New speaker 🎤 Andrew Tran (CTO @ Alkera AI) and 🎤Rick Gao (CEO @ Alkera AI) joins #deb26 "Agents versus data pipelines: failure modes of coding agents on real DE work" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets

JFrog are running Securing the Software Surge with Trusted AI - An Exclusive Auckland Breakfast Event on Thursday August 13th at 8:30am - this is one not to be missed if you are deep into security and data security! leap.jfrog.com/Auckland-Bre...

New speaker 🎤 Matt Yi (Co-Founder & Tech VP @ VeloDB) joins #deb26 "One Engine for Production AI: Why AI Agents Need a Different Database?" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/matt-yi

A very warm welcome to Alkera as Gold sponsor of DataEngBytes... Alkera provides a data engineering agent that works natively across your entire data stack with strict data governance, reasoning over exact data lineage, and a living knowledge base built from your data team's work.

New speaker 🎤 Travis Murphy (Sr. Product Marketing Manager & Evangelist @ Snowflake) joins #deb26 "Ultimate Guide to Vibe Engineering on Snowflake" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/travis-murphy

New speaker 🎤 Luke Parker (Upside-Down Deployed Engineer @ Anomaly) joins #deb26 "Practical Tips for Vibe Coding & Agent Workflows" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/luke-parker

New speaker 🎤 Dr. Dalin Wang (Machine Learning Engineer @ Sonder) joins #deb26 "Why Standard LLM Evals Fail in Mental Health (And What We Built Instead)" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/dalin-wang

New speaker 🎤 Kanishka Mohaia (VP of Engineering @ Sonder) joins #deb26 "The Anti-Chatbot: Building a Fine-Tuned, DPO-Aligned Human-in-the-Loop Copilot" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/kanishka-mohaia

New speaker 🎤 Darren Ware (Senior Data Engineer @ RMIT University) joins #deb26 "Guidelines and Guardrails: RMIT's Data Mesh Transformation" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/darren-ware

New speaker 🎤 Shreya Sharma (Solutions Architect @ Databricks) joins #deb26 "The 7 Stages of AI Engineering Grief" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/shreya-sharma

New speaker 🎤 Shehan Madusanka (Data Delivery Manager @ RACT) joins #deb26 "Synthetic Data in the Age of AI: Testing Models and Applications" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/shehan-madusanka

New speaker 🎤 Tom Kunc & Waleed Shahid (Team Leads @ Optiver Australia) joins #deb26 "Data Engineering in High Frequency Trading" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/tom-kunc 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/waleed-shahid

New speaker 🎤 Irfan Elahi (Senior Specialist Solutions Architect @ Databricks) joins #deb26 "One Stream, Many Contracts: Kafka-to-Kafka Republishing Without the Sprawl" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/irfan-elahi

New speaker 🎤 Sarah Taylor (Lead Data Engineer @ RMIT University) joins #deb26 "Guidelines and Guardrails: RMIT's Data Mesh Transformation" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/sarah-taylor

New speaker 🎤 Jonathan Carroll (Principal Consultant @ Irregularly Scheduled Programming) joins #deb26 "Your Notes Are a Graph. Just Not a Very Useful One. Let's Fix That." Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/jonathan-carroll

New speaker 🎤 Emily Melhuish (Data Engineer) joins #deb26 "Fire and Ice: Building a Solar Data Platform" Melbourne · 23–24th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/emily-melhuish

New speaker 🎤 Anup Sethuram (Senior Data Engineer @ DAZN Foxtel Group) joins #deb26 "Beyond Cosine Similarity: Retrieval Engineering with Luminary" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/anup-sethuram

New speaker 🎤 Rimma Shafikova (Senior Data Scientist @ VGW) joins #deb26 "Why LLMs Are Non-Deterministic" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/rimma-shafikova

New speaker 🎤 Simon O'Toole (Head of Research Data & Software @ Macquarie University) joins #deb26 "Data Pipelines for the Universe" Sydney · 28–29th July, 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/simon-o-toole

New speaker 🎤 Muhammad Ali (Solutions Architect @ ClickHouse) joins #deb26 "Rethinking Lock-in in the Age of AI Data" Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets 🔗 dataengbytes.com/speakers/muhammad-ali

New speaker 🎤 Carine Oliveira (Engineering Manager @ Easygo) joins #deb26 "Your Data Platform Isn't Broken. Your Team Structure Is." Melbourne & Sydney · July 2026 🎟️ dataengbytes.com/tickets

🚀 Drover v0.2.0 is live! We've decoupled the engine from the chassis. You can now orchestrate multiple AI agent types in parallel, not just Claude. Choose your driver: 🤖 Claude Code ⚡ Amp 📜 Codex 🆕 OpenCode CLI 👇 github.com/cloud-shuttle/dr...

Don't shoot the messenger, but the Grinch is absolutely losing it. 😤 He’s demanding you all STOP buying the discounted conference tickets. Personally? I think we should buy as many as possible just to annoy him. 😈 Grab yours here: dataengbytes.com/ #DataFam #DataEng #TechConference

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Great news! Our call for papers deadline has been extended until the 11th of January. You have until next Sunday to submit a talk: dataengbytes.com/forms/conf...

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We didn't want to be the Grinch that stole the Christmas and New Year joy... So we are extending the Call for Papers closing date for Brisbane and Auckland as well as the Boxing Day Sale. You now have up until the 11th of January! 🎁🎆🎉 #dataengineering #dataengbytes #deb #newyear #happynewyear

A friendly reminder that December 31st is the deadline for the call for papers for DataEngBytes 2026 Brisbane and Auckland. If you'd like to get your talk in, you can do that here... Pro tip: submit more than one talk Link: dataengbytes.com/forms/conf...

Forget fighting the crowds for a cheap TV. The best Boxing Day snag is actually a conference ticket. 🌭 We’ve dropped prices for the Data Eng conference to $99 for Bris/Auckland and $299 for Syd/Melb. Sale ends NYE! 🎆 Grab them here: www.tickettailor.com/events... #DataFam #DataEngineering

Incremental tickets for DataEngBytes are closing soon for Brisbane and Auckland. Give the gift of knowledge this festive season and be sure to save big $$.