The premier %%virtual summit%% on data reliability, observability, and the future of trustworthy AI.
As enterprises race to embed AI across the business, one truth is clear: without trust, there is no intelligence. Signals Summit 2025 brings together the world’s leading data thinkers, architects, and operators to explore how to design systems that are resilient, reliable, and AI-ready by default. Across four days of keynotes, firesides, and panels, you’ll discover what it takes to transform data observability into an enterprise foundation for the next decade.
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Hear from pioneers shaping the future of data, including leaders from dbt Labs, Shopify, Penguin Random House, Great Expectations, and more.
Four days of firesides, keynotes, and panels designed for practitioners. Every session blends technical depth with real-world business context.
Join a global community of data leaders, architects, and practitioners. Connect, share challenges, and leave with playbooks you can apply immediately.
Agenda at a %%Glance%%
Four days. Fifteen sessions. Firesides, keynotes, and panels designed to give you actionable insights from the world’s leading data voices. Explore the agenda below and discover the sessions most relevant to your work.
Opening Keynote: Modern Reliability in the Age of AI
How AI, Open Formats, and Metadata are Reshaping Enterprise Data
Metadata as the Connective Tissue: Why the Future of Trusted AI Starts Here
Data Contracts, Metadata, and Lineage: What Actually Works?
Trust by Design: Modeling Reliability into the Modern Data Stack
Designing Data Products People Trust
The Observability Engine: Scaling Data Trust with Active Metadata
Data Observability in Complex Enterprises
The New Trust Equation: Observability Meets Governance
AI Without Illusions: Separating Hype from Deployable Reality
AI Isn’t Just Faster Analytics
The Executive Playbook: 7 Best Practices for Agentic AI
Increasing AI Adoption through Sovereign Data Movement
The AGOR Experiment: A First Look at Agentic Coding for Data Teams
Best Practices for AI Governance and Security
Closing Keynote: Trust by Design: A Manifesto for Data in the AI Era
Four days. Fifteen sessions. One unifying theme:
%%Trust by Design.%%
Signals Summit 2025 convenes the pioneers shaping the future of trustworthy data. From transformation to governance, publishing to AI, we’re bringing together the companies building the systems enterprises will rely on for the next decade.
Architecting %%Reliability%%
From metadata to lineage, learn what really works to design resilient architectures that scale.
Governance %%Without%% Gridlock
Discover how to balance agility with accountability and embed compliance without slowing teams down.
%%AI & Agentic%% Systems
Cut through the hype to explore how observability enables AI and autonomous data operations you can actually trust.
Community of %%Practitioners%%
Join 2,000+ peers, from engineers to executives, who are building the next decade of trustworthy data systems.
Meet the Voices Shaping the %%Future of Data Trust%%
Signals Summit 2025 brings together pioneers from across the data ecosystem, from transformation to governance, publishing to AI, to share what it really takes to build systems you can rely on.
Jane Smith
As Field Chief Data Officer at ThoughtSpot, Jane Smith bridges strategy and execution to help organizations turn data into their most trusted decision advantage.
Michel Tricot
Michel is the CEO of Airbyte, where he's spearheading the open-source data mouvement platform
Maxime Beauchemin
Maxime Beauchemin the founder and CEO of Preset, where he focuses on making data workflows and visualization more accessible and scalable.
Colin Zima
Colin Zima is the Co-founder and CEO of Omni, and former Chief Analytics Officer at Looker, with deep expertise in building data platforms that make analytics simple, collaborative, and impactful.
Alejandro Huertas Martínez
Alejandro Huertas Martínez is a data domain lead at TheFork (LaFourchette), where he oversees strategy, governance, and engineering to build scalable, business-ready data platforms.
Solmaz Shahalizadeh
At Shopify, Solmaz led teams that turned data into merchant-facing products. She now advises the next generation of data companies on designing systems users can trust.
Ben Castleton
Entrepreneur and data quality evangelist. Ben explores the gap between AI hype and reality, and how observability can make agentic systems actually deployable.
Seth Youssef
Seth Youssef is a Principal Security Field CTO at Snowflake, specializing in cloud data security, governance, and helping enterprises build trusted, compliant data platforms at scale.
Lindsay King
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Maxime Cohen
Maxime Cohen is implementing data observability solutions at St-Gobain.
Callum O'Connor
Known for pragmatic perspectives on data contracts, lineage, and dashboards. Callum focuses on making observability work in real-world analytics.
Tristan Handy
The architect of dbt’s transformation layer. Tristan now champions the rise of the “trust layer”: observability as the new guardrail for analytics.
Pete Williams
An enterprise leader with hands-on experience in building reliable, governed data ecosystems in one of the world’s largest publishing houses.
Rose-Mary Leavy
Specialist in data stewardship and regulatory frameworks. Rose-Mary brings a practitioner’s lens to balancing agility with compliance.
Michael Thompson
Expert in governance strategy and risk frameworks. Michael shares how observability and governance intersect to create accountability.
Mahdi Karabiben
Product leader focused on metadata-native observability. Mahdi shares how to scale governance and compliance without slowing teams down.
Hannah Rounds
A practitioner voice on metadata and data contracts. Hannah shares how teams can operationalize contracts to build reliability into workflows.
Joe Reiss
Co-author of Fundamentals of Data Engineering. Joe challenges assumptions about the modern stack and makes the case for trust-first architecture.
Tomas Kratky
An innovator in metadata and data lineage. Tomas explores how metadata underpins scalability, compliance, and end-to-end trust.
Salma Bakouk
Salma is redefining how enterprises think about observability: not just detection, but trust by design, a foundation for AI-ready data systems.
Sanjeev Mohan
Former Gartner VP and leading voice on modern data platforms. Sanjeev helps enterprises cut through hype to design architectures that actually scale.
Designing Trust Starts Here.
Speak with our experts and discover how to build a foundation of reliable, accountable data for your enterprise.
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