MDS Fest 3.0
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 / 5 May 2025

42 Talks
5 - 9 May 2025

Stage Schedule

MDS Fest opening ceremonies

Sarah Bazal Etai Mizrahi

Sarah Bazal & Etai Mizrahi

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Reborrowing agentic system concepts to reboot your data team

Georgios Ntanakas

Georgios Ntanakas PhD

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Enabling high scale Redshift Data Warehouse via dbt

Adelaine Gelain

Adelaine Gelain

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

Stephen Follows

Stephen Follows

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Version control for humans: Iterating your people into analysts

Kelly Burdine

Kelly Burdine

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Governance Frameworks for Harmonizing Qual & Quant Insights

Chen-hui Bergl

Chen-hui Bergl

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Sentiment analysis in media publication

Vinoth Nageshwaran

Vinoth Nageshwaran

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

Cecilia Dones

Cecilia Dones

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

Jordan Morrow

Jordan Morrow

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

Sajay Suresh

Sajay Suresh

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5 May 2025

10 Talks
05 May 2025, 03:00 PM - 05 May 2025, 08:30 PM
Vinoth Nageshwaran Chen-hui Bergl Cecilia Dones Jordan Morrow Sarah Bazal Georgios Ntanakas PhD Kelly Burdine Adelaine Gelain Etai Mizrahi Sajay Suresh Stephen Follows

6 May 2025

9 Talks
06 May 2025, 03:00 PM - 06 May 2025, 07:30 PM
Eddy Zulkifly Matt Weingarten Monica Kay Royal Peter Crocker Daneyal Siddiqui Etai Mizrahi Christophe Blefari Claire Gouze Kuber Jain Zuhayr Shaikh Sushant Mishra Alexandra Khoo Ankush Ramprakash Gautam

7 May 2025

9 Talks
07 May 2025, 03:00 PM - 07 May 2025, 08:30 PM
Jeremy Chia Kasia Rachuta Mico Yuk Andrew McEwen Tiankai Feng Augusto Rosa Jonah Foong Royce Hoe Ritu Sharma Jeff Sloan Maggie Wolff

8 May 2025

8 Talks
08 May 2025, 02:30 PM - 08 May 2025, 08:30 PM
Michael Revelo Chaitasee Pandya Thais Cooke Samantha Lohier Snehal Karanjkar Mariah Rogers Anand Safi Sara Stoudt

9 May 2025

6 Talks
09 May 2025, 03:00 PM - 09 May 2025, 08:30 PM
Shantanu Jha Eric Callahan Opeyemi Fabiyi Aakriti Kaul Rakhi Reddy Andrew vanderWilden George Firican

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