Keynote Stage

About this Stage

The heart of MDS Fest. This is where the community comes together to hear from real practitioners—no vendors, just data leaders, builders, and doers. Expect big ideas, honest takes, and the conversations that set the tone for the future of data.

Keynote Stage

41 Talks

5 - 9 May 2025

Stage Schedule

03:00 PM

ONLINE

MDS Fest opening ceremonies

Sarah Bazal & Etai Mizrahi

Replay Planned

03:30 PM

ONLINE

Reborrowing agentic system concepts to reboot your data team

Georgios Ntanakas PhD

Replay Planned

04:00 PM

ONLINE

Enabling high scale Redshift Data Warehouse via dbt

Adelaine Gelain

Replay Planned

04:30 PM

ONLINE

What happens when data conflicts stories we want to tell ourselves? A journey into the hearts of the film industry

Stephen Follows

Replay Planned

05:00 PM

ONLINE

Version control for humans: Iterating your people into analysts

Kelly Burdine

Replay Planned

05:30 PM

ONLINE

Governance Frameworks for Harmonizing Qual & Quant Insights

Chen-hui Bergl

Replay Planned

06:00 PM

ONLINE

Sentiment analysis in media publication

Vinoth Nageshwaran

Replay Planned

06:30 PM

ONLINE

The ethics of emotional AI: Should machines build consumer trust?

Cecilia Dones

Replay Planned

07:00 PM

ONLINE

Empower data storytelling: Innovate and harness the power of generative AI

Jordan Morrow

Replay Planned

08:00 PM

ONLINE

Data teams 2.0 : Building teams that lead and not just support

Sajay Suresh

Replay Planned

5 May 2025

10 Talks

05 May 2025, 03:00 PM - 05 May 2025, 08:30 PM

Cecilia Dones

Jordan Morrow

Sarah Bazal

Georgios Ntanakas PhD

Chen-hui Bergl

Vinoth Nageshwaran

Stephen Follows

Kelly Burdine

Sajay Suresh

Adelaine Gelain

Etai Mizrahi

6 May 2025

9 Talks

06 May 2025, 03:00 PM - 06 May 2025, 08:00 PM

Daneyal Siddiqui

Sushant Mishra

Eddy Zulkifly

Monica Kay Royal

Matt Weingarten

Peter Crocker

Sunil Rathode

Christophe Blefari

Claire Gouze

Ankush Ramprakash Gautam

Alexandra Khoo

Kuber Jain

Zuhayr Shaikh

7 May 2025

7 Talks

07 May 2025, 03:00 PM - 07 May 2025, 08:30 PM

Kasia Rachuta

Jeremy Chia

Tiankai Feng

Royce Hoe

Jonah Foong

Mico Yuk

Ritu Sharma

Maggie Wolff

Jeff Sloan

8 May 2025

8 Talks

08 May 2025, 02:30 PM - 08 May 2025, 08:30 PM

Samantha Lohier

Snehal Karanjkar

Anand Safi

Mariah Rogers

Chaitasee Pandya

Thais Cooke

Michael Revelo

Sara Stoudt

9 May 2025

7 Talks

09 May 2025, 02:30 PM - 09 May 2025, 08:30 PM

Opeyemi Fabiyi

Andrew vanderWilden

Aakriti Kaul

Eric Callahan

George Firican

Rakhi Reddy

Antonio Parada

Shantanu Jha

Prahlad K. Routh

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