All conferences

Edition 6 · 2022

Data Reliability at Scale

Atlanta, GAGeorgia World Congress Center

July 11–13, 2022

5,600

Attendees

104

Talks

60

Papers

Headliners

Keynote speakers

Program highlights

AI / ML

Vector Search Before It Was Cool

Hard-won lessons building approximate nearest-neighbor systems for recommendations at scale.

Lucia Fernandez Jul 11, 2022 · 10:30 AM
Data Engineering

Streaming Ingestion Without the 3 a.m. Pages

Backpressure, schema drift, and dead-letter handling for ingestion pipelines that stay calm.

Omar Haddad Jul 11, 2022 · 1:00 PM
Data Engineering

Data Contracts in Practice

How explicit producer–consumer contracts cut pipeline incidents by 60% across hundreds of teams.

Dr. Amara Okafor Jul 11, 2022 · 2:30 PM
AI / ML

Federated Learning Without the Hype

Where privacy-preserving training genuinely pays off — and where a central warehouse still wins.

Dr. Fatima Al-Sayed Jul 11, 2022 · 4:30 PM
AI / ML

Real-Time Feature Stores Without the Pain

Bridging the online/offline gap with a single source of truth for features and labels.

Lin Zhao Jul 12, 2022 · 10:30 AM
Data Engineering

Observability for Data Pipelines

Lineage, freshness, and anomaly detection — the telemetry that keeps data products reliable.

James O'Brien Jul 13, 2022 · 10:30 AM
Cloud

Cost Optimization for the Lakehouse

Right-sizing compute, tuning file layouts, and killing the silent spend in your data platform.

Ben Fisher Jul 13, 2022 · 10:30 AM
Data Engineering

Pipeline Reliability SLAs in Practice

Defining freshness and completeness SLAs your consumers can plan around — and meeting them.

Terrence Walker Jul 13, 2022 · 2:30 PM

Proceedings

Peer-reviewed papers — 2022

Data Contracts: Formalizing the Producer–Consumer Boundary

A. Okafor, T. Han

Data Engineering2022146 citations

Online/Offline Consistency in Real-Time Feature Stores

L. Zhao, V. Cruz, R. Mehta

ML Platforms2022118 citations

Data Quality Scorecards: Quantifying Freshness and Completeness at Scale

W. Liu, J. O'Brien

Data Engineering202294 citations

Confidential Computing for Secure Multi-Party Data Sharing

P. Adeyemi, X. Dubois

Security202274 citations

Transactional Guarantees in Object-Store-Based Lakehouses

J. Rivera, Z. Thompson

Cloud202288 citations

Adaptive Materialized View Selection Under Evolving Workloads

C. Williams, Y. Patel

Analytics202263 citations

Federated Learning Orchestration Across Geographically Distributed Data Nodes

G. Park, N. Gupta

ML Infrastructure202248 citations