May 12-14, 2026, San Francisco, CA
Engineering the Future of AI
Data Council AI is the technical conference built by engineers, for engineers. Join 2,000+ practitioners building real AI & data systems for 3 full days of deep-dives, battle-tested architectures and production insights in San Francisco, home-base of the AI world.







Real Industry Intelligence
For over a decade, Data Council AI has gathered the engineers behind breakthrough AI & data systems. Our community consists of the researchers who have solved training at scale, the architects optimizing inference pipelines and the engineers shipping models to millions of users.
Technical Attendees
Speakers
Office Hours
Hands-On Workshops
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Connect with the practitioners from the teams defining the AI landscape. Meet the minds behind the AI tools & platforms you depend on every day.
Experience Data Council AI 2025
Get a preview of what makes our event legendary. Watch over 100+ hours from this past year's event, featuring unfiltered technical sessions from the minds pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI and data.
Speakers Who Ship Code, Not Slides
Past Data Council AI speakers aren't just talking figureheads - they're the engineers & scientists building production systems, the architects handling billion-parameter inference and the technical experts solving AI's hardest challenges.

Matei Zaharia
Co-Founder & CTO
Databricks

Jake Brill
Head of Product, Integrity
OpenAI

DJ Patil
Former U.S Chief Data Scientist & Investor
GreatPoint Ventures

Lukas Biewald
Founder & CEO
Weights & Biases

Joseph Gonzalez
Professor & Co-Founder
UC Berkeley & RunLLM

Paige Bailey
AI Dev Relations Lead
Google DeepMind

Denis Yarats
Co-Founder & CTO
Perplexity

Michele Catasta
President & Head of AI
Replit
Beyond the Slides Conference
- Technical Deep-Dives
- Engineering Office Hours
- Hands-On Workshops
- Events & Networking
Technical Deep-Dives

Get direct insights on production systems and architectural decisions from technical leaders. Our hand-selected speakers don't just present — they pull back the curtain on real implementations, complete with performance metrics and hard-learned lessons.
Engineering Office Hours

A Data Council AI exclusive! Our signature office hours get you dedicated time with speakers for in-depth discussions in a small group setting. Meet your heroes face-to-face, debug your architecture challenges, expand on strategies and discuss the future of AI with the leaders building it.
Hands-On Workshops

Build alongside the maintainers of production AI systems. These aren't just tutorials—they're intensive technical sessions where you'll implement real solutions with guidance from the people who architected them.
Events & Networking

Get access to dozens of exclusive community-curated events where engineering discussions continue in fun, low pressure environments where the real connections happen. From our Community Drinks & Demos night to founder dinners to firesides, you won't want to miss out!
What Industry Leaders Are Saying

Pedram Navid, Head of Developer Relations

“Data Council is better than any conference I’ve ever been at because the talks are a higher caliber than anything I’ve ever experience, and the people here are just second to none.”

Charles Frye, Developer Advocate

“The people who work on the tools that you use every day, the people you admire, they’re there. They want to share what they’ve been working on.”

Ryan Boyd, Co-Founder

“Data Council is great because it provides an intimate setting for interacting with other folks in the data industry, whereas other conferences you may not know anyone you meet in the hallways.”






Where AI Actually Gets Built
While other conferences theorize what's possible, Data Council AI features the engineers shipping tomorrow's breakthroughs today. Get exclusive access to the insights, architectures and methods that will become industry standard. Miss this, miss the playbook.