It’s here! The official lineup for Summer Community Days, Vol. 1

Unless you're completely new to Census (in which case hi! 👋), you’ve probably heard about Summer Community Days, the two-day, practitioner-first community event we’re throwing July 28 and 29. ☀️ If you’re like most data nerds we know, you’re burnt out on a chain of corporate product conferences. We get it. Which is why Summer Community Days is all about giving you, the data community, the mic so you can learn from each other and share your hard-won expertise (no sales pitches or product demos).
Our call for proposals closed June 30 and we had an amazing number of sessions to choose from (seriously, y’all turned out to submit some great topics). So many that we couldn’t actually fit them in two days (stay tuned for ad hoc events featuring the rest of the submissions we couldn’t schedule this year).
Safe to say: We’re amped on the lineup. 😍 The conference features virtual keynotes, community expert sessions, and workshops, as well as live happy hours in some of our major US city hubs after day one of the conference (details below). 🕺
Here’s the breakdown. 👇
Each morning, we’re starting with a keynote featuring some of our favorite voices in data sharing second-hand gold about their careers, insights on how we can all make the data industry a more inclusion space, and tips for finding your place in the data industry. Check out our keynote speakers and topics below. 👀
All of our careers (and the collective careers of our data teams) are the sum of critical decisions made at the right or wrong time, and Emily Hawkins, data engineering manager at Drizly, is no stranger to navigating these inflection points. In her own career, she’s navigated between junior to senior IC and from IC to manager.
Within her team, Emily has experienced all the data growing pains and success stories that a data team faces in a rapidly scaling company. In this keynote (which doubles as a live episode of The Sequel Show), Emily and Census CEO Boris Jabes sit down to discuss:
No matter where you are in your data career, or what sized data team you’re a part of, you’ll leave this keynote session feeling inspired.
Whether you’re a hiring manager building a data team, an individual contributor on a data team, or just wandering the conference floor of most industry trade shows, you’ve probably realized how homogeneous the data industry feels.
For day two, we’re gathering some inspiring data professionals who have an insider’s perspective on the diversity challenges within the industry to talk about the diversity problem in data, including high notes such as:
We’re formatting this panel as a fireside chat and hope that this sparks a fruitful conversation between not just our panelists, but our community as well.
While our keynotes are starting each day off strong, things are slowing down after they wrap up. Each day, experts in the community are taking the stage to share their insights, actionable advice, and technical tips from 10 am PT to 130 pm PT.
Whether you’re taking a technical deep dive or learning to expand the reach of data in your company, you can learn from expert sessions like:
… Plus many more sessions from other data rockstars! Check out our full speaker agenda 👉 here 👈
Ready to dive deep? Each day we’re hosting an in-depth afternoon workshop to help you build new data skills you can implement after the conference wraps up. Check out our topics and details below 👇
In this fast-paced survey course provided by, you’ll get a high-level introduction to all of data engineering in three hours. You’ll learn how to take a data project from prototype to production-quality data platform, exploring techniques to scale up to big data sets and scale out to more features and larger teams. In addition to discussing data architecture and design principles, this course will explore up-and-coming data tools, including:
If you’re new to the space or just looking for a quick but informative refresher, Pete’s session is sure to fill any data engineering knowledge gaps you might have.
Alignment between marketing and sales teams in the B2B world is a constant struggle. Marketing thinks that sales is not prospecting enough to find viable leads, while sales thinks that marketing is not spending their money effectively and is, as a result, finding low-quality leads.
So, how do we quell this squabble and bridge the trust gap between business units? There’s only one solution: Increase transparency and communication using an account scoring engine. This workshop will cover how to build account scoring models, including:
Whether you support marketing and sales regularly or not, Donny’s session will teach you the basics of account scoring so you can set your company up for success across the board.
Last, but definitely not least, if you’re located in one of our major hubs, come out and network with fellow practitioners IRL from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm PDT on July 28! 🥂 There’s sure to be good drinks, good conversations, and good vibes all night. ✌️ Our venue locations (and partners) are:
🤩 Ready to grab your seat? Want to see the full agenda? Grab your seat today.