ABOUT THE TALK: After two years, three rounds of funding, and hundreds of new employees — Whatnot’s modern data stack has come from not existing to processing tens of millions of events across hundreds of different event types each day.

How does their small (but mighty!) team keep up? This talk explores data contracts — it covers the use of Interface Definition Language (Protobuf) to serve as the source of truth for event definitions, govern event construction in production, automatically generate DBT models in the data warehouse.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Zack Klein is a software engineer at Whatnot, where he thoroughly enjoys building data products and narrowly avoiding breaking production each day. Previously, he worked on big data platforms at Blackstone and HBO.

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Metrics are the most important primitive in the data world and driving the use of powerful and reliable metrics is the best way data teams can add value to their enterprises. In this talk, we'll walk through how data teams can best support the metric lifecycle, end-to-end from:

1. Designing useful metrics as part of metric trees
2. Developing these metrics off stable and standard data contracts
3. Operationalizing metrics to drive value

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Abhi Sivasailam is a Growth and Analytics leader who most recently led Product-Led Growth, Product Analytics, and Analytics Engineering at Flexport, where he helped to lead these and other functions through 10x growth over the past 3 years. Previously, Abhi led growth and data teams at Keap, Hustle, and Honeybook.

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ABOUT THE TALK: Data Contracts are a mechanism for driving accountability and data ownership between producers and consumers. Contracts are used to ensure production-grade data pipelines are treated as part of the product and have clear SLAs and ownership.

Learn about the why, when and how of Data Contracts and the spectrum from culture change to implementation details.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Chad Sanderson is the former Head of Data at Convoy. He has implemented Data Contracts at scale on everything from Machine Learning models to Embedded Metrics. He currently operates the Data Quality Camp Slack group.

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