Event activation · Data Council 2026 · Bay Area · Data engineering + MLOps + analytics platform▸ Event in--d·--h·--m·--s

The Data Council activation that shipsqualified pipeline.

FORKOFF Data Council activation is a 14-day operating cycle for data engineering and analytics platform founders, MLOps practitioners, and data infrastructure teams shipping production data pipelines into the data-engineer + platform-team buyer cluster in the Bay Area. Pre-event narrative, on-site cadence at Pier 27, post-event compounding, audit-tracked outcomes.

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Apr 22-24, 2026Dates

Oakland, CACity

1,500+Attendance (2025)

40+ across Bay AreaSide events

▸ The wedge

Most teams pay $15K to $50K for a Pier 27 sponsor lane and watch it drown in the AI/ML data-platform track scroll. Some host a Jack London dinner and bounce. FORKOFF runs the Data Council week as a 14-day operating cycle.

Data Council circuit · 2026

Data engineering founders, MLOps practitioners, and analytics-platform leaders on the FORKOFF Data Council radar.

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Anonymized post-engagement. Names surfaced are Data Council 2025 ecosystem operators FORKOFF either ran intros into or co-attended data-engineer sessions with.

Why activate at Data Council

Four reasons Data Council is the highest-leverage
data infrastructure week of the year.

The data-infra ecosystem compounds in ways no other data-platform week does. 1.5k attendees plus data-engineer concentration plus MLOps practitioner density plus analytics-platform founder concentration inside one tightly-scoped 3-day Bay Area window.

1,500+

Data engineering founders + MLOps practitioners concentrated across Pier 27 plus the AI/ML data-platform track plus the Data Engineering Weekly dinner web.

3 days

Data-infra VCs, MLOps tooling buyers, and analytics-platform teams all in-market across the same 72-hour window.

40+

Side events make data-engineer operators and Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent voices reachable in 30-person rooms.

30 days

Data Twitter and Data Engineering Weekly newsletter cluster compound on residual.

Data Council intel · the Bay Area room you are activating into

What Data Council 2026 actually looks like.

The week breaks into a Pier 27 main-track cluster, an AI/ML data-platform track running parallel, and a Data Engineering Weekly dinner web. Activating well means picking the right stripe of the week.

Date + venue

Apr 22-24, 2026

Main stage at Pier 27 + parallel Bay Area venues (Oakland + SF waterfront). AI/ML data-platform track at adjacent venues. Tooling expo across the Pier 27 atrium. Data Engineering Weekly dinners concentrated in Jack London Square + Mission Bay + Oakland Embarcadero partner venues.

Expected attendance

1,500+ in 2025: 40% data engineering founders + analytics platform founders, 24% MLOps practitioners + tooling teams, 20% data infrastructure teams + platform engineers, 16% data-infra VCs + press + Data Engineering Weekly KOLs.

Data engineering + analytics platform founders40%

MLOps practitioners + tooling teams24%

Data infrastructure teams + platform engineers20%

Data-infra VCs + press + DEW KOLs16%

Key tracks

Where the buyer-relevant rooms live. Pick 2 max for any single activation week.

Data EngineeringAnalytics + BIMLOpsAI/ML Data PlatformStreaming + CDCLakehouse

FORKOFF receipts at Data Council

Two prior cycles run on the FORKOFF audit ledger. Data engineering platform pre-launch, MLOps tooling devrel narrative. Both ledger entries delivered within T+30 of close.

2 prior activationsT+30 ledger closeData-engineer-fluent comms

Operating week

From a Pier 27 expo lane and a stack of stickers
to compounded data-engineer pipeline.

Three days at Pier 27 plus parallel Bay Area venues, the AI/ML data-platform track circuit, and the Data Engineering Weekly dinner web. Pre-event narrative, daily on-site cadence, post-event clip cascade. One operator carries every phase. Every phase closes with a ledger entry.

Visual ledger

Three days of operating cadence across Pier 27, the AI/ML data-platform track, and the Data Engineering Weekly dinner web.

Data Council activation · 4 layers × deliverables

Every motion
across four layers.

PHASE 01[PRE-EVENT]

Narrative + intros

Founder narrative locked T-30 to T-7.

Deliverables (3)

▸T-30 to T-7
▸30-account cluster
▸Data-infra intro engineering

PHASE 02[EVENT WEEK]

Cadence + side events

Daily founder posts from Pier 27, Wed-Fri of Data Council week.

Deliverables (3)

▸Daily cadence
▸DEW dinner
▸On-site clipping

PHASE 03[ON-SITE]

KOL + clips

On-site data Twitter and Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent KOLs activated through bot-screened placements.

Deliverables (3)

▸KOL placement
▸Podcast recording
▸Real-time clips

PHASE 04[POST-EVENT]

Compound + ledger

Clip cadence compounds T+1 to T+30.

Deliverables (3)

▸T+1 to T+30
▸Qualified-pipeline ledger
▸Compounding distribution

Activation timeline

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.
Operating cadence.

Strategy 12 weeks out. Production 4 weeks out. Execution event week. Compounding 30 days post. Each phase closes with a ledger entry.

0112 weeks out
024 weeks out
03event week
04post-event

StrategyProductionExecutionCompounding

FK · DATA COUNCIL LEDGERLIVE

Operating cycle90 days

Phases closed4 / 4

Cadence2026

StatusACTIVATING

Event-week cadence

Data Council 2026 week-of cadence (recommended).

Sample schedule for a Standard-tier engagement. Tier-specific deliverables shown in the next section.

Day	Date	Motion	FORKOFF owns
Sun (D-1)	Apr 19, 2026	Land in Bay Area · pre-event Tour de Data Council DEW dinner setup	Venue + invite list + intro choreography
Mon	Apr 20	Pre-event data-engineer dinner · ICP-account 1:1s · last-mile narrative cadence	Dinner production + intro routing
Tue	Apr 21	Pre-conference workshops · MLOps roundtable prep · partner sync	Roundtable production + KOL invites
Wed	Apr 22	Opening day attendance · founder posts from Pier 27 · AI/ML data-platform track	Daily post + on-site clip cadence
Thu	Apr 23	On-site podcast recording day · 3-4 founder + MLOps practitioner interviews	Studio + production + same-week clip pipeline
Fri	Apr 24	FORKOFF side event (MLOps roundtable / data-platform panel / DEW dinner)	Production + KOL invites + recording
Sat	Apr 25	Founder thread recap of week · data Twitter cluster reciprocation	Thread craft + cluster activation
Sun (D+7)	Apr 26	Departure · post-event clip cascade live	Distribution sequencing + audit ledger weekly

Proof of work · Data Council lanes

Real outcomes fromreal data infrastructure activations.

Three Data Council-circuit campaigns, three lanes: data-engineering platform pre-launch, MLOps tooling devrel narrative, post-event data-infra compounding.

Data Council 2024 · Standard

Data engineering platform pipeline.

Pre-event narrative across 14 days locked the founder's positioning across the data-infra cluster before they landed in Bay Area. Side-event MLOps roundtable + podcast recording fed a 14-clip post-event cadence. Audit ledger closed T+30 with qualified-pipeline math skewed data engineering founders + analytics platform leaders.

4xPipeline growth · 90 days post-Data-Council

Ascending FK_RED growth chart for data engineering platform pipeline acceleration

Data Council 2025 · Lite

MLOps tooling devrel.

Single-track Lite tier: 14-day pre-event narrative + 1 on-site podcast recording timed to the founder's MLOps tooling release. Audit-ledger entry shipped T+14 with qualified-intro list surfaced before the founder landed in Bay Area.

Cascading threads as data infrastructure narrative metaphor

AI Engineer Summit 2025 · Full

AI infra sister-event proxy.

Sponsor-grade activation across the parallel AI Engineer Summit week for an AI infra vendor. 5 podcast recordings on-site, English-language clip cycle that rode the residual attention curve for 45 days. Same playbook ports to Data Council with data-infra ICP swap.

Fit map · Data Council activation ICP

For founders. Run a Data Council activation that compounds
without burning $50K on a Pier 27 sponsor lane on hopes alone.

Who you are

›Series Seed-Series B data engineering or analytics platform founder selling into data engineers, platform teams, and MLOps practitioners
›VP of Engineering or developer-relations head for an MLOps tooling vendor needing data-engineer ecosystem reach through Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent voices
›Data infrastructure founder using Data Council as the budget-anchor week for MLOps tooling adoption decisions and platform-team partnership starts
›Founder open to spending the operating week in the Bay Area (not parachuting in for one Pete Soderling keynote)

What FORKOFF delivers

›14-day pre-event narrative engineering across 30 ICP accounts (data engineering founders + analytics platform founders + MLOps practitioners + data-infra VCs)
›Daily on-site cadence Wed-Fri of Data Council week + Tour de Data Council DEW dinner + MLOps roundtable production
›Data Twitter + Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent + The Pragmatic Engineer KOL stack activated through bot-screened placements with per-post tracking
›T+30 audit ledger close with data-engineer-sourced pipeline report tied back to every qualified-view receipt

Not the right fit

×Pure consumer Web3 without data-platform overlap. Data Council activation needs a data engineering, analytics platform, or MLOps tooling product to anchor on
×Brands that just want a logo on a Pier 27 sponsor banner
×Anyone expecting one Pete Soderling keynote to convert without 14 days of pre-event narrative + 3 days on-site
×Teams unwilling to commit to a 90-day operating cycle (T-30 to T+30) around the event

Sandbox · 14 days · refund if no qualified-intro list

$5,000 Data Council lite pilot. Refund if we do not deliver the qualified-intro list pre-Bay-Area.

14-day pre-event narrative + 30-account data-engineering ICP map + qualified-intro list shipped before you land in the Bay Area. If we do not deliver the intro list inside 14 days, the $5,000 comes back.

Apply for the $5,000 Data Council pilot

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FORKOFF runs the only Data Council activation we have seen built around a 14-day operating cycle, not a Pier 27 sponsor lane. The audit ledger told us exactly which Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent intros compounded into MLOps tooling adoption.

Founder · Data infrastructure platform

Data Council 2025 standard tier · MLOps roundtable layer

4xQualified-intro pipeline · 90 days post-Bay-Area

LITE ACTIVATION · BY APPLICATION · 5 ENGAGEMENTS PER QUARTER

$5,000

Lite activation floor

$5,000 to $10,000 Data Council Lite activation. Single-track pre-event data-engineer narrative or DEW dinner.

Two weeks of pre-event narrative + 30-account data-engineering cluster activation + Data Council-specific intro engineering. You leave with the audit ledger of qualified intros surfaced before you land in the Bay Area. Lite tier scopes a single track. Selective on ICP, capped per quarter.

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Single-track entry tieraudit-ledger reportingpairs with Standard or Full upgrade

Activation vs the alternatives

How a FORKOFF Data Council activation compares.

Receipt-by-receipt, on the same five dimensions every buyer asks about. No tier shell games, no asterisks.

Feature	FORKOFF activationOutcome-priced	DIY booth + sponsorLogo on banner	Traditional PR firmPress retainer
Pricing model	Outcome-priced. Per-event commit. $5K to $40K tier band.	Sponsor lane plus AV plus founder hours. Often $15K to $50K plus before any sourced data-engineer lead.	Monthly retainer regardless of event outcome. $10K to $25K per month.
Pre-event narrative	30-day data engineering cluster activation plus 30-account data-infra intro engineering	Tweet announcing sponsor lane a week before	Press release embargoed until AI/ML data-platform keynote day
On-site cadence	Daily founder posts, Tour de Data Council dinner, AI/ML data-platform track adjacency, KOL placements	Founder behind a Pier 27 booth, hopes the right data engineer walks past	Press wrangling around the Pete Soderling keynote, no operating cadence on-site
Post-event compounding	30-day clip cascade plus qualified-pipeline ledger sourced from data-engineer ecosystem	Folder of phone photos and a Slack debrief written from a OAK flight home	Coverage clipping report, often disconnected from data-engineer pipeline
Audit ledger receipt	Signed by operator, qualified-pipeline math, T+30 close	Whatever the founder remembers from the Pier 27 expo	Vanity coverage report, no pipeline math

Activation tiers

Data Council 2026 activation tiers.

All tiers carry the audit ledger + qualified-pipeline reporting. Tier scales scope, not philosophy.

3 tiersLite · Standard · Full

5/quarterEngagements per cycle

By applicationSelective on ICP

Lite

$5,000 to $10,000

Pre-event narrative lock + 14-day data-engineering cluster activation
Daily founder posts during Data Council week (drafted by FORKOFF, founder approves)
1 podcast recording on-site (founder interview)
6 clips post-event distributed across X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts
Weekly Slack-delivered audit ledger

Recommended

Standard

By application

Everything in Lite, plus:
1 FORKOFF-produced side event (Tour de Data Council DEW dinner / panel / MLOps roundtable)
3-4 podcast recordings on-site (founder + MLOps practitioner + analytics-platform leader guests)
12-18 clips post-event across all surfaces
Bot-screened KOL placement (1 placement matched to your ICP)
Intro engineering on 30 ICP accounts attending Data Council
Post-event qualified-pipeline ledger T+30 days

Full

By application

Everything in Standard, plus:
Multi-stop side-event tour (3 events across the week including AI/ML data-platform track adjacency)
5+ podcast recordings on-site (founder + data-platform founders + MLOps practitioners + data Twitter voices)
24-36 clips post-event across all surfaces
3-5 bot-screened KOL placements (data Twitter + Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent + The Pragmatic Engineer + data-infra newsletter writers)
Intro engineering on 60 ICP accounts (extended pre-event window)
MLOps roundtable production for data-infra tooling buyers
Post-event qualified-pipeline ledger T+60 days
1 dedicated FORKOFF operator on-site for the full week

More events on the FORKOFF roster

Other activation weeks. Same operator. Same ledger.

AI Engineer Summit 2026

Feb 2026 · San Francisco · Standard tier by application

Google Cloud Next 2026

Apr 2026 · Las Vegas · Standard tier by application

AWS re:Invent 2026

Dec 2026 · Las Vegas · Standard tier $15K to $25K

NeurIPS 2026

Dec 2026 · San Diego · Standard tier $15K to $25K

Dreamforce 2026

Sep 2026 · San Francisco · Standard tier $15K to $25K

FAQ · 8 questions

Frequently asked questions

Data Council is the flagship gathering for data engineering and analytics platform founders, MLOps practitioners, and data infrastructure teams, run by Pete Soderling and the Data Council team. The 2025 edition drew 1,500+ attendees across Pier 27 + parallel Bay Area venues plus 40+ side events organized by data tooling vendors, MLOps practitioners, and Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent voices. Data Council 2026 runs April 22 to 24 in the Bay Area (Oakland Pier 27 anchor). The room is the highest-density gathering of data engineering founders, analytics platform founders, MLOps practitioners, and data infrastructure teams in the world.

Most teams pay for a sponsor lane and hope the right data engineer walks past. The FORKOFF activation is a 14-day operating cycle: pre-event narrative + 30-account data-infrastructure intro engineering, on-site cadence + Tour de Data Council DEW dinner + KOL placement, post-event clip cascade + qualified-pipeline ledger. Same operator, same dashboard, audit-tracked outcomes. Specifically tuned for data engineering and analytics platform founders, MLOps practitioners, and data infrastructure teams shipping production data pipelines into the data-engineer + platform-team buyer cluster. The data-infrastructure layer of the FORKOFF AI Agency thesis.

Three tiers: Lite $5,000 to $10,000 (single-track pre-event data-engineer narrative or on-site DEW dinner or side-event slot), Standard by application (recommended, full week-of presence + AI/ML data-platform track adjacency + data-infra intro engineering), Full by application (sponsor-grade with multi-stop side events + MLOps roundtable production + Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent KOL stack). All tiers carry the audit ledger + qualified-pipeline reporting. Tier scales scope, not the underlying philosophy. Reference point: a Data Council sponsor lane runs $15K to $50K before AV and staff costs.

Yes. Standard + Full tiers include FORKOFF-produced side events at Bay Area venues (Tour de Data Council data-engineer dinner, MLOps roundtable, data-platform panel, founder talk format). We handle venue, invite list, KOL outreach, and on-site recording. Side events are the highest-leverage on-site moment. 30 right data engineering founders in one Jack London Square-side room beats 1,500 random attendees at the Pier 27 main hall. Recommended venues span Jack London Square + Mission Bay + Oakland Embarcadero partner venues + the SoMa side-event circuit.

Our Full tier includes a data-infrastructure adjacency layer for MLOps tooling adoption decisions and platform-team partnership starts. We coordinate with the founder's data-engineering advisor before any pre-event narrative goes live, route 30-account intros across data engineers and platform-team buyers, and structure side events so analytics platform leaders can participate in pipeline-acceleration conversations. This is critical for data-infra founders who treat Data Council as the budget-anchor week for MLOps tooling adoption and platform-team partnership decisions. Strong overlap with founder-led-sales and outbound-stats positioning, the data-infra cohort runs technical sales motions and outbound-driven pipelines.

Yes. FORKOFF has working relationships with Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent voices, The Pragmatic Engineer-adjacent operators, and data Twitter voices across the data-engineer ecosystem. Standard tier includes 1 ecosystem KOL placement; Full tier extends to 3-5 placements across data Twitter, Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent voices, The Pragmatic Engineer, and data-infra newsletter writers. Data Council is the one event week where data engineers are reachable in the same room as MLOps tooling buyers, and our intro engineering is built around that crossover.

Every podcast recorded on-site feeds the clipping pipeline at clips.forkoff.xyz. One 60-minute recording produces 8-12 cross-platform clips (X / TikTok / Reels / Shorts), distributed over the 30 days following Data Council. Each clip is tracked in the qualified-view ledger and reported in the T+30 audit close. The post-event cadence is what compounds the week's investment. For Data Council specifically, the data Twitter cluster (data engineering founders + MLOps practitioners + Data Engineering Weekly-adjacent analysts) keeps the residual attention curve elevated.

Yes. Data Council is one of 12 plus events on the FORKOFF event roster. AI Engineer Summit, Google Cloud Next, AWS re:Invent, NeurIPS, Dreamforce, RSA Conference, HubSpot Inbound, Microsoft Ignite, SaaStr Annual, Token2049 Singapore, Korea Blockchain Week. Each event has its own activation page with cadence + tier pricing tuned to the event format and ICP. Data infrastructure, AI infrastructure, and B2B SaaS ICPs map cleanly across events; see /for/ai-startups and /for/saas-companies for ICP-side detail.

Related FORKOFF surfaces

Where Data Council activations compound in your stack.

AI startups

Beyond Data Council week. AI-side ICP playbook for AI infrastructure and data-platform teams.

SaaS companies

B2B SaaS ICP playbook for data engineering and analytics platform founders running founder-led-sales motions.

Founder funnel

Pre-event narrative + intro engineering across 30 ICP accounts attending Data Council.

Founder podcast

On-site podcast recording day during Data Council week. Studio + crew booked at Bay Area partner venue.

KOL marketing

Bot-screened data Twitter + Data Engineering Weekly + The Pragmatic Engineer KOL placements during Data Council week.

Markets · San Francisco

Beyond Data Council week. Bay Area tech-conference GTM playbook + on-ground partner network.

The brand line

Stop sponsoring Data Council.
Run an activation.

Lite activation $5,000 to $10,000 single-track. Standard tier by application end-to-end. Full tier by application sponsor-grade with MLOps roundtable production. Audit ledger on qualified pipeline across every tier.

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Day

Date

Motion

FORKOFF owns

Sun (D-1)

Apr 19, 2026

Land in Bay Area · pre-event Tour de Data Council DEW dinner setup

Venue + invite list + intro choreography

Mon

Apr 20

Pre-event data-engineer dinner · ICP-account 1:1s · last-mile narrative cadence

Dinner production + intro routing

Tue

Apr 21

Pre-conference workshops · MLOps roundtable prep · partner sync

Roundtable production + KOL invites

Wed

Apr 22

Opening day attendance · founder posts from Pier 27 · AI/ML data-platform track

Daily post + on-site clip cadence

Thu

Apr 23

On-site podcast recording day · 3-4 founder + MLOps practitioner interviews

Studio + production + same-week clip pipeline

Fri

Apr 24

FORKOFF side event (MLOps roundtable / data-platform panel / DEW dinner)

Production + KOL invites + recording

Sat

Apr 25

Founder thread recap of week · data Twitter cluster reciprocation

Thread craft + cluster activation

Sun (D+7)

Apr 26

Departure · post-event clip cascade live

Distribution sequencing + audit ledger weekly

$5,000 to $10,000 Data Council Lite activation. Single-track pre-event data-engineer narrative or DEW dinner.

Single-track entry tieraudit-ledger reportingpairs with Standard or Full upgrade

Feature

FORKOFF activationOutcome-priced

DIY booth + sponsorLogo on banner

Traditional PR firmPress retainer

Pricing model

Outcome-priced. Per-event commit. $5K to $40K tier band.

Sponsor lane plus AV plus founder hours. Often $15K to $50K plus before any sourced data-engineer lead.

Monthly retainer regardless of event outcome. $10K to $25K per month.

Pre-event narrative

30-day data engineering cluster activation plus 30-account data-infra intro engineering

Tweet announcing sponsor lane a week before

Press release embargoed until AI/ML data-platform keynote day

On-site cadence

Daily founder posts, Tour de Data Council dinner, AI/ML data-platform track adjacency, KOL placements

Founder behind a Pier 27 booth, hopes the right data engineer walks past

Press wrangling around the Pete Soderling keynote, no operating cadence on-site

Post-event compounding

30-day clip cascade plus qualified-pipeline ledger sourced from data-engineer ecosystem

Folder of phone photos and a Slack debrief written from a OAK flight home

Coverage clipping report, often disconnected from data-engineer pipeline

Audit ledger receipt

Signed by operator, qualified-pipeline math, T+30 close

Whatever the founder remembers from the Pier 27 expo

Vanity coverage report, no pipeline math

Frequently asked questions

The Data Council activation that shipsqualified pipeline.

Data engineering founders, MLOps practitioners, and analytics-platform leaders on the FORKOFF Data Council radar.

Four reasons Data Council is the highest-leveragedata infrastructure week of the year.

1,500+

3 days

40+

30 days

What Data Council 2026 actually looks like.

From a Pier 27 expo lane and a stack of stickersto compounded data-engineer pipeline.

Every motionacross four layers.

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.Operating cadence.

StrategyProductionExecutionCompounding

Strategy + booking

Production

Execution

Compounding

Data Council 2026 week-of cadence (recommended).

Real outcomes fromreal data infrastructure activations.

Data engineering platform pipeline.

MLOps tooling devrel.

AI infra sister-event proxy.

For founders. Run a Data Council activation that compoundswithout burning $50K on a Pier 27 sponsor lane on hopes alone.

$5,000 Data Council lite pilot. Refund if we do not deliver the qualified-intro list pre-Bay-Area.

$5,000 to $10,000 Data Council Lite activation. Single-track pre-event data-engineer narrative or DEW dinner.

How a FORKOFF Data Council activation compares.

Data Council 2026 activation tiers.

Lite

Standard

Full

Other activation weeks. Same operator. Same ledger.

AI Engineer Summit 2026

Google Cloud Next 2026

AWS re:Invent 2026

NeurIPS 2026

Dreamforce 2026

Frequently asked questions

Where Data Council activations compound in your stack.

AI startups

SaaS companies

Founder funnel

Founder podcast

KOL marketing

Markets · San Francisco

Stop sponsoring Data Council.Run an activation.

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Best AI Video Editor 2026: 9 Tools Ranked Honestly

The Data Council activation that shipsqualified pipeline.

Data engineering founders, MLOps practitioners, and analytics-platform leaders on the FORKOFF Data Council radar.

Four reasons Data Council is the highest-leveragedata infrastructure week of the year.

1,500+

3 days

40+

30 days

What Data Council 2026 actually looks like.

From a Pier 27 expo lane and a stack of stickersto compounded data-engineer pipeline.

Every motionacross four layers.

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

Deliverables (3)

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.Operating cadence.

StrategyProductionExecutionCompounding

Strategy + booking

Production

Execution

Compounding

Data Council 2026 week-of cadence (recommended).

Real outcomes fromreal data infrastructure activations.

Data engineering platform pipeline.

MLOps tooling devrel.

AI infra sister-event proxy.

For founders. Run a Data Council activation that compoundswithout burning $50K on a Pier 27 sponsor lane on hopes alone.

$5,000 Data Council lite pilot. Refund if we do not deliver the qualified-intro list pre-Bay-Area.

$5,000 to $10,000 Data Council Lite activation. Single-track pre-event data-engineer narrative or DEW dinner.

Four reasons Data Council is the highest-leverage
data infrastructure week of the year.

From a Pier 27 expo lane and a stack of stickers
to compounded data-engineer pipeline.

Every motion
across four layers.

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.
Operating cadence.

For founders. Run a Data Council activation that compounds
without burning $50K on a Pier 27 sponsor lane on hopes alone.

Stop sponsoring Data Council.
Run an activation.

Four reasons Data Council is the highest-leverage
data infrastructure week of the year.

From a Pier 27 expo lane and a stack of stickers
to compounded data-engineer pipeline.

Every motion
across four layers.

The 90-day operating cycle, week by week.
Operating cadence.

For founders. Run a Data Council activation that compounds
without burning $50K on a Pier 27 sponsor lane on hopes alone.

Stop sponsoring Data Council.
Run an activation.