The Analytics and Data Summit 2026 will take place on April 14-16, 2026 at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. This year’s theme is Adaptive Frontiers: Pioneering Analytics in an Era of Continuous Change.
Our event features keynotes from industry experts, trainings from experienced practitioners and developers with real-world, in-the-trenches expertise, and practical hands-on labs focusing on AI, Machine Learning, Analytics, Spatial and Graph, Business Intelligence, and Data Engineering.
Best of all: You’ll have have plenty of chances to connect and network with like-minded professionals you’d be unlikely to meet at larger, less intimate industry events.
This Year’s Summit Schedule
| Ticket Type | Value |
|---|---|
| One Day Ticket 2026 | $199 |
| Early Bird Summit 2026 | $399 |
| Regular Summit 2026 | $599 |
| Student 1 Day Ticket 2026 | $99 |
| Student 3 Day 2026 | Please contact us |
Keynotes and Speakers
AI and You: The Automated Age
Generative AI, LLMs, and Chatbots, oh my! The last few years have seen these cause massive disruption in our lives. How many kinds of AI are there? What is AI good at? What is it NOT good at? How does it work? How can things go sideways and how can you prevent that? Susan Earley will try to educate you on when and how to use AI responsibly and when not to, using examples from NASA and the legal profession.
Susan Earley
AI & Data Governance Advisor
Susan Earley is a career data management professional who went and got a law degree and license as a midlife crisis/COVID thing. Her focus in law school was Intellectual Property and Technology, which pretty much describes AI. She currently works at NASA advising the CDO and CAIO on policy development and compliance.
So My Agent Tells Me: Visions of Our AI Future, From the Recent Past
Gen AI. MCP. RAG. Agentic AI. If these and all the rest of the artificial intelligence (AI) concepts being tossed around these days sound like science fiction to you, it’s probably because until just a few years ago, that’s exactly what they were. Jim will augur the future of our industry through tales from master visionaries and explain where he sees our civilization is headed, with IT professionals in the lead.
Jim Czuprynski
Chief StoryTeller
Jim Czuprynski has 40+ years of professional IT experience, serving diverse roles before becoming an Oracle DBA in 2001. He is a sought-after speaker on Oracle technology, presenting often at Oracle User Group conferences around the world.
CTO Perspective 2026: Surviving the Meteoric Collision of AI and Analytics
The massive momentum of Generative AI has slammed into the established world of Data & Analytics, and the debris is everywhere. In 2026, the “shiny object” era of AI experimentation has been replaced by a ruthless demand for ROI. The reality from the corner office is simple: we aren’t buying “AI” anymore—we are buying speed.
In this high-energy keynote, Paul Lewis (Chief Technology Officer, Pythian) explores the market dynamics of this collision and identifies the survivors in the wreckage. We’ll dissect the Winners—architectures that eliminate the “ETL Tax,” embrace native database intelligence, and pivot from static dashboards to natural language prompting—and the Losers—the siloed, multi-month “Data Projects” that can no longer justify their own complexity.
Paul provides an unfiltered look at the 2026 CTO investment thesis: How is Oracle’s converged strategy being measured against a new, ruthless standard? What “religious” tech beliefs must be abandoned to stay relevant? Join us for a candid discussion on navigating the impact zone to build a leaner, faster, and more autonomous future.
Paul Lewis
Chief Technology Officer, Pythian
With over 30 years of experience in the technology sector, Paul Lewis is a data and AI services expert and a leader in driving technology strategy, innovation, and partner relations. As the Chief Technology Officer at Pythian, a global data and cloud services company, he helps help customers across multiple industries and domains leverage and scale their data and cloud assets to deliver valuable business outcomes throughout their digital transformation journey.