The Biggest Data Science and Analytics Conferences in 2025
Plan a year ahead with this roundup of the most popular conferences, events, and workshops around data and ML this year.
Welcome to my Data Analytics Journal, where I write about data science and analytics.
As an existing tradition, I’d like to start off 2025 by sharing the biggest events scheduled for this year in data analytics, data science, and data engineering to help you plan the year ahead. Most of these are big conferences and annual summits.
I am partnering with many organizers below, so if you need help getting tickets, accessing the agenda, or recordings, let me know.
Data Analytics and Data Engineering
MDM & Data Governance Summit
January 23-24, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The 5th annual MDM summit starts this week in Amsterdam. This year's agenda will cover MDM integrations, management strategy, improving data quality, and more.
Power BI Summit
February 18-19, online, free
The five-hour summit gathers German BI experts to learn best practices on Power BI presentations. The first session begins with “Digitales Frühstück”. I am not sure what it means, so I have to join to find out.
Analytics and Data Summit
April 8-10, Redwood Shores, California
The 3-day summit is organized and managed by Oracle community and offers working sessions, hand-on labs all things Oracle.
Tableau Conference
April 15-17, San Diego
Annual Tableau conference on dashboard, insights, and not agents. This is the time when they also announce their famous Iron Viz Champion.
Data Council 2025
April 22-24, Oakland, CA
Gartner Data & Analytics Summit
March 3–5, Orlando, FL
The go-to event for data and analytics leaders, focusing on innovations in AI, data management, and analytics strategies.
Enterprise Data World
May 5-9, Anaheim, CA
This year Enterprise Data World (EDW) is collaborating with the Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ) to host a global conference on data quality with tutorials, workshops, seminars, and more.
Data Innovation Summit
May 7-8, Stockholm + online
“Data Innovation Summit is constructed so it equally addresses all the elements of data-driven and AI-ready business: data, people, processes and technology. The event is built to be both business and technical, practical and inspirational, realistic and futuristic, educational and exciting, regional and global, live and digital, general and niched, inspiring and influential.”
Qlik Connect
May 13-15, Orlando, Florida
Learn Data Warehouse, Lake, or Lakehouse Modernization at this 3-day annual Qlik conference aimed at Data and Analytics Leaders.
Real-Time Analytics Summit
May 14, Virtual
An annual free conference focused on real-time data - how to design, build, and run real-time analytics at scale. If you missed it last year, here are the recordings.
Data Summit 2025
May 14-15, Boston, MA
This summit is an annual event that has been running since 2014. The summit is focused on data management and also will include special events like AI and ML Learning Summit, DataOps Bootcamp, and Database and DevOps Bootcamp.
World Data Summit
May 21-23, Amsterdam (European Edition)
October 16-17, Singapore (APAC Edition)
World Data Summit is an annual 3-day conference focused on analytics - market segmentation, digital attribution, user experience journeys, data privacy and ethics, and more.
Snowflake Data Cloud Summit
June 2-5, San Francisco, California
Snowflake Summit is the annual 4-day Snowflake conference with many sessions, workshops, and training. As of now, over 450 sessions are scheduled across data architecture and analytics.
AI & Big Data Expo
June 4-5, Santa Clara, California
“TechEx North America brings together over 7,000 attendees from across North America and beyond… Meet and network with CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, IT Directors, Chief Data Scientists, Developers, Software Engineers, Security Experts, Startups, OEMs, Government Leaders, Investors, and more.”
SIGMOD/PODS Conference
June 22-27, Berlin, Germany
The annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, and developers. The conference includes a technical program with research and industrial talks, tutorials, demos, and focused workshops.
Data Connect 2025
Spring 2025, TBD, Data Connect West
Oct. 2-3, Columbus, OH
Coalesce 2025
To be announced soon. Expecting Fall 2025
Analytics engineering conference hosted by dbt Labs. Expert dbt training and certifications with thousands of data practitioners. It’s impressive how dbt became so massive!
Watch Coalesce 2024 here and 2023 here.
DS, ML, and AI
Data Science Salon
February 19-20, Austin Using Gen AI & ML in the Enterprise - DSS ATX
April 16, Seattle Retail & E-commerce DSS SEA
May 15, NY, Finance & Technology - DSS NYC
September 17, Miami, Florida + online - DSS MIA
Data Science Salon: AI and ML has been a famous, diverse, vendor-neutral community for data scientists, ML engineers, and Data engineers since 2016.
Deep Learning AI and ML Summit
Deep Learning AI and ML Summit is scheduled throughout the year across the world (a full list of events is here). This conference aims to bridge “the gap between the latest technological research advancements and real-world applications in business and society”. Topics covered: data architecture, data efficiency, deep learning, deep neural networks, and more.
Semantic Layer Summit
Not sure if it’s happening in 2025…
I can’t find information on whether the Semantic Layer Summit is happening this year. I believe, it was announced last year it will be back. Meanwhile, you can request on-demand videos from your favorite data speakers here.
Women in Data Science
The Women in Data Science (WiDS) community aims to inspire and educate data scientists around the world, regardless of gender. It started as a conference at Stanford in November 2015. Now, it is a massive global conference event with approximately 150+ regional events worldwide.
ODSC East 2025
May 13-15, Boston + online
ODSC is my favorite annual Open Data Science Conference. This is one of the largest ML and AI events and offers training, networking, and demos.
Databricks Data and AI Summit 2025
June 9-12, San Francisco+Virtual
The annual Databrick event for the data, analytics, and AI community happens in San Francisco in early June. Four days packed with keynotes by industry leaders and visionaries, technical sessions, hands-on training, and networking.
Research and Applied AI Summit
June 13, London, UK
RAAIS brings together AI researchers, engineers, founders, and operators from around the world for a day of best practices and good vibes. It is organized by The RAAIS Foundation UK charity and Air Street Capital venture firm.
Check previous RAAIS sessions here.
Data Science & Statistics
June 16-18, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The 3rd World Conference on DS and Statistics brings together people passionate about Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, AI, Data Management, and Data Engineering to network and share concepts. Expected 500+ attendees and 100+ speakers.
MLDM 2025
July 18-23, Dresden, Germany
This will be the 20th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM). The workshops include data mining in marketing, case-based reasoning, and multimedia forensic data analysis.
Big Data Conference Europe
November 18-21, Vilnius, Lithuania + online
The 9th edition of the Big Data Conference is scheduled for November. With over 700 attendees, 60+ events cover ML, AI, Cloud, NLP, Data streaming, predictive data analytics, and more.
The year is expected to be busy.
I'll be updating the list throughout the year, as some organizers haven't confirmed dates or locations yet. If I've missed an important event, please let me know.
Thanks for reading. Until next week!
Thank you for pulling this all together and adding some handy notes. The Data Analytics list won't be complete without mentioning the annual Qlik conference. From my experience, it is very comparable by size and impact to the other events on the list.
https://www.qlikconnect.com/
"Digitales Frühstück" means "Digital Breakfast" - Greetings from Berlin!