SHIFT LEFT DATA CONFERENCE

March 27th, 2025
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM PST | Online

Agenda

Speakers

Speaker Bios

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM PST

Welcome

Demetrios Brinkmann, Mark Freeman

9:10 AM - 9:40 AM PST

Shifting Left With Data DevOps

Chad Sanderson

9:50 AM - 10:10 AM PST

Shifting From Reactive to Proactive at Glassdoor

Zakariah Siyaji

10:20 AM - 10:40 AM PST

Data Contracts in the Real World, the Adevinta Spain Implementation

Sergio Couto

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM PST

Panel: State of the Data And AI Market

Matt Turck, Apoorva Pandhi, Chad Sanderson (MC)

11:20 AM - 11:40 AM PST

Wayfair's Multi-year Data Mesh Journey

Nachiket Mehta, Piyush Tiwari

11:50 AM - 12:10 PM PST

Automating Data Quality via Shift Left for Real-Time Web Data Feeds at Industrial Scale

Sarah McKenna

12:20 PM - 12:40 PM PST

Shift Left Across the Data Lifecycle—Data Contracts, Transformations, Observability, and Catalogs

Barr Moses, Tristan Handy, Prukalpa Sankar, Chad Sanderson (MC)

12:50 PM - 1:10 PM PST

Shift Left with Apache Iceberg Data Products to Power AI

Andrew Madson

1:20 PM - 1:40 PM PST

The Rise of the Data-Conscious Software Engineer: Bridging the Data-Software Gap

Mark Freeman

1:50 PM - 2:10 PM PST

Building a Scalable Data Foundation in Health Tech

Anna Swigart

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM PST

Shifting Left in Banking: Enhancing Machine Learning Models through Proactive Data Quality

Abhi Ghosh

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM PST

Panel: How AI Is Shifting Data Infrastructure Left

Joe Reis, Carly Taylor, Vin Vashishta, Chad Sanderson (MC)

3:15 PM - 3:20 PM PST

Closing Words

Chad Sanderson

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