“…Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of the young as well as adults, Jean Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. …”

“…You’ll hear from Andy Petrella (author of Fundamentals of Data Observability) on the critical role of data engineers in maintaining data integrity to prevent misinformation and manipulation in the age of AI; Eevamaija Virtanen (founder of Helsinki Data Week) on getting a first job and building a career; Adi Polak (author of Scaling Machine Learning with Spark) on stream processing patterns and open source software; Dunith Danushka (senior developer advocate at Redpanda Data) on building composable data platforms; Colleen Tartow (field CTO at VAST Data) on her career journey from astrophysics to engineering leadership; Xinran Waibel (founder of the Data Engineer Things Community) on the path to becoming a senior engineer; Holden Karau (author of five O’Reilly books) on concrete applications of data engineering to healthcare; and Jowanza Joseph (author of Mastering Apache Pulsar) on applying generative AI to data engineering problems…”