterns.

In this talk Ben Rogojan explores some of these tools, patterns and practices as well as why he hopes he doesn’t see them around in a few years.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Ben Rogojan has spent his career focused on helping companies develop end-to-end data solutions that are simple and maintainable. He has worked in various industries such as healthcare, finance, and e-commerce. In addition, he has worked for companies including Facebook as a data engineer. Using his broad experiences he has helped companies develop, improve, modernize, and migrate their data infrastructure.

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