WWDVC 2026

World-Wide Data Vault
Consortium 2026

215
DAYS
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22
HOURS
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18
MINUTES
APRIL
26
Early Registration
Early Registration
Jazmin Rios, Cindi Meyersohn
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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APRIL
27
Registration Opens
Registration Opens
Jazmin Rios, Cindi Meyersohn, Dan Linstedt
7:00 am - 8:00 am
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APRIL
27
Breakfast
Breakfast
Jazmin Rios, Cindi Meyersohn, Dan Linstedt
7:00 am - 8:00 am
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APRIL
27
Conference Opening
Conference Opening
Dan Linstedt
8:00 am - 8:30 am
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APRIL
27
Building Better Data Vaults: Organizing Data Structures for Speed, Savings, and Success
Implementing Data Structure Organization Best Practices
Doug Needham
8:35 am - 10:35 am
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APRIL
27
Coffee Break
Coffee Service
Jazmin Rios
10:35 am - 11:00 am
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APRIL
27
Is your Data Vault Business-Centric?
Is your Data Vault Business-Centric?
Mary Mink
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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APRIL
27
Lunch (On Your Own)
Jazmin Rios
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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APRIL
27
Not Just Data Workshop
Building a Continuous Data Pipeline
Scott Ambler
2:35 pm - 5:00 pm
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APRIL
27
Exclusive DVAUnited Pro Member Gathering
Exclusive DVAUnited Pro Member Gathering
Dan Linstedt, Cindi Meyersohn
5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
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APRIL
27
Data Vault Games (Bowling)
Cindi Meyersohn
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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APRIL
28
Breakfast
Breakfast
Cindi Meyersohn, Dan Linstedt, Jazmin Rios
7:30 am - 8:30 am
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APRIL
28
Beyond SQL – Part 1 – What’s a Relational DBMS? Truly …
Beyond SQL: Rediscovering the Power of Relational Thinking
C.J. Date
8:35 am - 9:35 am
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APRIL
28
Coffee Break
Coffee Service
Jazmin Rios
9:35 am - 9:45 am
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APRIL
28
Beyond SQL – Part 2 – Nullology
Beyond SQL: Rediscovering the Power of Relational Thinking
C.J. Date
9:45 am - 10:45 am
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APRIL
28
Coffee Break
Coffee Service
Jazmin Rios, Cindi Meyersohn
10:45 am - 11:00 am
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APRIL
28
Beyond SQL – Part 3 – How to Update Views
Beyond SQL: Rediscovering the Power of Relational Thinking
C.J. Date
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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APRIL
28
Lunch (On Your Own)
TBD
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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APRIL
28
Beyond SQL – Part 4 – Nulls, Three-Valued Logic, and Missing Information
Beyond SQL: Rediscovering the Power of Relational Thinking
C.J. Date
1:35 pm - 2:35 pm
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APRIL
28
Coffee Break
Coffee Service
TBD
2:35 pm - 2:45 pm
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APRIL
28
Beyond SQL – Part 5 – The Closed World Assumption
Beyond SQL: Rediscovering the Power of Relational Thinking
C.J. Date
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
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APRIL
28
Coffee Break
Coffee Service
TBD
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
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APRIL
28
Beyond SQL – Part 6 – Interactive Q&A with C. J. Date
Beyond SQL: Rediscovering the Power of Relational Thinking
C.J. Date
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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APRIL
29
Breakfast
Breakfast Time!
Dan Linstedt, Cindi Meyersohn, Jazmin Rios
7:30 am - 8:30 am
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APRIL
29
Automate the Mind: Building Extended Ontologies with AI Wizards
Exercise AI with Ease: Business User Story to Extended Ontologies
Dan Linstedt, Cindi Meyersohn
8:35 am - 10:35 am
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APRIL
29
Coffee Break
Coffee Service
TBD
10:35 am - 11:00 am
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APRIL
29
From Vision to Vault: Building a Data Vault in Snowflake
Data Vault Click Start - In Three Parts
Paul Hooper
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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APRIL
29
Lunch (On Your Own)
TBD
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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APRIL
29
Coffee Service
Coffee Service
Jazmin Rios
2:35 pm - 5:00 pm
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APRIL
29
Bill Inmon – History of Computing
Full Speaker Panel with special guest Bill Inmon
Bill Inmon
2:35 pm - 3:30 pm
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29
Full Speaker Panel with Special Guest: Bill Inmon
Full Speaker Panel with special guest Bill Inmon
Bill Inmon, C.J. Date, Dan Linstedt, Scott Ambler, Mary Mink, Doug Needham, Cindi Meyersohn, Paul Hooper, Luan Moreno M. Maciel
3:35 pm - 5:30 pm
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APRIL
29
DVA Mingle, Networking, & Happy Hour
DVA Mingle, Networking, & Happy Hour
Cindi Meyersohn, Jazmin Rios
4:35 pm - 6:30 pm
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APRIL
30
Breakfast
Farewell Breakfast
Cindi Meyersohn, Dan Linstedt, Jazmin Rios
7:00 am - 8:00 am
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APRIL
30
Building The Lakehouse: Implementing Data Vault with LakeFlow Spark Declarative Pipelines
Building The Lakehouse: Implementing Data Vault with LakeFlow Spark Declarative Pipelines
Luan Moreno M. Maciel
8:15 am - 10:15 am
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APRIL
30
Conference Close
Conference Close
Dan Linstedt
10:30 am - 11:00 am
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  • From Data Pipelines to Defensible Analytics: Embedding Meaning, Governance, and Trust in Modern Architectures

  • Beyond SQL: Rediscovering the Power of Relational Thinking

  • Not Just Data: Shared Lessons About Continuous Enterprise Data