2026 Talks
Building an End-to-End Data Stack in Thirty Minutes
Data stacks - from launching data collection pipelines, provisioning data warehouses, developing ETL systems, and integrating data science and BI applications - used to take teams weeks and months to build. Today, using off-the-shelf tools, companies can set up this entire infrastructure in a matter of hours, all without needing specialist data engineers.
This talk will not only introduce the technology that makes this possible - it will also show how it can be done, in a live demo. During this talk, Benn will set up an end-to-end data stack, highlighting how any company can go from having little than a website to running automatic data pipelines, a scalable data warehouse, live dashboards, and a data science platform in under thirty minutes.
Founder
Benn Stancil
Mode
Benn Stancil is a cofounder of Mode, an analytics and BI company that was bought by ThoughtSpot in 2023. While at Mode, Benn held roles leading Mode’s data, product, marketing, and executive teams; at ThoughtSpot, he was the Field CTO. More recently, Benn worked on the analytics team on the Harris for President campaign. He regularly writes about data and technology at benn.substack.com.
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