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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ABOUT THE TALK: With the advancement of AI, the natural language interface for data is more valuable than ever before. This talk explores three key questions. First, what would a natural language interface for data actually look like? Second, what kind of value would it add to organizations using the Modern Data Stack? Third, what will the challenges look like when it comes to working with a natural language interface for data? Sarah Nagy will share real-world learnings from Seek's customers for each of these questions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: A former quant, Sarah Nagy founded Seek AI in 2021. Prior to starting Seek, Sarah most recently led the consumer data team at Citadel's Ashler Capital. Prior to joining Citadel, Sarah led the quant arms at two startups, Edison and Predata, which both successfully exited. Sarah started her career as a quant at ITG developing algorithmic trading strategies. Sarah has a Master in Finance degree from Princeton and dual Bachelor's degrees in Astrophysics and Business Economics from UCLA.

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ABOUT THE TALK: Forcing data through a rectangle shapes the way we solve problems (for example, dimensional fact tables, OLAP Cubes).

Most Data isn’t rectangular it rather exists in hierarchies (orders, items, products, users). Most query results are better returned as a hierarchy (category, brand, product).

Malloy is a new experimental data programming language that, among other things, breaks the rectangle paradigm and several other long held misconceptions in the way we analyze data.

In this talk, Lloyd Tabb shares the ideas behind the Malloy language, semantic data modeling, and his vision for the future of data.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Lloyd Tabb spent the last 30 years revolutionizing how the world uses the internet and, by extension, data. He is one of the internet pioneers, having worked at Netscape during the browser wars as the Principal Engineer on Navigator Gold, the first HTML WYSIWYG editor.

Originally a database & languages architect at Borland, Lloyd founded Looker,, which Google acquired in 2019. Lloyd's work at Looker helped define the Modern Data Stack.

At Google, Lloyd continues to pursue his passion for data, and love of programming languages through his current project, Malloy.

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ABOUT THE TALK: Small data teams face supply and demand problems. Triaging and prioritizing data work can be overwhelming. But what if data consumers could create their own products with minimal training?

Learn how to empower data consumers without disrupting others. Discover lessons from an 'extreme' self-service analytics approach: best practices, fostering a data community, promoting SQL literacy, and establishing solid guard rails.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Alice Leach is a Data Engineer at Whatnot Inc., a live stream platform and marketplace that enables collectors and enthusiasts to connect, buy, and sell verified products. She transitioned from academia to data in 2021, working first as a data scientist then data engineer. Her current work at Whatnot focuses on designing and building robust, self-service data workflows using a modern data stack.

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ABOUT THE TALK: Got your Modern Data Stack setup, now what? A mature data practice goes beyond setting up the data pipeline, and ensures there are both systems and processes in place to make it easy for everyone to find and understand data.

Learn how Select Star enables data discovery, making knowledge searchable and understandable for all. Uncover best practices for setting up a data discovery portal as your single source of truth.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Alec Bialosky is currently the Director of Business Operations at Select Star where he spends the majority of his time working with prospects and customers to help them achieve their data discovery goals with Select Star.

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