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
Automate the Mind: Building Extended Ontologies with AI Wizards
Exercise AI with Ease: Business User Story to Extended Ontologies
Dan Linstedt, Cindi Meyersohn
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
7:00 pm - 9:00 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
Is your Data Vault Business-Centric?
Is your Data Vault Business-Centric?
Mary Mink
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 - 4:35 pm
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APRIL
29
Full Speaker Panel plus 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
2:35 pm - 4:35 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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  • Relational Thinking Beyond SQL Assumptions

  • WWDVC 2026 FAQs – Everything You Need to Know Before You Go

  • DataVaultAlliance is excited to announce that Luan Moreno Medeiros Maciel will be joining us at the World-Wide Data Vault Consortium (WWDVC) 2026 to lead his dynamic, hands-on workshop “Building the Lakehouse: Implementing Data Vault with LakeFlow Spark Declarative Pipelines.”