Community Day - Conferences

03/23/2026

🎙️ Blockchain Community Day ’26 | Call for Speakers
This is not about theory.
This is about what actually works.

If you’re building in Web3, solving real problems, or pushing blockchain into enterprise - this is your moment to step forward.

🔗 Apply to speak at Blockchain Community Day’26: https://epa.ms/EL3qQr

We’re bringing together engineers who don’t just talk - they build, test and deliver.

💡 What we’re looking for:
• real use cases
• production-ready solutions
• lessons learned (including what didn’t work)

🎯 Key topics:
🔹 Institutional Adoption: RWA tokenization, Custody, CBDC
🔹 Enterprise Reality: payments, supply chain, healthcare
🔹 Scalability & L2: ZK, Rollups, high-performance engines
🔹 Agentic Web3: AI-powered smart contracts & DAOs
🔹 Regulatory & GTM: data sovereignty, compliance

🗓 Apply by April 8
🌍 Event: June 8–12, 2026 (online)

🔗 https://epa.ms/a87Mv3

03/20/2026

Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026: From Curiosity to Real AI Practice

From February 24th to 27th, the Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026, powered by EPAM in association with Data Zen Community, saw thousands of participants converge for a discussion on how data and AI are used in real life.

💡 This four-day event covered some of the key topics, from AI-driven metadata enrichment and data sharing in Databricks to large-scale BigQuery pipelines, enterprise MLflow and AI-driven governance.

11K+ registered and 2.6K+ active participants, and it was great to see high engagement and feedback on the sessions.

🌍 Besides this, AI Masterclasses in 13 cities worldwide provided hands-on experience in AI using CodeMie.

🤖 With AI being an engineering discipline now, it is important to bring in a mix of knowledge and practical sessions to help move from curiosity to action.

🎥 👉Check out session recordings on the landing page: https://epa.ms/bdOubr

🙏 A huge special thanks to everyone for making this event happen and contributing to its success through participation in the masterclasses!

02/23/2026

🎥 Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 is live on YouTube
All sessions of the Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 are streamed live on YouTube, with each talk having its own dedicated stream within a single playlist.

👉 Watch the sessions live here:
YouTube Playlist Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNWD8tlZfVI&list=PL8DOIL6OAMkrpFHAAKSVBnIHX-b9__3-P

From AI-driven metadata enrichment and modern data governance to scalable data pipelines, Delta Sharing and AI-assisted modernization — this event is all about how data and AI actually work in real systems.

You can:
• join any session live
• switch between talks during the day
• catch up with upcoming sessions via the playlist

No extra tools needed — just open YouTube and join.

See you online 👋

How can AI transform the way we create presentations? In this session from Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026, Alexander Dainiak, Senior Data Scientist, demonstrat...

02/21/2026

🎤 Session Spotlight | Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026: https://datazen.top/z4ui

In continuation of Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026, the session will share a real-life experience in developing a centralized data ecosystem and transforming fragmented data workflows to create a scalable data platform.

Insights from Building a Centralized Data Ecosystem

👉 REGISTER AND JOIN THE TALK: https://datazen.top/z4ui

📅 February 25, 2026

⏰ 11:00–12:00 (UTC+2)

🎙 Ewa Chwalczyk, Business Analyst, EPAM

🎙 Oleksandr Shovkovyi, Delivery Manager, EPAM

In this session, Ewa and Oleksandr will take you through a real-life digital transformation journey, from isolated data processes and critical projects to a data marketplace and a robust data ecosystem.

You’ll learn about:
· The initial challenges and critical project state
· How human expertise allied with AI facilitated better decision-making and solution-building
· The responsible use of AI for business decision-making
· Key outcomes, lessons learned, and how the project moved from red to green

This session will be of special interest to those who work on data engineering, data architecture, analytics strategy, and data governance for enterprise data platforms, data marketplaces, or data ecosystem modernization efforts.

👉 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN, VIEW LATEST PROGRAMME AGENDA:

https://datazen.top/x9qj

02/19/2026

🎤 Session Spotlight | Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026: https://datazen.top/7tm8

Continuing with our Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 series of sessions, this talk revolves around how data governance must evolve.

Scaling Data Governance in the AI Era

📅 February 25, 2026
⏰ 10:00-11:00 (UTC+2)

👉 REGISTER AND JOIN THE TALK - https://datazen.top/7tm8

🎙 Yash Bhagde, Senior Manager, Data Analytics Consulting, EPAM India
🎙 Vikas Sapra, Manager - Data Analytics Consulting, EPAM India

As AI adoption grows, more traditional approaches to data governance need to scale.

You'll learn:
🔹 Why traditional data governance models fail in AI-enabled realms
🔹 How AI boosts quality, metadata management, security and compliance in the data lifecycle.
🔹 How Governance is Evolving from a “Control” Role to a “Strategic Enabling” Role for Trusted and Explainable AI
🔹 Practical AI-based Governance Use Cases with Alation and Ataccama

This session is very appropriate for data managers, data governance experts, data architects, among others, who are keen on evangelizing the scaling of governance while still promoting AI-readiness throughout the enterprise.

👉 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN, VIEW LATEST AGENDA - https://datazen.top/x9qj

02/10/2026

🎤 Session Spotlight | Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 - https://datazen.top/sgj4

Continuing from the Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 series of sessions, this one is all about applying AI to modernize legacy data pipelines!

Modernizing Legacy Data Pipelines with AI Assistance: My Copilot Journey - https://datazen.top/o56r

📅 February 24, 2026
⏰ 19:00–20:00 (UTC+2)
🎙 Felipe Chaves, Senior Software Engineer at EPAM Colombia

👉 REGISTER AND JOIN THE TALK - https://datazen.top/sgj4

Felipe will briefly describe his real-world experience with new technologies related to data pipeline modification and improvements with the aid of AI tools like Copilot. He will show how AI can aid developers in handling complex and difficult-to-manage systems without replacing human intelligence. He will then show how Copilot can help in improving code and test practices and even Behavior Driven Development (BDD) refactoring of tests.

The following topics will be covered:
• Common challenges associated with legacy data pipelines and why traditional refactoring may not work
• How does Copilot help in debugging, documentation, and comprehending complex codebases?
• Using AI technology in data lineage generation and improving logic in feature engineering
• Improving tests using BDD - Given-When-Then approach with examples
• Key Lessons on Balancing AI Assistance with Human Decision-Making

This session is well suited to data engineers, software engineers, and analytic professionals looking to mitigate technical debt, improve maintainability, and utilize AI tools in production.
REGISTER NOW AND CHECK OUT THE AGENDA - https://datazen.top/x9qj

02/09/2026

🎤 Session Spotlight | Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 - https://datazen.top/7jnq

Continuing our Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 event, this session is all about building robust data pipelines using BigQuery.

Dataform in Practice: Designing Scalable, Tested Data Pipelines in BigQuery

📅 February 24, 2026
⏰ 18:00–19:00 (UTC+2)
🎙 Iuliia Kaymak, Senior Software Engineer at EPAM Turkey

👉 REGISTER AND JOIN THE TALK - ttps://datazen.top/7jnq

In this talk, Iuliia will present her experience using Dataform as part of the modern analytics engineering toolbox and provide practical advice on using Dataform to design well-structured data pipelines in Google BigQuery.

You’ll learn how to:

· How to build well-organized data models using Dataform

· How to organize data layers such as source data, data staging, data marts and analytics data

· How to apply data quality rules using Dataform assertions

· How to standardize data transformations using JavaScript logic

· How to understand data model relationships and collaborate using Git-based workflows

👉 REGISTER NOW AND CHECK OUT THE AGENDA - https://datazen.top/x9qj

02/05/2026

🎤 Session Spotlight | Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 - https://datazen.top/7jnq

We continue Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 with a very practical session on one of the key challenges for modern data teams — data sharing at scale.

Modern Data Sharing with Delta Sharing in Databricks

📅 February 24, 2026
⏰ 11:00–12:00 (UTC+2)
🎙 Manishkumar Pansari, Lead Software Engineer at EPAM India

👉 REGISTER AND JOIN THE TALK - https://datazen.top/3p3a

Join Manishkumar to learn how to share data within your organization, with partners, or beyond using Delta Sharing in Databricks — without data duplication or complex integrations, leveraging open standards and real-time access.

What You Will Learn:
• The concepts and architecture of Delta Sharing
• How Databricks helps with secure, open and scalable data sharing
• How data sharing works with real-world examples
• Best practices for implementing Delta Sharing in the enterprise

This session is for data engineers, analytics engineers, data architects, data platform experts and anyone who works with Databricks and the modern analytics landscape.
Join us to learn how to share data with others, securely, and in a collaborative way, to build the future of data sharing.

👉 REGISTER NOW AND CHECK OUT THE AGENDA - https://datazen.top/7jnq

02/04/2026

From data chaos to AI-powered clarity 🐼❄️

This is exactly what Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 is about.

Real use cases, real challenges, real solutions!

Join us and see how teams work with Data & AI in practice.

👉 https://datazen.top/xh8o

02/03/2026

🎤 Session Spotlight | Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026

We kick off Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 with a very practical talk on one of the most painful subjects that data teams face.
Metadata Enrichment CoPilot: Automating Smarter Data Management

📅 February 24, 2026
⏰ 10:00–11:00 (UTC+2)
🎙 Rakesh Kumar, Data Solution Architect, EPAM India
👉 REGISTER AND JOIN THE TALK - https://datazen.top/xh8o

In this talk, Rakesh will demonstrate how AI-based automation and LLM-based technologies can revolutionize metadata management, from manual and ad-hoc processes to scalable and reliable ones.

What you will learn:
• What problems Metadata Enrichment CoPilot solves
• How LLMs help with metadata quality, governance, and discovery
• How Metadata Enrichment CoPilot works, step-by-step
• Case Study with quantifiable results
• What you can learn from this talk that will help you build trust with your company’s data

This talk will especially interest data engineers, data stewards, analytics practitioners and data governance experts who deal with complicated data landscapes.
A great opening talk for four days of genuine Data & AI expertise that you will experience during Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026.

👉 REGISTER NOW AND CHECK OUT THE AGENDA: https://datazen.top/x9qj

01/30/2026

❄️Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026❄️

🐼Panda from Data Zen Community knows the way.

Through messy data, complex pipelines - and straight into AI-powered solutions.

The Winter Data & AI Meetup 2026 is for practitioners who work with Data & AI in real systems, not in theory.

This February, we will discuss how to modernize data pipelines, work with AI for data governance and metadata, and bring AI from prototype to production.

📅 Feb 24-27 | 💻 Online

🎟 Register per session — choose talks that fit your work and tech stack.

👉 Watch video and explore agenda

https://datazen.top/x9qj