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Occam founder Steven MacLeod took the stage at the recent #DataEngBytes Conference in Sydney with a stark message: Data 2.0 is coming, and it will trigger one of the biggest structural shifts the industry has ever faced. Here’s the key insight from his presentation:

…but why your tech company won’t tell you that

At the recent DataEngBytes conference in Sydney, most of the 500 people in the room were talking about how to add agentic AI to their stack. Occam founder Steven MacLeod was one of the few who didn’t.

Instead, he stood up and told them: “The modern data stack is a Frankenstein’s monster — stitched from mismatched parts and somehow expected to dance.”

That line got their attention.

Rod Drury recently put out a call to action looking for 10 meaningful things we can do to drive change through AI. In response, Craig Hampton from

During the recent DataEngBytes conference, there were multiple presentations showing boxes with arrows (as previously mentioned) and icons representing platforms. But across 8 speakers and 200+ slides, there was not a single mention of any of the most popular database engines.

We must see 20 of these date architecture diagrams in out LinkedIn   every day:     These boxes and arrows do not reflect the

At the recently held DataEngBytes conference, Joe Reis presented his Mixed Modal Arts concept; it looks something like this:   Unstructured data (files, documents, audio, video)

DataEngBytes is an independent data engineering conference featuring speakers unaffiliated to a particular platform or vendor. Their 2024 conference was recently held in Auckland, New