Appearances
Upcoming
[Attendee] Out-of-Pocket Data Camp
2026 June 25-26
- I’m headed back to Out-of-Pocket’s Data Camp, an invite-only healthcare analytics summit in Boston/Cambridge.
[TBD] dbt Summit
2026 September 15-18
- Whether as a speaker or an attendee (submitted a peer exchange proposal, and waiting to hear whether it is accepted), I’ll be attending dbt Summit this year!
[Attendee] Helsinki Data Week
2026 October 27-30
- I’m very excited to be traveling to Finland to attend Helsinki Data Week for the first time ever!
2026
[Guest] It’s About Data Podcast
2026 April 21
- I was a guest on It’s About Data with Thais Cooke. “It’s About Data” is a podcast hosted by Matt Housley and Tony Baer. This was also a follow up to my talk at Data Day Texas 2026 about the reference interview (read more).
[Guest] Catalog & Cocktails Podcast
2026 April 15
- I was a guest on Catalog & Cocktails with Amalia Child. “Catalog & Cocktails” is a podcast hosted by Juan Sequeda and Tim Gasper. This was a follow up to my talk at Data Day Texas 2026 about the reference interview (read more). The podcast was also streamed on LinkedIn.
[Speaker] Data Day Texas
2026 January 24-25
- I presented at Data Day Texas 2026 on: “Think Like a Librarian: Fresh Perspectives for Data Teams from a Time-Honored Tradition”. The original plan was to speak with Amalia Child, but unfortunately due to the weather she wasn’t able to make it. The talk draws heavily from this blog post, and you can find the slides (no recording) in the Appendix
2025
[Speaker] Coalesce by dbt Labs
2025 October 13-16
- I presented my talk: “So you want to build a data mesh”. I also wrote a blog post to accompany it. You can find both the slides and the recording of the talk in the Appendix.
[Attendee] Out-of-Pocket Data Camp
2025 September 19
- I participated in Out-of-Pocket’s Data Camp, a 1-day summit in Boston on healthcare analytics.
[Speaker] State of Analytics Engineering Webinar
2025 April 30
- I co-hosted the annual State of Analytics Engineering webinar by dbt Labs.
[Attendee] Data Day Texas
2025 January 25-26
- I attended Data Day Texas 2025, and wrote up some of my reflections & observations here.
2024
[Speaker] Coalesce by dbt Labs
2024 October 7-10
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I facilitated a peer exchange session at Coalesce 2024 called “Governance co-lab: We the people, in order to govern data, do establish processes”. This session was not recorded, but I do have a detailed write-up including all relevant resources.
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I spoke on a panel discussion during the closing keynote with two other dbt Community awardees.
[Speaker] Chicago dbt Meetup
2024 September 12
- I presented on dbt Mesh and facilitated a “working session” with some meshy problem-solving scenarios.
2023
[Speaker] Coalesce by dbt Labs
2023 October 16-19
- I delivered a talk called “From coast to coast: Implementing dbt in the public sector”, along with my two co-speakers, about my work at the City of Boston.
[Attendee] BARI Conference
2023 April 28
- I attended the 2023 Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) Conference along with colleagues from the City of Boston Analytics Team.
2019
[Poster] Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
2019 October 19-23
- I presented my poster “Put Relational Databases in Your Data Curation Toolbox” at the ASIS&T poster session. This was my first ever conference, which I attended during grad school.