Where data meets the cloud.
For nearly a decade, the Data & Cloud Conference has gathered engineers, researchers and leaders across the United States — hundreds of talks, peer-reviewed papers and hands-on workshops, with virtual editions during 2020–2021 and in-person gatherings in a new city every other year.
11,500+
attendees in 2025
9
Editions since 2017
7
Cities across the US
890+
Talks delivered
340+
Peer-reviewed papers
The people
Speakers who shaped the field
On the floor
Three days. One community.
Main stage
Networking lounge
Hands-on workshops
The program
Talks that moved the needle
The Lakehouse Decade: Where Storage Meets Intelligence
A decade-long look at how open table formats reshaped the modern data stack and what comes after the lakehouse.
Serving Trillion-Token Models on a Budget
Practical patterns for batching, quantization, and autoscaling LLM inference without burning your cloud bill.
Exactly-Once at a Million Events per Second
Lessons from running mission-critical streaming pipelines with strict ordering and replay guarantees.
The research
Peer-reviewed proceedings
Delta Lake Time Travel for Point-in-Time Analytics at Petabyte Scale
A. Okafor, J. Rivera
Data Engineering · 2025 · 23 citations
Self-Improving Training Pipelines with Active Data Selection
R. Mehta, V. Cruz
AI Systems · 2025 · 18 citations
Cross-Cloud Orchestration Patterns for Resilient Data Platforms
E. Larsen, D. Ramirez
Cloud · 2024 · 42 citations
Adaptive Partitioning for Petabyte-Scale Lakehouses
A. Okafor, M. Bell, J. Rivera
Storage · 2025 · 23 citations
Across the US
Nine editions, seven cities
"The one event where I see the future of the data stack a year before it ships."
— Staff Engineer, Fortune 100
Join us in Miami, 2026