WTF Are We Doing?

The volume of data-focused communities has exploded over the past couple of years, along with a never-ending stream of think pieces on building a data culture. With so much buzz, we gotta ask: are we truly making strides toward building a more effective data industry, or are we merely swept up in the hype? Are our efforts yielding tangible results, and are they worth the investment? Join us as our panel of industry experts share their unfiltered perspectives across a few targeted areas: What's the impact of rapidly proliferating data communities on the broader industry? What are we getting right, and where are we fundamentally failing? With rapid advancements in AI and data tooling, are we actually closer to having well-functioning and impactful data teams? Have we adequately addressed the underlying people/process problems that generally fall under the ""data culture"" umbrella? How and why do companies and communities continue to fail to rally around data despite myriad tooling options and endless think-pieces about what it takes to get it right?